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Journal of Applied Ecology

Ecology with management relevance

An Official Journal of the British Ecological Society

Edited by:
Jane Memmott, EJ Milner-Gulland, Rob Freckleton, Phil Hulme and Simon Thirgood with Gill Kerby

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 14/116 (Ecology)
Impact Factor: 4.220

Combines excellent science with relevance to environmental management

Journal of Applied Ecology is an international journal that publishes high-impact ecological research of direct relevance to environmental management. Regular special profiles synthesise the current state-of-the-art in key thematic areas.

The journal publishes novel papers that apply ecological concepts, theories, models and methods to the management of biological resources in their widest sense. The editors encourage contributions that use applied ecological problems to test and develop basic ecological theory, although there must be clear potential for improving current management. Papers should have an explicitly ecological focus, but can relate to any of the major themes in applied ecology, including:

Application and development of improved strategies for the conservation of wildlife.
Assessing and mitigating the ecological impacts of global change and environmental pollution
Wildlife and habitat management
Sustainable management of natural resources (including aquatic resources)
Ecology of ecosystem restoration and species reintroductions
Ecological approaches to the management of pests, weeds and diseases

Articles that interact with related fields are welcomed providing that their relevance to applied ecology is clear.

An editorial in Volume 42, Issue 1 discusses the scope of the journal in detail.

TopNews and Announcements

In the News...

Minimal effects of wind turbines on the distribution of wintering farmland birds
Claire L. Devereux et al.
Coverage in Reuters, ABC Science online (Australia), US Daily, The Telegraph (UK), BBC News and BBC Radio 4's Farming Today programme
Hen harriers and red grouse: science, politics and human-wildlife conflict
Simon Thirgood and Steve Redpath
Coverage in ic Scotland.co.uk, The Scotsman and BBC Radio 4's Today programme
Future novel threats and opportunities facing UK biodiversity identified by horizon scanning
William J. Sutherland et al.
Coverage in New Scientist; The Guardian (UK) and The Telegraph (UK)

Press releases can be found on the British Ecological Society website.

Southwood Prize 2007 Winner
The winner of the Southwood Prize 2007, chosen by the Editors of Journal of Applied Ecology is Jonathan N Pauli for the article Risk-disturbance overrides density dependence in a hunted colonial rodent, the black-tailed prairie dog Cynomys ludovicianus published in the December 2007 issue of Journal of Applied Ecology. The University of Wyoming released the following press release about the winning author: UW Graduate Student Wins Prestigious Southwood Prize. Read the editorial announcement about the winner online.

Journal of Applied 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 Applied Ecology will therefore be made freely available online two years after issue publication, back to 1998, online.

Associate Editor Wins Getty Conservation Award 2007
Journal of Applied Ecology would like to congratulate Dr K Ullas Karanth, one of our Associate Editors, on being selected as the winner of the 2007 'J Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership' by the World Wildlife Fund. Read more on the WWF website.

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
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 Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

Blackwell goes CarbonNeutral®
Blackwell Publishing is the first publisher to become CarbonNeutral®. Read more about the initiatives we have signed up to with The CarbonNeutral Company here.

TopHighlights

Editor's Choice
These editor's choice papers are free to read online:

The Editor's Choice in December is the Devereux et al. paper Minimal effects of wind turbines on the distribution of wintering farmland birds
The Editor's Choice in October is the Frair et al. paper
Thresholds in landscape connectivity and mortality risks in response to growing road networks
The Editor's Choice in August is Lian Pin Koh's paper
Can oil palm plantations be made more hospitable for forest butterflies and birds?

Priority Contributions
These Priority Contribution papers are free to read online:
Economic determinants of biodiversity change over a 400-year period in the Scottish uplands
Nick Hanley et al.
Future novel threats and opportunities facing UK biodiversity identified by horizon scanning
William J. Sutherland et al.

Special Profiles
Read our recent Special Profile features online:

Seed Predation (December 2008)
How you count counts: the importance of methods research in applied ecology (October 2008)
Pollination and Pollinators (June 2008)
Integrated Management of Invasives (April 2008)
Harvesting (February 2008)

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