Journal of Ecology news
2005; Wiley; Volume: 94; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01088.x
ISSN1365-2745
AutoresLindsay Haddon, David J. Gibson, Michael R. Hutchings, MALCOLM PRESS,
Tópico(s)Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
ResumoOur efforts to attract the most interesting and innovative work from ecologists in all plant-related fields are reflected in a increase, for the second year running, in our Impact Factor©. The 2004 value of 3.397 (an increase of 20% compared with 2003) places Journal of Ecology 11th (of 107) in ISI's ranking of ecology journals, a rise of eight places over the last year. Papers in Journal of Ecology are, increasingly, being cited rapidly after publication (the immediacy index is now 0.624), while their impact remains long-lasting (the half-life for citations is still well over 10 years). All articles, back to the first issue in 1913, are available electronically, via Blackwell Synergy (from 1997) or JStor (1913–2002), and members of the British Ecological Society can subscribe, at nominal cost, to the ‘e-journals’ collection which offers instant electronic access, together with search facilities, to the entire back catalogue of all four of its journals (see http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/publications/journals/electronic). From 2006, Journal of Ecology will be published in odd-numbered months, i.e. the cover months will be January, March, May, July, September and November. Issues will be available online around the middle of the previous month so you may well be reading this while it is still 2005. Printed copies are scheduled for dispatch so that they arrive by the beginning of the cover month. Signing up for Blackwell Publishing's e-mail alert service (http://www.blackwell-publishing.com/ealerts) enables you to receive tables of contents (with links to the abstracts, which can be viewed free of charge) as soon as they are available. Individual articles will, of course, be available sooner in the ‘Online Early’ section of Blackwell Synergy at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/jec. These are final versions (they only lack final pagination and volume/issue details) and are uploaded as soon as proofs have been corrected: they are considered fully published and are available for downloading and citation (using their doi number) from the date they first appear online. Grouping the papers in each issue into topics allows us to highlight areas of active research (e.g. aspects of invasiveness, environmental change, competition and interactions between plants and other organisms have been included on several occasions) and to facilitate comparison between different approaches to the solution of similar problems. There is an average of four topics per issue, so all readers will find plenty of interest. The groupings are largely dictated by the papers we have ready for inclusion, but we are also hoping to publish a special topic section, in issue 4 or 5, devoted to the functional analysis of genomes and genomic pathways in plants. The aim of this is to introduce the field of ecogenomics to plant ecologists, by presenting an overview of this rapidly emerging field, so as to encourage ecogenomic-orientated research and submission of articles in this field to the Journal. Reviews are becoming an increasingly regular feature of the Journal. Download data suggest that these are always among most influential and popular articles and there will usually be at least one that is available for free download see (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/jec). Seven review articles were published in 2005 and, with five currently ‘in press’ or ‘under revision’, we hope to maintain an average of one per issue in 2006. We have identified a number of topics where we feel that a review is timely, but readers are also encouraged to submit suggestions or outlines to us. We also encourage contribution to our Forum section. Alternatives to Silvertown's explanations for the monophyly of island floras (Silvertown 2004) prompted lively debate (Herben et al. 2005; Saunders & Gibson 2005; Silvertown et al. 2005), as did views on the use of meta-analyses to test the stress-gradient hypothesis (Maestre et al. 2005; Lortie & Callaway 2006; Maestre et al. 2006). As well as responses to material published in the Journal, we will also consider short articles that put forward new ideas for discussion and experimental test. The second forum article in this issue (Stevens 2006) clearly falls into this category. Although Forum papers should be kept short, we appreciate that it is not always possible to develop an argument within a particular word limit. However, contributions must have a clear theme and considerable novelty and be of potential interest to wide range of ecologists. As with all papers, length must be justified by content but we believe that it is important that detailed and carefully designed large experiments can be published in high quality journals and do not, therefore, reject any papers solely on the grounds of length. We are, however, also keen to receive brief research papers that make important new advances in all fields of plant and plant-related ecology. The paper that received most outside attention during the last year was Mitchell (2005) in which the author used pollen analysis to support his hypothesis that prehistoric Europe was covered by closed forest, rather than a mosaic of grassland and forest, as proposed by Vera (2000). As several articles (e.g. Birks 2005; Kleiner 2005; Moore 2005) point out, valid conservation policies depend on knowing the ‘natural’ state to which restoration should aspire. There are those who argue that rejection of the wood-pasture hypothesis is premature, but the use of a new approach has opened up a valuable debate, to which we hope to carry further contributions in 2006. We are extremely grateful to our international team of Associate Editors, which has now been increased to over 40 members to reflect the continuing increase in submissions to the Journal, and some changes in the subject areas of the manuscripts we receive. During 2005, we have recruited (in alphabetical order): Peter Bellingham (fire ecology), Rob Brooker (community ecology), James Cahill (root ecology and competition), Hans Cornelissen (resource allocation, global change), Kyle Harms (tropical ecology), Martin Heil (chemical ecology, herbivory), Bob Jones (soils and nutrients), Angela Moles (seed ecology, functional traits), Ran Nathan (dispersal), Jonathan Newman (plant–animal interactions, modelling), Susan Schwinning (competition, ecological modelling), Matthew Turnbull (ecophysiology, carbon budgets) and Pieter Zuidema (matrix modelling, tropical ecology). Two Associate Editors, Paul Adam and Peter Jolliffe, came to the end of their terms on the Editorial Board during 2005 and we thank them for all their work on behalf of the Journal. We are, of course, also indebted to the continuing members listed inside the front cover. The 2005 John L. Harper Young Investigator's Prize for a paper published in Journal of Ecology by an author at the start of his or her research career, is awarded to Michael Stastny for ‘Do vigour of introduced populations and escape from specialist herbivores contribute to invasiveness?’ The ecology of invasive species is a topic of much current interest and importance and Stastny et al. (2005) tested two important hypotheses (enemy release and the evolution of increased competitive ability). The paper describes a high quality experimental study of a well known system (Senecio jacobaea and its specialist herbivore Longitarsus jacobaeae). The results show that increased competitive ability of the invasive species is tied to resistance and tolerance, reinforcing the need to study both. The invasive species was studied in terms of both native and invasive populations – in this case in a common garden in the home site – as recommended in an Essay Review (Hierro et al. 2005), published in the same issue of the Journal. Michael Stastny received his Bachelor's degree in biology from Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Burnaby, Canada, in 2002. He first became involved in research studying the chemical ecology of bark beetles under John Borden at SFU, and his collaboration with Urs Schaffner and Elizabeth Elle developed while working on invasion biology and biocontrol at CABI (Delemont, Switzerland). Combining his traveller's spirit with research aspirations, he then headed north, to learn about willows and gall midges with Stig Larsson at the Swedish Agricultural University (Uppsala), before moving to Padova, Italy, to join an EU project on the recent range expansion of the pine processionary moth. He continues to collaborate closely on the topics of forest insect ecology and climate change with Andrea Battisti, Stig Larsson and others. In 2004, Michael began his PhD with Anurag Agrawal in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. While his current interests still centre around plant–insect interactions, they now incorporate a broader community and phylogenetic perspective. The Editors felt that two other young authors deserved special mention: Kathryn Yurkonis (for ‘Invasion impacts diversity through altered community dynamics’) and Annette Kolb (for ‘Reduced reproductive success and offspring survival in fragmented populations of the forest herb Phyteuma spicatum’). Annette has recently completed a PhD at the University of Bremen and Kathryn a Masters at Eastern Illinois University. The results reported by Kolb (2005) provide further evidence for reductions in fitness in fragmented populations, but their novelty lies in relating the responses to pollen limitation and genetic effects. Yurkonis et al. (2005) present another study concerned with invasive species. They describe an analysis of a valuable long-term data set that allows a distinction to be made between colonization limitation and extinctions following invasion of four exotic species. Readers may be surprised to find that colonization limitation is likely the more important of these two mechanisms. Experimental tests are now needed of course. We wish all three well as they pursue careers in ecology and hope that Michael will take up the British Ecological Society's invitation to attend its Annual Meeting in September and give a presentation of his work. Delegates at the 2005 meeting had the chance to meet, and listen to a talk by, one of last year's winners, Gerlinde De Deyn, and to discuss how her studies on plant defences, plant pathogens and mycorrhizal fungi have developed since her paper (De Deyn et al. 2004). We are always pleased to publish work from younger authors who have novel results to report. Journal of Ecology invites submission of your best research to our website at http://britishecologicalsociety.manuscriptcentral.com. A new version of the submission system, which we hope will be even simpler and more intuitive for all users, should become available in Spring 2006. We aim to treat all authors with courtesy and respect, and to handle manuscripts as promptly as possible. As confirmation of the latter aim, we can report that, despite the continuing increase in submissions (at the time of writing, predicted to be 15% more in 2005 than in 2004), we have been able to reduce our average time from initial receipt of manuscripts to first decision to just 42 days. The Journal will be slightly larger in 2006 than in 2005, but we are having to be increasingly selective over the papers we accept. Our aim, as a leading international journal, is to publish papers providing valuable ecological information with generic, rather than specific applicability, which answer important questions, and that test novel and topical hypotheses. Each submission will be individually assessed by one or more Editors to determine whether it falls within the broad remit of Journal of Ecology, addresses a broad rather than narrow ecological subject area, has the potential to make a substantial contribution to ecological understanding and covers a subject area that is topical and therefore potentially of interest to a wide readership. Papers that do not fulfil these criteria may be rejected without review. This reduces the burden on both the refereeing community and the editorial system and enables authors to submit, without delay, to a more appropriate journal. To enable the Editors (and eventually, the readers) to appreciate the value of your paper, authors should provide in their cover letter one or two sentences explaining the significance of the results and why it is important for Journal of Ecology to publish the paper. Please also ensure that the title is accurate and likely to draw a wide audience to the paper (titles holding the promise of generic rather than specific insights are recommended) and that the summary is informative and enticing for readers. After initial screening, all types of papers are subject to peer review. Authors can expect an explanation for the delay if a decision has not been reached within 10 weeks of submission (average time to decision for reviewed papers is currently 53 days). For papers published in 2005, average time from submission to acceptance was 138 days and time from submission to online publication was 209 days. In order to assess the level of interest within the ecological community for alternative models for funding publication, Journal of Ecology is included in ‘OnlineOpen’, a trial pay-to-publish service from Blackwell Publishing that gives authors the option of paying a one-off fee of £1250 (equivalent to $2500) to allow all readers immediate online access to the paper without charge. NB No author will be prevented from publishing in Journal of Ecology by the existence of the option to elect to pay for publication; all accepted papers will continue to be available online to subscribers. Any authors wishing their paper to be OnlineOpen should indicate this ONLY after their paper is accepted. When published, the online version of the article on the Blackwell Synergy service (both full-text and PDF versions) will be available to all for viewing and download free of charge. The print version of the article will also be branded as OnlineOpen, and will draw attention to the fact that the paper can be downloaded for free. Authors are asked to follow carefully the latest Instructions for Authors (please note that the printed version on pp. 250–251 is regularly updated – see Author Guidelines at http://www.blackwell-publishing.com/journals/jec). The Editors of Journal of Ecology encourage authors to make data underlying published articles available on request. As data registries and archives become more readily available, we hope that authors will register data and deposit metadata connecting published papers to the archived data underlying the results. Our thanks go to all those colleagues who readily agree to referee papers for Journal of Ecology, despite their other commitments. The increased number of submissions means that we are having to ask people more often, and two or three papers a year is now the rule rather than an exception, although we do try to spread things out as much as we can. We therefore expect that authors of submitted papers will help to maintain the standards of the Journal by agreeing, when asked, to referee papers within their field of expertise. The Editors of Journal of Ecology would like to thank all those listed at the end of this article for their assistance in evaluating manuscripts between December 2004 and October 2005. Their opinions have been greatly valued, as has their willingness to work within our electronic system for submission and review. We really do appreciate their efforts. L. W. Aarssen M. A. Adams L. S. Adler P. B. Adler A. A. Agrawal J. Agren S.-I. Aiba L. Ainsworth R. Alexandersson C. Andersen S. Andersson J. D. Arendt E. Arets D. Arseneault M. Arthur T.-L. Ashman O. K. Atkin Maia Bailey Mark Bailey E. S. 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