ECOS Archive
Category Archives: Student Article Competition
Undergraduate Highly Commended 2020: Plant blindness – the botanical bias that no-one has heard of
Plants are all around us from urban parks to the rolling countryside to the insides [...]
Feb
ECOS 40 (4): Undergraduate winner 2019: What are our otters eating?
Over the last 40 years populations of the elusive Eurasian Otter (Fig.1) have been increasing [...]
Sep
ECOS 40 (4) 2019: Undergraduate runner up: The crash of ash
Ash trees across the UK are dying following the relentless spread of the ‘ash dieback’ [...]
Sep
ECOS 40 (4): Postgraduate winner 2019: Great crested newts: the modern canary in the coal mine
In recent years great crested newts have declined rapidly across the UK despite measures in [...]
Sep
ECOS 40 (4): Postgraduate runner up 2019: Wild animals fertilise wild ecosystems: but will we let them?
The collective impact of animals in fertilising ecosystems across the world can offer much to [...]
Sep
ECOS 39(4): Postgraduate winner: Ocean SOS: The challenge of plastic pollution in the marine world
One small step for humankind, one giant leap for our oceans: the beginning of the [...]
Sep
ECOS 39(4): Undergraduate highly commended: Marine noise pollution – A (quiet) call to action
Many marine animals like fish and whales rely on acoustic signals to communicate and to [...]
Sep
ECOS 39 (4): Undergraduate winner: And I whale always love you
Looking at sonic performances that utilise whale song are there possibilities for inter-species collaboration and [...]
Sep
Learning in bear country: the journey to carnivore conflict mitigation
Co-existence – on whose terms? Humans are eager for more nature in their lives. This [...]
Sep
The human element in farmland management
How studying beetles led me to study people My undergraduate dissertation on beneficial beetles in [...]
Sep