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💡 Can we count elephants from space? 🐘 Wilks et al. share their experience investigating the potential use of satellite surveys to identify elephants in the heterogeneous terrain of Botswana, Africa. 👇 Read here! buff.ly/v9c8ox7

📖This #PeerReviewWeek we'd like to give a huge thank you to everyone who has reviewed for us over the last year! We really appreciate the time and effort spent in helping us to publish quality research 🌎 ⭐ See our list of reviewers: buff.ly/ovyMS21

🚨 we're recruiting another Senior Editor! 📝 find out more about the role and responsibilities here: buff.ly/3FBD8s3 ⏳️ the deadline for applications is 15 October 2026 📩 get in touch if you have any questions - admin@journalofanimalecology.org

We're hiring Code Integrity and Accessibility! Ideal for people experienced in testing and validating code, and confidence working with at least one language - open to all career stages. ⏰️Deadline for applications is the 25th September. Read the role description and apply👇 buff.ly/6zFYKZj

We are looking for a Blog Editor to work on our joint blog with @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social! 💭 This voluntary position provides an excellent opportunity to gain experience commissioning, editing and publishing new content within ecology 🪴 Find out more below 👇 apply.workable.com/britishecolo...

"Collaborative research approaches with local practitioners and community members are creating more meaningful environmental research." Erin Smith and Sarah Rijkenberg share their experience applying knowledge co-production to tackle aquatic plant management in Ontario, Canada🤝 buff.ly/W8HXRPE 🌎

https://appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/08/18/out-of-the-weeds-building-on-lessons-learned-for-better-collaboration-on-aquatic-plant-management/

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🔔 Only three weeks left to submit your photos to @britishecologicalsociety.org's competition, Capturing Ecology! Whether it's a picture of you out in the field or one that offers a different perspective on our ecological world, we encourage you to submit! ⏰ Submit by 31 August buff.ly/ANpnIuZ

Lee et al. combined field research and satellite data to learn more about wildfire regimes in England and Wales. Their results suggest different vegetation communities can affect the size, severity, and timing of fires 🔥 Learn more👇 buff.ly/SKwvWnW 🌎🧪

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📢 Call for proposals! Ecological Solutions and Evidence ( @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social) has launched a new Special Feature, 'Perspectives and Research to Advance the Scientific Foundations of Ecovoltaic Solar Energy Development.' If you're working in this area, we want to hear from you!

🐊 Urban crocodile interactions in Tampico, Mexico: all victims were homeless. A coordinated first-response protocol (CAP) improved emergency management. #HumanWildlifeInteractions Learn more👇 buff.ly/aN4eJqI 🌎🧪

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📝Applied Ecology Resources has been mentioned in a report by UHI Inverness and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, in collaboration with the England Species Reintroduction Taskforce: 'A Conservation Translocations Information Hub for the UK: Scoping Study' Read here 👇

Our science - A UK Information Hub for Conservation Translocations

Conservation translocation - the deliberate movement of species for conservation purposes - is increasingly used across the UK to address biodiversity loss and support ecosystem recovery. When well…

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🏔️ Researchers mapped 5,190 km of vehicle tracks across GB uplands — that's longer than the distance from London to New York. Track density is highest on wind farms & grouse moors. Current planning controls aren't working and it's time to fix that. Read more 👇 buff.ly/kLqO52C 🌎🧪

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Contrary to popular belief, livestock grazing on European semi-natural grasslands does not always lead to increased biodiversity. On traditional Norwegian summer farms, bumblebee abundance and richness declined with increasing sheep grazing intensity 🐝 Learn more 👇 buff.ly/Y4wnmvy 🌎🧪

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Hey it's @dochpjones.bsky.social again giving you a roundup of the great talks I saw today at #NACCR2026, the joint conference between @scbnorthamerica.bsky.social and Society for Ecological Restoration. 🧪

The last #NACCR2026 session I attended today I also gave a talk in - Conservation and restoration in emerging climates and human-influenced ecosystems. PhD student Max Scheel gave a great talk on how cattle grazing and fire interact in small prairies. 🧪

This morning I'm in a session on communiy conservation in theory and practice! Looking forward to some great talks. #NACCR2026 🧪

The plenary this morning is about the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin discussing all things education, science, and water! One speaker told us about benthic net, a portal of water invertebrate samples collected throughout WI waterways benthicnet.org 🧪 #NACCR2026

Hey all! It's @dochpjones.bsky.social taking over the ESE feed today to live post some talks at the first day of #NACCR2026! Our journal is a @britishecologicalsociety.org open access journal and we publish applied science by/for academics and managers. Check us out! Stay tuned for some fun talks!

Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is expanding in Maritime Southeast Asia, but evidence remains limited. Among 19 active schemes, few have been rigorously evaluated, with modest and uneven outcomes 🌿🔨 Learn more 👇

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Sustained monitoring that integrates long-term population data with rapid field diagnostics is urgently needed to track the spread of high-pathogenicity avian influenza and its impacts across vulnerable Antarctic ecosystems ❄️🧪 Learn more 👇

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Researchers find invasive wild boar population eradication would help protect the population of shearwaters but will not be sufficient to stop the decline of Yelkouan shearwaters on Port-Cros Island 🐗 Read here👇

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✨Our new issue is out! ✨ Cover image: Hunters scatter in the savannah during a collective hunt in the forest of the DR Congo, as traditional hunting practices are being replaced by metal snares, guns and night hunting. Photo by: Katinka Wendt, LKBP/CASCB buff.ly/Nvw0dL1

📢 Call for proposals! This Special Feature explores the advancement of ecovoltaics - the development of ecologically informed photovoltaic (PV) designs that co-prioritise PV electricity generation with ecosystem function 🌿💡 ⏰ Submit by 31 July buff.ly/GoQvVTz

25 years, 4 colonies across the Arctic: satellite snowmelt data & nest monitoring show that earlier snowmelt advances hatching in little auks — but fitness consequences are mixed. Will earlier breeding help in future? 📝 paper: buff.ly/G49YbQW 🎙️ podcast: buff.ly/LPMOT9w 🧊 blog: buff.ly/lMPDKkD

We recently published a paper looking at archiving of code and data at the BES, giving recommendations for improvements. buff.ly/jqekQBr This paper has 138 authors from 29 countries! 🌍 Read below to find out how this paper came to be👇 (1)

Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements

Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...

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Solar panels on rewetted peatland can encourage an interesting mix of birds, with both wetland and woodland species recorded at a solar park in Germany. Reported in @newscientist.com, the findings from a new @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social study suggest a climate and nature win-win for this novel land use

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Peat PV could be a win-win-win for climate, biodiversity and landowners' wallets. Why isn't the UK looking into this more? www.newscientist.com/article/2529...

🚨 Brand new podcast out now! 🌲We discuss 7 key socio-ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux with recent authors Mariana Hernandez-Montilla and Katie Devenish. 🎙️Soundcloud ➡️ buff.ly/vMx7xJo 🎙️Spotify ➡️ buff.ly/h2oQq1Y

📸Your favourite photography competition is BACK ... Capturing Ecology 2026 is open for submissions! Photo credit: Jamal Kabir, Capturing Ecology 2025 🧪🌍📸

🐠 new podcast episode for our recently published paper, "Invasive goldfish trigger a regime shift in experimental lake ecosystems of varying trophic state" 📝 read the paper here: buff.ly/GksGNbO 🎙️ listen to the podcast here: buff.ly/jSreNPv