Virtual Issues
Our virtual issues on key thematic areas in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
Virtual Issue: BES Young Investigator Prizes - Winners and Runners Up 2012
APRIL 2013
Each year the BES awards a prize for the best paper, in each of its journals, by an author at the start of their research career. This virtual issue brings together the winning papers and those selected by the editors as worthy of special mention as runners up from journal issues published in 2012. Congratulations to all concerned.
Evolutionary Dynamics in Animal Ecology
July 2012
Edited by Tim Coulson
In this Virtual Issue we flag a range of papers examining evolutionary dynamics of behaviour, life history and morphological characters across a range of species in both the lab and the field. The Journal of Animal Ecology is always delighted to receive papers on evolution in animal systems, particularly when they reveal the role of ecological processes.
Ecology in South America
June 2012
Edited by Ken Wilson and Jos Barlow
In this Virtual Issue, we highlight the breadth and depth of ecological research in South America published in two of the British Ecological Society journals: Journal of Animal Ecology and Journal of Applied Ecology. The thirty studies we highlight here were mostly published in the last decade, and cover a range of countries.
Virtual Issue: BES Young Investigator Prizes - Winners and Runners Up 2011
FEBRUARY 2012
Each year the BES awards a prize for the best paper, in each of its journals, by an author at the start of their research career. This virtual issue brings together the winning papers and those selected by the editors as worthy of special mention as runners up from journal issues published in 2011. Congratulations to all concerned.
Animal Ecology - Legacy of Charles S Elton
July 2012
Edited by Ken Wilson
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In 1931, the animal ecologist Charles Sutherland Elton (1900-1991) proposed to the British Ecological Society Council that it establish a new journal for publishing papers in the 'neglected area of animal ecology'. In the following year, he became the first editor of the new Journal of Animal Ecology, a role he served in for nearly twenty years. To celebrate this anniversary, here we launch a Virtual Issue to showcase Elton's ecological legacy.
Wildlife Disease Ecology
January 2011
Edited by Ken Wilson and Mike Boots
For almost eighty years, Journal of Animal Ecology has been publishing papers on the diseases of wild animals – the first was a short note published in Volume 1 of the journal back in 1932 by A.D. Middleton called: “Syphilis as a disease of wild rabbits and hares”! In Issue 1, January 2011, we publish an invited review of wildlife disease ecology by Tompkins et al., and to coincide with this we have compiled a virtual issue of some of the exciting papers published in this field in our journal.
Biodiversity
June 2010
In recognition of International Year of Biodiversity, 2010, the five journals of the British Ecological Society - Journal of Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Functional Ecology and Methods in Ecology and Evolution - are pleased to publish a Virtual Issue of papers with biodiversity as a common theme.
Celebrating Darwin: Evolutionary Biology in the Journal of Animal Ecology
January 2009
Edited by Tim Coulson
The Journal of Animal Ecology has a long tradition of publishing research in evolutionary ecology. Over the years papers published in the journal have provided many key insights into the modus operandi of evolution in animal species. To celebrate the bi-centenary of Darwin's birth we have compiled a virtual issue of some of the exciting works showing the links between ecology and evolution and which have made a major impact on the way we think.
Biotelemetry and Biologging
November 2008
Edited by Graeme Hays
Small reliable transmitters and data-loggers can now be attached to animals for long periods. This virtual issue of Journal of Animal Ecology brings together recent material published in the journal on the applications of biotelemetry and biologging to a broad range of ecological questions and covers terrestrial, marine and aerial species. Amazing data-sets are coming out of field studies and we cover the developments in data-analysis that are at the vanguard of efforts to make the most of such information, as well as the ecological applications of both established and state-of-the-art devices.
