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Harper Prize
The winner of the 2009 Harper Prize is Dr. Nina Wurzburger from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, for her article ‘Plant litter chemistry and mycorrhizal roots promote a nitrogen feedback in a temperate forest’ (Journal of Ecology - Volume 97, Issue 3, p 528-536), published with Ronald L. Hendrick. Read more about the Harper Prize.

Special Features
Read the latest special feature: Advances in Plant Demography using Matrix Models (March 2010)

New Editor
Journal of Ecology is pleased to announce that Mark Rees has joined the existing editorial team as Editor in January 2010.

Journal of Ecology among the top 100 most influential journals in Biology and Medicine
In the run up to their centenary celebrations later this year, the Special Libraries Association, an international body representing the interests of thousands of librarians and information professionals in over 80 countries, commissioned a survey amongst the 686 members of its BioMedical and Life Sciences Division (DBIO) to determine the 100 most influential journals in biology and medicine over the past 100 years.

Three panels, each consisting of three experts, composed a series of voter preference questions to compare journals in the following categories:

• Clinical Medicine & Allied Health Sciences
• Molecular and Cellular Biology including Journals of Biotechnology and the Leading Multiscience Publications
• Natural History

The Natural History expert panel was composed of Lori Bronars from Yale University, Eleanor MacLean from McGill University and Constance Rinaldo from Harvard University.

Journal of Ecology triumphed over numerous journals in the subgroup ‘Plant Ecology and Related Vegetation and Soil Sciences’ and has made it into the top 100 alongside journals such as Ecology and American Naturalist. A full list of the journals chosen is published on the DBIO website.

The top ten journal titles of this poll, the "DBIO Top 10," will be announced at the DBIO Annual Business luncheon on June 16th, 2009, during the Centennial Conference in Washington, DC.
 

Highlighted articles

Editorial
Journal of Ecology News (March 2010)
Michael J. Hutchings, Andrea Baier, David J. Gibson, Richard D. Bardgett and Gerwyn Clegg

Obituary
A tribute to Professor John L. Harper FRS CBE (1925–2009) (September 2009)
Roy Turkington

Future directions
Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities (March 2009)
Fernando T. Maestre et al.

A conceptual framework for predicting the effects of urban environments on floras (January 2009)
Nicholas S.G. Williams

Resource partitioning for soil phosphorus: a hypothesis (July 2008)
Benjamin L. Turner

Forum
Facilitating an importance index (March 2010)
Merav Seifan, Tal Seifan, Clara Ariza and Katja Tielbörger

Measuring the importance of competition: a new formulation of the problem
(January 2010)
Christian Damgaared and Adeline Fayolle

Inclusion of biotic stress (consumer pressure) alters predictions from the stress gradient hypothesis (November 2009)
Christian Smit, Max Rietkerk and Martin J. Wassen

Species diversity and productivity: why do results of diversity-manipulation experiments differ from natural patterns? (July 2009)
Lin Jiang, Shiqiang Wan and Linghao Li

Measuring the importance of competition in plant communities (May 2009)
Robert P. Freckleton, Andrew R. Watkinson and Mark Rees

Essay Review
The allometry of reproduction within plant populations (November 2009)
Jacob Weiner, Lesley G. Campbell, Joan Pino and Laura Echarte

Plant invasions and the niche (July 2009)
Andrew S. MacDougall, Benjamin Gilbert and Jonathan M. Levine

Ecological information from spatial patterns of plants: insights from point process theory (July 2009)
Richard Law, Janine Illian, David F. R. P. Burslem, Georg Gratzer, C. V. S. Gunatilleke and I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke

Biological Flora
Biological Flora of the British Isles: Urtica dioica L. (November 2009)
Kenneth Taylor

Biological Flora of the British Isles: Coincya monensis (L.) Greuter & Burdet ssp. monensis (Rhyncosinapis monensis (L.) Dandy ex A.R. Clapham) and ssp. cheiranthos (Vill.) Aedo, Leadley & Muñoz Garm. (Rhyncosinapis cheiranthos (Vill.) Dandy) (September 2009)
Charles R. Hipkin and Paul D. Facey

Access our index of Biological Flora of the British Isles

Harper Prize

The winner of the 2008 Harper Prize is Dr. Lucía Vivanco. The prize is awarded for her article Tree species identity alters litter decomposition through long-term plant and soil interactions in a natural forest ecosystem in Patagonia (Journal of Ecology - Volume 96, Issue 4, p 727–736), published with Amy Austin. Read more about the Harper Prize.

Thanks to our referees

The Editors of Journal of Ecology would like to thank all those who peer-reviewed manuscripts for the journal during the past year, we acknowledge and appreciate the crucial work our referees do. List of referees in 2009.

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