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Journal of Applied Ecology Associate Editor awarded Fresh Science award
The journal is pleased to congratulate Jennifer Firn, a member of our team of Associate Editors, on being awarded the Fresh Science award for early career researchers in Australia. Sixteen winners were chosen from 133 applicants all from different science backgrounds from across Australia. The award was made for her findings in a recent Journal of Applied Ecology paper: Alternative states models provide an effective framework for invasive species control and restoration of native communities. Firn J., House A.P.N. & Buckley Y.M. (2010). Journal of Applied Ecology, 47, 96-105.

Journal of Applied Ecology author podcasts
Download and listen to our Journal of Applied Ecology author podcasts - Editor Marc Cadotte interviews an author of one paper in each issue of Journal of Applied Ecology, providing additional insight into their research.

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.

Journal of Applied Ecology In the News

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).