The Bulletin

The Bulletin is the house journal of the British Ecological Society, published quarterly and sent free of charge to all our members.

It is an informal publication which serves as a channel of communication between the Society and the membership. The Bulletin is currently sent as a print publication but we will, in future, be posting a selection of new and archival content on the BES website. Look out for the April 2013 issue which celebrates the Centenary of the Society with a stunning new design.

The Bulletin carries news and reports on all Society activities, particularly in science policy, education, grants and publications. Society meetings and other gatherings of interest to ecologists are announced and reported on, and the manifold activities of the Special Interest Groups are covered.

In addition to the official business of the Society, numerous feature articles seek to inform and entertain our readers. Several recent articles have provided advice and encouragement for conference delegates on preparing impressive posters for conferences and how to give A Talk to Remember. We have had informal reports from the field, updates on national and international efforts to protect biodiversity and even an article on birds on pub signs from one of the UK’s most influential ecologists. Our regular essayists, Richard Hobbs and John Wiens, offer eclectic and thoughtful pieces from ecologists in Australia and the United States respectively.

For the last three years the Bulletin has published a scan of forthcoming legislation of interest to ecologists. The articles for 2011 and 2012 are available here and here, respectively.

Publications are an important aspect of working life for ecologists, and as well as regular updates from Society journals we offer an extensive book reviews section, edited by Peter Thomas. Peter and his team aim to cover a wide range of books with prompt and pithy reviews that will give readers a flavour of the wide range of new books coming onto the market.

We want the Bulletin to reflect the interests and concerns of our membership; we encourage members to send us any items of news that will be of interest to ecologists, and to consider submitting articles for publication.

Whether you are a student at the start of a career, an established ecologist with a heavy teaching load and a lab full of students to keep in funds, a full time researcher or consultant with contracts to fulfill, or one of the many retired ecologists who still keep a keen interest in the subject, the Bulletin has something for you.

The Bulletin welcomes contributions or ideas for new topics members would like to see covered. For all editorial enquiries contact the Bulletin editor Alan Crowden or Associate Editor Emma Sayer. To send books for review contact Peter Thomas.

We offer advertising opportunities to publishers, software companies, equipment manufacturers and others. For advertising enquiries contact Bill Bewes, Membership Officer.