August 2022 Issue Out Now!

Our August Issue is now online! This issue contains 15 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including methods for estimating forest above-ground biomass, tracing essential amino acid assimilation, autonomous biodiversity surveys and much more! Read on to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our wonderful whale cover. Featured Articles Estimating forest above-ground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning Improving the … Continue reading August 2022 Issue Out Now!

India StephensonAugust 3, 2022Leave a comment

Journal Issues

July 2022 Issue Out Now!

Our July Issue is now online! This issue contains 20 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including methods for characterising soil bacterial biodiversity, identifying fish species in fish markets using eDNA, standarising and cleaning biodiversity data and much more! Plus, read the editorial about our switch to a gold open access model this month. Read on to find out about this month’s featured articles … Continue reading July 2022 Issue Out Now!

India StephensonJuly 4, 2022July 4, 2022Leave a comment

LGBTQ+

Another year ALDER, another year wiser.

Pride Month is almost over, and to round off this year’s wonderful Rainbow Research blog series we are pleased to host this post from Lewis Bartlett announcing the launch of the ALDER Network: the British Ecological Society’s relaunched LGBTQIA+ Network. Hello readers! Welcome to my second year in a row getting to write a Rainbow Research blog post for the BES, and this Pride month … Continue reading Another year ALDER, another year wiser.

India StephensonJune 30, 2022August 9, 2022Leave a comment

LGBTQ+

Rainbow Research: Nature

Post provided by Sara Blunk (she/her)

The Rainbow Research series returns to the British Ecological Society to celebrate Pride month 2022! These special posts promote visibility and share stories from STEM researchers who belong to the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Each post is connected to one of the themes represented by the colours in the Progress Pride flag (Daniel Quasar 2018). In this post, Sara Blunk shares her love of birds and experiences being an LGBTQ+ student.

Ben WhittakerJune 30, 20221 Comment

LGBTQ+

Rainbow Research: Life

Post provided by Adrian Monthony (he/him)

The Rainbow Research series returns to the British Ecological Society to celebrate Pride month 2022! These special posts promote visibility and share stories from STEM researchers who belong to the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Each post is connected to one of the themes represented by the colours in the Progress Pride flag (Daniel Quasar 2018). In this post, Adrian Monthony shares changes in his life and Pride journey.

Ben WhittakerJune 23, 2022Leave a comment

Field Methods

ATLAS: a regional-scale tracking system

Post provided by Christine Beardsworth

Tracking the movement of animals is important for informing conservation practices but can present logistical obstacles, especially when attempting to track smaller species with large GPS tags. Using existing technologies in new ways may help overcome these obstacles and provide alternative approaches for accurately tracking large numbers of relatively small sized species. In this blog post, Christine Beardsworth discusses findings from her recent Methods in Ecology and Evolution paper “Validating ATLAS: a regional-scale, high-throughput tracking system”.

Ben WhittakerJune 21, 20221 Comment

LGBTQ+

Rainbow Research – Harmony

Post provided by Renske Jongen The Rainbow Research series returns to the British Ecological Society to celebrate Pride month 2022! These special posts promote visibility and share stories from STEM researchers who belong to the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Each post is connected to one of the themes represented by the colours in the Progress Pride flag (Daniel Quasar 2018). In this post, Renske Jongen shares her … Continue reading Rainbow Research – Harmony

Chloe V. RobinsonJune 20, 2022Leave a comment

Journal Issues

June 2022 Issue Out Now

Our June Issue is now online! This issue contains 16 brilliant articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including methods for extracting forest information from LiDAR data, digitising wood samples, optimising stable isotope sampling design and much more! Read on to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our butterfly cover. Featured Articles treetop Individual tree detection and crown delineation are … Continue reading June 2022 Issue Out Now

India StephensonJune 7, 2022Leave a comment

LGBTQ+

Rainbow Research: Healing

Post provided by Douglas Cirino

The Rainbow Research series returns to the British Ecological Society to celebrate Pride month 2022! These special posts promote visibility and share stories from STEM researchers who belong to the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Each post is connected to one of the themes represented by the colours in the Progress Pride flag (Daniel Quasar 2018). In this post, Douglas Cirino shares their story of healing in São Paulo.

Ben WhittakerJune 6, 2022June 6, 2022Leave a comment

Code and Applications, Ecology

Visualising the flow of matter within ecosystems

Post provided by Mateusz Iskrzyński Would you like to quickly get a clear picture of the food web you are modelling or analysing? Have you thought about including its visualisation in your paper? Or maybe you wanted to show your students or general audience how interconnected food webs are in real ecosystems? Or just wondered how matter flows through an ecosystem? To help you with … Continue reading Visualising the flow of matter within ecosystems

Chloe V. RobinsonMay 25, 2022May 25, 2022Leave a comment