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Journal of Applied Ecology papers selected by the Editors in key thematic areas.

Virtual Issue on Biodiversity

JUNE 2010
In recognition of International Year of Biodiversity, 2010, the five journals of the British Ecological Society - Journal of Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Functional Ecology and Methods in Ecology and Evolution - are pleased to publish a Virtual Issue of papers with biodiversity as a common theme.
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Conserving European biodiversity:
lessons from the science-policy interface

Edited by: Philip E. Hulme
JUNE 2010
To celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity, the Journal of Applied Ecology is launching a virtual issue on the management of biodiversity to coincide with the Green Week conference. Twenty of the most influential papers that bridge the policy-science divide relating to biodiversity published by the Journal of Applied Ecology over the last five years have been brought together in a single issue.
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Key Perspectives in the Management of Biological Invasions

Edited by: Philip E. Hulme
OCTOBER 2009
To coincide with the first International Congress on Biological Invasions, held in Fuzhou, China in November 2009, the Journal of Applied Ecology brings you this Virtual Issue presenting the 20 most cited papers the journal has published in this field in the past 5 years. We hope the Congress will act as a catalyst for excellent applied research and look forward in publishing the best research from China in the pages of our journal.
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Applied Ecology in Asia

Edited by: E J Milner-Gulland
APRIL 2009
A key strategic aim of the Journal of Applied Ecology is to increase both the authorship and readership of the journal from Asia, and we are working proactively to achieve this. This Virtual Issue showcases the excellent and wide-ranging nature of the applied ecological research from Asia that has been published in the journal over the last 5 years. It is published to coincide with a Special Profile on Challenges and prospects for applied ecology in China (issue 46:3, June 2009) and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology in Beijing in June 2009.