Centenary Symposium
Journal of Ecology was the first scientific journal devoted to reporting the results of ecological research. It was established by the British Ecological Society in 1913 and rapidly became one of the most important outlets for cutting-edge research in plant ecology. It has retained this pre-eminent position ever since and in June of 2010 its highest-ever impact factor was announced.
The Journal published its one hundredth volume in 2012. We celebrated this significant milestone with a special Centenary Symposium which was held during the BES Annual Meeting in September 2011 in Sheffield, UK.
The symposium consisted of a set of lectures on important broad ecological topics that have featured heavily in the published output of the Journal during its first one hundred years, and in which the Editors believe significant progress is currently being made.
The presented papers have been published in issue 1 of the Centenary Volume in 2012 in a Special Feature.
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Speakers
Helen Alexander
University of Kansas, USA
Metapopulations and metacommunities: combining spatial and temporal perspectives in plant ecology
David Beerling
University of Sheffield, UK
Ecosystem CO2 starvation and Earth’s minimum atmospheric CO2 concentration
James Bullock
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK
Seed dispersal: recent advances and future challenges
David Coomes
University of Cambridge, UK
A theoretical framework for predicting carbon sequestration in forests
Hans Jacquemyn
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Evolutionary consequences of habitat fragmentation for plant species
Hans de Kroon
Raboud University, The Netherlands
Roots in biodivers soil: drivers of species coexistence and ecosystem productivity
Sandra Lavorel
University of Grenoble, France
How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale up to trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services
Yadvinder Malhi
University of Oxford, UK
The production, respiration and allocation of carbon in lowland tropical forests of contrasting fertility
Angela Moles
University of New South Wales, Australia
The trail behind, the path ahead and a disturbing idea
Jonathan Silvertown
The Open University, UK
Summarizing remarks
David Wardle
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Linkages between vegetation change, consumer communities and carbon dynamics: insights from contrasting island ecosystems
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The symposium was held as part of the regular BES Annual Meeting in parallel to other thematic topics.