British Ecological Society Journals

JOURNAL CLUB: Jane Catford interviews Prof. David Tilman about his mini-review: Extinction, climate change and the ecology of Homo sapiens. Listen to the podcast, and then join Dave online for a live Twitter discussion! (full details below) • 00:00 Introductions and a summary of the paper. • 03:12 What’s led you from the start of your career, to asking these big questions around the impacts of agriculture, fossil fuels, and the intersection of human health and the environment? • 06:25 You say in your abstract that ‘ecology needs to become a more mechanistic and predictive science’ - how can we achieve that, and what do you think has been holding us back? • 08:42 If we had more mechanistic predictive models, do you think we could have better anticipated those unintended consequences that came out from mandating that we use maize for fuel? • 12:13 You make a strong argument that we need to be doing more multi-disciplinary thinking and working - in practice, how do we do that? • 19:10 Which strategies should

Lara Ferry talks to Lillian Tuttle, an early career researcher shortlisted for the 2021 Haldane Prize, about how a small-yet-mighty fish, the cleaner goby, may be relatively immune to lionfish predation for an unexpected reason. Read the research here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.13806

Emma Sayer talks to Kelsey Shaw, an early career researcher shortlisted for the 2021 Haldane Prize, about how parasites thrive or suffer when embedded in different ecological communities. Read the review here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.13892

Enrico Rezende talks to Ummat Somjee, an early career researcher shortlisted for the 2021 Haldane Prize, about New Zealand giraffe weevils and the wonder of exhibiting an extreme 30-fold range in male body mass. Read the research here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.13888

This is an audioblog provided by Christyn Bailey, telling the #StoryBehindThePaper: ‘It’s a hard knock life for some: heterogeneity in infection life-history of salmonids influences parasite disease outcomes‘, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology.

FE Haldane 2020: Shortlisted author Anderson Feijo talks to Senior Editor Lara Ferry

JAE Blog editor Julie Sheard interviews Mark Ditmer from Colorado State University. They discuss citizen science and Mark’s paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology for the special issue on citizen science by the British Ecological Society Journals.

JAE Blog editor Julie Sheard interviews Heather Williams, from the State University of New York at Buffalo. They discuss citizen science and Heather’s paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology for the special issue on citizen science by the British Ecological Society Journals.

JAE Blog editor Julie Sheard interviews Chris Latimer, a research associate ecologist at the Nature Conservancy. They discuss citizen science and Chris’ paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology for the special issue on citizen science by the British Ecological Society Journals.

JAE Blog editor Julie Sheard interviews Frank La Sorte, from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University. They discuss citizen science and Frank’s paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology for the special issue on citizen science by the British Ecological Society Journals.

This podcast is part of the British Ecological Society cross journal Special Feature on citizen science

Terries Williams talks to Emma Sayer about Hunters vs Hunted, Narwhales vs iPhones, the difficulties of bribing grizzly bears and her new paper on new perspectives on the energetic costs of survival at the top of the food chain - the first ever Calow-Grace review. Read the paper here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.13649

Journal of Ecology is delighted to honour Bernhard Schmid in our continuing Eminent Ecologist series. Here our Executive Editor, David Gibson, interviews Bernhard about his ecological career and his groundbreaking research across several areas of plant ecology. This includes the population ecology of clonal plants, mechanisms of competition, community assembly, and more recently on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. In honour of this award, Bernhard has curated a collection of published papers - which are freely available to read in this Eminent Ecologist Virtual Issue: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2745.Bernhard-Schmid-2020

Senior Editor, Romina Rader, chats to Ségolène Humann‐Guilleminot, winner of the Southwood Prize for the best paper by an early career researcher published in the 56th (2019) volume of Journal of Applied Ecology. This year's prize was awarded in spring 2020.

Aaron Ellison, Romina Rader, Andrew Beckerman and Sara Cousins give their advice to new Associate Editors on how to confidently handling manuscripts. They discuss how to assess a manuscript on initial submission, how to assess reviewer comments, handling revisions, and writing good recommendation letters to authors. This podcast was recorded at the BES 2019 Annual Meeting in Belfast. For more advice check out the BES journals Associate Editor training centre: https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/publications/associate-editor-support-centre/associate-editor-training/

In this podcast Ken Thompson (of Functional Ecology) interviews Marc Cadotte as they discuss the British Ecological Society’s bold and innovative project, Applied Ecology Resources, and its open access journal Ecological Solutions and Evidence. This podcast was recorded at the BES Annual Meeting 2019 in Belfast.

"It seems that both groups are picking the flowers when they're feeding - they're walking about and you can see them pick flower after flower after flower after flower." In this podcast, Jurene Kemp talks about her paper, Cryptic petal coloration decreases floral apparency and herbivory in nocturnally closing daisies - recently shortlisted for Functional Ecology's Haldane Prize. (Find this and the other shortlisted papers at j.mp/2019HaldaneShortlist).

"Breaking down leaves is basically hard work, so if the fungi have the option of an easier life, they take it?" Why - and how - do algae slow the rate of leaf decomposition in aquatic ecosystems? In this podcast, Ken Thompson interviews Hal Halvorson about his paper "Periphytic algae decouple fungal activity from leaf litter decomposition via negative priming", recently shortlisted for Functional Ecology's Haldane prize. (Find this and the other shortlisted papers at http://j.mp/2019HaldaneShortlist).

GPS tracking helps uncover bull elephant reproductive tactics during Musth Paper–Movement reveals reproductive tactics in male elephants https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.13035 With some exceptions, universities rarely teach STEM undergrads how to communicate science to a general audience. This is our initial step towards undergrad science education and teaching them how to communicate science to a wider audience. Find out more on the JAE blog: https://animalecologyinfocus.com/2019/12/19/audio-abstracts-podcasts-on-the-journal-papers-scripted-and-recorded-by-undergrads/

The buzz about urban bee adaptations Paper–Urban bumblebees are smaller and more phenotypically diverse than their rural counterparts https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.13051 With some exceptions, universities rarely teach STEM undergrads how to communicate science to a general audience. This is our initial step towards undergrad science education and teaching them how to communicate science to a wider audience. Find out more on the JAE blog: https://animalecologyinfocus.com/2019/12/19/audio-abstracts-podcasts-on-the-journal-papers-scripted-and-recorded-by-undergrads/