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THE BULLETIN Infocus THE BULLETIN InFOCUS This image accompanies a recent study published in Methods in MARCH 2018 Ecology and Evolution. Can you CONTENTS guess where it is, what it’s of, and how it was taken? Turn to Want to contribute to the Bulletin? p20 for the answer. We welcome all ideas. REGULARS © Jarrod Hodgson For details contact Welcome | Kate Harrison ................................................................................................................................. 4 [email protected] President’s Piece | Richard Bardgett......................................................................................................... 5 British Ecological Society A Green Future | Policy .................................................................................................................................... 8 Charles Darwin House Annual Meeting Roundup .............................................................................................................................10 12 Roger Street, London WC1N 2JU Award Winners ....................................................................................................................................................18 Tel: +44 0207 685 2500. An Exhibition Across Borders | Paul Bower ......................................................................................23 [email protected] www.britishecologicalsociety.org AGM Minutes ........................................................................................................................................................24 EDITOR Kate Harrison [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITOR Lauren Ratcliffe [email protected] BES Photographic Competition: Capturing Ecology .....................................................................28 Interdisciplinary Perspectives: From Historian to Ecologist BOOK REVIEWS Fairlie Kirkpatrick Baird ....................................................................................................................................47 Books to be considered for review Legislative Scan | Bill Sutherland .............................................................................................................50 should be sent to the Bulletin Editor at the address above. Special Interest Group News .......................................................................................................................68 GDPR – What It Is and Why You Need to Know About It | Helen Peri ...............................77 For advertising information contact [email protected] The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management | Sally Hayns ........................................................................................78 The Bulletin is published four times Publications News .............................................................................................................................................80 a year in March, June, September Book Reviews ........................................................................................................................................................84 and December. Views expressed in the Bulletin are not necessarily those of the British Ecological Society. The Bulletin is sent to members of the British Ecological Society. To become a member or update your subscription details contact [email protected] © 2018 British Ecological Society FEATURES and authors Time to Embrace the Anthropocene: an Interview with Chris Thomas Design: madenoise.com Rebecca Nesbit ......................................................................................................................................................40 Conservation in the Anthropocene | John Wiens ...........................................................................44 Print and distribution: H2 Associates (Cambridge) Ltd How Growing Rice Production Leaves Hippos Short of Water ...............................................46 From Our Southern Correspondent | Richard Hobbs ....................................................................48 Michael Charles Faraday Proctor 1929–2017 | H John B Birks ................................................58 Helen Roy MBE .....................................................................................................................................................59 Launching the Accessibility Network | Karen Devine & Linda Birkin ...............................60 Widening Access and Participation | Cecilia Medupin ...............................................................62 The Making of an Amphibian Conservation Biologist | Steven Allain ..............................64 Ecology, Do We have a Problem? | Bob O’Hara ...............................................................................66 A Fond Farewell | Alan Crowden .............................................................................................................88 BES Bulletin british ecologicalsociety.org VOL 49:1 | March 2018 WELCOME PRESIDENT’S PIECE YOUR BES, BUILDING A YOUR BULLETIN GLOBAL SOCIETY Kate Harrison | Editor | [email protected] Richard Bardgett | President of the British Ecological Society | [email protected] This issue of the Bulletin marks the end of an era and the Our first edition of 2018 is a bittersweet affair – we say a beginning of a new one. The Society has a new President very fond farewell to Alan Crowden who has steered this To be elected President of the British Ecological Society is a tremendous and a new Bulletin Editor. Don’t worry though, there won’t fine Bulletin ship since June 2007, and proffer a very warm be any radical overhauls. We will carry on with the excellent welcome to its new captain, Kate Harrison. work that defines the BES and continue to work towards a honour and a role that I am very excited to take on. If I look back at the Alan’s contribution runs to more than just collating world inspired, informed and influenced by ecology. content and haranguing those who miss deadlines – he history of the Society, dating back to 1913, and the long list of eminent Richard Bardgett’s first President’s Piece (p5) outlines his has helped form its informal, intelligent and friendly priorities for the next two years. These include ensuring that personality, commissioned many fascinating articles, been ecologists who have taken on this role, it is daunting, but exciting. the BES leads the way in shaping the scientific and political integral to a number of redesigns and has helped create agenda, and continues to celebrate the fundamental science the in-demand magazine you now have in your hands. that leads to fascinating discoveries. To deliver on these two His successful background in publishing and relationship goals we need to make sure that we are an inclusive Society building has served the Bulletin incredibly well. that represents everyone. Alan’s passion, commitment and enthusiasm are both exemplary and infectious – although Mrs Crowden has These are threads that will also shape the Bulletin. And in been less than impressed when catching Alan working The Society has long been part of my much more diverse, both in our many in the BES, including myself, this issue, we’ve made a pretty good start. Our policy team whilst on holiday… academic life. It is quite frightening membership and the Society’s goals. feel strongly about. And we need to discuss the UK government’s 25 Year Environment Plan (p8) to think that I joined the BES in In fact, one of the most striking things continue to work hard to raise the On a personal level, I will miss his guidance, friendship and Bill Sutherland et al. provide an overview of forthcoming 1987, over 30 years ago. I was just about the BES today is that we are profile of ecology among the general and great humour; it has been a genuine pleasure legislative issues (p50). We’ve tackled the Anthropocene. starting as a PhD student at the time diverse and our outlook is global. public and in education, and to and honour working with Alan and he will be missed. John Wiens discusses the philosophical disagreements at Lancaster University, carrying out encourage children from a diversity Although I shan’t miss the jealousy-inducing unsolicited behind our conservation perspectives (p44) while Rebecca research under the supervision of Despite the enormous success of of backgrounds to get involved holiday photos he sent… Nesbit talks to Chris Thomas about embracing this period past President John Whittaker. From the Society, it goes without saying with ecology, which I was pleased and the opportunities it may bring (p40). So, I have great pleasure in welcoming Kate Harrison as then I became a regular at the Annual that we cannot be complacent. We to see is a key objective of the UK our new Bulletin Editor. Meeting, which was always, and live in a world that is fast changing, Government’s 25 year Environmental The latest international research from our journals can be still is, a highlight of my academic both scientifically and politically, Plan (p8). So while the BES is vibrant found on p80. Fascinating science has been captured in our Kate is already part of the BES team as she manages the year. But my involvement in the BES and perhaps more than ever the BES and in great shape, there is still much photographic competition which just gets better every year commissioning and editorial processes for Ecological stepped up in
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