Ecology Live 2020

The British Ecological Society broadcast free online talks on the latest ecological research from April to September 2020.

The series began in April right at the start of the coronavirus lockdown in many countries. We were thrilled to have over 5000 people register to watch the talks live on Zoom, with tens of thousands of views on YouTube during the series.

Ecology Live will be back for another series in 2021 with more great speakers and more fascinating ecology.

You can catch up on the 20 talks on our Youtube channel.

• Thu 16 Apr Jane Memmott, BES President – Pollinators: their ecology and conservation
• Thu 23 Apr Kai Chan, University of British Columbia – Transforming Supply Chains to Save Nature: Relational Values and a Community of Heroes
• Thu 30 Apr Nathalie Pettorelli, ZSL – Satellite imagery, time series, fusion and land cover mapping: why is this at all relevant to ecology?
• Thu 7 May Tom Crowther, ETH Zurich – Can trade-offs in fungal functional traits help us to understand global biogeochemistry?
• Thu 14 May Holly Jones, Northern Illinois University – Bison impacts on plants and animals in a world-class prairie restoration
• Thu 21 May Enrico Rezende, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile – Temperature effects in organisms and communities
• Thu 28 May Kate Jones, UCL – How bats changed the world
  
• Thu 4 Jun Diogo Verissimo, Oxford University – Using culturomics to monitor attitudes towards wildlife at a global scale and in real-time
• Thu 11 Jun Juliet Vickery, RSPB – Using science to conserve species and sites around the world
• Thu 18 Jun Florian Altermatt, University of Zurich – Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in riverine networks
• Thu 25 Jun Anusha Shankar, University of Alaska – Spending energy unusually and flexibly: lessons from flying ninja hummingbirds
  
• Thu 2 Jul Bill Sutherland, University of Cambridge – How can we make ecology and conservation more professional?
  
• Thu 9 Jul Franciska de Vries, University of Amsterdam – Machiavellian microbes: how drought-induced changes in belowground communities can have aboveground consequences
  
• Thu 16 Jul Fidisoa Rasambainarivo, Mahaliana Labs – Shared bugs: microbial sharing network among the carnivores of Madagascar 
• Thu 23 Jul Jesamine Bartlett, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research – Invasions of a polar kind
• Thu 30 Jul Alan Knapp, Colorado State University – The ecological paradox of the ‘Dust Bowl’ drought
• Thu 13 Aug Maydianne Andrade, University of Toronto – Through a web, darkly: Widows as windows on plasticity
• Thus 20 Aug Alexandra Harmon-Threatt, University of Illinois – Conserving native bees is a dirty business
• Thu 27 Aug Adam Algar, University of Nottingham – Cold blood in a hot world
• Thu 3 Sep Douglas W. Yu, University of East Anglia and Kunming Institute of Zoology – Managing biodiversity with eDNA:  salmon, leeches, insects, ponds and forests

Ecology Live programming group

Marc Cadote, University of Toronto
Jane Hill, University of York
Pete Manning, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre