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Field Studies Guidance Note: Biological Recording

A visually appealing short and informative overview of Biological Recording. The guide outlines the four basic components of a biological record, provides tips for improving data quality and highlights the multiple benefits of recording such as for wellbeing as well as to build on the evidence base to inform conservation policy and practice.

Published by Field Studies Council, AER Bronze Member.

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Soil mites of Mary Mix McDonald Woods and nearby upland forests in Northeastern Illinois, USA.

miscellaneous | 18 January 2023

Soil mites of Mary Mix McDonald Woods and nearby upland forests in Northeastern Illinois, USA.

This catalogue provides information on morphological characteristics of soil mites collected in mesic, dry mesic, upland forest, and buckthorn communi...

Land-use intensity impacts habitat selection of ground-nesting farmland birds in the Netherlands.

journal article | 20 January 2023

Land-use intensity impacts habitat selection of ground-nesting farmland birds in the Netherlands.

(1). Agricultural intensification has modified grassland habitats, causing serious declines in farmland biodiversity including breeding birds. Until n...

Rwanda climate services for agriculture: farmers willingness to pay for improved climate services.

bulletin | 13 August 2020

Rwanda climate services for agriculture: farmers willingness to pay for improved climate services.

This willingness-to-pay (WTP) study aims to understand how Rwandan farmers value the improved characteristics of agricultural climate services introdu...

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Open call for Associate Editors – all BES journals

18 December 2022 - 28 February 2023

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Open call for Associate Editors – all BES journals

The British Ecological Society are looking for active researchers and applied ecologists to join the Editorial Boards of all seven of its journals: Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Functional Ecology, Journal…

Leveraging Natural History Collections

14 - 15 February 2023

London, UK

Leveraging Natural History Collections

Natural history collections in museums, herbaria, seed banks, and tissue banks provide some of the most valuable information sources in an ecologist’s toolbox: time series data. These collections not only…

The Applied Ecologist

Can pasture-fed livestock farming practices improve the ecological condition of grasslands?

24 January 2023

Can pasture-fed livestock farming practices improve the ecological condition of grasslands?

Innovative farmers are adopting agro-ecological approaches to producing beef which they believe are better for biodiversity and soils. Lisa Norton (UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) and colleagues investigated the validity of these claims by comparing their grassland to those across the wider countryside surveyed as part of the national GB Countryside Survey. Public concerns about the environmental impacts of meat production add to the …

Best practices for LGBTQ+ inclusion during ecological fieldwork

19 January 2023

Best practices for LGBTQ+ inclusion during ecological fieldwork

Authors Jaime Coon and Nathan Alexander reflect on their recent perspective piece that discusses LGBTQ+ inclusion during ecological fieldwork, with recommendations for individuals, mentors, and institutions. All field ecologists have stories involving adventure, creative solutions to unexpected problems, challenging environmental conditions, truck failures, or insect infestations in the fieldhouse. But for ecologists from marginalized groups, field stories shared among community members can also be a …

Editor’s Choice 60:1 Weed communities are more diverse, but not more abundant, in dense and complex bocage landscapes

12 January 2023

Editor’s Choice 60:1 Weed communities are more diverse, but not more abundant, in dense and complex bocage landscapes

Associate Editor Pieter De Frenne talks us through a new research article by Boinot et al which found that the weed communities in bocage landscapes were functionally more diverse, creating important implications for the management of agricultural bocage landscapes. One of the cornerstones of many national and international agricultural policies, such as the EU Green Deal, is to transition to a sustainable food system and …

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