ECOS Archive
Category Archives: Student essay competition
ECOS 44 (1.3): Postgraduate Award 2022
Saving rivers with burbot: Can a lost species help river restoration? By Reagan Pearce The [...]
Apr
ECOS 44 (1.2): Undergraduate Award 2022
Where the spirit meets the bones: Museum collections as a resource in ecology and conservation [...]
Apr
ECOS 44 (1.1) Undergraduate Award 2022
Macho Nature: The past, present and future of the patriarchy in natural history By Bethany [...]
Apr
Postgraduate Winner 2020: People and nature – are we listening to the right voices?
In the New Year of 2019, I was fortunate to be surrounded by outlandish natural [...]
Feb
Undergraduate Winner 2020: Does conservation have A diversity problem?
When I walked into my first day of studying Wildlife Conservation at university, one of [...]
Feb
Postgraduate Highly Commended 2020: Lessons from Scotland’s rewilding vs. repeopling debate
As a number of authors in ECOS and elsewhere have made clear, rewilding is both [...]
Feb
Postgraduate Highly Commended 2020: Captive breeding and head-starting of widespread amphibians – staying two steps ahead of extinction
We are used to hearing about a species only having a handful of individuals left [...]
Feb
Undergraduate Highly Commended 2020: Living rivers
Rivers are interesting things. They flow inexorably towards the sea, carrying what was once billions [...]
Feb
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