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 […]
Continue ReadingWe’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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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 […]
Continue ReadingClimate change and environmental degradation are existential threats to our planet. The EU is taking steps to transform our society as well as improve our well-being and health and those of future generations in various areas of our lives: Biodiversity Did you know that 3/4 of the world’s flowering plants and about 35% of the […]
Continue ReadingThe company is gearing up to expand in the US market $1 billion has been pledged by founder Pham Nhat Vuong, Vietnam’s richest man VinFast has previously announced plans for a public stock market listing in the U.S. Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast said on Wednesday it had received a fresh round of funding pledges […]
Continue ReadingThroughout 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 […]
Continue ReadingShortlisted 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 […]
Continue ReadingDeutsche 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 […]
Continue ReadingThroughout 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 […]
Continue ReadingEllie Scopes describe her team’s latest article re-assessing the extinction risk and conservation status of hazel dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius) using long-term monitoring data. Threats assessments and conservation priority often become entangled, despite different aims. Whilst threat assessments focus on the proximity of the species to extinction, usually with objective guidelines, conservation priority is more subjective […]
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