Journal of Applied Ecology

How do you design a camera-trap workflow that is field-resilient and analysis-ready?

Join our webinar as Dr. Hugo Magaldi and Prof. Sabrina Krief discuss camera‑trapping in Uganda and their development of DeepForestVision for AI species labelling and quality control 📸

See here 👇
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Published 📖

Long-term comparison shows protected and non-protected forests differ in harvesting, but not in wildfires or drought-driven dieback🌳 🔥

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🪲Submit your proposals for our new Special Feature with @jappliedecology.bsky.social & @funecology.bsky.social!

This special feature will focus on how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions, then click the link 👉️ buff.ly/SFdaRGu

Don't forget to register for our next MEE live!

In this free webinar, we'll hear from Drs Figueiredo and Radchuk about the R package estar 🌍 🧪

Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/0hrRYjv

Delighted to be part of this fantastic group of new Associate Editor mentees – looking forward to contributing and learning together!

Welcoming our 2026 Associate Editor Mentees! Journal of Applied Ecology offers a two‑year mentoring scheme that helps early career researchers build practical experience as Associate Editors. Each mentee works closely with a Senior Editor and…

We're thrilled to announce that we have 7 new Associate Editor mentees joining us! 📚🧪

Over the next 2 years, they will be mentored by a Senior Editor to develop their knowledge of the peer review process and handle manuscripts 💡🌎

Get to know them below 👇
appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/03/03/w...

Detecting disease progression from animal movement using hidden Markov models We demonstrate how (H)HMMs can be tailored to different epidemiological scenarios and provide a template workflow for developing and selecting Hidden Markov models to infer disease status from animal...

Published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social!😀

We show how (Hierarchical) Hidden Markov Models ((H)HMMs) can be tailored to different epidemiological scenarios to infer disease status directly from animal movement data.

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📖Published!

Smoke on the water: Pervasive effects of megafires on the mammal fauna of the world's largest wetland 🔥 🌍 🌳

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Developing evidence briefs for landscape fire management 🔥

Researchers and practitioners need clear guidance on how briefs must be developed to address a broad spectrum of issues 📖 🌲

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New perspective🔎

Preventing the next invasion: Lessons from aquaculture for the safe expansion of insect farming 🐜

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🚨Our cross-journal special feature is open to proposals!🚨

🐛Focus: how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions, including those involving phytophagous insects, plant pathogens and more

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We’re on the hunt for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board 🔎

We’re looking for a range of expertise across the whole field of applied ecology. For some particular examples take a look below! 🌎🧪

Find out more information here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

Yesterday's keynote at the #R2RConf from Leslie McIntosh at Digital Science raised a thought-provoking question: Is science resilient?
It prompts a necessary call to action to all in research and scholarly communications: that depends on us.

What are your thoughts?

 #ResearchIntegrity

Published! 📖

Restoring Mediterranean heathlands for declining birds: Initial responses to mosaic cutting and prescribed burning in the Natura 2000 LIFE program 🐦‍⬛🌏🧪

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An interesting panel discussion this morning considering some of the different and experimental ways of approaching peer review 💭 🌍 #R2RConf

We’re at the Researcher to Reader conference with @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! #R2RConf

Looking forward to the next two days discussing all things scholarly publishing 📚

Dual-scale drivers of soil biodiversity in agroecosystems: Field management outweighs landscape effects, but both matter 🌱

These findings highlight the need for conservation strategies that integrate both field-scale and landscape-scale planning🧪 🌍

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New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We investigated how forest structural heterogeneity and climate influence temperate dung beetles in production forests. 🪲

Check out the new paper of our PhD student @johannaasch.bsky.social in @jappliedecology.bsky.social!

Showing that dung beetles do not profit from conservation targeted management aiming at increasing structural heterogeneity in production forests 🪲🌳 @betafor.bsky.social

Published!📖

Forest harvest and natural stressors compound to reduce juvenile ungulate survival 🦌

Managing landscapes with a species-centric approach that is essential to mitigate adverse impacts from resource extraction and support wildlife populations🌏 🧪 🌳

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📖 New paper!

Sediment addition at the saltmarsh–mangrove ecotone shifts species dominance with implications for restoration 🌊 🌴

Emerging ecological communities may tolerate and benefit from restoration similar to better studied temperate systems 🌏 🧪 👇️

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Published!📖

The role of fisheries management in enhancing the resistance of marine ecosystems to biological invasion 🐟️

This study validated the predation-based hypothesis of biotic resistance in marine ecosystems 🧪 🌍

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We’re on the hunt for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board 🔎

We’re looking for a range of expertise across the whole field of applied ecology. For some particular examples take a look below! 🌎🧪

Find out more information here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

British Ecological Society recruitment ad on teal background, reading 'Join us as an Associate Editor, Apply by 8 March.' Below, two people work with equipment by water under a night sky, illuminated by bright lights.

📣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.

📖Published!

Food webs on green roofs are unique but less robust than their ground-level counterparts

Green roofs offering novel environmental conditions, increasing urban habitat diversity and supporting denser but less robust food webs compared with ground-level habitats🌳🏙️

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Interested in learning about the latest research in...
👉Insect farming? 🐜
👉Restoration of saltmarshes? 🌊
👉Plant mixture effects on soil nitrogen cycling? 🌱

Check out our Plain Language Summaries for bite-sized synopses of a range of topics! 🌎🧪👇

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Research Highlight 💡

The downsides of single-species invasive non-native mammal control: Competitive release and the need for ecosystem-wide thinking in invasive species management 🌱 🦌

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Beyond urban introduction hubs: Accounting for rural legacies in plant invasions 🌱🌏

Addressing both urban and rural planting legacies in invasion models advances understanding of spread dynamics across landscapes 📊🧪

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Happy international day of #womeninscience!
#Istudy biodiversity change @syke.fi @helsinki.fi @nathist.bsky.social @hkilabornithology.bsky.social @ipbes.net @jappliedecology.bsky.social
Currently, I am working on how #climatechange affects #birds #butterflies #moths
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