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Journal of Animal Ecology
An Official Journal of the British Ecological Society
Edited by:
Graeme Hays, Ken Norris, Mike Boots and Tim Coulson
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 18/116 (Ecology); 3/124 (Zoology)
Impact Factor: 3.747
Supporting long-term ecological research in a changing world, Journal of Animal Ecology publishes the best original research on all aspects of animal ecology, including:
- Ecosystem Ecology
- Community Ecology
- Population Ecology
- Behavioural Ecology
- Physiological Ecology
Field, laboratory and theoretical studies based upon terrestrial, freshwater or marine systems are all considered for publication. The Editors are specifically seeking papers that make general contributions to the field of animal ecology.
Journal of Animal Ecology endeavours to maintain a high standard of reviewing manuscripts, coupled with a prompt turnaround of getting decisions to authors. The average time from submission to first decision is approximately 40 days.
TopNews and Announcements
Thank you to all our reviewers
The Editors and Associate Editors of the Journal of Animal Ecology rely upon the commitment, expertise and judgement of its referees to maintain the high standard of the research it publishes. We would like to thank these reviewers who have given up their time and put in considerable effort to review manuscripts that have been submitted to the Journal of Animal Ecology during 2007 and 2008. Their help and valuable comments are much appreciated by the Editors and Authors alike.
Journal of Animal Ecology articles free after two years
The British Ecological Society is committed to making ecological research as accessible as possible. Papers published in Journal of Animal Ecology will therefore be made freely available online two years after issue publication, back to 1998, online.
Online Submission
Submit your manuscript online via Manuscript Central.
Online Open
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Articles Published Online Ahead of Print - Early View
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online before the print edition of this journal is published in Early View.
Free Online Access in the Developing World
Access to this journal is available free online within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Blackwell goes CarbonNeutral®
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TopHighlights
Virtual issue: Biotelemetry and Biologging
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. Read the papers in this virtual issue free online.
In the news...
- Reproductive conflict delays the recovery of an endangered social species
Andrés López-Sepulcre, Ken Norris and Hanna Kokko
Editor's Choice in Science, October 10, 2008 issue (322:5899): The Me Generation
- Climate effects on offspring sex ratio in a viviparous lizard
Erik Wapstra, Tobias Uller, David L. Sinn, Mats Olsson, Katrina Mazurek, Jean Joss and Richard Shine
Coverage in National Geographic, October 2 issue: Fewer Male Reptiles Due to Warming - And That's Good?
In Focus
In Focus articles are short pieces in each issue of Journal of Animal Ecology that draw attention to papers of high-interest published in the same issue. The In Focus articles act as mini-reviews that expand the context of the paper they are featuring. Read the first six In Focus pieces, published in 2008, and the papers they highlight below:
- IN FOCUS: Cross-disciplinary demands of multihost pathogens
Daniel T Haydon - Dynamics of a multihost pathogen in a carnivore community
M.E Craft et al.
- IN FOCUS: To breathe or not to breathe: optimal strategies for finding prey in a dark, three-dimensional environment
Mark Hindell - Cheetahs of the deep sea: deep foraging sprints in short-finned pilot whales off Tenerife (Canary Islands)
Natacha Aguilar Soto et al.
- IN FOCUS: On being the right size: food-limited feedback on optimal body size
Anthony R.E Sinclair - Feedback effects of chronic browsing on life-history traits of a large herbivore
M. Anouk Simard et al.
- IN FOCUS: How helpers help: disentangling ecological confounds from the benefits of cooperative breeding
Jonathan Wright and Andrew F Russell - Can we measure the benefits of help in cooperatively breeding birds: the case of superb fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus?
Andrew Cockburn et al.
- IN FOCUS: Parasites as weapons of mouse destruction
Richard S Ostfeld - The interaction of parasites and resources cause crashes in a wild mouse population
Amy B Pedersen and Timothy J Greives
- IN FOCUS: Having your water and drinking it too: resource limitation modifies density regulation
Corey J.A Bradshaw - Resource variability, aggregation and direct density dependence in an open context: the local regulation of an African elephant population
Simon Chamaillé-Jammes et al.
Links to related sites:
Functional Ecology
Journal of Applied Ecology
Journal of Ecology
British Ecological Society Home Page
Ecological Society of Australia
Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Italian Society of Ecology
Nordic Society Oikos
South African Institute of Ecologists and Environmental Scientists
Evolutionary Ecology Research
Blackwell Ecology
Blackwell Plant Science
