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Shortlist announced for Chico Mendes Prize early career practitioner award

After announcing the Chico Mendes Prize at the end of 2021, we present the shortlisted articles for this year’s Chico Mendes Prize – awarded to the best Practice Insights article published by an early career practitioner – based on the first two volumes of the journal. The Chico Mendes Prize is awarded every two years to celebrate and honour the work of on-the-ground practitioners and … Continue reading Shortlist announced for Chico Mendes Prize early career practitioner award

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Careers, Journal news, The Applied Ecologist community

Shortlist announced for Georgina Mace Prize early career researcher award

Each year, Ecological Solutions and Evidence awards the Georgina Mace Prize to the best research article published by an early career author. Today, we present the shortlisted articles for this year’s award based on the previous volume (2nd) of the journal. Having announced the name of ESE’s early career researcher prize in December 2021, this will be the first year we award the prize in honour … Continue reading Shortlist announced for Georgina Mace Prize early career researcher award

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Monitoring and methods, Practitioners, The Applied Ecologist community

Helping practitioners to make and document conservation decisions: the Evidence-to-Decision tool

In this contribution post, Alec Christie introduces a novel tool guiding and encouraging practitioners to document and report the evidence and reasoning behind conservation decisions. The tool guide and template are permanently archived in Applied Ecology Resources. Originally posted and adapted from the Conservation Evidence blog and Conservation Land Management.. When undertaking actions to restore habitats or conserve wildlife, we often have to make difficult … Continue reading Helping practitioners to make and document conservation decisions: the Evidence-to-Decision tool

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Careers, Journal news, The Applied Ecologist community

Welcome to our new Associate Editor Mentees, 2022.

Journal of Applied Ecology offers a two-year mentoring opportunity for early career researchers to gain experience of the Associate Editor role on a journal. Each mentee works with an assigned Senior Editor mentor and the Editorial Office. They have the opportunity to gain insights into the publishing and review processes as they handle submissions in an Associate Editor capacity. We’re pleased to welcome six new Associate … Continue reading Welcome to our new Associate Editor Mentees, 2022.

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The Applied Ecologist community

Identifying species by appearance

This blog is part of our colourful countdown to the holiday season where we’re celebrating the diversity and beauty of the natural world. In this post, Héloïse Brown and Will Allen of Swansea University discuss research on species recognition signalling across the animal kingdom and explore what this can tell us about Homo sapiens’ interactions with other lineages of archaic human. Throughout human evolution we know different … Continue reading Identifying species by appearance

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The hidden world of colours: a thermal story

This blog is part of our colourful countdown to the holiday season where we’re celebrating the diversity and beauty of the natural world. In this post, Johnathan Goldenberg of Ghent University unpicks the fascinating role of scale colouration in lizard temperature control and what this means under climate change. Colour is around us everyday, and we often talk about colours like everyone has the same experience as … Continue reading The hidden world of colours: a thermal story

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Coastal and marine, The Applied Ecologist community

From blind amoeba to Nemo: the evolution of fish (and vertebrate) vision

This blog is part of our colourful countdown to the holiday season where we’re celebrating the diversity and beauty of the natural world. In this post, Martin Luehrmann of The University of Queensland takes us on a journey through the development of sight through the evolution of fish and early vertebrates. Imagine waking up and the world is black, your eyelids won’t open. You are … Continue reading From blind amoeba to Nemo: the evolution of fish (and vertebrate) vision

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Careers, Journal news, Practitioners, The Applied Ecologist community, Translation

Apresentando o Prêmio Chico Mendes

Estamos muito felizes em anunciar o Prêmio Chico Mendes (Chico Mendes Prize), nosso novo prêmio bienal para o melhor artigo da categoria “Practice Insight” publicado por um profissional em início de carreira no periódico Ecological Solutions and Evidence. A version of this post is available in English. O Prêmio Chico Mendes será entregue a cada dois anos para o melhor artigo na categoria Practice Insights publicado … Continue reading Apresentando o Prêmio Chico Mendes

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Careers, Journal news, Practitioners, The Applied Ecologist community

Introducing the Chico Mendes Prize for the best early career practitioner

Following the announcement of the Georgina Mace Prize last week, we are delighted to announce the Chico Mendes Prize, our new biennial prize for the best Practice Insights article published by an early career practitioner in Ecological Solutions and Evidence. A version of this post is available in Portuguese. The Chico Mendes Prize will be awarded every two years to the best Practice Insights article published in … Continue reading Introducing the Chico Mendes Prize for the best early career practitioner

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Plant and soil ecology, The Applied Ecologist community

Cryptic floral colouration: beyond human vision.

This blog is part of our colourful countdown to the holiday season where we’re celebrating the diversity and beauty of the natural world. In this post, Caroline Dong of Tulane University unearths the diverse world of floral colouration and what we have yet to discover in these decorative but mysterious plants. Floral colouration can be a useful and predictable trait. The colouration of flowers is … Continue reading Cryptic floral colouration: beyond human vision.

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