Category Archives: Journals
Government and Research Councils Set Out Open Access Policy
The UK Government has today published its official response to the ‘Finch Report’, the output of a working group led by Dame Janet Finch that considered how to expand access to the published findings of research. To complement the Government’s … Continue reading
Estimating Bird Population Size Using Bird Song – BES Research
New research published online today in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology offers a way to more accurately estimate the size of bird populations using bird song. The technique could offer a way to assess the numbers of … Continue reading
World’s Largest Bats Need International Protection
New research published today in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology shows that without international protection the world’s largest species of fruit bat, Pteropus vampyrus or the ‘large flying fox’ could be driven to extinction in Peninsula Malaysia. … Continue reading
Ecology, Politics and Policy
The BES Presidential Address by Sir John Lawton has been published on-line by the Journal of Applied Ecology. Sir John examines how ecology has or has not contributed to policy in a number of areas (fisheries, GM crops). Building upon … Continue reading
Badgers and bTB
The BES’s Journal of Animal Ecology has published a paper that has important implications for the role of badger culling as part of the strategy to control bovine TB in the UK. According to the authors the evidence suggests that … Continue reading