Updated Animal Ethics Policy 

We’ve recently updated our policy on animal research ethics for all the BES journals (Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Functional Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution and People and Nature). We’ve made this update to ensure we’re in line with the most up to date thinking on animal ethics, and to ensure all our published articles are consistent in the reporting … Continue reading Updated Animal Ethics Policy 

Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!

Originally posted on Methods Blog:
We are inviting contributions from LGBTQ+ ecologists and evolutionary biologists for a series of blog posts across the British Ecological Society journals for UK Pride Month, which takes place in June. The series, called Rainbow Research, aims to promote visibility and inclusion of researchers from the LGBTQ+ community with posts promoting them and their research. Each post will be connected to… Continue reading Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!

Does your research intersect with a natural history collection?

Associate Editor Alison Davis Rabosky introduces our exciting new cross-journal Special Feature ‘Leveraging Natural History Collections to Understand the Impacts of Global Change‘. Below you can find out all about the scope of the Special Feature and how to submit your manuscript proposal. Does your research intersect with a natural history collection?  Do those collections allow you to answer questions in ecology that you can’t ask … Continue reading Does your research intersect with a natural history collection?

Journal of Animal Ecology Elton Prize awarded to Natalie Jones

The Elton Prize is awarded annually to the best article by an early career researcher in Journal of Animal Ecology. We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2020 Elton Prize is Natalie Jones, University of Queensland, Australia, for her Research Article Predators drive community reorganization during experimental range shifts. Climate change is reshuffling ecological communities, truly, as we speak; it’s not simply … Continue reading Journal of Animal Ecology Elton Prize awarded to Natalie Jones

Call for Proposals: Leveraging Natural History Collections to Understand the Impacts of Global Change

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 permanently archive preserved specimens, but also critical historical and contemporary information about how species distributions, interactions, and phenotypes respond to global change across time scales. Whether specimens are serving as indicators of environmental change or … Continue reading Call for Proposals: Leveraging Natural History Collections to Understand the Impacts of Global Change

Rapid and repeated shifts in chemical signals in Greece

Elton Prize shortlisted Article This blog post is provided by Colin Donihue and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Rapid and Repeated Divergence of Animal Chemical Signals in an Island Introduction Experiment”. Colin has been shortlisted for the 2020 Elton Prize for this article. Colin is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. He is interested in understanding the causes … Continue reading Rapid and repeated shifts in chemical signals in Greece

Blown away: How male pectoral sandpipers look for their next partner

This blog post is provided by Johannes Krietsch  after winning the nerdy” category category of MoveMapCompetition from the BES Movement Ecology SIG. Congratulations Johannes! A key aspect in the study of animal movement is to understand the interaction between the moving subject and the medium in which it moves. In the case of flying birds, the medium is the atmosphere. Flying can be energetically costly … Continue reading Blown away: How male pectoral sandpipers look for their next partner

2020 ELTON PRIZE SHORTLIST: JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY AWARD FOR EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS

The Elton Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Journal of Animal Ecology written by an early career author at the start of their research career. Today we are pleased to present the shortlisted papers for this year’s award, based on the previous (89th) volume of the journal. The winner will be selected in the coming weeks so watch this space … Continue reading 2020 ELTON PRIZE SHORTLIST: JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY AWARD FOR EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS

International Women’s Day 2021

This International Women’s Day we look back over the blogs from the last year, and highlight four of our favourites written by women. Celebrate women in science, and the awesome work they’ve done by checking out our favourites below, as well as a brief profile of each of the authors and links to find more of their work. Tamara Layden Tamara’s blog post Hidden, but … Continue reading International Women’s Day 2021

Citizen Science joint special issue is out now

The February issue of Journal of Animal Ecology is out now, and includes the Citizen Science Special Feature. Joint with Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution People and Nature and Ecological Solutions and Evidence there was an open call for papers surrounding the topic of ecological projects involving citizen scientists, and these papers are now released together across the six journals. Over the next … Continue reading Citizen Science joint special issue is out now