News and Opinion - British Ecological Society

Invasive Species Week: UK Invasions in a Changing Climate

In an Invasives Species Week special, Jane Catford and Regan Early discuss the possible synergies between climate change and the spread of invasive species.

Predator exposure can help vulnerable species survive in the wild

Exposing endangered bilbies to predators before release can improve survival

We’re moving! The BES buys new offices in London

The BES is moving new offices in central London.

Field to Fork Festival: insects and the future of food

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

UK Marine Strategy: Call for Expertise

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

Seaweeds can attract friends and keep away enemies

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

Understanding the decline of Atlantic salmon catches in Scotland

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

Agricultural Resilience

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

Early spring: predicting budburst with genetics

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

BES response to the IPBES biodiversity report: This matters

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 flowers can coexist through self-fertilization

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

The hunger gaps: how flowering times affect farmland bees

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

Member survey: the results are in

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

British Ecological Society awards journal prizes to early career researchers

Fish under threat release chemicals to warn others of danger

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