Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

We’re excited to announce Molly Mitchell as the winner of the 2023 Chico Mendes Prize, celebrating the best Practice Insights article in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Winner: Molly Mitchell Article: A marsh multimodel approach to inform future marsh management under accelerating sea-level rise About the research How do you […]

2023 HARPER PRIZE SHORTLIST: Throughout March, we are featuring the articles shortlisted for the 2023 Harper Prize. The Harper Prize is an annual award for the best early career research paper published in Journal of Ecology. Maria Jessen’s article ‘Litter accumulation, not light limitation, drives early plant recruitment‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award: 👋 About me: from […]

The Innovation Fund’s 2023 call closed on 9 April, receiving a total of 337 project proposals. The 2023 call has a record budget of €4 billion funded by revenues from the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to support the deployment of innovative decarbonisation technologies. Projects will now be assessed based on their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, their degree […]

Nicola Kokkonen, Anna Laine-Petäjäkangas, and Eeva-Stiina Tuittila discuss their article: ‘A deepened water table increases the vulnerability of peat mosses to periodic drought.’ Background A boreal ombrotrophic bog in central Finland. A range of different plant communities cover the surface, but peat mosses are dominant and can be most clearly seen in the intermediate lawn habitat […]

We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the 2023 Harper Prize is Tyler Coverdale! The Harper Prize is awarded annually for the best paper published in the journal by an early career researcher. Winner: Tyler Coverdale Paper: Unravelling the relationship between plant diversity and vegetation structural complexity: A review and theoretical framework “As Tyler´s succinct review points out, we […]

As part of the ‘Restoring Landscapes’ blog series, author Jake Williams presents a case study illustrating the value of satellite data in filling the knowledge gap on the effect of passive restoration efforts in different climatic and ecological contexts. With the launch of the ‘Restoring Landscapes’ blog series, it is a timely moment to reflect […]

This month we are featuring Chethana V. Casiker, Luiz F. C. Serigheli, Marta Barberis, Stephanie Glendinning and Bethany Bridge. Mediums include tapestry, pen, coloured pencils, drag, tattoo, make up, look and performance, paint, sound, graffiti and watercolours. Artist: Chethana V. Casiker I am a researcher who studies bees in urban landscapes. I wanted to paint […]

In this series, we are promoting knowledge exchange in restoration around the world: from success to failures and anything in between! In this post Taylor Shaw from the Endangered Landscapes and Seascapes Programme shares their experience attending a Knowledge Exchange Visit hosted by Cairngorms Connect in Scotland, where restoration practitioners from across Europe met to […]

The cover image for our April issue shows insect herbivores feeding on a ragweed plant. The image relates to the article ‘Foliar herbivory-enhanced mycorrhization is associated with increased levels of lipids in root and root exudates’, by Zhenlong Xing et al. Here, Zhenlong tells us the story behind the image: Insect herbivores, terrestrial plants, and […]

The Lawen sisters, known as eco-warriors in Seychelles, published the paper recently after numerous beach clean-ups on the islands over a four-year period. (Alvania Lawen) Photo license  Purchase photo Two Seychellois sisters have published a paper in which they have compiled and analysed data on beach debris and plastic in the Inner Islands group of […]