UKCEH at the 2024 British Ecological Society Annual Meeting

If you are attending BES2024 in Liverpool, we invite you to stop by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) stand #10 and join the friendly team from the National Capability for UK Challenges programme who will be there throughout the event to welcome ecologists from around the world. We're excited to share how UKCEH is collaborating with others to tackle today's pressing environmental challenges and discuss our monitoring, modelling, and datasets for the UK environment, and how we're working hard to make this information more accessible for everyone.

Registration to BES2024 has now closed as the event is now fully booked. For a full programme of events, please visit the BES website.

Thursday 12th December

Prediction is impossible: Navigating complexity and deep uncertainty in our efforts to anticipate the future of biodiversity: Nick Isaac and Anita Lazurko (UKCEH)

Ecological time lags - implications for nature restoration policies and practice: Emma Gardner (UKCEH), Laura Graham (University of Birmingham), Justin Travis (University of Aberdeen, Tamsin Woodman (University of Aberdeen), Kevin Watts (Forest Research)

Biodiversity futures: harnessing the power of scenarios and models to reach nature positive: Nick Isaac (UKCEH), James Pearce-Higgins (British Trust for Ornithology)

Wednesday 11 December

Land use effects on soil organic matter carbon quality are consistent across European and Permafrost regions: Sabine Reinsch 

Evaluation of the e-Surveyor mobile app for undertaking plant surveys and determining habitat type: Lucy Ridding

Thursday 12 December

IPBES Assessment on Invasive Alien Species and their control: gaps in knowledge on novel tools: Helen Roy

The vital partnership of citizen science and new technology for invasive alien species management and research: Michael Pocock

Enhancing accuracy in ecosystem services and biodiversity hotspot assessments: Paul Evans

Process based modelling and citizen science monitoring indicate that some UK Vipera berus populations may be limited by anthropogenic disturbance: Rebecca Turner

Strengthening capacity for community-led forest rehabilitation and restoration in Sumatra, Indonesia: Lindsay Banin

Not just climate: developing future scenarios across multiple socio-environmental drivers: James Bullock

What do we really know about insect biodiversity change?: Rob Cooke

Understanding patterns in long-term insect occurrence data suggests a precautionary approach to estimating trends: expert evidence from 19 UK insect groups: Claire Carvell

Do agri-environment schemes benefit Lepidoptera by providing nectar resources, potential larval food plants, or both?: Hannah Risser

Friday 13 December

Simulating pollination and dispersal of two Kenyan tree species (Adansonia digitata and Melia volkensii) to assess how carbon-motivated tree planting may affect tree population viability: Emma Gardner

A One Health ecosystem approach for understanding and mitigating spill-over of tickborne diseases to humans in India's degraded forests: Sarah Burthe

Agricultural soil as a carbon sink: can we really measure it?: Peter Levy

National horizon scanning for future crops under a changing climate: John Redhead

Thursday 12 December

Evaluation of an open-source nutrient delivery ration model for estimating pesticide loads in river catchments: Emily Upcott

Mind the Gap: Are national plans ambitious enough to bend the curve of biodiversity?: Nick Isaac

Studying the relationship between protected areas and recreation demand across the UK: Zephyr Orsler

Evaluating the current status and potential of involving farmers in citizen science: Morag McCracken

Adaptive sampling in ecology: Susan Jarvis