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E4 award papers over the years
The E4 Award is given every year to an early-career research scientist who writes an exceptional Review manuscript. The winner receives a €1000 cash prize and the runner-up receives €500. Our early-career E4 award papers are more downloaded and cited than the average research paper for Ecography.
Cover | Modelling LULC effects on biodiversity: a review of practices and risks
This month’s cover photo features a marsh, which is one of the last visible signs of a palaeochannel of the Rhone river, now dedicated to host the Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris) among other conservation targets. Photo by Arnaud-Willm-Tour du Valat.
Study | Targeting Conservation for First Migrations
Throughout the world, each spring and fall, billions of birds migrate. But, due to a multitude of threats and stressors, populations of avian migrants have declined widely and are now the focus of widespread conservation action.
Cover | EcoViz: a visualization tool for forest landscape model simulations
This month’s cover photo features the a scene in the Berchtesgaden National Park in Germany and depicts the hypothetical forest state in the year 2150, blending "symbolic rendering" with a photo-realistic rendering.
New senior board for Ecography
We are excited to share a couple of updates to the journal’s editorial structure and board. These are meant to further strengthen what Ecography already does best while ensuring both continuity and renewal.
So what are the changes?
First, we are switching to a shared leadership model. The Nordic Society has decided to broaden the leadership of Ecography by appointing a team of three Editors-in-Chief that will jointly guide the journal. Christine Meynard who took over the Editor-in-Chief position from Miguel Araujo will be joined by Dominique Gravel and Damaris Zurell.
Cover | EcoCleanR: enhancing biogeographic data quality
This month’s cover illustration by Priyanka Soni features the EcoCleanR workflow, showing transformation of raw biodiversity data into refined geographic and environmental representations of species distributions.
New Editor | Arnost Sizling, subject editor for Ecography
Arnost Sizling is a macroecologist who explores the drivers of species spatial patterns, with interests including how biodiversity patterns shift across the Holocene and along continental-scale gradients.
Cover | First robust population assessment of snow leopards in Pakistan
This month’s cover photo by Muhammad Osama depicts Lovely, an orphan snow leopard cub rescued in 2013, who thrives under rehabilitation in Naltar Valley of northern Pakistan.
New Editor | Jamie Kass, editor for Software Notes
Jamie Kass runs the Macroecology Lab at Tohoku University in Japan, investigating how biodiversity—from plankton to insects to vertebrates—is distributed across space and time.
New Editor | Dan Liang, subject editor for Ecography
Animal ecologist and conservation scientist Dan Liang studies diversity patterns in rapidly changing ecosystems, often involving long-distance migrants crossing national boundaries and elevational migrations in mountains.
Study | The small hosting the small in Antarctica
In the tiny ice-free areas of Antarctica, carpets of mosses, lichens, and algae form miniature forests. These patches host Antarctica’s terrestrial animals: billions of mites and springtails.
New Editor | Babak Naimi, editor for Software Notes
We welcome Babak Naimi, a senior researcher at Utrecht University who focuses on understanding biodiversity change in response to ongoing global change and anthropogenic activities.
New Editor | Tyler Hallman, subject editor for Ecography
We welcome wildlife ecologist and conservation biologist Tyler Hallman, whose recent work includes exploring the wellbeing benefits that humans derive from avian soundscapes.
New Editor | Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, subject editor for Ecography
We welcome Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, whose research asks how broad patterns of biodiversity emerge across space, time, and different parts of the tree of life.
Award | Announcing the 2026 E4 Award competition
We are happy to announce an open competition for the Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology and Evolution, given to an early career research scientist who submits an exceptional Review manuscript.
Cover | The world's oldest man-made biological experiment
This month’s cover features a group of ancient megalithic jars at the Plain of Jars in Laos, photographed by Khamla Inkhavilay.
*Cover | Rainfall increases conformity and strength of species–area relationships
Atolls like Teti’aroa, French Polynesia, can offer unique windows into the limits and boundary conditions of biogeographic properties, which inherently cannot be examined through the study of larger islands.
*New Editor | Laura Melissa Guzman, new subject editor for Ecography
The goal of Guzman’s research is to help improve insect conservation by developing statistical methods that better use all available data.
*Cover | Direct effects and prey-mediated effects of global change in projections of early life stages of pelagic predators
A striped marlin (Kajikia audax) closes in on a bait ball of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off the Pacific coast of Baja, Mexico.
*Welcome | Jon Lefcheck, new Subject Editor
We welcome Jon Lefchek, research scientist at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, as new subject editor of Ecography.