Journal of Applied Ecology
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
Driving forward the field of applied ecology through a high-quality evidence base for scientists, managers and policymakers. A @britishecologicalsociety.org journal.
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Do you want to be part of a community transforming UK nature at a landscape scale?
This is the final week to register for the Resilient Landscapes & Seas Symposium, where you can help build a cohesive community delivering landscape transformation for nature, people and climate.
This is the final week to register for the Resilient Landscapes & Seas Symposium, where you can help build a cohesive community delivering landscape transformation for nature, people and climate.
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Do you want to be part of a community transforming UK nature at a landscape scale?
This is the final week to register for the Resilient Landscapes & Seas Symposium, where you can help build a cohesive community delivering landscape transformation for nature, people and climate.
This is the final week to register for the Resilient Landscapes & Seas Symposium, where you can help build a cohesive community delivering landscape transformation for nature, people and climate.
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🌳How can environmental policy making, planning and delivery include the authentic voices of children and young people? New research explores how urban treescape development in the UK benefit from transdisciplinary approaches.
📖 Read the paper here➡️ buff.ly/5HaGmeo
📖 Read the paper here➡️ buff.ly/5HaGmeo
January 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🌳How can environmental policy making, planning and delivery include the authentic voices of children and young people? New research explores how urban treescape development in the UK benefit from transdisciplinary approaches.
📖 Read the paper here➡️ buff.ly/5HaGmeo
📖 Read the paper here➡️ buff.ly/5HaGmeo
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🧵 1/5 New paper out at @jappliedecology.bsky.social
We evaluate how #carbon allocation strategies determine the long-term carbon sink potential of large-scale pine reforestations under climate change. We combined #RemoteSensing and #dendrochronological plots
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
We evaluate how #carbon allocation strategies determine the long-term carbon sink potential of large-scale pine reforestations under climate change. We combined #RemoteSensing and #dendrochronological plots
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
December 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🧵 1/5 New paper out at @jappliedecology.bsky.social
We evaluate how #carbon allocation strategies determine the long-term carbon sink potential of large-scale pine reforestations under climate change. We combined #RemoteSensing and #dendrochronological plots
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
We evaluate how #carbon allocation strategies determine the long-term carbon sink potential of large-scale pine reforestations under climate change. We combined #RemoteSensing and #dendrochronological plots
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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🦇 New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social!
🚨 Red aviation lighting contributes to attraction of bats towards wind turbines but ADLS (Aircraft Detection Lighting System) can reduce this behaviour and thus potentially collision risks
Our article ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1365...
🚨 Red aviation lighting contributes to attraction of bats towards wind turbines but ADLS (Aircraft Detection Lighting System) can reduce this behaviour and thus potentially collision risks
Our article ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1365...
December 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🦇 New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social!
🚨 Red aviation lighting contributes to attraction of bats towards wind turbines but ADLS (Aircraft Detection Lighting System) can reduce this behaviour and thus potentially collision risks
Our article ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1365...
🚨 Red aviation lighting contributes to attraction of bats towards wind turbines but ADLS (Aircraft Detection Lighting System) can reduce this behaviour and thus potentially collision risks
Our article ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1365...
🌳 Woodland proximity limits benefits of conservation land management for farmland breeding waders - Where grassland breeding wader assemblages may be put at risk by tree planting, buffer zones >500 m should be implemented to mitigate the negative effect on wader species👇
buff.ly/ETYsi3y
buff.ly/ETYsi3y
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🌳 Woodland proximity limits benefits of conservation land management for farmland breeding waders - Where grassland breeding wader assemblages may be put at risk by tree planting, buffer zones >500 m should be implemented to mitigate the negative effect on wader species👇
buff.ly/ETYsi3y
buff.ly/ETYsi3y
🌸 Flowers that are attractive and occupy a complementary position in interaction space could be prioritized in flower mixes to recover rare and specialized pollinators 👇
📖 : buff.ly/HIu8R7Y
📖 : buff.ly/HIu8R7Y
December 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🌸 Flowers that are attractive and occupy a complementary position in interaction space could be prioritized in flower mixes to recover rare and specialized pollinators 👇
📖 : buff.ly/HIu8R7Y
📖 : buff.ly/HIu8R7Y
Published!📖
The trade-offs in plant root traits influence the adaptation and community dynamics in heterogeneous habitats. These findings highlight the pivotal role of root chemical traits and intraspecific plasticity in facilitating the adaptation of pioneer plants🌿
Read more: buff.ly/IuwCsIX
The trade-offs in plant root traits influence the adaptation and community dynamics in heterogeneous habitats. These findings highlight the pivotal role of root chemical traits and intraspecific plasticity in facilitating the adaptation of pioneer plants🌿
Read more: buff.ly/IuwCsIX
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Published!📖
The trade-offs in plant root traits influence the adaptation and community dynamics in heterogeneous habitats. These findings highlight the pivotal role of root chemical traits and intraspecific plasticity in facilitating the adaptation of pioneer plants🌿
Read more: buff.ly/IuwCsIX
The trade-offs in plant root traits influence the adaptation and community dynamics in heterogeneous habitats. These findings highlight the pivotal role of root chemical traits and intraspecific plasticity in facilitating the adaptation of pioneer plants🌿
Read more: buff.ly/IuwCsIX
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The authors conducted an assessment of the ecological impacts of photovoltaic power stations through, considering different grassland types. They found that the ecological effects of photovoltaic arrays varied across grassland types
Read more:https://buff.ly/xU5VV8Y
The authors conducted an assessment of the ecological impacts of photovoltaic power stations through, considering different grassland types. They found that the ecological effects of photovoltaic arrays varied across grassland types
Read more:https://buff.ly/xU5VV8Y
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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The authors conducted an assessment of the ecological impacts of photovoltaic power stations through, considering different grassland types. They found that the ecological effects of photovoltaic arrays varied across grassland types
Read more:https://buff.ly/xU5VV8Y
The authors conducted an assessment of the ecological impacts of photovoltaic power stations through, considering different grassland types. They found that the ecological effects of photovoltaic arrays varied across grassland types
Read more:https://buff.ly/xU5VV8Y
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Happy to share that our paper is out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 😄
Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳
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Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳
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Experimental enhancement of structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes promotes multidimensional hoverfly diversity
Our results provide the first experimental evidence that enhancing structural heterogeneity at the landscape scale can restore multidimensional hoverfly diversity in temperate forests. They underscor...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Happy to share that our paper is out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 😄
Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New @jappliedecology.bsky.social paper: SMRU researchers @mattidcarter.bsky.social & @djfrussell.bsky.social led a large collaborative team to map the distribution of grey and harbour seals at sea across the Northwest European Shelf 🦭 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
At‐sea distribution of seals on the Northwest European Shelf: Towards transboundary conservation and management
This study provides the first comprehensive, regionally scalable distribution estimates for pinnipeds across the NWES and its constituent countries. The modelling framework is adaptable to other cent....
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December 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
New @jappliedecology.bsky.social paper: SMRU researchers @mattidcarter.bsky.social & @djfrussell.bsky.social led a large collaborative team to map the distribution of grey and harbour seals at sea across the Northwest European Shelf 🦭 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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5/5 This work was done during a #postdoctoral fellowship at #ICIFOR @csic.es with G.Gea, @dendroecologist.bsky.social and R. Zamora (@universidadgranada.bsky.social)
For a plain-summary language visit appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/12/15/h... from @jappliedecology.bsky.social
For a plain-summary language visit appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/12/15/h... from @jappliedecology.bsky.social
How climate change affects carbon storage in Mediterranean pine forests
Reforestation is widely promoted as a way to mitigate climate change by capturing carbon from the atmosphere. However, its real success depends on how trees invest (allocate) the carbon they captur…
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December 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
5/5 This work was done during a #postdoctoral fellowship at #ICIFOR @csic.es with G.Gea, @dendroecologist.bsky.social and R. Zamora (@universidadgranada.bsky.social)
For a plain-summary language visit appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/12/15/h... from @jappliedecology.bsky.social
For a plain-summary language visit appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/12/15/h... from @jappliedecology.bsky.social
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I have learnt a lot as an Assoc Editor in-training at the @jappliedecology.bsky.social, and I feel privelaged to have THE @martin-nunez.bsky.social as my mentor! It was so great to finally meet you in person, and learn from you more!!!
December 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I have learnt a lot as an Assoc Editor in-training at the @jappliedecology.bsky.social, and I feel privelaged to have THE @martin-nunez.bsky.social as my mentor! It was so great to finally meet you in person, and learn from you more!!!
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What's on your #BES2025 schedule today? We will be at the How to get published-workshop together with the @britishecologicalsociety.org and the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social to talk about just that! And if you can't make it today, the same workshop is taking place tomorrow.
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 AM
What's on your #BES2025 schedule today? We will be at the How to get published-workshop together with the @britishecologicalsociety.org and the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social to talk about just that! And if you can't make it today, the same workshop is taking place tomorrow.
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This study shows that choosing the most effective restoration strategy for tropical forests at scale depends equally if not more on economic and logistical than ecological constraints.
Read more:https://buff.ly/MTipuln
This study shows that choosing the most effective restoration strategy for tropical forests at scale depends equally if not more on economic and logistical than ecological constraints.
Read more:https://buff.ly/MTipuln
December 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Published!📖
This study shows that choosing the most effective restoration strategy for tropical forests at scale depends equally if not more on economic and logistical than ecological constraints.
Read more:https://buff.ly/MTipuln
This study shows that choosing the most effective restoration strategy for tropical forests at scale depends equally if not more on economic and logistical than ecological constraints.
Read more:https://buff.ly/MTipuln
Are you attending #BES2025 this week & looking for some tips to help get your research published? 🤔🧪
Come along to one of our two sessions with @nordicoikos.bsky.social & @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social where we'll be discussing each step of the academic publishing journey! 📑🌏
Come along to one of our two sessions with @nordicoikos.bsky.social & @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social where we'll be discussing each step of the academic publishing journey! 📑🌏
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Are you attending #BES2025 this week & looking for some tips to help get your research published? 🤔🧪
Come along to one of our two sessions with @nordicoikos.bsky.social & @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social where we'll be discussing each step of the academic publishing journey! 📑🌏
Come along to one of our two sessions with @nordicoikos.bsky.social & @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social where we'll be discussing each step of the academic publishing journey! 📑🌏
Published!📖
Using seed addition experiments in areas variably impacted by fires, the authors explored whether a trait-based approach could be used to guide the selection of tree species in active restoration projects in deforested areas🌲🌳
Read more:https://buff.ly/jTtpUmQ
Using seed addition experiments in areas variably impacted by fires, the authors explored whether a trait-based approach could be used to guide the selection of tree species in active restoration projects in deforested areas🌲🌳
Read more:https://buff.ly/jTtpUmQ
December 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Published!📖
Using seed addition experiments in areas variably impacted by fires, the authors explored whether a trait-based approach could be used to guide the selection of tree species in active restoration projects in deforested areas🌲🌳
Read more:https://buff.ly/jTtpUmQ
Using seed addition experiments in areas variably impacted by fires, the authors explored whether a trait-based approach could be used to guide the selection of tree species in active restoration projects in deforested areas🌲🌳
Read more:https://buff.ly/jTtpUmQ
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Horizon scanning is a successful, low-cost way to predict high risk invasive non-native species, a UKCEH-led study shows.
31 of 92 species identified in 2013 as a potential threat had reached GB by 2023, with 9 established. Regular horizon scanning can guide action & improve biosecurity.
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31 of 92 species identified in 2013 as a potential threat had reached GB by 2023, with 9 established. Regular horizon scanning can guide action & improve biosecurity.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Horizon scanning is a successful, low-cost way to predict high risk invasive non-native species, a UKCEH-led study shows.
31 of 92 species identified in 2013 as a potential threat had reached GB by 2023, with 9 established. Regular horizon scanning can guide action & improve biosecurity.
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31 of 92 species identified in 2013 as a potential threat had reached GB by 2023, with 9 established. Regular horizon scanning can guide action & improve biosecurity.
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In Mediterranean pine reforestation, trees acclimate to warming and drought by shifting carbon below ground aka optimal partitioning theory. New paper @jappliedecology.bsky.social lead by @ajpelu.bsky.social using #RemoteSensing and #dendroecology doi.org/10.1111/1365...
December 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In Mediterranean pine reforestation, trees acclimate to warming and drought by shifting carbon below ground aka optimal partitioning theory. New paper @jappliedecology.bsky.social lead by @ajpelu.bsky.social using #RemoteSensing and #dendroecology doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Thrilled to share my Bachelor's thesis work now published in the @jappliedecology.bsky.social! Using microclimate loggers and a 11-year mark-recapture dataset, we examine how selective logging differentially affects the survival and body conditions of eastern Himalayan birds.
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Microclimatic niche shifts predict long‐term survival and body mass declines in a warmer and more degraded world
Using a long-term mark-recapture methodology in the eastern Himalaya, we find that bird species that experience the greatest shifts in microclimatic niches after selective logging undergo the steepes....
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December 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Thrilled to share my Bachelor's thesis work now published in the @jappliedecology.bsky.social! Using microclimate loggers and a 11-year mark-recapture dataset, we examine how selective logging differentially affects the survival and body conditions of eastern Himalayan birds.
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Another poll in prep for my #BES2025 talk next week - this time about the use of scientific evidence in biodiversity conservation. Please vote and retweet to inform what I say on Tuesday afternoon!
Do you think that the average conservation decision is informed by scientific evidence?
1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/MC99f8/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Yes
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/MC99f8/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">No
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/MC99f8/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Not sure
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/MC99f8/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Other (answer below)
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1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/MC99f8/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Yes
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/MC99f8/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">No
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/MC99f8/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Not sure
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/MC99f8/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Other (answer below)
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December 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Another poll in prep for my #BES2025 talk next week - this time about the use of scientific evidence in biodiversity conservation. Please vote and retweet to inform what I say on Tuesday afternoon!
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I 100% recommend getting involved with this - it's honestly been one of the most rewarding things I've done in academia and the team at the journal are fantastic! If you're at #BES2025 next week and want to talk about the opportunity I'd be happy to share my experience.
We're on the look out for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 👀📚
If you'd like to help shape the publishing landscape of the BES journals, find out more below 🌎👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
If you'd like to help shape the publishing landscape of the BES journals, find out more below 🌎👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
December 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I 100% recommend getting involved with this - it's honestly been one of the most rewarding things I've done in academia and the team at the journal are fantastic! If you're at #BES2025 next week and want to talk about the opportunity I'd be happy to share my experience.
We're on the look out for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 👀📚
If you'd like to help shape the publishing landscape of the BES journals, find out more below 🌎👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
If you'd like to help shape the publishing landscape of the BES journals, find out more below 🌎👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
December 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We're on the look out for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 👀📚
If you'd like to help shape the publishing landscape of the BES journals, find out more below 🌎👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
If you'd like to help shape the publishing landscape of the BES journals, find out more below 🌎👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
New blog post discussing how data gathered from volunteers can help estimate probability of extinction 🌏💬
Available in 👇
English: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/12/11/c...
Spanish: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/12/11/c...
Available in 👇
English: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/12/11/c...
Spanish: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/12/11/c...
December 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
New blog post discussing how data gathered from volunteers can help estimate probability of extinction 🌏💬
Available in 👇
English: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/12/11/c...
Spanish: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/12/11/c...
Available in 👇
English: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/12/11/c...
Spanish: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/12/11/c...
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Attending the #BES2025 annual meeting in Edinburgh next week? Come join our workshop on "How to get published", together with the @britishecologicalsociety.org and the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social . Or why not stop by our exhibitor's table for a chat and some free swag?
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Attending the #BES2025 annual meeting in Edinburgh next week? Come join our workshop on "How to get published", together with the @britishecologicalsociety.org and the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social . Or why not stop by our exhibitor's table for a chat and some free swag?