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A new study on the role of the nuptial plumage in competitive interactions among male purple-crowned fairy-wrens.

What would a resilient network look like and how can it be assessed?

A new framework for identifying specific coral reefs, “oases,” in the world’s oceans where corals appear to be thriving.

As our oceans are projected to warm, fewer juvenile albatrosses will manage to survive and populations are expected to decline at a faster rate.

An international research team analysed hundreds of disparate datasets of plant life‐history strategies.

A British Ecological Society funded study found that this butterfly species travels an annual distance of 12,000 km across the Sahara Desert.

Remaining parent substantially increased its effort to raise at least some of the chicks.

A science exhibit at the BBC Good Food Show in Birmingham.

With implications for the marine environment, marine predators and fisheries capturing food for human consumption.

Exploring the differences in relative brain mass between wild guppies collected from high and low predation populations.

In the wake of BES founder Sir Edward James Salisbury, who documented the topography and coastal plants in Norfolk in the early 20th Century.

Exploring the personal stories of inspiring women who have travelled to remote places all over the world.

How grey squirrels compete with native red squirrels in Great Britain and Italy.

A computer tool simulates how bumblebee colonies will develop and react to multiple factors including pesticides, parasites and habitat loss.