ISBE Newsletter Spring/Summer 2024

Vol 36 Issue 1

The latest issue is now available for download and includes all the regular features (Editorial, Society News and Book/Conference Reviews). 

Upcoming events/conferences and positions available are updated online as notices are submitted and can be accessed from the main menu above.

Andreas Svensson

Contribute

Perspectives

The Editor encourages contributions concerning the field of behavioural ecology itself, for example how it has developed, past and present trends, historical controversies and so on. The more senior members of the Society are especially encouraged to share their perspectives. It is also possible to utilize the ISBE archive, which contain much information our inception in the 1980’s. Please contact the Newsletter Editor if you want to share your perspectives.

Book Reviews

There is a list of current books available for review on the last page of each Newsletter, and we welcome reviews of these books, or any other current book that is deemed to be of interest to the Society.  Members who wish to review a particular book should contact the Newsletter Editor. Reviews are typically 1500-2000 Words. Persons involved in the publishing of books who would like these to be considered for review in the Newsletter may contact the Editor and arrange for their publisher to forward a review copy to a reviewer. Authors may submit a list of possible reviewers. 

Spotlight on... 

This is an initiative to introduce advanced postgraduate students and recent post-docs and their research interests to the Society.  Individuals can nominate themselves or others to be highlighted in upcoming issues by emailing the Editor.  To be eligible for the spotlight, you must hold a membership with the Society.  Contact the Editor for details on submissions.

Upcoming events and meetings

Members that are organizing, or aware of, upcoming conferences or other meeting that are of interest to the Society, should pass on this information to the Newsletter Editor. The information can be entered into the Conference Calendar section, or may be featured as a short article.

Workshop/Conference Reviews

Workshop and/or Conference reviews are encouraged and can be submitted by either participants or organizers. These can include synopses of workshops that will be published in more detailed accounts (book or special journals), and should include information as to where the information will be published.  Longer reviews will be considered from large workshops/conferences for which other publications are not stemming.  The purpose of the latter format is to provide a venue to disseminate information and discussions that would otherwise not be available to non-conference participants.  Anyone attending such a workshop and wishing to publish in the Newsletter should contact the Editors at least one month prior to submission deadlines.  Reports should ideally aim at a critical assessment of the conference, as well as a synthesis of the convergent ideas presented. Anyone attending the workshops may submit reviews, but preference will be given to submissions not authored by conference organizers.  Graduate students and postdocs are strongly encouraged to consider contributing to writing these reports.

Commentaries

Responses to commentary articles published in the Newsletter or articles eliciting discussion on topics relevant to the society will be considered for publication.  Authors of such articles should contact the Editors at least one month prior to regular submission deadlines to outline the content of the article.  The Editors may request submission of the article earlier than regular deadline should outside reviewing be deemed necessary.

Cartoons

Cartoonists and other artists are encouraged to submit artwork , preferrably as TIFF or high resolution image files.  All cartoons published in the newsletter will be credited to the illustrator.

Deadlines for submission to the first issue will be 28/29 Feb each year.
Deadlines for submission to the second issue will be 30 Sept each year.

Archive

Volume 1 Issue 1 (June 1987) | Issue 2 (July 1988)
Volume 2 Issue 1 (Nov 1988) | Issue 2 (July 1989) | Issue 3 (Spring 1990) | Issue 4 (Fall 1990)
Volume 3 (1991) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 4 (1992) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 5 (1993) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 6 (1994) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 7 (1995) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 8 (1996) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 9 (1997) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 10 (1998) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 11 (1999) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 12 (2000) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 13 (2001) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 14 (2002) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 15 (2003) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 16 (2004) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 17 (2005) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter) | Issue 3 (Special Election Issue)
Volume 18 (2006) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 19 (2007) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 20 (2008) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 21 (2009) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 22 (2010) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 23 (2011) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 24 (2012) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 25 (2013) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 26 (2014) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 27 (2015) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 28 (2016) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 29 (2017) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) I Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 30 (2018) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 31 (2019) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 32 (2020) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 33 (2021) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 34 (2022) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)
Volume 35 (2023) Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) | Issue 2 (Fall/Winter)

ISBE Newsletter Editors

1987-1988 Donald Kramer
1988-1990 Martin Daly
1991-1992 Nancy Thornhill, Paul Schmid-Hempel
1993-1996 Ron Ydenberg
1996-2000 Bart Kempanaers
2000-2007 Ken Otter
2006-2013 Marie Herberstein
2014-present Andreas Svensson