News and Opinion - British Ecological Society

Nutritional quality of fish and squid reduced by warm water events

With implications for the marine environment, marine predators and fisheries capturing food for human consumption.

Priorities for the marine environment after Brexit

Abigail McQuatters-Gollop summaries the key recommendations from the British Ecological Society and the Marine Biological Association 's workshop report on the marine environment after Brexit.

Exhibition: Regarding Nature

In the wake of BES founder Sir Edward James Salisbury, who documented the topography and coastal plants in Norfolk in the early 20th Century.

The presence of invasive grey squirrels causes increased chronic stress in native red squirrels

How grey squirrels compete with native red squirrels in Great Britain and Italy.

'Virtual safe space' to help bumblebees

A computer tool simulates how bumblebee colonies will develop and react to multiple factors including pesticides, parasites and habitat loss.

Tropical peat swamps: Restoration of endangered carbon reservoirs

Raiding the rape field

Predatory beetles and spiders and help farmers control pests.

Securing the natural environment for future generations

A timely symposium organised by the British Ecological Society and the UK’s statutory nature conservation agencies.

Remote camera network tracks Antarctic species at low cost

A new method turns static images into useful data on the timing and success of penguin reproduction.

British Ecological Society launches new journal: People and Nature

An open access journal exploring the relationships between humans and nature.

Great Welsh science helps solve pollinator puzzle

Understanding the role of hoverfly pollination.

What will be the next big issues to impact the environment?

Help identify the next big conservation and environmental issues on the horizon.

Did tree-forming daisies evolve due to drought stress?

Increased wood formation in plants is strongly linked to increased drought stress resistance.

Using mathematical models to save forests

How can small changes in the climate have big impacts on forest health?

Seaweeds shelter calcifying marine life from acidifying oceans

Seaweeds create a chemical microenvironment at their surface, providing refuge for calcifying organisms that are at risk from decreasing oceanic pH.