Journal of Applied Ecology

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The word ‘soil’ doesn’t feature once in Scotland’s thirty-one-page draft Climate Change Plan. Professor Neil Metcalfe BES Scottish Policy Group Chair

How do the Scottish Government's plans for achieving target carbon budgets stack up?

Our Scottish Policy Group recently responded to a consultation on the draft Climate Change Plan.

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

💡Find out more: buff.ly/fFy6ker

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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...

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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.

📖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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