
Journal of Ecology
Copyright © 2011 British Ecological SocietyA Journal of the British Ecological Society
- Edited by: Michael Hutchings, David Gibson, Richard Bardgett and Mark Rees with Andrea Baier
Online ISSN: 1365-2745
- ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking 2010:
11/129 (Ecology); 9/187 (Plant Sciences)
Impact Factor: 5.26


Accepted Articles
Herbivore Pressure on Goldenrod (Solidago altissima L., Asteraceae): Its Effects on Herbivore Resistance and Vegetative Reproduction
Bode & Kessler
Accepted 16 January 2012![]()
Feedbacks between inundation, root production, and shoot growth in a rapidly submerging brackish marsh.
Kirwan & Guntenspergen
Accepted 12 January 2012![]()
Reversal of multi-century tree growth improvements and loss of synchrony at mountain treelines point to changes in key drivers
Farjardo & McIntire
Accepted 9 January 2011![]()
Relationships among soil moisture, aeration and plant communities in natural and harvested coniferous forests in coastal British Columbia, Canada
Sajedi et al.
Accepted 22 November 2011![]()
HIGHLIGHTED PAPERS
Forum articles, Biological Flora, Essay Reviews and Future Direction papers.
Editor's Choice
- Read the latest Editor's Choice from the January 2012 issue.
Selected paper:
Interspecific differences in wood decay rates: insights from a new short-term method to study long-term wood decomposition by Freschet et al.

News & Highlights
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Rated by F1000:
- RECOMMENDED: Thorpe et al. Interactions among plants and evolution
- MUST READ: Lavorel et al. Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services
- MUST READ: Buswell et al. Is rapid evolution common in introduced plant species?
- RECOMMENDED: Kulmatiski et al. Testing predictions of a three-species plant–soil feedback model
Journal of Ecology in the news
Blowin' in the wind? Conservation Magazine, on 16 January 2012, summarise our Centenary Symposium Special Feature paper by Bullock et al.
BBC Nature on 23 November 2011 report findings from the paper by Padilla et al. in a photo feature "Seeds survive being eaten twice". Also featured on BBC El Mundo (Spanish).
Nature Research Highlights on 7 September 2011 "Enduring herb improves with age". Read the full article by Garcia, Dahlgren and Ehrlén.
Science, in the Editor's Choice section of the 22 July 2011 issue, explain why "Trees skip a year", see Visser et al.
The BBC, on 14 July 2011, report that "Height matters more than size for dispersing seeds", see Thomson et al.
The Los Angeles Times, on 17 June 2011, warn that "Rocky mountain flowers dwindle, as climate warms", see Aldridge et al.
naturenews, on 6 April 2011, report on Pandit et al.'s paper that "Ecologists find genomic clues to invasive and endangered plants"
Science, in the Editor's Choice section of the 4 March 2011 issue, agree with Ohlson et al. that "Trees Matter, Too"
The BBC report that
Pressed plant collections 'hold climate clues'
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