Dear Subscribers, Editors-in-Chief, Tom Nudds and Marc-André Villard, are pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of Avian Conservation and Ecology - Écologie et conservation des oiseaux (ACE-ÉCO <http://www.ace-eco.org> ). ACE-ÉCO is an open-access, fully electronic scientific journal, sponsored by the Society of Canadian Ornithologists <http://www.sco-soc.ca/> and Bird Studies Canada <http://www.bsc-eoc.org/> . To view the full text articles, select the HTML or PDF links from the online Table of Contents <http://www.ace-eco.org/> . A full Table of Contents is also appended below. Editorial ________________________________ Basic Science, Applied Science, and the Radical Middle Ground Science fondamentale, science appliquée et le radicalisme de l'entre-deux HTML <http://www.ace-eco.org/vol1/iss1/art1/> <http://www.ace-eco.org/include/getdoc.php?articleid=1&type=ACE-ECO-2005-1.pdf> Thomas D. Nudds and Marc-André Villard Research Papers ________________________________ Stable Isotope Analysis Reveals That Agricultural Habitat Provides an Important Dietary Component for Nonbreeding Dunlin L'analyse des isotopes stables indique que les milieux agricoles fournissent une portion importante de l'alimentation du Bécasseau variable en période d'hivernage HTML <http://www.ace-eco.org/vol1/iss1/art3/> <http://www.ace-eco.org/viewarticle.php?id=25> <http://www.ace-eco.org/include/getdoc.php?articleid=25&type=ACE-%C9CO-2005-25.pdf> Lesley Joan Evans Ogden, Keith A. Hobson, David B. Lank and Shabtai Bittman Mobile Incubation in Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata): Associated Hatching Failure and Artificial Mitigation Incubation mobile chez l'Albatros des Galapagos (Phoebastria irrorata): Échec correspondant de l'incubation et atténuation artificielle HTML <http://www.ace-eco.org/vol1/iss1/art2/> <http://www.ace-eco.org/viewarticle.php?id=9> <http://www.ace-eco.org/include/getdoc.php?articleid=9&type=ACE-%C9CO-2005-9.pdf> Jill A. Awkerman, Kathryn P. Huyvaert, and David J. Anderson Sea Surface Temperatures Mediated by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation Affect Birds Breeding in Temperate Coastal Rain Forests Les températures de surface de la mer liées au phénomène El Niño-oscillation australe affectent la nidification des oiseaux des forêts ombrophiles tempérées côtières HTML <http://www.ace-eco.org/vol1/iss1/art4/> <http://www.ace-eco.org/viewarticle.php?id=31> <http://www.ace-eco.org/include/getdoc.php?articleid=31&type=ACE-%C9CO-2005-31.pdf> Anthony J. Gaston, Jean-Louis Martin, and Sylvain Allombert Scale and Sensitivity of Songbird Occurrence to Landscape Structure in a Harvested Boreal Forest Échelle et sensibilité de la fréquence d'occurrence des oiseaux chanteurs à la structure du paysage dans une forêt boréale sous exploitation forestière HTML <http://www.ace-eco.org/vol1/iss1/art5/> <http://www.ace-eco.org/viewarticle.php?id=34> <http://www.ace-eco.org/include/getdoc.php?articleid=34&type=ACE-%C9CO-2005-34.pdf> Philip D. Taylor and Meg A. Krawchuk Essays ________________________________ Rediscovering the King of Woodpeckers: Exploring the Implications La redécouverte du roi des pics : réflexion sur les implications HTML <http://www.ace-eco.org/vol1/iss1/art6/> <http://www.ace-eco.org/viewarticle.php?id=40> <http://www.ace-eco.org/include/getdoc.php?articleid=40&type=ACE-ECO-2005-40.pdf> Jeffrey R. Walters and Eileen L. Crist ________________________________ ACE-ÉCO is published by the Resilience Alliance on behalf of the Society of Canadian Ornithologists and Bird Studies Canada. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, or for more information about Resilience Alliance Publishing <http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/news/announcements/rapublishing.php> , please contact Michelle Lee ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) ________________________________