🚨Our March issue is now live!
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🐝 Our amazing cover image depicts the special relationship between wild honeyguides and the humans they guide to wild bees’ nests. Read more about these honeyguides here
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BehaveAI turns patterns of movement into false colours that reveal an object or limb’s direction, speed and acceleration in a single frame, making it easy for deep learning neural nets to track objects and classify their behaviour. This demonstration shows a herring gull (Larus argentatus) taking off, with its most recent movements shown in blue, while green and red show its movements further back in time. Image credit: Jolyon Troscianko.
Despite advances, quantifying complex motion info remains challenging. @jtroscianko.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social &co present BehaveAI, a #video analysis tool that sees motion as color, tracking animals & classifying #behavior in complex natural scenes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4kTF1wX
🚨 Deadline update - 8th March
🌟 We're looking for Associate Editors to join our People and Nature editorial board
Find out more and apply here ➡️ buff.ly/LvTJGnW
Moth perched on a streetlamp. Our work suggests that light suppresses activity in moths, so once attracted to a light they are prevented from escape.
Eye-opening findings on how light suppresses moth activity. Light attracts moths, but what if we've been missing a much more pervasive effect where even sky-glow light levels make them freeze?
Paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Our BehaveAI paper has just come out!
Easy & effective tracking & behavioural classification, even with tiny (2px), fast moving, camouflaged objects.
Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Download: github.com/troscianko/B...
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📣Deadline extended
Our applications for Associate Editor are now open until 8 March 2026.
We are now looking for both practitioners and academics to join our board of the Journal of Applied Ecology, and Ecological Solutions and Evidence.
🌟 We've updated our aims and scope, now live and ready to read on our website! ➡️ buff.ly/2W4T8oR
🚨 Our February issue is also now live. With a fantastic cover image provided by Vincent Porcher, from this recently published paper 📖 buff.ly/e3kfQ4S
Moths’ attraction to artificial light, such as streetlights, is common knowledge and has been much studied. But, as many people will have observed, and now new research shows, moths may also remain still if they land near a light, apparently “trapped”. ex.ac.uk/dYy
How should the discipline of ecology and the community of ecologists respond to the ecological crisis? Is it time that these were put on something more akin to an emergency footing?
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An ecosystem approach is the only way to halt the vanishing of UK wildlife.
Our latest report with @nationaltrust.org.uk, led by @pettorelli.bsky.social, makes clear that human wellbeing is underpinned by ecosystems continuing to function in a resilient way.
📰Covered in @theecologist.org
🐦⬛ Hearing loss significantly affects the extent to which people can listen to, and enjoy natural sounds, birdsong in particular. Results highlight the need for greater attention to the relationship between sensory capabilities and the extinction of nature experience
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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
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The British public love National Parks & Landscapes.
Weakening the law that protects them would be devastating for nature, visitors & the businesses they support.
These places need more support from Gov't to make them wilder & more accessible to everyone 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This #PeerReviewWeek we'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has reviewed for us over the last year 📖
We really appreciate the time and effort spent in helping us to publish quality research 🌟
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Thanks to UK leadership, a global 30x30 target was adopted at COP15 in 2022 as part of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
But last year, the Government appeared to be sleepwalking with only 3% of land in England effectively protected. Today, we are moonwalking at just 2.8%.
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RENEW Research paper provides a flexible approach for nature recovery in landscapes with multiple choices for habitat creation. Read more about the Ebrel model: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #naturerecovery #biodiversityrenewal @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social
An article which encapsulates the ecological work with drones over the past decade whilst also looking forward to what this next evolutionary step in drone technology offers ecologists.
tinyurl.com/yb8v794s
Authors: Profs Karen Anderson, Felipe Gonzalez and Kevin Gaston.
The first film in the six-part series visits Kynance Cove in #Cornwall where Natural England works with
@nationaltrust.org.uk to manage this wonderful nature reserve.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Lp...
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“Traffic light” dog-walking zones in the UK can benefit people, #dogs & the #environment, according to the new ‘Paws for Thought’ report by the #ExCASES team, as part of the RENEW #Biodiversity Programme.
Read the full report below: renewbiodiversity.org.uk/excases-miss...
A photograph of a group of people meeting on Dartmoor, please follow the link to read the blog post.
`The Land Speaks: From Stone Walls to Stakeholders on #Dartmoor.’
Read RENEW PhD student Emma Squire’s blog, with poetry from @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social inspired by the RENEW Programme’s Early Career Researcher #biodiversity retreat.
renewbiodiversity.org.uk/the-land-spe...
People and Nature is seeking proposals to the Special Feature “Halfway through the UN Decade: taking stock of social-ecological restoration”.
Submissions will be open until 30th June - find all further information & the submission form here:
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People and Nature is seeking proposals to the Special Feature 'Forests and Care'.
Submissions will be open until 22nd June - find all further information and the submission form here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Should Ecology be more proactive & vocal on one of the key issues of our times? What systemic & institutional changes are needed for the ecological community to be at the forefront of the response? If these are questions that speak to you, this new paper may be of interest lnkd.in/eXfXG4xM
New article: Systematic conservation planning for nature recovery.
tinyurl.com/6juu9nen
Authors: Dr David Baker, @kevinjgaston.bsky.social, @kristianmetcalfe.bsky.social, @ilyamaclean.bsky.social .
#biodiversity #climate #SustainableDevelopment
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Have you participated in a nature recovery activity in the UK? Do you have 15-minutes spare to complete a short survey?
Take part in our nature recovery survey and enter a raffle to win a £100 gift card! 🐞📋🌱
Simply follow the link for more info: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
The call for proposals for our new Special Feature, 'Novel Communities in response to Global Change', with @journalofecology.bsky.social & @jappliedecology.bsky.social is open!
See here for more information, including how to submit your abstract: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
A new study exploring how people's connection to #nature varies across countries and what might be driving those differences.
Authors: Dr Masashi Soga and @kevinjgaston.bsky.social.
👉 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
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Another great opportunity from RENEW:
Join RENEW T4 #Business & #Finance with the Department of Geography @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
to codesign a web-based biodiversity platform & #digital toolbox to help businesses understand/address their impacts on #nature & #biodiversity.
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