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The official Journal of Ecology blog was launched at the end of 2011 to celebrate the publication of the Centenary volume in 2012.

Climate change may influence the spread of breeze-born seeds, Conservation Magazine (16th January 2012) summarised the paper by Bullock et al., which was published as part of our Centenary Symposium Special Feature.

At the end of 2011 (23rd November) BBC Nature news featured Padilla et al. in a photo story "Seeds survive being eaten twice".

It was reported in September 2011 in Nature Research Highlights that "Enduring herb improves with age", which was taken from the paper by Garcia, Dahlgren & Ehrlen.

Harper Prize
The winner of the 2011 Harper Prize is Dr. Ryan Phillips from Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth, Western Australia for his article Do mycorrhizal symbioses cause rarity in orchids? (Journal of Ecology - Volume 99, Issue 3, p 858-869), published with Matthew Barrett, Kingsley Dixon and Steve Hopper. Read more about the Harper Prize.

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 papers

Future directions
Seed survival in soil: interacting effects of predation, dormancy and the soil microbial community (January 2011)
James W. Dalling, Adam S. Davis, Brian J. Schutte and A. Elizabeth Arnold

Forum
Mechanisms of monodominance in diverse tropical tree-dominated systems (July 2011)
K. S.–H. Peh, S.L. Lewis and J. Lloyd

Alternative explanations for apparent mimicry (July 2011)
G. D. Ruxton and H.M.S Schaefer

Response to Coomes & Allen (2009) ‘Testing the metabolic scaling theory of tree growth’ (May 2011)
S. C. Stark, L. P. Bentley and B. J. Enquist

Moving on from Metabolic Scaling Theory: hierachical models of tree growth and asymmetric competition for light (May 2011)
D. A. Coomes, E.R. Lines and R. B. Allen
 
Causes behind insect folivory patterns in latitudinal gradients (March 2011)
C. Bjőrkman, Å. Berggren and H. Bylund

Top-down control of herbivores varies with ecosystem types (March 2011)
Y. Zhang and J.Adams

Essay Review
Interactions among plants and evolution (May 2011)
A. S. Thorpe, E.T. Aschehoug, D.Z. Atwater and R. M. Callaway

Spatial variation in disease resistance: from molecules to metapopulations (January 2011)
Anna-Liisa Laine, Jeremy J. Burdon, Peter N. Dodds and Peter H. Thrall

Environment-enhanced self-fertilization: implications for niche shifts in adjacent populations (November 2010)
Donald A. Levin

Biological Flora
Biological Flora of the British Isles: Rosa spinosissima L. (March 2012)
E Mayland-Quellhorst, J Foller and V. Wissemann

Biological flora of the British Isles: Orchis anthropophora (L.) All. (Aceras anthropophorum (L.) W.T. Aiton) (November 2011)
H. Jacquemyn, R. Brys and M.J Hutchings

Biological Flora of the British Isles: Stachys palustris L.(July 2011)
K. Taylor and P. Rowland

Biological Flora of the British Isles: Epipoogium aphyllum Sw (May 2011)
L.Taylor and D L. Roberts

Access our index of Biological Flora of the British Isles

 

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

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