Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Feike Dijkstra discusses his recent article: Continuous remobilization from belowground provides more than half of all carbon and nitrogen in regrowing shoots after grassland defoliation. Find out more about how C and N remobilization have important consequences for how grasslands respond to grazing intensity and global change factors: 🌱 What we found When aboveground tissue is […]

Joshua Wilson discusses recent research at Moreton Bay, Australia which saw Wilson and colleagues conduct over 200 drone approaches of shorebird flocks to measure how the birds respond to drones. Particular attention is paid to the critically endangered Eastern Curlew. Stress responses Imagine you’re resting in your bed when, out of the corner of your […]

The editor’s choice for our August issue is “Seasonality regulates the structure and biogeochemical impact of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities across environmentally divergent neotropical dry forests“ by Katilyn Beidler et al. Here, Associate Editor James Dalling discusses the importance of this research: We usually think of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) tree species in the tropics as occurring on the tops of mountains […]

This month, The Applied Ecologist is amplifying the voice of early career ecologists from around the world working in the field of applied ecology to help inspire the next generation. In this post, Charlotte Raven, a second-year PhD student at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, shares her story. My background I have had […]

The Commission has adopted a Decision on the Union-wide quantity of allowances to be issued under the EU Emissions Trading System for 2024 in respect of stationary installations and maritime transport activities (the ‘cap’). The calculation of the cap that underpins the Commission Decision applies the following changes introduced in the recent revision of the […]

Runa Magnusson discusses her recent article: Spatiotemporal variability in precipitation-growth relations of Betula nana in the Siberian lowland tundra. Warming, greening, thawing – The Arctic is a place of rapid warming and environmental change, with temperatures increasing three to four times faster than the global average. Impacts on Arctic ecosystems and communities include, among many […]

This blog post is also available in Swedish here. Fabian Boetzl talks us through his and his colleagues’ new research on landscape-based strategies to reduce insect pest pressure and crop damage. The problem Systemic neonicotinoid insecticides are detrimental to a wide range of beneficial biodiversity, with wild bees as the most prominent example. Due to […]

The European Commission today adopted a new set of guidelines to assist Member States in updating and implementing comprehensive national adaptation strategies, plans and policies in line with the European Climate Law and the EU Strategy on adaptation to climate change. From extreme heatwaves and devastating droughts, to deadly forest fires and rising sea levels […]

Chinese translation follows below / 中文译文如下 The Dialogue focused on the avenues for EU-China cooperation in implementing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Both sides fully recognized that the HECD must continue to achieve practical results. Both sides believe that green should be the […]

Anna Gee, a PhD student at Imperial College London, talks us through ways in which we can help to restore forests through natural recruitment in this standalone piece. How do we decide what trees to plant for forest restoration? The approach of many restoration projects is to find what is known as a reference forest, […]