THE JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 
EDITED FOR THE 
BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
BY 
FRANK CAVERS 
T HE objects of The Journal of Ecology are (i) to foster and promote in all. 
ways the study of Ecology in the British Isles, serving as the organ of the 
British Ecological Society ; (2) to present a record of and commentary upon 
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Nature Protection movement and of ecological work in Nature Reserves. 
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a comprehensive review.of progress in the entire field of Ecology, touching, as this 
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Contents of Vol. Ill , No. 1 . March igij 
THE PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY AS ILLUSTRATED BY STUDIES OF 
ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR AND ANIMAL COMMUNITIES. By Victor 
E. Shelford. 
A SPHAGNUM BOG IN THE TROPICS. By F. C. Gates. 
A NOTE ON RELATIVE HUMIDITY. By George Brown. 
NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS OF GENERAL BEARING. 
NOTICES OF WORK ON BRITISH VEGETATION. 
NOTICES OF WORK ON FOREIGN VEGETATION. 
NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS ON ANIMAL ECOLOGY. 
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