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Journal papers have long-term impact
Recent news highlights how the work published by the journal continues to have impact in the long term. In 2005 we published An astronomical pattern-matching algorithm for computer-aided identification of whale sharks Rhincodon typus by Arzoumanian, Holmberg & Norman. Wired Science reports how that work formed the basis for the ECOCEAN library - a database of >32,000 photographs of whale sharks, the largest of its kind and with far-reaching application. The approach is now being extended to other species and forms a blueprint for how computer modellers can provide innovative tools for field biologists, enabling them to collect long-term data on species that are notoriously diffucult to study. Statisticians can use the information to make projections to guide management - exactly what the journal is all about.

A second news item on BBC EarthNews highlights a new paper in PLOS One that reports how a ban on a veterinary drug in India, Nepal and Pakistan offers some hope for vulture conservation. Back in 2004, the Journal of Applied Ecology published Diclofenac poisoning as a cause of vulture population declines across the Indian subcontinent by Green et al. calling for a ban on diclofenac. The ban was enacted and scientists have been monitoring the effects on 3 species of vulture taken to the brink of extinction from eating livestock carcasses contaminated with the drug. They are cautiously optimistic that the ban has reduced vulture poisoning. Much remains to be done but it is good to see how the research we publish plays its part in practical conservation.

Journal of Applied Ecology author podcasts
Download and listen to our Journal of Applied Ecology author podcasts - Editor Marc Cadotte interviews authors from selected papers, providing additional insight into their research.

Editorial
Read the latest editorial from the editors of Journal of Applied Ecology outlining the journal's aims and scope Editorial: Putting applied ecology into practice.

Journal of Applied Ecology In the News

Faculty of 1000 Review

Read the latest Journal of Applied Ecology review on F1000 here, on 'Seasonal priority effects: implications for invasion and restoration in a semi-arid system'.

Huge amount of media coverage for Limitations to sustainable frankincense production: blocked regeneration, high adult mortality and declining populations by Groenendijk et al. The paper has been featured on sites across the world from the Guardian and the BBC to USA TODAY and ABC News in Australia.

Article: Should payments for biodiversity conservation be based on action or results?
In the News: Read an article in Conservation Magazine about this important new paper

Copyright: Jonathan Webb Article: Conditioned taste aversion enhances the survival of an endangered predator imperilled by a toxic invader - O’Donnell et al.
In the News:
Quolls force-fed toads in survival fight, ABC (Australia);
How Jonathan Webb saves northern quolls with taste for noxious cane toads, Daily Telegraph (Australia);
Cane toads may hit the Ord but not our quolls, WA today (Australia);
Aversion therapy may save quolls, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia);
It's raining toxic toad sausages in lifeline to the quoll, The Times (UK);
Toads dropped from sky to help save quoll, The Telegraph (UK)
Teaching an Australian marsupial to choose life, Los Angeles Times (USA).
See the Quoll taste test in action on YouTube.

Article: Population change of avian predators and grey squirrels in England: is there evidence for an impact on avian prey populations? - Newson et al.
In the News: Magpies not to blame for songbird decline - The Telegraph, UK;
Named, the guilty hawk... - Daily Express, UK

Article: Using a native predator (the meat ant, Iridomyrmex reburrus) to reduce the abundance of an invasive species (the cane toad, Bufo marinus) in tropical Australia - Ward-Fear et al.
In the News: Scientists up ante to give toads a caning - ABC Online, Australia;
New Weapons In Battle Against Giant Oz Toads - Sky News, UK;
Australia uses cat food in fight against cane toads - The Guardian, UK;
Australian study finds new weapons in war against cane toads - 9&10 News, USA

Article: Spatial and temporal associations between recovering populations of common raven Corvus corax and British upland wader populations - Amar et al.
In the News: Ravens 'not behind' wader decline - BBC News

Article:The distribution of breeding birds around upland wind farms - Pearce-Higgins et al.
In the News: 'Scarecrow' wind farms put rare birds to flight - The Times, UK

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Announcements

Full archive available online
Every issue of Journal of Applied Ecology is available online from volume 1 issue 1 (1964) to 2003 through JSTOR and 1998 to the latest published Early View papers through Wiley Online Library.

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, through Wiley Online Library.

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 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).