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Annual Report 2015 Contents Annual Report 2015 Contents From the President 3 Membership 19 From the Executive Director 4 Policy 20 Highlights 5 Publications 22 Bulletin 11 Special Interest Groups 36 Education 13 Summary of Financial Information 53 Grants & Awards 15 Staff 54 Meetings 17 People 55 British Ecological Society Charles Darwin House, 12 Roger Street, London WC1N 2JU, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7685 2500 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @BritishEcolSoc Facebook: www.facebook.com/BritishEcolSoc www.BritishEcologicalSociety.org 2 From the President William Sutherland I am delighted that the BES has had another highly successful In my time as President I have become even more aware of year. The gamble of a conference in Lille paid off handsomely the remarkable role of a vast community who ensure the with a well-attended lively collaborative meeting; we are success of the society. We would be nothing without the planning another such joint event in the future. Our range of army who submit papers, referee papers, give talks, present journals are doing well, we have moved into Charles Darwin II, posters, attend conferences, or the smaller group who edit which provides excellent facilities and strengthens our role as journals, run conferences, help with grants, contribute to providing a centre for UK biological societies, the membership consultations, run Special Interest Groups, or the even smaller is buoyant and we have an ever expanding number of Special group of committee members and especially the committee Interest Groups, which increasingly play a key role in the chairs who oversee the process. Overseeing the entire process society. The meeting in Edinburgh shows all signs of being a is the Charles Darwin House staff who run the whole operation success with a flood of submissions for talks and posters. with considerable professionalism under the eye of the deeply efficient Hazel Norman. We have completed our strategic review and are in the process of converting the ideas into practice to ensure scientific excellence whilst making ecology more relevant to society. www.BritishEcologicalSociety.org 3 From the Executive Director Hazel Norman During the year your Society has delivered a successful We have been continuing to support and develop our world range of services and events whilst also undertaking several class journals portfolio with several projects in the planning important reviews of work streams that were highlighted in stages and some fascinating research done on the peer review our five year strategic plan. process, initially using data from Functional Ecology. There is a huge team behind each title and they all work very hard to You will see from the Special Interest Group (SIG) section of this make our journals some of the best in the world. Report that the Groups continue to run an exciting and dynamic programme of events for ecologists across a wide spectrum The strategic plan highlighted the need for the BES to look at of areas. I am always so impressed by the tireless work of the equality and diversity of those studying ecology so we have dedicated band of volunteers who run the SIGs and keep them been working to gather data on the issue and BES Council will a vibrant place for ecologists to come together. The Annual be considering a set of recommendations at the end of the Meeting continues to go from strength to strength with a packed year. I hope that will enable us to do even more to provide and exciting programme for Edinburgh in December. We’ve also opportunities and support for everyone who shares our been working hard to deliver another mainland Europe Annual passion for ecology. Meeting after the success of Lille in 2014 so keep a close eye on The BES inspires a large number of people who volunteer to our (soon to be revamped) website for more details. help the BES be a thriving and successful organisation, and There has been lots of work in our policy team looking at ways I would like to thank them all. I would also like to thank our we can be more influential and help ecological science have a dedicated and hard-working staff team without whom little greater impact. We’ve been building our public engagement would be possible. At the heart of the BES are our members work and the appointment of our first dedicated member of staff who mean we can continue to foster, support and promote the in this area has really helped extend our reach, again supported ecological community and ecological science. I hope that you by a very dedicated band of volunteers – who would have enjoy being part of such a great community and that you will thought that the BES would have a presence at Glastonbury! encourage your colleagues to join us. www.BritishEcologicalSociety.org 4 Highlights JANUARY MARCH Journal of Ecology published the Special Demography Beyond Feature “Forest resilience, tipping points the Population: the first and global change processes” edited by of a hugely successful Christopher Reyer, Anja Rammig, Niels symposia. Organised by Brouwers and Fanny Langerwisch. the international team of Alden Griffiths, Rob FEBRUARY Salguero-Gomez, Cory Undergraduate Careers Merow, Jessica Metcalf, Sean conference: 4 years in McMahon and Dylan Childs. and this event remains People, Politics and as popular as ever. the Planet: Any Questions? A pre- election debate on the environmental policies of the UK’s major An applications article on the TR8 political parties, chaired package, a simple tool for retrieving plant by Jonathan Dimbleby. functional traits from freely accessible online traitbases, was published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution. www.BritishEcologicalSociety.org 5 Highlights Journal of Animal Ecology Journal of Ecology honoured Deborah published a video to Goldberg in our Eminent Ecologist accompany a paper by Marsh Virtual Issue series. et al titled: In hot and cold water: differential life-history traits are key to success MAY in contrasting thermal RHS Chelsea: celebrating the year deep-sea environments. of soils, we took our exhibition, Plants and Soils Working Together Functional Ecology published to RHS Chelsea. a new Perspective by Valiente- Banuet et al. entitled ‘Beyond species loss: the extinction of ecological interactions in a changing world’. APRIL Andrés Baselga wrote a blog post Alan Knapp interviewed Scott titled ‘What is Beta Diversity?’ for Ferrenberg about his Haldane prize- the Methods in Ecology and Evolution winning paper ‘Smooth bark surfaces blog. The post has been viewed can defend trees against insect attack: over 4,000 times. resurrecting a ‘slippery’ hypothesis’ for the Functional Ecology podcast. www.BritishEcologicalSociety.org 6 Highlights JUNE Sex, Bugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll Mark Brewer provided a blog post found a new music festival based on his talk at the Methods in to try out this year and Ecology and Evolution 5th Anniversary headed to Glastonbury! Symposium titled ‘Ten Top Tips for Reviewing Statistics’. It has been viewed over 10,000 times. JULY Summer school: 48 highly talented and enthusiastic students met at Malham for a week of intense support in all things ecological. www.BritishEcologicalSociety.org 7 Highlights The Applied Ecologist’s blog, from Journal AUGUST of Applied Ecology, featured a post from a member of the Conservation Ecology SIG Green Man: the on harnessing the power of Google Earth. last, but not least festival of the year for Sex, Bugs and Rock The Ecology and ‘n’ Roll! Evolution of Emerging Plants and Pathogens: our second symposia, this time in sunny Cornwall. Organised by A Journal of Applied Ecology Dan Bebber, Sarah Gurr article about enhancing and Britt Koskella. gardens as pollinator habitats attracted press coverage in national news Functional Ecology published the outlets and was the Editor’s Special Feature ‘Ecology of Organisms choice for Issue 5. in Urban Environments’. www.BritishEcologicalSociety.org 8 Highlights SEPTEMBER From Sept 2014 – Sept 2015 we Enhancing Fieldwork awarded over Learning conference, £300,000 to support charmed by camera ecologists across our trapping hedgehogs key grant schemes. and inspired by @accessiblegeo who proved that disability doesn’t hinder student OCTOBER access to fieldwork. Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology and Methods in Ecology and Evolution published a Virtual Issue on monitoring wildlife. Journal of Animal Ecology published a virtual issue on social network edited by Ben Sheldon. We welcomed three new Associate Editors (Susan Johnston, Natalie Cooper and Luísa Carvalheiro) to the Methods in Ecology and Evolution board. www.BritishEcologicalSociety.org 9 Highlights NOVEMBER DECEMBER Journal of Ecology published a Our Annual Meeting! This year we will be in Scotland’s capital Special Feature on how plants affect city, Edinburgh – with 16 thematic topics, 24 general sessions, biogeochemical cycling edited by Amy 16 workshops and a lot of fun! #BES2015 Austin and Amy Zanne. www.BritishEcologicalSociety.org 10 Bulletin From Alan Crowden and Emma Sayer The American politician Benjamin Franklin is credited with the and revenue generated by our journals that underpins the suggestion that only two things in life are certain: death and reputation of our Society and puts us in a position to fund the taxes. If he had been an ecologist he might have added ‘..and activities that provide much of the material for our reporting Bulletin deadlines’. Four times a year our intrepid contributors in the Bulletin. The recent survey on open access and scholarly receive a warning that it is time to rev up their computers publishing, and the steady stream of new initiatives reported and their wits, ready to keep the membership informed about for individual journals, should remind readers that while the Society activities. The net result since the last Annual Report publishing swan is serenely progressing through waters that has been four issues with a total of 296 pages comprising are getting increasingly choppy, underneath the surface the roughly 160,000 words and 360 photographs.
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