Black History Month 2024: Kristian Harris

For Black History Month 2024, the British Ecological Society (BES) journals are celebrating the work of Black ecologists around the world and sharing their stories. In this blog, Kristian Harris shares his story and journey in academia. Biography Name: Kristian Harris Affiliation (university/place of employment): The Ohio State University (Graduate Student) Ecology interests in three keywords: How did you get into ecology? Growing up in … Continue reading Black History Month 2024: Kristian Harris

Winner announced: 2023 Elton Prize

We are delighted to announce Clara Woodie as the 2023 winner of our Elton Prize early career researcher award Clara received the award for her paper, “long transients and dendritic network structure affect spatial predator–prey dynamics in experimental microcosms“. The award is given to the best article in the journal by an author at the start of their career and was picked from a shortlist … Continue reading Winner announced: 2023 Elton Prize

Small details affect the big picture: The response of populations to changing environments depends more on individual organisms than we can see in classical models

This blog post is provided by Mark Rademaker, Anieke van Leeuwen and Isabel Smallegange and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Why we cannot always expect life history strategies to directly inform on sensitivity to environmental change“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their paper, they explore individual-level tradeoffs, and how these affect trait patterns and population responses, finding that compared … Continue reading Small details affect the big picture: The response of populations to changing environments depends more on individual organisms than we can see in classical models