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Your Magazine from the British Ecological Society The BulletinYOUR MAGAZINE FROM THE BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY BES BULLETIN VOLin 44:4FOCUS / DECEMBER 2013 Photo: Danielle Green Danielle’s photo of Mark Browne apparently ‘taking a closer look’ at the mud of County Donegal appealed to the judging panel for the BES photocompetition. There are more images from the competition on p37 onwards. 2 Contents December 2014 OFFICERS AND COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 2012-3 REGULARS President: Bill Sutherland Welcome / Alan Crowden 4 Past-President: Georgina Mace Vice-Presidents: Richard Bardgett, President’s Piece / W. J. Sutherland 5 Mick Crawley Honorary Treasurer: Drew Purves Ecology Education and Careers / Karen Devine and Christina Ravinet 25 Council Secretary: Dave Hodgson Honorary Chairpersons: Science Policy Andrew Beckerman (Meetings) Holyrood Batman! – The BES’s day in the Scottish Parliament / Rob Brooker 24 Alan Gray (Publications) Lesley Batty (Education, Training Society News 34 and Careers) Juliet Vickery (Public and Policy) Special Interest Group News 41 Richard Bardgett (Grants) ORDINARY MEMBERS Letters to the Editor 50 OF COUNCIL: Retiring Of Interest to Members 51 Emma Goldberg, 2014 William Gosling, Ruth Mitchell The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management / Sally Hayns 72 Julia Blanchard, 2015 Greg Hurst, Paul Raven Publishing News: BES Publications Data Archiving Policy / Liz Baker 74 Emma Sayer, Owen Lewis, 2016 Matt O’Callaghan Book Reviews 81 Diana Gilbert, Jane Hill, 2017 Diary 92 Joanna Randall Bulletin Editor: Alan Crowden 48 Thornton Close, Girton, FEATURES Cambridge CB3 0NG Tel: 07801 068458 Centenary Celebrations: a Calendar of Events 7 Email: [email protected] The BES Awards Ceremony at Intecol 9 Associate Editor: Emma Sayer Intecol 2013 Student Prize Winners 13 Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems, The Open University, That’s All Folks / Emma Sayer interviews Julie Hodgkinson 15 Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Email: [email protected] The Long and Winding Road / The BES Roadies 16 Book Reviews Editor: Peter Thomas School of Life Sciences, Huxley Festival Prize Draw 20 Building, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5B The BES of the Future / Emma Sayer and BES members 21 Tel: 01782 733497 Email: [email protected] UK Biodiversity Science Committee – Whatever For? / Sandy Knapp 29 PUBLISHING IN BES in the Media: Today on Radio 4 / George Peterken 31 THE BES BULLETIN The Bulletin is published four times BES Photographic Competition 2013 36 a year in March, June, August and December. Contributions of all types The Science behind the Schemes / Beth Brockett 48 are welcomed, but if you are planning to write we recommend you contact one of the editorial team in advance Can we value landscapes by combining natural and cultural heritage? / James Speed, to discuss your plans (Bulletin@ Gunnar Austrheim, John Birks and Des Thompson 52 BritishEcologicalSociety.org). Material should be sent to the editor by Why SavingSpecies? / Stuart Pimm 56 email or on a disk in Word or rtf format. Pictures should be sent as jpeg or TIFF Digitizing the Elton archive / Caroline M. Pond 58 (*tif) files suitable for printing at 300dpi. What’s wrong with the older literature? / Andrew Clarke 62 Books to be considered for review should be sent directly to the Book Reviews Editor Peter Thomas. What Use is Small Data in a Big Data World? / John Wiens 64 Cover: Black-browed albatross Lose the Beards! / Will Ingram 66 (Thalassarche melanophrys) in the winning entry for the BES Photo Rant and Reason: Leave it Alone! Markus Eichhorn and Keith Kirby 68 Competition 2013. The photograph is by Zoe Davies of the University of Kent. For The Slow Pace of Change in Ecology / Steve Cousins 70 more information see p36. Minutes of the 33rd BES Annual General Meeting 79 Design: Neo (weareneo.com) Print Management: H2 Associates (Cambridge) Ltd. 3 BES BULLETIN VOL 44:4 / DECEMBER 2013 WELCOME The British Ecological Society is the oldest ecological society 2013 and all that in the world, having been established in 1913. Since 1980 it has been a Registered Charity It has been a big year for the Society, though I suspect rather few limited by guarantee. Membership is open to all who are genuinely members realise quite how much work has gone into the planning interested in ecology, whether in and preparation of centenary events, and how far ahead the the British Isles or abroad, and membership currently stands at planning began. about 3700, about half of whom are based outside the UK. The International Congress of Ecology did not The Special Interest Groups are becoming an The Society holds a variety of arrive in London in our centenary year by happy increasingly effective way of bringing together meetings each year. The Annual accident; a bid was put in at least 5 years ago, ecologists at all stages of their career, so it is Meeting attracts a wide range and even before the previous Intecol Congress exciting to see the re-launch of the aquatic of papers, often by research in Brisbane in 2009 Hazel Norman and ecology group (p41) and the creation of a new students, and includes a series colleagues were already engaged in planning Citizen Science SIG (p43). of informal specialist group discussions; whereas the Annual for our event. The Festival of Ecology was also There is a varied batch of general interest Symposium and many other the culmination of many months of detailed smaller meetings are usually preparation. Yet there was also some nimble- articles beginning with George Peterken’s more specialised and include footed work to add exciting innovations to the account of his experience of suddenly being in invited speakers from around programme for the year. Ken Thompson played demand from the BBC (p31), some thoughts the world. a big role in getting the BES to participate in on valuing landscapes from James Speed and the Chelsea Flower Show for the first time; colleagues (p52), and Stuart Pimm’s account Proceedings of some of these meetings are published by Emma Sayer’s idea that the BES should put of efforts to put carbon offsetting funds to best possible use (p56). Past and present ebb and the Society in its Ecological on a road show at summer pop festivals was Reviews book series. The Society rapidly supported by Meetings Committee but flow in the next few articles. Caroline Pond’s distributes free to all members, required a frenetic burst of energy from Emma account of making Charles Elton’s notebooks four times a year, the Bulletin and her supporters to get the show on the accessible to a wider audience (p58) followed which contains news and views, road. I’m not going to be able to acknowledge by Andy Clarke’s reminder of the value of older meeting announcements, a everyone who contributed time, energy and literature (p62) remind us that looking back comprehensive diary and many ideas to making the centenary year the success can offer valuable insights; John Wiens looks other features. In addition the Society produces five scientific it undoubtedly was, but if like me you’ve forward to an era of Big Data in ecology while warning that we mustn’t lose sight of the value journals. The Journal of Ecology, benefited from attending a succession of well Journal of Animal Ecology, planned, well organised and superbly executed of detailed studies of particular systems. Journal of Applied Ecology and events, you’ll recognise that 2013 has been an Functional Ecology are sold at At the BES/YESI symposium in York last April I exceptional year for the Society reflecting a lot a discounted rate to members. met Will Ingram, a chemistry undergraduate of hard work by staff and members. Methods in Ecology and Evolution and joint editor-in-chief of Spark, the excellent is free to BES members. The This issue of the Bulletin reflects some of the University of York Student Science magazine. Society also supports research excitement of the year with a mostly pictorial I gave Will carte blanche to write about his and ecological education with calendar of events (p7), an interview with magazine and his impressions of the BES grant aid. Further details about the Society and membership Festival Manager Julie as her time at the BES meeting. His view on beards is his own and does not represent the views of the Bulletin. can be obtained from the drew to a close (p15) and a report from the BES Executive Director (address inside Roadies on the magical mystery tour that was I suppose with so much to be cheerful about back cover). Sex & Bugs & Rock ‘n Roll (p16). Karen Devine it is unsurprising that this is the biggest-ever organised a series of competitions for schools in The Bulletin circulates exclusively Bulletin issue. I hope you find time and peace to our centenary year and there is a report on the to members of the British read it over the holiday season. awards ceremony on p25. Ecological Society. It carries information on meetings and While it was hugely enjoyable to celebrate other activities, comment and other topical items. this important year in some style, the Society Unsigned commentaries are the needs to build on the legacy of the first 100 responsibility of the Editor and years to make sure we continue to support do not necessarily represent the the development of our discipline. On page views of the Society. 21-24 we shift the focus with a series of short ‘interviews’ with some of those scientists who A limited company, registered will help shape the development of ecology in England No. 1522897 and a Alan Crowden / Editor Registered Charity No. 2812134. into the future. The ‘official’ part of the Bulletin [email protected] Registered Office: Charles Darwin continues with some introductions for new staff House,12 Roger Street, London members and an update on progress of the WC1N 2JU membership drive (p34-5).
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