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Mother knows best: Plant knowledge key to childhood health in remote Amazon
In a remote area of the Amazon, globalization is threatening the time-honored transmission of plant knowledge from generation to generation, with adverse effects on childhood health and nutrition.   view more (2007-03-23)

Symbiotic fungi promote invasion into diverse plant communities (Rudgers et al.)
Populations of several European passerines that winter south of the Sahara have undergone a marked decline. The causes of negative population trends are largely unknown, but ecological conditions during winter in Africa may have carry-over effects during northward spring migration and reproduction.... view more (2003-12-10)

New EU regulations lead to increased risk of cannibalism in hens
A hen has a hard time surviving on feed containing 100% environmentally certified ingredients, as the EU proposes to require as of the summer of 2005. Hens would not take in enough of the vital amino acid metionin, which would increase the risk of feather pecking and cannibalism, according to a new... view more (2004-04-15)

Community-supported agriculture serves as counterexample to market demands of globalization
A compelling new paper from the August issue of the Journal of Consumer Research explores the community-supported agriculture movement and its survival in the face of economic globalization.   view more (2007-08-08)

Will open access close the door on ecological publishing?
The British Ecological Society could cease to exist within three years if income from its four journals stopped suddenly. Speaking in a major debate on open access scientific publishing at this year's British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, being held at Lancaster University on 7-9 September... view more (2004-09-06)

Ecological globalization
Ecosystems are constantly exchanging materials through the movement of air in the atmosphere, the flow of water in rivers and the migration of animals across the landscape.   view more (2008-06-02)

Ecological communities suffer dramatic changes when non-native species are introduced by humans!
Ecological communities suffer dramatic changes when non-native species are introduced by humans. Such introductions have been documented in hundreds of locations and appear to be common in marine and island habitats. One of the best-studied cases of a species that suddenly appeared in the New... view more (2002-07-11)

The ecological carton for 2005
ISURPAK has announced that it will have the first packaging machine for its ecological carton by the middle of 2005. The first prototype is to be developed by a consortium in which the engineering group IDOM is participating. This first machine will be able to fill 25 packs per minute -... view more (2004-09-08)

The Mediterranean connection: ecological effects of El Ni'ħo in the Northern hemisphere
The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the El Ni'ħo/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are being increasingly acknowledged as major climatic sources of ecological variability. However, studies linking ecological processes to those oscillations have been conducted in geographic regions close to their... view more (2004-06-10)

British Ecological Society Winter Meeting
Press Invitation You are invited to the UK's premier ecological event, the British Ecological Society's Winter Meeting, being held at the University of Warwick on 18-20 December 2001. Thousands of ecologists from the throughout the world will be attending the meeting, which includes more than 300... view more (2001-11-23)

University of Ulster to Reveal Health of Northern Ireland`s Lakes and Rivers
Assessing the health of our rivers and lakes will be easier and much more accurate from now on - thanks to University of Ulster researchers. Dr Brian Rippey, from the Universities' School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, has come up with a new method of finding out what state Northern... view more (2002-04-25)

Media invitation: British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Manchester Metropolitan University, 9-11 September 2003
Get more from your trip to this year's BA Festival of Science at Salford! You are invited to attend the UK's premier ecological event, the British Ecological Society's Annual Meeting, being held just a mile away from Salford at Manchester Metropolitan University, 9-11 September 2003. Thousands of... view more (2003-08-20)

Press Invitation to the British Ecological Society`s Winter Meeting, University of York, 18-20 December 2002
You are invited to attend the UK's premier ecological event, the British Ecological Society's Winter Meeting, being held at the University of York on 18-20 December 2002. Thousands of ecologists from all four corners of the globe will be attending the meeting, which features more than 350... view more (2002-11-08)

Integrating restoration and conservation within the ecosystem approach
The Society for Ecological Restoration International (SER) released its May 2008 Briefing Note on the "Opportunities for Integrating Ecological Restoration & Biological Conservation within the Ecosystem Approach" at the Convention on Biological Diversity's Ninth Conference of the... view more (2008-05-19)

Ecologists give evidence to climate change inquiry
The UK should use its presidency of the G8 and EU to move forward international action to analyse future risks due to climate change and develop and implement evidence-based adaptation strategies for coping with the immediate impacts of climate change, the British Ecological Society has urged.... view more (2004-12-08)

Helping good bacteria win the war on dental disease
Good bacteria growing in dental plaque could help fight off bugs that cause gum disease and tooth decay if they are given a competitive edge, according to research presented today (Monday 16 September) at the Society for General Microbiology autumn meeting at Loughborough University. "We've... view more (2002-08-28)

Media Invitation: British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Lancaster University, 7-9 September 2004
You are invited to attend the UK's premier ecological event, the British Ecological Society's Annual Meeting, being held at Lancaster University on 7-9 September 2004. Thousands of ecologists from all four corners of the globe will be attending the meeting, which features hundreds of scientific... view more (2004-08-17)

Madagascar`s lost wilderness @ the London `Catastrophes` conference
In the last 2000 years Madagascar has lost its entire endemic megafauna. This includes giant lemurs, pygmy hippos, elephant birds, and giant tortoises. This loss is the planet`s most recent prehistoric extinction event affecting a region with continental-scale diversity.   view more (2002-08-17)

Ecological restoration as a tool for reversing ecosystem fragmentation
Ecosystem fragmentation, along with many other global trends, is causing the natural world to undergo profound changes at all spatial scales from the micro-habitat to the continental.   view more (2008-10-09)

How did cactuses evolve?
In a groundbreaking new study in the June issue of American Naturalist, Erika J. Edwards (Yale University and University of California, Santa Barbara) and Michael J. Donoghue (Yale University) explore how leafy, "normal" plants evolved into the leafless succulent cactus.   view more (2006-05-15)

Glasgow ecologist wins British Ecological Society award
Glasgow University ecologist Dr Hanna Kokko will be awarded the British Ecological Society~s Founders~ Prize at the BES Winter Meeting which will be held at the University of Birmingham on 3-5 January 2001. The prize is awarded every two years to an outstanding ecologist early in their career for... view more (2000-12-15)

Do we need a paradigm change? Disputing coevolution in herbivorous insects
Coleoptera (beetles) are one of the most successful groups of organisms on Earth. Their success in evolutionary terms is recognised by their extreme adaptive diversity (occupying almost every possible ecological niche) and their longevity (fossils from the Palaeozoic, 280 million years ago).   view more (2007-04-11)

PRESS INVITATION: Britain's troubled freshwaters - the European Union to the rescue?
The British Ecological Society session at the BA Festival of Science, University of Leicester Monday 9 September 2002, 09:30-12:30 and 14:00-17:00, Engineering LT2 The damage caused by August's devastating floods in central Europe will cost Germany alone 15 billion euros to repair. Massive sums of... view more (2002-08-31)

Different strategies underlie the ecology of microbial invasions
Infectious disease can play a key role in mediating the outcome of competition between rival groups, as seen in the effects of disease-bearing conquistadors in the New World-or, on a much smaller ecological scale, the ability of bacteria to spread their viruses to competing bacteria.   view more (2006-10-24)

Gentech breakthough for ecological Chrysanthemums
Researchers at Plant Research International in the Netherlands have achieved a breakthrough in the development of chrysanthemums with resistance to thrips, bringing the ecological cultivation of chrysanthemums a step closer. This is the conclusion of the thesis with which Seetharam Annadana, a... view more (2001-12-13)
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