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Listen to the first Journal of Applied Ecology podcast
Read Journal of Applied Ecology's first author podcast - Editor Marc Cadotte interviews Paul Armsworth about his paper The ecological research needs of business.
Does predator control alter bird populations?
The answer from three recent papers in the Journal of Applied Ecology suggests the answer is sometimes!
Read Editor Mark Whittingham's commentary to find out more.
Young Investigator's Prize
The winner of the Southwood Prize 2009 is Christian Keribiriou for his co-paper Tourism in protected areas can threaten wild populations: from individual response to population viability of the chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 46, pp. 657-665). Read more...
Editorial
Read the latest editorial paper from the editors of Journal of Applied Ecology outlining the journal's aims and scope Editorial: Putting applied ecology into practice - Memmott et al.
Journal of Applied Ecology In the News
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 InterScience.
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 InterScience.
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).
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Editor's Choice
Read the latest Editor's Choice papers here.
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 by Nick Hanley et al.
- Future novel threats and opportunities facing UK biodiversity identified by horizon scanning by William J. Sutherland et al.
Special Profiles
Read our recent Special Profile features:
- Challenges and prospects for applied ecology in China (June 2009)
- Integrating ecology and the social sciences (April 2009)
- New perspectives on managing wildlife diseases (April 2009)
- Invasives (February 2009)
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