Grub Hub for Fat Bats – The Applied Ecologist

Winifred Frick and colleagues share their latest research that tested a novel conservation approach targeted at improving foraging conditions near bat hibernacula with the overall aim of improving habitat conditions that can aid population resilience and recovery. Can we make them fatter? This was the million-dollar question that started the Fat Bat program at Bat […]

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Winner announced for early career researcher award – The Applied Ecologist

Journal of Applied Ecology is pleased to announce Paula Prist as the winner of the 2022 Southwood Prize! The award is given to the best article in the journal by an author at the start of their career and was picked from a shortlist of 12 articles.  Winner: Paula Prist Research: Roads and forest edges […]

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Angela Illuminati – 2022 Harper Prize Winner!🏆

We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the 2022 Harper Prize is Angela Illuminati! The Harper Prize is awarded annually for the best paper published in the journal by an early career researcher. Winner: Angela Illuminati Research: Coordination between water uptake depth and the leaf economic spectrum in a Mediterranean shrubland In this blog post, we ask […]

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NC Air Report Highlights Needs for Emission Reduction Rural Air Monitoring / Public News Service

A new study emphasizes the urgent need for enhanced air quality monitoring in rural regions, while drawing attention to the efforts required to decrease emissions in North Carolina’s most crowded areas. According to the American Lung Association’s State of the Air report, only 35 of 100 counties could report on at least one air quality […]

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Kerissa Battle: Citizen science across two centuries

Throughout April, we are featuring the articles shortlisted for the 2022 Harper Prize. The Harper Prize is an annual award for the best early career research paper published in Journal of Ecology. Kerissa Fuccillo Battle et al.’s article ‘Citizen science across two centuries reveals phenological change among plant species and functional groups in the Northeastern US‘ is one of those […]

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Tropical peatland restoration – The Applied Ecologist

Shortlisted for the Southwood Prize 2022 In this blog re-look, Eleanor Warren-Thomas tells us about conducting research on the restoration of tropical peatlands, as well as the experiences of an early career ecologist. You can find the original blog post discussing Eleanor’s research in English here and in Indonesian here! The research process Can you […]

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DHL Unveils Sustainability Milestones and a New Tool at Industry-first Global Summit

Deutsche Post DHL Group reaches impressive results with over 30,000 electric vehicles and over 830 million liters of sustainable aviation fuel secured in 2022 More than half of DHL Supply Chain facilities are carbon neutral DHL launches GoGreen Dashboard for customers to streamline customer-facing reporting process DHL hosts more than 1000 attendees for its first […]

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Jules Segrestin: Towards a better understanding of metacommunity stability

Throughout April, we are featuring the articles shortlisted for the 2022 Harper Prize. The Harper Prize is an annual award for the best early career research paper published in Journal of Ecology. Jules Segrestin’s article  ‘Towards a better ecological understanding of metacommunity stability: A multiscale framework to disentangle population variability and synchrony effects‘ is one of those shortlisted for […]

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