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WEB Bulletin11 Dec15.Pdf BES BULLETIN VOL 46:4 / DECEMBER 2015 inFOCUS Photo: Alan Crowden This Bulletin is going to press while the Editor is in Australia at the beginning of the austral summer, contemplating a return to the UK in time to attend the annual meeting in Scottish winter. To dispel a shiver here’s an image from an Ecological Society of Australia field trip from 2014. Palm Valley, about 120 km southwest of Alice Springs in the red centre of Australia, harbours a population of Red Cabbage Palms (Livistona mariae) which survive in this one valley some 850 km from the nearest specimens of the species, in Queensland. The rainforest palms found in the middle of a desert might be a relict of a Gondwana past, or, as Dave Bowman and colleagues have suggested, Aboriginal people might have transported them. But why to this valley and nowhere else? So naturally a truckload of ecologists bumped for a couple of hours along a hot dusty track to take a look. Contents December 2015 OFFICERS AND COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 2014-15 REGULARS President: William Sutherland Welcome / Alan Crowden 4 President Elect: Sue Hartley Vice-President: Rosie Hails Farewell / Emma Sayer 5 Vice-President: Andrew Pullin Honorary Treasurer: Drew Purves President’s Piece / W. J.Sutherland 6 Council Secretary: Dave Hodgson Honorary Chairpersons: News from the External Affairs team 8 Andrew Beckerman (Meetings) The First BES Undergraduate Summer School: a user’s guide / Eloise Wells Undergraduate Summer Alan Gray (Publications) School: Highlights from a Day in the Life of a BES Mentor / Samina Zaman and the BES Mentors Will Gosling (Education, Training and Careers) Plans for Policy / Jackie Caine and Ben Connor 14 Juliet Vickery (Public and Policy) Richard Bardgett (Grants) Special Interest Group News 15 ORDINARY MEMBERS Conservation Ecology; Parasite and Pathogen Ecology and Evolution; Peatlands; OF COUNCIL: Climate Change Ecology; Forest Ecology; Plant Environmental Physiology; Plants, Retiring Soils, Ecosystems; Tropical Ecology; Macroecology; Citizen Science Julia Blanchard, 2015 Greg Hurst, Paul Raven Of Interest to Members 25 Emma Sayer, Owen Lewis, 2016 Matt O’Callaghan The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management / Sally Hayns 54 Diana Gilbert, Jane Hill, 2017 Joanna Randall Publishing News 55 Zoe Davies, Markus Eichhorn, 2018 Lindsay Turnbull Book Reviews 60 Bulletin Editor: Alan Crowden Diary 68 48 Thornton Close, Girton, Cambridge CB3 0NG Email: [email protected] FEATURES Associate Editor: Emma Sayer Nature’s Conscience: the Life and Legacy of Derek Ratcliffe (1929-2005) / Paul Adam 28 Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ Upland ecosystem health: defining the indefinable / Des Thompson 33 Email: [email protected] How do you capture a natural asset? Improving monitoring for Natural 36 Book Reviews Editor: Sarah Taylor Capital valuation / Daija Angeli and James Borrell School of Life Sciences, Huxley Building, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG The Buxton Hub / Phil Grime and Emma Sayer 38 Tel: 01782 733497 Email: [email protected] Traditional buildings as ecosystems with spiders as biocontrol for woodworm / 40 Charles Hippisley-Cox PUBLISHING IN THE BES BULLETIN Montpellier: the place to be for conservation biologists this summer / Nathalie Pettorelli 42 The Bulletin is published four times a year in March, June, August and Bringing the Beetles to Glastonbury / Ali Burkett and Emma Sayer 44 December. Contributions of all types are welcomed, but if you are planning Ecology with Latitude / Helen Roy 46 to write we recommend you contact one of the editorial team in advance to discuss your plans (Bulletin@ Ozymandias and Science Citations / John Wiens 50 BritishEcologicalSociety.org). From Our Southern Correspondent / Richard Hobbs 52 Material should be sent to the editor by email or on a disk in Word or rtf format. Pictures should be sent as jpeg or TIFF (*tif) files suitable for printing at 300dpi. Books to be considered for review should be sent directly to the Book Reviews Editor Sarah Taylor. Cover photo: Sonia Valladares Lago All photos submitted to the BES Photocompetition are potential cover images for the Bulletin! Design: Neo (weareneo.com) Print Management: H2 Associates (Cambridge) Ltd. 3 BES BULLETIN VOL 46:4 / DECEMBER 2015 WELCOME The British Ecological Society is the oldest ecological society Edinburgh in the world, having been established in 1913. Since 1980 it has been a Registered Charity here we come! limited by guarantee. Membership is open to all who are genuinely interested in ecology, whether in Autumn is always a busy time of year for the Montpellier at the International Conference for the British Isles or abroad, and BES, with a wave of committee meetings in Conservation Biology (p42). Helen includes song membership currently stands at October when plans and budgets for 2016 are lyrics, a first for the Bulletin. about 5000, about half of whom developed, but of course the big event on the are based outside the UK. horizon is the build up to the Annual Meeting in As ever we have a cluster of reports from the The Society holds a variety of Edinburgh. Delegates heading for Edinburgh are Special Interest Groups (p15) with the news of recent and future group activities, but several of meetings each year. The Annual looking forward to participating in discussions Meeting attracts a wide range the items are potentially of interest beyond an at the cutting edge of science, meeting old of papers, often by research friends and making new ones, and enjoying individual group, for example Tom Crowther’s students, and includes a series the sights and sounds of a wonderful host city. guide to interacting with the media and Isabel of informal specialist group The BES annual general meeting will take place Jones’s tips on organizing a conference. discussions; whereas the Annual during the conference, but only a relatively Symposium and many other small number of members will attend, because We have two articles which look at interesting smaller meetings are usually most of us don’t worry too much about how issues but over very different time scales. Phil more specialised and include the BES is run, as long as it is running well. Yet Grime and Emma Sayer report on the Buxton invited speakers from around the AGM is a crucial event with new Officers Hub, a project that has been looking at long the world. and Council members up for election, and a term change in multi-species communities number of stalwarts standing down. I wanted for the last 22 years (p38). Architectural Proceedings of some of these meetings are published by to take the opportunity to acknowledge the conservationist Charles Hippisley-Cox is the Society in its Ecological contribution of those standing down this time. interested in spiders as a potential means of woodworm conservation and his account Reviews book series. The Society Bill Sutherland comes to the end of his term distributes free to all members, as President, a role to which he has brought provides a case study of a potential application of ecology (p40). four times a year, the Bulletin his boundless good humour and the ability to which contains news and views, think up five new ideas in the time it takes some Both our essayists have turned up in this issue, meeting announcements, a of us to contemplate one. Andrew Beckerman with Richard Hobbs writing about deadlines comprehensive diary and many and Emma Sayer are standing down as Chair other features. In addition the (p52), a word I didn’t realise he recognized. and Deputy Chair of Meetings Committee. The Society produces five scientific John Wiens includes a sonnet, a second ‘first’ growing attendances, the range and diversity journals. The Journal of Ecology, for the Bulletin (p50). John’s article on healthy of meetings, and the success of the Special Journal of Animal Ecology, ecosystems from a couple of issues ago (Bulletin Interest Groups, owes much to their endeavour, Journal of Applied Ecology and June 2015, page 44) provoked Des Thompson enthusiasm, innovation and sheer hard work. Functional Ecology are sold at and colleagues to send us a piece on upland Dave Hodgson has been a diligent and long- a discounted rate to members. ecosystem health (p33). It is always a joy when serving Honorary Secretary and his reports to Methods in Ecology and Evolution something in the Bulletin provokes a response; the AGM were a joy to behold, especially when is free to BES members. The much as we enjoy commissioning articles, it is Society also supports research presenting a report on behalf of an absent always good to have contributions offered in and ecological education with Treasurer. Greg Hurst and Paul Raven complete response to something that has gone before. grant aid. Further details about their terms on Council. Being an effective Officer the Society and membership and Council member requires time and effort We have an extended review from Paul Adam of can be obtained from the reading papers, attending and contributing a book produced as a tribute to Derek Ratcliffe, Executive Director (address inside to committees, and coming up with the ideas a wonderful field biologist whose contributions back cover). that keep the Society busy and thriving. All in to nature conservation, botany and science addition to the day job. Thanks to them all, and communication are perhaps not as widely The Bulletin circulates exclusively to those who will step into their shoes and take recognized as they should be (p28). Paul’s article to members of the British Ecological Society. It carries the Society forward. has been condensed for the print version; the full information on meetings and version should be available on the Bulletin pages This issue of the Bulletin reports on just some other activities, comment of the BES website in due course.
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