📖 New paper!
Parallel responses of gross nitrogen mineralization rate and related functional gene abundance along subalpine secondary succession🌳 ⛰️ 🌲
🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/u6k5L3Y
💡We're still looking for proposals for our special feature with @jappliedecology.bsky.social
and @funecology.bsky.social!
🪲This special feature will focus on how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions.
Find out more 👉️ buff.ly/RtmeWgE
📖 New Paper
Environmental DNA metabarcoding reflects rank-based abundance of fish
This approach provides a practical tool for managers to rapidly assess rank abundance of freshwater fishes🧬🐟️
🔎 Read more: buff.ly/GXeOPFx
Mateus Silva introduces a tool to facilitate seed provenancing for climate-smart ecosystem restoration📊🌎
Shortlisted for the 2025 Southwood Prize 🏆🧪
appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/04/05/m...
Amanda Hsiung details how the effectiveness of novel hybrid mangrove living shorelines is dependent on context🌲🌊🌎
Shortlisted for the 2025 Southwood Prize 🏆🧪
appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/04/03/a...
Qing Cao discusses the coexistence between Przewalski’s horse and Asiatic wild ass in the desert 🐎🌎
Shortlisted for the 2025 Southwood Prize 🏆🧪
appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/04/02/q...
We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature!
We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱
⏰Submit by 30th April
More here👇
buff.ly/EXXBFsJ
📖 Published
Estimating spatially varying occupancy trends for multi-scale conservation: An amphibian case study in the midwestern United States 🐸 🌍
🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A great, and thought provoking, opening plenary from @josbarlow.bsky.social this morning where he challenged three entrenched paradigms in order to advance tropical forest conservation 🌲 #SCCS2026
We're looking for proposals for our recent special feature! 🌍 🧪
Contributions will explore empirical evidence, methodological challenges, and statistical frameworks for detecting and interpreting rate variation over time 🕰️
⏰️1st May deadline!
Find out more and submit here 👉 buff.ly/cVDgT51
We're at the Student Conference on Conservation Science! #SCCS2026 🌎
Come and find us in the Elementary Lab to learn more about BES membership, our journals, and to talk all things ecology 💬🧪
@britishecologicalsociety.org @sccscambridge.bsky.social
Great looking new paper in @jappliedecology.bsky.social by Sofia Miguel et al, who recently visited my group at BC3, uses a Landsat-derived data to characterise forest disturbance regimes based on size, severity, and frequency with high variability. shorturl.at/B1mg1
Delighted to be shortlisted by the @britishecologicalsociety.org @jappliedecology.bsky.social for the Southwood Prize 2026! Here's a short article about some reflections from our study ✨
This study was a formative step in my training as an early-career ecologist. Thanks to all my co-authors!
Happy to see our paper featured on the cover of the Journal of Applied Ecology!! @jappliedecology.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
Thanks, Habib Ali Hamid - @saharaconservation.bsky.social for the beautiful image of scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) reintroduced in Chad.
@akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social explains how microclimatic niche shifts predict long-term survival and body mass declines in a warmer and more degraded world🐦🌎
Shortlisted for the 2025 Southwood Prize 🏆🧪
appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/03/30/a...
🔍️We're looking for proposals to our special feature with @jappliedecology.bsky.social and @journalofecology.bsky.social!
🦗The focus of this feature is how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions
💡Find out more here
👉️ buff.ly/tu1imM1
@hudsonfontenele.bsky.social explains the consequences of seven consecutive annual dry-season fires to the unburned Cerrado grass layer 🔥🌎
Shortlisted for the 2025 Southwood Prize 🏆🧪
Read more 👇
appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/03/27/h...
📖 Published!
Density dependence modulates climate change impacts on eastern Bering Sea snow crab
These results underscore the need for management addressing the impacts of density and climate effects on multiple processes in harvested populations🦀 🌍
🔎 buff.ly/aD1Rz1W
Leia Navarro-Herrero spoke to us about the latest research surrounding interactions between seabirds and vessels in industrial fisheries of Northwest Africa ⛵️🪶🌎
Shortlisted for the 2025 Southwood Prize 🏆🧪
appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/03/29/l...
📖 Published
How to eradicate an invasive forest pest without clear-cutting
The results show that selective cutting applied together with modern remote sensing surveillance methods is an environmentally friendly alternative to the mandatory clear-cutting🌲 🐛
🔎 buff.ly/oiQq0DF
Luuk Croijmans discusses how herbivore prevalence poorly predicts yield in diverse cropping systems🌱🌎
Shortlisted for the 2025 Southwood Prize 🏆🧪
Read more 👇
appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/03/26/l...
Interested in 🐸 and 🌳?
Have a look at this @jappliedecology.bsky.social blogpost covering the PhD research of @lovasylviane.bsky.social on amphibians in Malagasy agroforests!
Her paper is nominated for the #SouthwoodPrice of @britishecologicalsociety.org!
📝: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
📖 New paper
Implementing Bayesian network models using expert elicitation for instream barrier assessment🖥️ 🌍
🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/KSjh1hA
📖 Published!
Optimal strategies for utilizing host plant distributions to slow the spread of plant pests🌱
These results show that combining pesticide application and mating disruption around host-plant gaps significantly improves cost efficiency🐞
🔎 buff.ly/lhWtcxW
Taylor Craft talks us through how remote sensing and GPS tracking are able to reveal temporal shifts in habitat use in nonbreeding Black-tailed Godwits🐦📡🌏
Shortlisted for the 2025 Southwood Prize 🏆🧪
Read more 👇
appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/03/23/t...
📖 New paper
Temporal shifts in soil nitrogen cycling responses to plant diversity across global terrestrial ecosystems🌍
These findings suggest that conserving and restoring plant diversity can enhance long-term N transformation rates🌿
🔎 buff.ly/9iLrIjs
An infographic showing a world map in the Spilhaus projection, with the six marine flyways (Altantic Ocean, North Indian Ocean, East Indian Ocean, West Pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Southern Ocean). Text reads: 'Marine flyways are the major routes migratory seabirds regularly use to travel between their breeding and non-breeidng areas.'
🚨New Open Access Paper🚨
Using the marine flyways concept to accelerate ocean conservation published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
OA paper➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#BLScience #seabirds
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Ecological research🤝poetry
One of our favourite moments of these worlds crossing over is this wonderful poem by @samillingworth.com, inspired by community science bumblebee research in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
#WorldPoetryDay
https://f.mtr.cool/xndxfpvqgr
New paper 📢 Conservation evidence is biased but can support decision-making for prevalent and severe threats in tetrapods. By González-Suárez et al. in @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@lovasylviane.bsky.social spoke to us about how large native trees and leaf litter promote amphibian diversity in Malagasy agroforests🌴🐸🌏
Shortlisted for the 2025 Southwood Prize 🏆🧪
Read more 👇