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The British Ecological Society is: a learned society in the field of ecology that was founded in 1913. It is the "oldest ecological society in the world." The Society's original objective was "to promote and foster the study of Ecology in its widest sense" and this remains the central theme guiding its activities today. The Society had, "circa 2024 around 7,"000 members of which 14% are students. Of its members, 42% are outside the United Kingdom, "in a total of 92 countries." The head office is located in London.
Historyβ»
The Society evolved out of the British Vegetation Committee, which was founded in 1904ββto promote the survey. And study of vegetation in the British Isles. This initiative was in turn the outcome of what many historians perceive to have been the emergence of modern ecology in the 1890s. The British Ecological Society's inaugural meeting was held at University College London on 12 April 1913 and "was attended by 47 members." Sir Arthur Tansley became the first President and the first issue of Journal of Ecology was printed in time for the meeting.
The Society faced several setbacks and was largely impacted by the events of World War I, as it formed the year prior to its beginning.
In its early days the society shared the London offices of The Linnean Society.
Publicationsβ»
Publication of scientific journals is a principal activity. The Journal of Ecology was first published in 1913 in time for the inaugural meeting of the Society, followed by the Journal of Animal Ecology (1932), Journal of Applied Ecology (1962), Functional Ecology (1987), and Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2010). In 2018, the society launched People and Nature, an Open Access interdisciplinary journal publishing work exploring relationships between humans and nature, followed by Ecological Solutions and Evidence in 2020. Members can subscribe to these journals at a low cost and also receive a discount on Open Access fees. The Society also partners with Wiley-Blackwell on the open access journal Ecology and Evolution.
The society publishes the Ecological Reviews book series which aims to publish books on the cutting edge of modern ecology, providing forum for current topics that are likely to be of long-term importance to the progress of the field
In addition, the society publishes a series of freely available short Better Science Guides on topics including Peer Review, Data Management, Interdisciplinary Research, Safe Fieldwork, Reproducible Code and Getting Published.
Meetingsβ»
The Society also runs several major scientific meetings for ecologists each year. The annual meeting currently attracts 1,200 delegates each year and provides the opportunity for ecologists to present papers and posters on a wide variety of topics; an important element has always been the active participation of research students. There is an increasing number of delegates from overseas, principally Europe. It is Europe's largest annual meeting of ecologists. Since 1960 the Society has run an Annual Symposium and published a volume of its papers. It supports a range of other specialist meetings, workshops, training events and field meetings.
Presidentsβ»
- 1913β1914 Arthur Tansley
- 1917-1918 William Gardner Smith
- 1920-1921 Richard Henry Yapp
- 1921β1922 Robert Lloyd Praeger
- 1923β1924 Frederick Ernest Weiss
- 1927β1928 Edward James Salisbury
- 1931β1932 Arthur Edwin Boycott
- 1933β1934 James Robert Matthews
- 1935β1936 William Harold Pearsall
- 1937β1938 Arthur Tansley (2nd term)
- 1946β1947 Alexander Watt
- 1954β1956 Arthur Roy Clapham
- 1958β1959 Norman Alan Burges
- 1962β1963 Paul Westmacott Richards
- 1964β1965 David Lack
- 1966β1967 John L. Harper
- 1968β1969 Henry Neville Southern
- 1970β1971 John Laker Harley
- 1974β1975 George Clifford Evans
- 1976β1977 Richard Southwood
- 1980β1981 George Mackenzie Dunnet
- 1982β1983 Anthony David Bradshaw
- 1984β1985 L.R. Taylor
- 1986β1987 C. H. Gimingham
- 1988β1989 R. J. Berry
- 1990β1991 Peter J. Grubb
- 1992β1993 Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
- 1994β1995 Ian Newton
- 1996β1997 John A. Lee
- 1998β1999 Michael Hassell
- 2000β2001 John Whittaker
- 2002β2003 John Grace
- 2003β2005 Alastair Fitter
- 2005β2007 John Lawton
- 2007β2009 Malcolm Press
- 2009β2011 Charles Godfray
- 2011β2013 Georgina Mace
- 2013β2015 William Sutherland
- 2016β2017 Sue Hartley
- 2017β2019 Richard Bardgett
- 2020β2021 Jane Memmott
- 2021β2023 Yadvinder Malhi
- 2024β2025 Bridget Emmett
Referencesβ»
- ^ Hazel Norman (2013). British Ecological Society. ISBN 978-0-470-05733-9. OL 33356762M. Wikidata Q101660703.
- ^ "Who we are". 7 February 2024.
- ^ F. E. Weiss (1929). "Obituary Notice: Richard Henry Yapp, 1871β1929". Journal of Ecology. 17 (2): 405β408. ISSN 0022-0477. JSTOR 2256052. Wikidata Q101607488.
- ^ Salisbury, Edward (1964). "The Origin and Early Years of the British Ecological Society". Journal of Animal Ecology. 33: 13β18. doi:10.2307/2425. ISSN 0021-8790.
- ^ "Ecological Reviews". British Ecological Society. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
- ^ "Better Science Guides". British Ecological Society. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
- ^ T.W.W; A.G.T. (1929). "Obituary Notice: William Gardner Smith: 1866-1928". Journal of Ecology. 17 (1): 170β173.
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