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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

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
Authors of articles in this journal can now choose to make their articles open access and available free for all readers through the payment of an author fee. Read more.

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

Highlighted Articles:
A truce with neutral theory: local deterministic factors, species traits and dispersal limitation together determine patterns of diversity in stream invertebrates
ROSS THOMPSON and COLIN TOWNSEND
Quantitative analysis of bottlenose dolphin movement patterns and their relationship with foraging
HELEN BAILEY and PAUL THOMPSON
Behavioural flexibility in the mating system buffers population extinction: lessons from the lesser spotted woodpecker Picoides minor
EVA ROSSMANITH, VOLKER GRIMM, NIELS BLAUM and FLORIAN JELTSCH
Consequences for host-parasitoid interactions of grazing-dependent habitat heterogeneity
A. J. VANBERGEN, R. S. HAILS, A. D. WATT and T. H. JONES
Predictors of reproductive cost in female Soay sheep
G. Tavecchia et al.
Are kernels the mustard? Data from global positioning system (GPS) collars suggests problems for kernel home-range analyses with least-squares cross-validation
G. Hemson et al.
Census error and the detection of density dependence
R. P. Freckleton et al.

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