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2008 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 2008 of 4.560
- Journal of Ecology has an ISIŽ Impact FactorŽ for 2008 of 4.262
- Journal of Animal Ecology has an ISIŽ Impact FactorŽ for 2008 of 4.220
- Functional Ecology has an ISIŽ Impact FactorŽ for 2008 of 3.699
All of the journals have seen an increase in their ISIŽ 5 year Impact FactorŽ.
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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.
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.
Read our Review papers: Latest is Andy Hector et al's Review article 'Analysis of variance with unbalanced data: an update for ecology & evolution' Vol 79 Issue 2 pp 308-316
See our latest list of top read/cited papers.
Read the Editors' Commentaries on selected papers in EarlyView on our Highlighted papers page.
The Celebrating Darwin Virtual Issue from Journal of Animal Ecology is now up online.
2009 Elton Prize Winner: The editors are pleased to award Michael Sheriff with this year's prize .Read more...
The Biotelemetry and Biologging Virtual Issue from Journal of Animal Ecology is now up online.Top
July 2009: Volume 97 - Issue 4: How could global climate change influence futureplant species distribution? In July's Editor's Choice Seppä et al. turn to the past to look for clues.
May 2009: Volume 97 - Issue 3: Editor's Choice article on Mark van Kleunen and Markus Fischer's paper seeking to understand the ‘American Invasion’ of North American species into Europe. Read More...
Journal of Ecology is among the top 100 most influential journals in Biology and Medicine. Read More...
March 2009: Volume 97 - Issue 2: Editor's Choice article on Helen Alexander's study addressing the difficulties in predicting population trajectories caused by imperfect censuses in demographic studies. Read More...
2008 Harper Prize Winner: The prize is awarded to Lucia Vivanco from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Read more...Top
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...
