News and Opinion - British Ecological Society

The BES explored the importance of insects for our food at Field to Fork Festival

The Policy team will be drafting a response to the UK Marine Strategy and we need your expertise!

A seaweed species cultivates microbes on its surface to protect itself from pathogens

An expert in salmon ecology from Marine Scotland Science explains why Atlantic salmon catches have declined in Scotland.

A new book in our Ecological Reviews series brings together ecologists and economists to discuss agriculture through the lens of resilience.

Plants' genetics can be used to predict when their leaves burst bud in spring

The IPBES report lays out the scale and magnitude of the crisis we are facing in the natural world. The BES response explains why this matters.

Closely-related plant species can coexist despite competition through self-fertilization

Variation in farmland nectar supply creates seasonal hunger gaps for pollinators.

Here’s what you told us and how we’ll make use of that information in taking your Society forwards.

Fish warn each other about danger by releasing chemicals into the water.

Carnivores using remaining green spaces around cities interact more often

Ecological stoichiometry compares the nutritional “demand” of wild bee larvae with the “supply” of nutrients in pollen.

Citizens' Jury - a useful way for the public to come to informed consensus on complex matters of national interest?