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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.

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?

Loud music festivals could reduce bat activity in some species by nearly 50%

Loud music playback alone at UK music festivals is enough to cause significant disturbance to bats.

New coral reef restoration approach utilises common investment strategy

Just like forest restoration, coral reef restoration requires more than just fast growing species.

Warming climate could turn ocean plankton microbes into carbon emitters

New research finds that a warming climate could flip globally abundant microbial communities from carbon sinks to carbon emitters, potentially triggering climate change tipping points.

Welcoming our new BES journal Associate Editors

The British Ecological Society journals are delighted to announce 148 new Associate Editors who have joined the Editorial Boards following our latest open call.

Cambridge wildflower meadow boosts biodiversity, says new study

Examining the effects of planting a wildflower meadow in the historic grounds of King’s College, Cambridge

Lockdowns revealed the British wildlife most at risk of becoming roadkill

Researchers find that badgers, foxes and pheasants benefitted the most from reduced traffic traffic UK lockdowns.

Light pollution threatens moths, according to new study

How can light pollution affect a caterpillar's transition into an adult moth?

Double-anonymous peer review reduces reviewer bias, finds three-year trial

A trial of double-anonymous peer review addresses possible biases and seeks to improve equity in publishing.

Plantation design features to increase pollination

A new collaborative study explores how to improve pollination using plantation design techniques