Next year is the centenary of the publication of Elton's Animal Ecology - excellent idea for a Special Issue of @animalecology.bsky.social animalecologyinfocus.com/2026/06/30/2...

Celebrating 100 years since the publication of Charles Elton’s Animal Ecology

Reflections from our Executive Editor, Dr Nate Sanders Image of Charles Elton. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Nearly 100 years ago, a 27-year-old Charles Elton published Animal Ecology, a foundational b…

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💦 Work on aquatic ecosystems and fancy a late summer conference? Join us for the BES Aquatic Ecology SIG annual meeting! 📅 3–4 Sept 2026 📍 ZSL London Hear the latest research, present your work, network, and attend workshops 💦 Registration & abstract submission are OPEN: tinyurl.com/2rv3dzpw

A century on from Elton’s book, Animal Ecology, the questions that shaped #animalecology still drive discovery. We welcome submissions to an upcoming Special Feature that revisit, test, and extend classic ecological ideas and unanswered questions. buff.ly/KIsw6k2

🐿️ new research: "fine-scale spatial variation in eastern grey squirrel melanism across a complex urban landscape" 📝 read it here: buff.ly/V39rPkI

🚨 read our recently published review, "comparisons of wild and domestic ungulate zoogeochemical impacts rarely evaluate mechanisms underlying functional dissimilarity" 📝 buff.ly/s37iKd3

📖The number of strong social bonds is linked to survival in a cooperative bird Sociable weavers differ consistently in their relative number of strong social bonds and these differences are associated with survival 🕊️ 🌍 🐦‍⬛ 🔎 buff.ly/cQG5lun

What does it mean to be an ecologist? 🔎🔬📸 The Ecologists in Action category of our Capturing Ecology competition celebrates the people behind ecology, working to understand and protect our natural world. Submit your photos by 31 August 👇 BES members enter for free. 

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Enter the BES 2026 annual ecology photo competition and submit pictures of ecology that showcase nature, wildlife and research for a chance to win prizes.

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📖 Heterogeneous preferences for use and non-use values provided by insects These results suggest that public support for conservation decisions may be enhanced by emphasising longer-term, intergenerational benefits, even for uncharismatic or unfamiliar taxa 🪲 🔎 buff.ly/hefnXjy

🚨 new podcast episode! 🐟 this episode explores the story behind the paper, "native habitat affinities predict fish invasions with post-invasion habitat shifts" 🎧️ listen here: buff.ly/cdtDKFS

🦎 Beyond thermoregulation: Active behavioural regulation of ultraviolet light exposure by a free-ranging lizard 🦎 📖 Read more: buff.ly/qcIYeO9

📖 Herbivore species asynchrony underpins multitrophic stability across plants, herbivores and predators 🌍 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/Ss9BPXn

🐭 Boldness and niche width structure spatial interactions in a natural rodent community These results suggest that boldness is most clearly linked to how individuals use space 👇️ buff.ly/biFT5yl

📰Published📰How bird extinctions reshaped pollination trait matching in Hawaiʻi🐦️ buff.ly/TmUS5zI 🧪🌍️

How bird extinctions reshaped pollination trait matching in Hawaiʻi

Samuel B. Case, Molly Hagemann, Donald R. Drake, Katherine Postelli, Richard J. Pender, Pryce W. Millikin, Alejandro Rico-Guevara This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research a…

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📖 Optimising daily sampling of plant–bee interaction networks This paper provides a framework to evaluate how temporal sampling design affects network representativeness in systems where interactions depend on time-of-day🖥️ 🌍 🐝 🔎 buff.ly/QvxSutV

New research 👇️ The role of viability selection in shaping short- and long-term consequences of early-life conditions: An experiment in the Alpine swift🕊️ 🧬 🌡️ 🔎 buff.ly/2oCtTSu

🦆 Waterbird zoogeochemical effects shape wetland nutrient dynamics and algal communities in Laurentian Great Lakes coastal freshwater wetlands🌱 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/Sbb2APW

Urbanization and melanism in squirrels In Montreal, well, it's complicated Check out the new paper in @animalecology.bsky.social led by Francis Dinh - who was an undergrad in Biology (@biomcgill.bsky.social) at McGill U (@mcgillscience.bsky.social) when he did the work @mcgillumedia.bsky.social

Registration and call for abstracts for the BES Annual Meeting 2026 are now open 🔥 Our sold-out and Europe's largest ecology conference is returning this year to Birmingham's ICC on 14–17 December, and we can't wait to see you there. Find out more here 👇 https://tinyurl.com/2s3nupvu

📖 Enter Salmon: Trophic risk mediates riverine barrier-crossing behaviours of parr This study demonstrates that barriers, regardless of their design, place significant limitations on habitats available to parr by reducing overall movement in the system🐟️ 🌊 🌍 🔎 buff.ly/Fr19CXK

📢our Managing Editor is at #ISBE2026! 👋say hello to Jenny at the BES stand, between Sala Copenaghen and Sala Dublino

The call for proposals to our new Special Feature is now live! If you’d like to further the following through a One Health perspective then get involved below... 👉 disease ecology 🦠 👉 multispecies health 🦌 👉 public health 🩺 👉 agriculture 🌱 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

📖 Published📖 Convergent digestive adaptation to resource limitation in an insular lizard across a microgeographic archipelago🌍 🦎 🌊 🔎 buff.ly/VWorYzt

Glad to share my latest paper, published in @animalecology.bsky.social! This work was carried out under the supervision of Giulia Masoero and Pierre Bize at @vogelwarte.bsky.social. Read more about our findings 👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The role of viability selection in shaping short‐ and long‐term consequences of early‐life conditions: An experiment in the Alpine swift

In an experimental brood-size manipulation in Alpine swifts, smaller nestlings were selectively lost during growth, eliminating treatment differences in adult size, yet individuals from enlarged broo...

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⏲️"when you study who meets whom in nature, always remember to ask what time it is..." 🐝read our latest blog post, "the clock matters when we study pollination" 📜https://buff.ly/hxyyhcy 🎨painting by Antonio Isla

📖 Published📖 Between-species contagion drives HPAI transmission and mass mortality in seabirds 🦠 'This study demonstrates that carcass data can provide epidemiological insights but also act as an early warning system for continent-wide patterns of spread'🕊️ 👇️ buff.ly/Zo6d8WH

🌱 Landscape configuration and soil properties shape ant-mediated seed dispersal in tropical dry forest agricultural landscapes 🌍 🔎 buff.ly/nop2Pfm

🐟️ Native habitat affinities predict fish invasions with post-invasion habitat shifts 🐟️ 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/ePh561L

📖 Understanding mammal avoidance of human settlements These findings suggest that animals living alongside humans exhibit greater plasticity when people change their behaviour🐵 🌍 🏙️ 🔎 buff.ly/Me6U2go

🚨 Brand new podcast episode! 🌍️ We discuss the decade long research behind the recently published paper 'Supporting interventions to lessen human-wildlife conflict' with authors Douglas Sheil and Emmanuel Akampurira. 🎙️Soundcloud ➡️ buff.ly/SDcaERW 🎙️Spotify ➡️ buff.ly/CyWHZ42

🐝 Pollinator community composition and pollen resource use in calcareous grasslands under different landscape contexts across Europe 🌸 👇️ Read more buff.ly/xkK503Z