New articles for Population Ecology (November 2008) Seven new articles of Population Ecology were published at 'Online First' last month.
(1) Taku Kadoya Assessing functional connectivity using empirical data (2) Jesus Pineda, Nathalie B. Reyns and Victoria R. Starczak Complexity and simplification in understanding recruitment in benthic populations (3) Takashi Noda Metacommunity-level coexistence mechanisms in rocky intertidal sessile assemblages based on a new empirical synthesis (4) Takehisa Yamakita and Masahiro Nakaoka Scale dependency in seagrass dynamics: how does the neighboring effect vary with grain of observation? (5) Hideyuki Doi Spatial patterns of autochthonous and allochthonous resources in aquatic food webs (6) Zhiguang Liu, Meng Gao, Zizhen Li and Gaofeng Zhu Synchrony of spatial populations: heterogeneous population dynamics and reddened environmental noise (7) Kohji Uraguchi, Kohji Yamamura and Takashi Saitoh Estimating number of families for an urban fox population by using two public data sets The abstracts of these articles are available for everyone free of charge at Online First. The full texts are available for the members of the Society of Population Ecology and institutions registered with SpringerLink. * Population Ecology at Online First: http://www.springerlink.com/content/103139/?Content+Status=Accepted However, the articles (1)-(5) above are special feature articles based on the Session I 'Beyond "open system": approaches to understand whole ecological systems' in the symposium in October 2007. These articles will be published together as 'Special Feature: Spatial connenctivity and scaling for populations and communities' in the next issue (51-1) to be published next month. Population Ecology is an English scientific journal published by the Society of Population Ecology four times a year. It enjoys a high international reputation and has a long history of over 40 years. All manuscripts are reviewed anonymously by two referees, and the final editorial decision is made by the Chief Editor based on the referees' evaluations. The articles are abstracted/indexed in BIOSIS, Current Contents/ Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, Environmental Periodicals Bibliography (EPB). Population Ecology welcomes submissions of papers by non-members. To submit your manuscript to Population Ecology, go to https://www.editorialmanager.com/poec/ We look forward to your subscription and submission. Editorial Office Population Ecology Chief Editor Takashi Saitoh Field Science Center Hokkaido University, Japan
