Supplement to Behavioral Ecology From the President Contents of this Issue The 10th ISBE congress is rapidly approaching, and we can look forward to an exciting summer week in Jyväskylä. I warmly welcome Jack Bradbury to take From the President 1-2 over as president there, and the new members of the Contributions to the ISBE Newsletter 2 executive to take office. Paul Ward reports the result of Executive 3 In Memoriam: Frank Alois Pitelka 4-5 the election on page 6. Walt Koenig & Paul Sherman Since the ISBE conference in Montreal 2002 there have Society News 6 been important changes in the editorial, submission and Results of ISBE Elections 6 subscription systems of our journal Behavioral Ecology. Book Reviews Owing to excellent work by authors, reviewers, editors Bumblebees. Their Behaviour and Ecology 7-8 (Goulson 2003) and editorial board as well as Oxford University Press, Review by Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde the journal has become the lead in its field. It is Niko’s Nature: A Life of Niko Tinbergen and 8-9 obviously highly attractive, the submission rate his Science of Animal Behaviour (Kruuk increases steadily, and the number of journal pages has 2003) been increased. Review by Tim Birkhead A Red Bird in a Brown Bag: The Function and 9-10 To keep the number of manuscripts handled by each Evolution of Colorful Plumage in the House editor within limits, we now have seven editors. At the Finch (Hill 2002) Review by Andrew Cockburn successful switch to electronic submission, which is Animal Behavior and Wildlife Conservation 10-12 now in full timesaving swing since 2003, the need was (Festa-Bianchet & Apollonio, eds 2003) felt for an editor-in-chief. David Westneat kindly Review by Colleen Cassady St. Clair agreed to take on this demanding task. He has done a Pheromones and Animal Behaviour. 12-13 great job as editor, not least by getting the new system Communication by Smell and Taste. (Wyatt 2003) going. After five years, he plans to hand over to his Review by B. Staffan Lindgren successor this summer. Gunilla Rosenqvist has also Parents out of control: a review of - Sex 13-15 done a wonderful job, serving as an editor for over six wars: Genes, Bacteria, and Biased Sex years. Warmest thanks from the society to both of them, Ratios (Majerus 2003) Review by Ian C.W. Hardy and a great welcome to Andrew Bourke who has agreed to succeed Dave as editor-in-chief, and to Göran Workshop & Conference Reviews Course on Basic Methods in Evolutionary 15-16 Arnqvist and Mark Elgar for agreeing to be new editors. and Functional Ecology The quality and success of our journal depends on such Francisco Valera & Andres Barbosa first-rate scientists being willing to use their expertise in handling the manuscripts it receives. 1 ISBE Newsletter, Vol. 16(1) June 2004 After the introduction of the web edition of the journal, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ISBE NEWSLETTER there have been changes in the subscription system, not The ISBE Newsletter publishes Book, Conference and least for institutions. It is at present a bit difficult to Workshop Reviews of interest to the International Society for predict how the economy for scientific journals will Behavioral Ecology. develop, given the rapid changes taking place through Book Reviews: Persons involved in the publishing of books the expansion of web-based journal access. But OUP is who would like these to be considered for review in the keeping a keen eye on it to make sure that the Newsletter may contact the Editor and arrange for their economics of the journal will remain sound. publisher to forward a review copy to this office. Authors may submit a list of possible reviewers. Alternately, members who All these changes have involved negotiations, and it has wish to review a particular text should contact the Editor. been a pleasure to interact with everyone concerned – Workshop/Conference Reviews: Workshop and/or executive, editors and, not least, Cathy Kennedy at Conference reviews should be prepared in one of the Oxford University Press. We have also negotiated a following two formats. Brief synopses (max 1000 words) new contract between ISBE and OUP for the next five may be submitted by either participants or conference years of the journal. All negotiations have been held in organizers at the regular newsletter deadlines. These can a positive atmosphere, and everyone is enthusiastic include synopses of workshops that will be published in more about our journal and research field. The future detailed accounts (book or special journals), and should therefore looks bright. include information as to where the information will published. Longer reports (max 2500 words) will be considered from Unforeseen delays in building activities have made it large workshops/conferences for which other publications are difficult to hold the ISBE conference in 2006 at Cornell not stemming. The purpose of the latter format is to provide University as planned. Instead there will be a swap, the a venue to disseminate information and discussions that 2006 conference taking place in Tours, France, and the would otherwise not be available to non-conference 2008 conference at Cornell University, when their new participants. Anyone attending such a workshop and wishing large-size auditorium is finished. Sandra Vehrencamp to publish in the Newsletter should contact the Editor at least and Jack Bradbury at Cornell, and Marc Thery on the one month prior to submission deadlines. Reports should French side, have arranged this excellent solution. So aim at a critical assessment of the conference, as well as a we can still look forward to these two exciting venues synthesis of the convergent ideas presented. A synopsis of for ISBE conferences, although in reverse order future directions of research that were reached at the end of compared to the original plan. the conference should also be included. Anyone attending the workshops may submit reports, but preference will be But first of course, there will be the10th conference in given to submissions not authored by conference organizers. Jyväskylä this summer, where Rauno Alatalo and his A single application for a workshop will be considered, so it colleagues have set up a highly interesting program, in may be appropriate to agree upon a reporter at the the beautiful and pleasant summer landscape of lake- conference. Graduate students and postdocs are strongly rich central Finland. Do come if you have a chance, you encouraged to consider contributing to writing these reports. would regret missing all the exciting recent research in Commentaries: Responses to commentary articles behavioral ecology, being told long before publication, published in the newsletter or articles eliciting discussion on and at such a nice place! topics relevant to the society will be considered for publication. Authors of such articles should contact the Editor Looking forward to meeting you all there, at least one month prior to regular submission deadlines to outline the content of the article. The Editor may request Malte Andersson submission of the article earlier than regular deadline should ISBE President outside reviewing be deemed necessary. Cartoons: Cartoonists are encouraged to submit artwork , either in hardcopy, or as TIFF or high resolution (300 dpi) GIF files. All cartoons published in the newsletter will be credited to the illustrator, and will appear on the Newsletter's website (web.unbc.ca/isbe/newsletter). Deadlines for submission to the fall/winter newsletter will be Sept 15, 2004. 2 ISBE Newsletter, Vol. 16(1) June 2004 Current Executive President Treasurer Malte Andersson Walt Koenig Animal Ecology Hastings Reservation Department of Zoology 38601 E. Carmel Valley Rd. Göteborg University Carmel Valley, CA 93924 U.S.A. Box 463, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden Tel: +1 831 659 5981 Tel: +46 31 773 3695 Fax: +1 831 659 0150 Fax: +46 31 416729 Email:[email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Councillors Past-President Marty Leonard Nick Davies Department of Biology Department of Zoology Dalhousie University Cambridge University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4J1 Downing Street Tel: +1 902 494 2158 Cambridge CB2 3EJ U.K. Fax: +1 902 494 3736 Tel.: +44 (0)1223 334405 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +44 (0)1223 336676 E-mail: [email protected] Linda A. Whittingham Dept. of Biological Sciences President-elect University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Jack Bradbury Lapham Hall, P.O. Box 413 Cornell University Lab of Ornithology Milwaukee, WI 53201 U.S.A. 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Tel: +1 414 229 2252 Ithaca NY 14850 USA Fax: +1 414 229 3926 Tel: +1 607 254 2493 e-mail: [email protected] Fax: +1 607 254 2439 E-mail: [email protected] Hanna Kokko Department of Ecology and Systematics Secretary Biocenter 3 PO Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1) Paul Ward 00014 University of Helsinki Zoologisches Museum der Universität Zürich Finland Winterthurerstrasse 190 Tel: +358 9 1915 7702 CH 8057 Zürich, Switzerland Fax : +358 9 1915 7694 Tel: +41 1 635 4970 E-mail : [email protected] Fax: +41 1 635 6818 E-mail: [email protected] Nina Wedell The School of Biology, University of Leeds, L. C. Miall Building Clarendon Way, Leeds, LS2 9JT, U.K. Tel: +44 (0) 1133 433051 Fax: +44 (0) 1133 432835 E-mail: [email protected] 3 ISBE Newsletter, Vol. 16(1) June 2004 In Memoriam FRANK ALOIS PITELKA, 1916–2003 Frank Pitelka, in whose honor the ISBE’s research award established Arctic Research Laboratory (later the Naval for the best student paper published in Behavioral Ecology Arctic Research Laboratory, or NARL) in Barrow, was established, died of prostate cancer on 10 October Alaska. Thus began an annual migration between 2003.