Membership

Join the global community advancing ecological research, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable ecosystem management worldwide.

Membership in Journal of Plant and Animal Ecology positions you within a vibrant community dedicated to understanding the intricate relationships between organisms and their environments. Our network includes population ecologists, community ecologists, behavioral scientists, and conservation biologists exploring how species interact, adapt, and respond to environmental change.

Membership also provides a practical way to share field protocols, datasets, and monitoring frameworks with peers who work across biomes. Through member communications, you can identify collaborators for comparative studies, secure feedback on study design, and stay informed about emerging funding opportunities tied to conservation priorities.

We highlight member research across newsletters, webinars, and special issue announcements so your work reaches practitioners who apply ecological findings in restoration and management. This visibility supports career advancement, helps build interdisciplinary networks, and positions your lab or organization as a leader in biodiversity science.

Members gain practical insights into data management, long-term monitoring design, and reproducible analytics for ecological time series. Workshops and roundtables emphasize how to communicate findings to land managers, local communities, and policy stakeholders, ensuring research moves beyond academic outputs to real conservation outcomes.

Whether you study forests, grasslands, freshwater, or coastal ecosystems, the membership community helps you compare methods, share monitoring tools, and translate results into action. These exchanges strengthen multi-site studies, improve methodological consistency, and accelerate the adoption of evidence-based conservation practices.

Select the membership level matching your career stage and institutional setting. All tiers include core benefits with enhanced privileges at higher levels for ecology professionals and research teams.

All memberships include access to editorial updates, member-only resources, and priority communications about upcoming issues. Discounts apply to accepted articles and can be combined with approved waivers when eligibility criteria are met.

Memberships renew annually, and institutional plans can be tailored to multi-site field stations or conservation programs. Members can update contact and affiliation details at any time to keep communications and benefits accurate.

Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career ecologists receive special consideration. We offer reduced membership rates and dedicated programming supporting emerging scientists entering the field of ecological research and conservation biology.

Early career members also receive guidance on building publication strategies, selecting appropriate article types, and preparing reproducible datasets. Mentoring sessions emphasize field protocol design, ethical approvals, and clear reporting of ecological context so new researchers can publish with confidence.

Members can also request guidance on conference submissions and grant planning.

Biological field stations, ecological reserves, and conservation organizations benefit from institutional memberships covering multiple staff members. Station memberships provide volume discounts while establishing your program as a leader in ecological research and biodiversity monitoring.

Partner stations receive platform recognition, priority consideration for editorial positions, and opportunities to showcase field research programs to the global ecology community through featured profiles and highlight articles.

Station memberships can also be aligned with seasonal field campaigns, enabling teams to schedule webinars or profile features when new datasets are released. This helps stations document long-term monitoring efforts and share lessons from adaptive management in real time.