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Journal of Ecology

An Official Journal of the British Ecological Society

Edited by:
Michael Hutchings, David Gibson and Richard Bardgett

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 12/116 (Ecology); 11/112 (Plant Sciences)
Impact Factor: 4.422

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Journal of Ecology publishes important and broad-reaching papers on all aspects of plant-related ecology, covering:

• Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
• Studies of plant communities, populations or individuals
• Interactions between plants and their environment or plants and other organisms

We welcome both experimental and theoretical papers with strong and original ecological messages that advance our understanding of ecological principles.

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TopNews and Announcements

Special Feature: Plant dispersal across multiple scales
The Journal of Ecology announces the publication of a special feature on plant dispersal across multiple scales: linking models and reality. Read this special feature free online until the end of 2008.

Editor's Choice
The Editors of Journal of Ecology select some highlights of the latest issue in Editor's Choice.

Journal of Ecology articles free after two years
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TopHighlights

Editor's Choice
The Editors of Journal of Ecology select some highlights of the latest issue in Editor's Choice.

Forum
Plant strategy theories: a comment on Craine (2005)
J. PHILIP GRIME
Resource competition and plant traits: a response to Craine et al. 2005
DAVID TILMAN
Plant strategy theories: replies to Grime and Tilman
JOSEPH M. CRAINE
Dispersal limitation may result in the unimodal productivity-diversity relationship: a new explanation for a general pattern
MEELIS PÄRTEL and MARTIN ZOBEL

Essay Reviews
Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future
Rob W. Brooker et al.
An ecologist's guide to ecogenomics
N. J. OUBORG and W. H. VRIEZEN

Future Direction
A new framework for predicting invasive plant species
Angela T. Moles et al.
Linking ecological and built components of urban mosaics: an open cycle of ecological design
S. T. A. Pickett, M. L. Cadenasso

Standard Papers
Plant productivity and soil nitrogen as a function of grazing, migration and fire in an African savanna
RICARDO M. HOLDO et al.
Plant species and functional group effects on abiotic and microbial soil properties and plant-soil feedback responses in two grasslands
T. MARTIJN BEZEMER et al.
Role of niche restrictions and dispersal in the composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities
YLVA LEKBERG et al.
How general are positive relationships between plant population size, fitness and genetic variation?
ROOSA LEIMU et al.
Carbohydrate storage enhances seedling shade and stress tolerance in a neotropical forest
A. MYERS, KAORU KITAJIMA
Somatic mutation and the Antarctic ozone hole
Laurence J. Clarke et al.
Barley yellow dwarf viruses (BYDVs) preserved in herbarium specimens illuminate historical disease ecology of invasive and native grasses
CAROLYN M. MALMSTROM et al.

Biological Flora
No. 245, List Br. Vasc. Pl. (1958) no. 8, 1
Biological Flora of the British Isles: Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn
R. H. MARRS and the late A. S. WATT

January 2008 Editorial
Journal of Ecology News
Barney Davies, Michael Hutchings, David Gibson, Richard Bardgett

Winner of the 2007 John L Harper Young Investigator's Prize
The role of genotypic diversity in determining grassland community structure under constant environmental conditions
RAJ WHITLOCK et al.

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Italian Society of Ecology
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South African Institute of Ecologists and Environmental Scientists
Evolutionary Ecology Research
Blackwell Ecology
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