News and Opinion - British Ecological Society

Celebrating Pride Month 2024!

To celebrate this year’s pride month, our journals have invited contributors for a series of blog posts. This series aims to promote the visibility and inclusion of LGBTQIA+ researchers, with posts promoting them and their research.

<i>Functional Ecology</i> now a fully open access journal

Functional Ecology now a fully open access journal

Today we're pleased to announce that our journal, Functional Ecology, is moving to a fully open access publication.

Marine Protected Areas don’t line up with core habitats of rare migratory fish, finds new research

Nearly two thirds of Marine Protected Areas designated to protect rare migratory fish are outside of their core habitats.

British Ecological Society announces journal prize winners

ECR Prize Winners: Announcing the 2023 recipients of the Early Career Researcher (ECR) prizes, awarded for the best papers by early career researchers in seven BES journals.

International Day of Forests 2024

Celebrating the UN’s International Day of Forests! Let’s take a deep dive into the significance of forests to our planet and communities, and highlight some innovative new methods being used to conserve these important environments.

Livestock guardian dogs create landscape of fear for predators

Livestock Guardian Dogs change predator behaviour in ways that both protect livestock and support conservation efforts.

Diverse forests are best at standing up to storms

Forests that are most resilient to storms have a greater diversity of tree species and are dominated by slow growing species.

Does biodiversity offsetting work?

What influences the effectiveness of offsets schemes?

AI tool helps ecologists monitor rare birds through their songs

Researchers have developed a new deep learning AI tool that generates life-like birdsongs to train bird identification tools, helping ecologists to monitor rare species in the wild.

Research on coral reefs is biased, according to new study

How is academic colonialism affecting publishing about coral reefs?

Invasive plant species threaten 66 percent of India's natural areas

Indian scientists created a unique solution to a lack of invasive plant information.

Is deer culling the answer to Scottish woodland regeneration?

Can deer culling help restore native Scottish pinewoods?

Stella - The Steller's sea eagle making a stellar economic impact

How does a Steller's sea eagle found 7K miles off course benefit the economy?

Medicinal plants and unsustainable harvesting: a closer look

A deep dive into the use of medicinal plants and herbs

An assessment of hope: the IPBES Invasive Alien Species Report with Helen Roy

Helen Roy, lead author, discusses the new IPBES report on invasive alien species