Join the ENDEMIC Network on 4 November for a webinar that focuses on how to make reasonable adjustments in the workplace and at university for neurodivergent ecologists at any career stage. Register now 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/rkknflximp

Time to rethink nature conservation? Ecologists call for an ecosystem approach to halt UK wildlife decline and protect the vital services nature provides us in our new report with @nationaltrust.org.uk  @pettorelli.bsky.social

We are looking for contributors to our series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season 🎄 See previous blogs here 👉 buff.ly/MnMcRqG (1/2)

The #JournalSpotlight Methods in Ecology and Evolution drives new methods in ecology and evolutionary biology—making them accessible for researchers everywhere. It’s your forum for the latest breakthroughs. Find out more: https://ow.ly/hGMs50XmMJA

🚨 Our November Issue is now out!🚨 The cover image shows a Red Kangaroo (Osphranter rufus) in eastern Australia curiously watching as authors installed autonomous audio recorders 🦘 🌍 🧪 Find out more about the cover image and read the whole issue here 👇 buff.ly/r25WMUf

Our newest Special Feature, "Implications of Changing Snowscapes for Animal Ecology", is now accepting proposals. It aims to highlight the importance of changing snow conditions in animal ecology. 🌨️ Read more and submit your proposal here:

📖Published📖 Check out our new perspective article 👉 A framework for capturing indirect impacts in site-level screening for biodiversity risks 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/VxiGbf5

Register for our next MEE live! Join the authors of ‘DNA Divers: Volunteer-based eDNA capture for local and global marine biodiversity monitoring’ for this free online webinar! 🧬 ⭐ ⏰ 27 November 2025, 16:30-17:30pm (GMT) Find out more and register 👇 buff.ly/wNIpIWm

Check out our new blog by Josefine Umlauft! Find out more about using seismic data to measure tree sway 🌴 🍃 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/f7RiiW9

📖Published📖 Mauger et al. propose SINgle-CEll REads Decontamination through Automatic Taxonomic Assignation (SINCERE-DATA) workflow, an adaptable and universal SCG library preparation protocol and an automated data decontamination tool 🦠 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/X45yFvE

🎃 How are you celebrating spooky season? Help usher in Halloween with this blog post of some of our spookiest publications this year... If you dare! 👻🧪 🏰 Read the blog here: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/10/30/2...

During the course of Black History Month, we have been collating a resource page of blogs, networks, literature and more, with the aim of consistently supporting and elevating Black ecologists.

🚨 Did you miss yesterday's webinar on 'Understanding the policy context of Integrated Nature-Climate Action'? 🚨 Don't fret! 🌎🧪 You can watch the full presentations and discussion over on our YouTube: youtu.be/KuytewU1-Vs?...

🚨 Two days remaining 🚨 You don't have long left to apply to join the editorial team as a Research Highlights Editor! 📚🌏🧪 This role would be ideal for an Early Career Researcher looking to gain experience in editing ✍️ More info here 👇 bit.ly/4o0bTV8

📣Join our free online workshop! Dr. Lina Mühlbauer talks about her team's development of a low-cost, high resolution sensor network to measure microclimate with hardware that is cheap, easy to purchase and that uses freely available software 💡🌿 Sign up here! 👇 buff.ly/v9Vc1JD 🌍🧪

Welcome to Wiley Ecology, Environment & Sustainability! 🌱🌍 Your go-to for the latest in #SustainableAgriculture, #Ecology, #Environment, #PlantScience, #Geography, and more. Follow us for research highlights, insights, and breakthroughs shaping a sustainable future.

📖Published📖 Yan et al. develop a new wood–leaf separation algorithm designed to achieve both high classification accuracy and structural completeness from the trunk to high-order branches🌳🍃 Read the article here 👇 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/0GmRzFU

New blog post alert! 🚨 Read about a new tool to track stress of marine invertebrates with heartbeats 🐚 💓 @coastalwarming.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social

Watch Applied Ecology Resources' recent online workshop: 'Biodiversity and Nature Reporting for Complex Global Supply Chains' 🌿 🎥: buff.ly/XtCKGB9 Sign up to our next one on the 4th of November! 👇 buff.ly/yYeouwz 🧪🌍

📖Published📖 Check out Hollins et al. new research article 👉 Home-range spillover in habitats with impassable boundaries: Causes, biases and corrections using autocorrelated kernel density estimation 🐟

Our webinar discussing how Integrated Nature-Climate Action can strengthen policy responses to biodiversity loss & climate change is tomorrow! ⏰🌏🧪 You can still register for free, below 👇 bit.ly/4mJGwx2

📖Published📖 In this study, authors developed a revised optimality-based model (R-OPT) that integrates the mechanistic Farquhar–Medlyn photosynthesis model with the default OPT to improve spring phenology modelling 👇 🌍 🧪

📖Published📖 Patterson et al. evaluate the potential for integrated species distribution models to predict species distributions at remote, understudied locations, focusing on scenarios where no species observations are available at the projection site 🐾 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/TOVl3L1

📖Published📖 Using observations from ground-based seismometers and trunk-mounted accelerometers, authors isolated and analysed tree sway signals based on spectral decomposition and vibrational mode tracking 🌳 Find out more here 👇 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/PBqOGcv

📖Published📖 By synthesizing existing knowledge on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for farmland biodiversity monitoring, Darvishi et al. propose a methodology for a comprehensive and up-to-date review of their potential to provide biodiversity data 🚜 🌍 🧪

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 BES Awards!! ⭐

📖Published📖 Aspillaga et al. introduce a novel, cost-effective method to estimate fish activity patterns using the simplest acoustic telemetry setup, consisting of a single receiver and conventional ID transmitters 🐟 🔊 🌍 🧪

Our latest podcast episode, hosted by @edieabrahams.bsky.social, explores the story behind the paper, "Prey bioluminescence-mediated visual luring in a sit and wait predator". 🕷️ 🎙️ listen to the full episode here: buff.ly/HDHpvhZ

📖Published📖 Check out our new research article by Polacchi et al. 👉 Coupling gel electrophoresis with photoluminescence reveals biochrome complexes in modern and fossil shells 🐚 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/PYyCLuT

🚨 Excited to share our new research! 🚨 We tackle a big question in conservation: how can we make smarter use of existing surveys to learn about places and species we haven’t yet been able to survey? 🏔️ 🔗 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

📖Published📖 Lima et al. develop a fully automated heart frequency logger for shelled invertebrates, that integrates hardware, firmware and a new R package ‘heartbeatr’ ❤️ 🐚 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/5pbJDKI

📖Published📖 Check out our new research article by Dorazio et al. 👉 An evaluation of multi-species occupancy models with correlated species occurrences buff.ly/IdObfXV 🌍 🧪

The next International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) will take place on January 8-15, 2027, in Mérida, México. Calls for workshop and roundtable proposals now open, deadline Nov 15, 2025 (anywhere on earth). Visit statisticalecology.org for more information. 🧪 Please share widely 📈🦋🐾

Rt measures how quickly a pathogen spreads and was central to understanding and controlling COVID-19. In our latest work, we extend this concept to vector-borne diseases, developing a new, renewal equation–based framework that links infection dynamics in humans and vectors. doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Firstly... a project we started in 2020: we show the factors influencing precision and accuracy of metabarcoding freshwater macroinverts for biomonitoring👏 @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/2041... 2/8

📖Published📖 In their new research article, Hoefer et al. compare passive acoustic monitoring to traditional observer-based monitoring and camera trapping for assessing terrestrial mammal biodiversity 🦊 📸 🔊 buff.ly/TFAPv0W 🌍 🧪

New paper out! @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social We test whether optical fibres can be used to measure microclimate temperatures in the forest, and investigate what we can learn from it. 🧵👇 The full article is published Open Access: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣Join our free online workshop! We go behind-the-scenes with project managers from the Buffelsdraai Reforestation Project in South Africa, who share their experience with large-scale tree planting, invasive species control, fire management and biodiversity monitoring🌿 Sign-up here👇 buff.ly/5UdUSaM

📖Published📖 Luxton et al. propose a structured process to enable researchers and practitioners to consistently develop restoration-specific state-and-transition models and apply these to the organisation and selection of indications 👇 buff.ly/cnFUncl 🌍 🧪

Are you interested in how Integrated Nature-Climate Action can strengthen policy responses to biodiversity loss & climate change? 🌎🧪 If yes, our upcoming free webinar might be perfect for you! 💭 Register & find out more below 👇 bit.ly/4mJGwx2

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📖Published📖 In our recent application paper, Ravenscroft et al. develop an unsupervised Historical Occurrence Georeferencing System (HOGS) to georeference point locations from high-resolution images of species distribution maps 🗺️ 📍 Read more 👇 buff.ly/7W25bf2 🌍 🧪

📖Published📖 Nakagawa et al. introduce phylogenetic location–scale models (PLSMs), a novel framework that jointly analyses the evolution of trait means and variances. Read more here 👇 buff.ly/GE1ikys 🌍 🧪

📖Published📖 Check out the latest perspective article published in MEE 👉 Let's stop measuring animal sound frequencies in hertz 🔊 buff.ly/2dFnt09 🌍 🧪

📖Published📖 In our new research article authors provide general renewal equations for mosquito-borne diseases 🦟 Find out more about their framework here 👇 buff.ly/CLfy3Ad 🌍 🧪

Missed our last MEE live? Watch it now! In our latest workshop, we were joined by author Ata Kalirad, who talked through their recent paper and illustrated how EcoGt can be used to simulate ecological competition on various topologies. Watch the video and find the paper below📃

The decades-long habit of measuring animal sound frequencies in hertz biases #bioacoustics research. Part of the solution is very simple: do not measure animal sounds in Hz, measure them in logHz instead. New article @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Our latest podcast series 'Included in Nature with Clare Rishbeth' explores the barriers to nature inclusion for various communities and the ways in which we can overcome them 🌱 This discussion is based on four reports deposited in Applied Ecology Resources 📚 Listen here 👇 buff.ly/7BpYW1c

📖Published📖 Check out our new research article by Santoro et al. 👉 Essential tools but overlooked bias: Artificial intelligence and citizen science classification affect camera trap data 📸 🌍 🧪

Our newest paper is out in Methods in Ecol Evol @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social :) amazing team effort - we show that the traditional way of analyzing comparative data lacks finesse. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social Yefeng Yang, Losia Lagisz & Ayumi Mizuno