Past Events

Below is a list of our past events, to find out about upcoming events click here.

Annual Meetings

BES2023 – Belfast

BES2022 – Edinburgh

EAB2021 – Liverpool

Festival of Ecology 2020 – Online

BES2019 – Belfast

Symposia

Trees for Climate Change, Biodiversity, and People – 2023

Climate Science for Ecological Forecasting – 2022

The Multiple Values of Nature – 2020

Unifying Tropical Ecology: Strengthening Collaborative Science – 2019

Policy Events

Hope and Urgency: Navigating the Biodiversity & Climate Crisis – December 2023

SIG Events

Agricultural Ecology

Shaping the Future for Pollinators: Innovations in Farmed Landscapes – September 2022

Aquatic Ecology

Aquatic Ecology Annual Meeting – September 2023

Aquatic Ecology Annual Meeting – September 2022

Aquatic Ecology Group Annual Meeting – September 2021

Aquatic Ecology Research in a Pandemic – September 2020

Citizen Science

Next Step: Equipping volunteer & citizen scientists to future professions – July 2022 (with the Teaching & Learning SIG)

Citizen Science: Engagement, Marketing, Motivation, and Change – November 2020

Climate Change Ecology

Climate Change Genomics workshop: Vulnerability, adaptations & applications – September 2022 (with the Ecological Genetics SIG)

Communicating Climate Change Ecology and Nature Based Solutions to Climate Change – April 2021

Protected areas under climate change: challenges and opportunities – January 2021

Conservation Ecology

Panel Discussion: Ethical fieldwork – avoiding ‘helicopter science – March 2023

#Tropicon21 Twitter Conference – November 2021 (with the Tropical Ecology SIG)

Words have impact: Framing nature for Ecology and Conservation – October 2021

Tropical Ecology and Conservation: advances in technology – November 2020 (with the Tropical Ecology SIG)

Ecological Genetics

Ecological Genetics Group Annual Meeting – September 2023

Climate Change Genomics workshop: Vulnerability, adaptations & applications – September 2022 (with the Climate Change Ecology SIG)

Forest Ecology

Trees, People, and the Built Environment – February 2021

Invasion Science

Improving the contribution of invasion science to policy and management – June 2023

Macroecology

BES Macro 2023 – July 2023

MacroFest 2022 – July 2022

Remote sensing in macroecology – May 2022

BES Macro 2021 – July 2021

Movement Ecology

Movement Ecology 2023: Animal and human movements and their interactions – August 2023

Movement Ecology 2022: Understanding Animal movement in human-altered landscapes – September 2022

Palaeoecology

Data Manipulation Statistical Analysis in Palaeoecology: Masterclass in R 2022 – November 2022

Seeing the Pollen’s Eye View: Modelling Pollen Dispersal and Deposition – May 2022

Data Manipulation and Statistical Analysis in Palaeoecology: A Masterclass in R 2021 – May 2021

Parasites & Pathogens

British Society for Parasitology Conference 2021 – June 2021

Plants, Soils, Ecosystems

Workshop: Introduction to soil quality assessment – British Ecological Society – July 2023

Quantitative Ecology

Quantitative SIG Annual Meeting – September 2021

Quantitative Ecology Virtual Meeting – July 2020

Teaching & Learning

Next Step: Equipping volunteer & citizen scientists to future professions – July 2022 (with the Citizen Science SIG)

Tropical Ecology

#Tropicon21 Twitter Conference – November 2021 (with the Conservation Ecology SIG)

Tropical Ecology and Conservation: advances in technology – November 2020 (with the Conservation Ecology SIG)