📖 Meta-analysis on the effects of composition and configuration of landscape on the functional diversity of tropical mammals🦁 👇️ Find out more besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📖 New paper 👇️ Landscape and local factors influence solitary bee nesting, but reported effects show little consistency across studies🐝 🌳 🌿 🔎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📖 New Perspective Rethinking the impacts of bottom trawling on seabed carbon: Biogeochemical mechanisms, vulnerability and long-term climate consequences 🛥️ 🌍 🐟 🔎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📖 Published Global impacts of agricultural and timber plantations on dung beetle biodiversity 🪲🌳 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Vegetation structural complexity is linked to forest soundscapes and informs canopy-targeted conservation🌳 🌍 🏔️ 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 It's the final day to apply! 🚨

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There are only three days left to apply for our Commissioning Editor role! ⏰ Join our global Editorial Board & play a crucial role in inviting innovative ideas via commissioning Reviews, Perspectives, Practitioner's Perspectives & Policy Directions 📖 Apply here 👇 apply.workable.com/britishecolo...

Call for Proposals! If you’d like to further disease ecology, multispecies health, public health, or agriculture, through a One Health perspective, then we welcome your proposal. 🔗 Submit now: https://bit.ly/4pzbOK7 #DiseaseEcology #Ecology #OneHealth #Ecosky #Plantsky

📖 Practitioner's Perspective Successes, challenges and insights from integration of testing of management interventions in conservation practice🖥️ 🌍 🌲 🔎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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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From roots to canopy, lets tell mangrove stories| BLOG UPDATE🌿🌳🌿 In a new blog, Pradeep Siddappanavara takes us into India's Aghanashini Estuary. Read his blog ➡️: https://forest640.wixsite.com/bes-forest/post/from-roots-to-canopy-memories-etched-in-the-aghanashini-estuary

There are only three days left to apply for our Commissioning Editor role! ⏰ Join our global Editorial Board & play a crucial role in inviting innovative ideas via commissioning Reviews, Perspectives, Practitioner's Perspectives & Policy Directions 📖 Apply here 👇 apply.workable.com/britishecolo...

📖 Priority research questions to generate decision-grade data to enable coastal ecosystems to mitigate the climate and nutrient crises 📖 👇️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What a wonderful workshop we organised together with Niña Quibod at #ATBC2026 on #Outreach for tropical #biodiverisity 🥬Thanks to all the participants for your creativity. Huge thanks to our sponsors💚 @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @jappliedecology.bsky.social & CharmEU

📖 Estimating ecological thresholds for good status using natural variation in reference conditions The framework outlined here presents a transparent, robust, scalable and pressure-independent approach to estimate the probability of an ecosystem component being in good status🌊 🔎 buff.ly/QYza71z

Are you interested in attending the @britishecologicalsociety.org Annual Meeting this year? 👀 Now that registration has opened it's the perfect time to look back at blog posts our Associate Editors have written about their experience attending! 1👇 appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/07/17/b...

BES Annual Meeting 2024: More than just a conference

Ardiantiono, Associate Editor mentee of Journal of Applied Ecology, writes about his experience attending the British Ecological Society’s 2024 Annual Meeting for the first time. Liverpool ha…

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📖 This study demonstrates how information from intensive, localized research can be leveraged to inform broader-scale management through strategic use of prior information📖 🔎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 New paper 📣 Published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social, we investigated 🔍 the cascading effects of forest stand decline 🍁 on saproxylic beetle communities via the changes in deadwood and TreMs substrates. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Seminar 📅 Join us on Tuesday the 18th of August 13:00–14:00 BST for our seminar in collaboration with the British Society of Soil Science on mycorrhiza! Featuring exciting talks from Rose Gooda (Imperial College London) and Katie Field (University of Sheffield). Register: lnkd.in/eN-P672a

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

A call for evidence-based conservation: Securing the future of waterbirds along the East Asian-Australasian flyway🌍 🐦‍⬛ 🌊 👇️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are hosting our first conference! Join us in Stirling, UK 📍between the 8th and 10th of September 2026 📅 for an exciting line up of talks, workshops and field excursions 🥾 🪴. We can't wait to meet you all! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/soil...

📖 New research Anthropogenic disturbance modifies spatial patterns of reef sharks🦈 🌊 🌏️ 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out our new paper “Density-driven bottlenecks constrain restoration of macroalgal forests" published in the @jappliedecology.bsky.social 🌿 When it comes to restoring Mediterranean macroalgal forests, less is more. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Density‐driven bottlenecks constrain restoration of macroalgal forests

This single-species and single-site experiment provides evidence that high-density restoration strategies accelerate mortality, suppress growth and delay reproduction, whereas low-density approaches ....

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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/...

Are we getting better at knowing what actually works in conservation? Insights from fifty years of conservation evidence🌏️ 🌳 🦇 🔎 Find out in this blog post: appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/07/16/a...

Are we getting better at knowing what actually works in conservation? Insights from fifty years of conservation evidence

Biodiversity is declining fast, and with limited funding and resources in conservation, it matters that these resources go towards actions that genuinely make a difference. So how do we know which …

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Targeting connectivity and road verge management to conserve specialist pollinators in agricultural landscapes in Sweden🌍 🐝 🏔️ 🔎 Read more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📖 New paper Designing networks of freshwater and marine conservation areas accounting for cross-realm connectivity and threat propagation🌊 🌍 🐟️ 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New @enricounigoe.bsky.social research @jappliedecology.bsky.social, led by Sara Piccini: impacts of non-native trees on biodiversity depend on the vertical stratum, with commonly investigated ground-dwelling communities NOT reflecting (negative) effects in higher strata 🪲🌲 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Same forest, different story: Beetle community responses to non‐native tree species depend on the vertical stratum

Our findings emphasize the importance of integrating vertical stratification into biodiversity monitoring for a comprehensive understanding of the ecological impacts of climate-adapted forest managem...

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🌍 Ecosystem engineering effects on grassland function vary with animal type and function 🌳 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📖 New paper Lessons from a socioenvironmental conflict: Why banning traditional practices threatens fire-prone plant conservation in tropical savannas🌳 🌍 🌿 👇️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...