Journal of the Week: Ecology

Ecology, as the name suggests, focuses on research in basic and applied ecology. Published monthly by the Ecological Society of America (ESA), it includes articles on evolutionary, population, physiological, community, and ecosystem ecology, as well as paleoecology and biogeochemistry.

Some interesting articles published so far this year include:

Alastair M. M. Baylis, Rachael A. Orben, John P. Y. Arnould, Fredrik Christiansen, Graeme C. Hays, and Iain J. Staniland (2015) Disentangling the cause of a catastrophic population decline in a large marine mammal, Ecology Volume 96, Issue 10, 2834–2847 Link to Abstract/Full Text

Brian C. Hong and Jonathan B. Shurin (2015) Latitudinal variation in the response of tidepool copepods to mean and daily range in temperature,  Ecology, Volume 96, Issue 9, 2348–2359 Link to Abstract/Full Text

Joleah B. Lamb, David H. Williamson, Garry R. Russ, and Bette L. Willis (2015) Protected areas mitigate diseases of reef-building corals by reducing damage from fishing, Ecology, Volume 96, Issue 9, 2555–2567 Link to Abstract/Full Text

Neil Hammerschlag, Annette C. Broderick, John W. Coker, Michael S. Coyne, Mark Dodd, Michael G. Frick, Matthew H. Godfrey, Brendan J. Godley, DuBose B. Griffin, Kyra Hartog, Sally R. Murphy, Thomas M. Murphy, Emily Rose Nelson, Kristina L. Williams, Matthew J. Witt, and Lucy A. Hawkes (2015) Evaluating the landscape of fear between apex predatory sharks and mobile sea turtles across a large dynamic seascape, Ecology, Volume 96, Issue 8, 2117–2126 Link to Abstract/Full Text

Peter A. H. Westley, Andrew H. Dittman, Eric J. Ward, and Thomas P. Quinn (2015) Signals of climate, conspecific density, and watershed features in patterns of homing and dispersal by Pacific salmon, Ecology, Volume 96, Issue 10, 2823–2833 Link to Abstract/Full Text

The most recent issue of this journal is Volume 96, Issue 10, published in October 2015. AIMS staff interested in reading more or browsing the journal can click here. As the AIMS Library is currently subscribed to Ecology, staff should be able to access the full text of all articles. 

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