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2009 ISIŽ Impact FactorŽ - The BES Journals are now in the top 20% in the Ecology category
All four British Ecological Society journals are now in the top 20% of the ISIŽ Ecology category, ranked by Impact FactorŽ.
- Journal of Applied Ecology has an ISIŽ Impact FactorŽ for 2009 of 4.197
- Journal of Ecology has an ISIŽ Impact FactorŽ for 2009 of 4.690
- Journal of Animal Ecology has an ISIŽ Impact FactorŽ for 2009 of 3.714
- Functional Ecology has an ISIŽ Impact FactorŽ for 2009 of 4.546
All of the journals have seen an increase in their ISIŽ 5 year Impact FactorŽ.
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July 2010: Virtual issue: The Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Volatiles, new on Functional Ecology.
July 2010: Duncan Irschick takes over as the new Executive Editor of Functional Ecology. See Duncan's website.
February 2010: Special feature: Adaptive foragers and community ecology guest edited by Andrew Beckerman, Owen Petchey & Peter Morin is now in Issue 1.
February 2010: Virtual issue: on Adaptive Foraging and Food Webs. Papers selected by Andrew Beckerman & Owen Petchey to accompany the latest special feature.
October 2009: Special feature: Floral scent in a whole plant context guest edited by Robert Raguso from Cornell University is in Issue 5.
June 2009: The Causes and Consequences of Adaptive Evolution Virtual Issue is now available online. Read the guest editorial by Associate Editor, Scott Carroll.
The BES is pleased to launch a new online journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution (MEE). From 2010, MEE will be the new home for methods papers across ecology and evolutionary biology.
Rob Freckleton, Editor in Chief, and the editorial board are delighted to announce that Lord May of Oxford has agreed to have the Young Investigator's Prize named after him. The Robert M. May prize will be awarded annually to an outstanding young author publishing in Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
August 2010: Read our latest Review papers including Traill et al. on Mechanisms driving change, Bearhop el al. on Carry over effects and Tompkins et al. on Wildlife Disease
June 2010: In the News! Satellite tracking shows just how much Estuarine crocodiles ride surface currents to facilitate long-distance travel.
January 2010:- Special 'How to.' paper - An Ecologist's guide to the Animal Model in Vol 79 Issue 1 pp13-26 (issue free to view). A user's guide for researchers using the Animal Model.
See our latest list of top read/cited papers.
Read the Editors' Commentaries on selected papers in EarlyView on our Highlighted papers page. Latest paper is on Evolutionary Demography.
Read our Virtual Issues, Celebrating Darwin Virtual Issue, Biotelemetry and Biologging.
2009 Elton Prize Winner: The editors are pleased to award Michael Sheriff with this year's prize .Read more.
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July 2010: A Virtual Issue in memoriam Bob Jefferies is published. Read more.
March 2010: The 2009 Harper Prize goes to Nina Wurzburger from Princeton University, USA. Read more.
February 2010: Special Feature: Advances in Plant Demography using Matrix Models, guest-edited by Rob Salguero-Gomez and Hans de Kroon, is available in Issue 2.
January 2010: Mark Rees joins Journal of Ecology as Editor.
November 2009: Special Feature: Facilitation in Plant Communities, guest-edited by Rob Brooker and Ray Callaway, is available in Issue 6.
September 2009: Special Feature: Plant-soil Interactions and the Carbon Cycle, edited by Richard Bardgett, is available in Issue 5.
May 2009: Journal of Ecology is among the top 100 most influential journals in Biology and Medicine. Read More.
April 2009: Volume 46 - Issue 2 Editor's Choice article on pathogen transmission between bison and cattle. Read More.
2008 Southwood Prize Winner: This year the prize has been awarded jointly to Katie Hampson and Tiziana Lembo. Read more.
February 2009: Volume 46 - Issue 1 Editor's Choice article on the eradication of feral cats from Macquarie Island. Read More.
