British Ecological Society Journals

People and Nature managing Editor speaking about the strengths and difficulties of peer review for an interdisciplinary journal.

Ken Thompson, Senior Editor of Functional Ecology talks to Sylvain Coq of CEFE about two recent papers on leaf litter decomposition and the role of macroinvertebrates

David Gibson, Executive Editor of Journal of Ecology, interviews Carla Staver at ESA2018, New Orleans.

David Gibson, Executive Editor of Journal of Ecology, interviews Cristina Garcia at ESA2018, New Orleans.

Journal of Ecology Executive Editor David Gibson interviews Managing Editor Emilie Aimé at ESA2018, New Orleans.

On this episode, JAE Multimedia Editor Ravi interviews Elton Prize, Natalie Clay. They talk about ants, art, girls in STEM, nutritional ecology, and her award-winning paper.

In this podcast, Gesche Blume-Werry and Ken talk about snowmelt, root-growth and phenology - and the importance of looking underground. Gesche's paper "Root phenology unresponsive to earlier snowmelt despite advanced above‐ground phenology in two subarctic plant communities" was a Highly Commended paper by an early career author - read this paper, along with other prizewinning and highly commended papers here: http://bit.ly/BESECR2017 For more on Gesche's research, read her posts from the field on the functionalecologists.com blog: https://functionalecologists.com/tag/gescheblume-werry/

Lara Ferry talks to Daniel Fitzgerald about his Haldane prize-winning paper, "Using trophic structure to reveal patterns of trait‐based community assembly across niche dimensions".

On this episode, JAE Multimedia Editor Ravi interviews Ben Weinstein the winner of the inaugural Sidnie Manton Award and Andrew Robertson co-author of the highly commended paper.

At the BES Annual Meeting, Ken Thompson caught up with Jitka Klimešová and discussed her work on a recent Functional Ecology paper, Herben et al's Effects of disturbance frequency and severity on plant traits: An assessment across a temperate flora http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.13011/full

On this episode, JAE Multimedia Editor Ravi interviewed Chandra Salgado Kent about her work on marine animals and the noise underwater as well as marine bio-acoustics, conservation, behaviour, whales, dolphins and more.

On this episode, JAE Multimedia Editor Ravi interviewed Drew Kramer about the Special Feature that he organized on on Allee effects.

On this episode, JAE Multimedia Editor Ravi interviewed Marie Auger-Méthé about polar bears, narwhal farts, movement ecology, the publish or perish attitude, and Ph.D. life

On this episode, JAE Multimedia Editor Ravi interviewed Julie Morand-Ferron about bird and insect cognition, science communication and the need to design skinner bird boxes.

or this episode, JAE Multimedia Editor Ravi interviewed Ben Dantzer about his integrative approach to research, fieldwork stories, Squirrels, Meerkats, and Bear encounters.

Journal of Ecology Executive Editor David Gibson interviews Associate Editor Frida Piper at ESA 2017, Portland, Oregon, USA

Journal of Ecology Executive Editor David Gibson interviews Catherine Brophy at ESA 2017, Portland, Oregon, USA.

or the third episode, JAE Multimedia Editor Ravi interviewed Tim Coulson. Tim discusses his fieldwork adventures of taking the wrong boat to the wrong island, and about integrating modelling and empirical field studies.

This is the fourth of four podcasts from the 2017 Symposium on Insect-Plant Interactions. In this podcast, Functional Ecology Associate Editor Alison Bennett from the James Hutton Institute talks to Lucille Chretien, Arjen Biere, Michael Thomas-Poulsen and Einat Zchori-fein about their research, current challenges and the future of plant-microbe-insect interactions.

This is the third of four podcasts from the 2017 Symposium on Insect-Plant Interactions. In this podcast, Functional Ecology Associate Editors Sergio Rasmann and Alison Bennett, along with NIOO researcher, Ana Pineda talk about their research, current challenges and the future of plant-microbe-insect interactions.