Monthly Archive:: November 2014

29 Nov 2014

A quick guide to writing a solid peer review

       Writing clear, comprehensive and balanced reviews for submitted manuscripts is an important task for all scientists who are at the same time producing manuscripts for publication and assessing manuscripts from colleagues. Here, as an introduction
23 Nov 2014

Pattern of genotype by environment interaction for radiata pine in southern Australia

Milos IVKOVIC, Washington GAPARE, Huixiao YANG, Gregory DUTKOWSKI, Peter BUXTON, Harry WU CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australi; College of Forestry, Guangdong Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, 510520, China; PlantPlan Genetics, Private Bag 55,
23 Nov 2014

Reducing the error in biomass estimates strongly depends on model selection

Nicolas PICARD, Faustin BOYEMBA BOSELA, Vivien ROSSI COMIFAC, BP 20818, Yaounde, Cameroo; University of Kisangani, BP 2012, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo; CIRAD, UPR Bsef, BP 2572, Yaounde, Cameroon; University Yaounde 1, UMMISCO, Yaounde, Cameroon Improving the
6 Nov 2014

December 2014 (71, 8) issue is available

Original Papers Elevated atmospheric CO2 and humidity delay leaf fall in Betula pendula, but not in Alnus glutinosa or Populus tremula × tremuloides Douglas Godbold, Arvo Tullus, Priit Kupper, Jaak Sõber, Ivika Ostonen, Jasmin A. Godbold, Martin Lukac, Iftekhar
3 Nov 2014

IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) AR5 provides a clear and up to date view of the current state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change. It consists of three Working Group (WG) reports and a Synthesis Report (SYR).
1 Nov 2014

Improving the robustness of biomass functions: from empirical to functional approaches

Ablo Paul Igor Hounzandji, Mathieu Jonard, Claude Nys , Laurent Saint-André   and Quentin Ponette Earth and Life Institute, Environmental Sciences, UCL, Croix du Sud, 2, box L7.05.09, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; UR1138, Unité Biogéochimie des Ecosystèmes Forestiers (BEF), Centre INRA de Nancy, INRA, 54280 Champenoux, France; CIRAD, UMR
1 Nov 2014

Open data: A role for publishers…. or for journal editors?

Comment on the paper by Jennifer Lin and Carly Strasser, Plos Biology, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001975: Recommendations for the Role of Publishers in Access to Data The paper by Lin and Strasser addresses a very important point. Institutions and