In the second installment of a two part edition across the spring and summer newsletter we hear from students awarded the STCA about their experience of the conference, including particular symposiums they benefited from and enjoyed, as well as thoughts for the future.
Natural landscapes, such as lakes and forests, which also have high ecosystem service values were measured as both aesthetically and ecologically important compared to human dominated or modified landscapes.
The Scottish Government has designated 30 new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) aimed at safeguarding the most important habitats and species in Scotland’s seas.
This year’s Annual Conference took place at King’s College London on 1-3 September with the theme of ‘Urban landscape ecology: science, policy and practice’.
Do we know enough about landscape scale conservation? A recent one-day conference held by the British Ecological Society decided to pose the question to a packed audience of professionals
Just published - England's first 12 Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs), are put to the test on their success, challanges and lessons learnt in a recently published 2nd year report on the scheme. Take a read of the main highlights:
The new newsletter editor wants to hear from any "Landscape Ecologist" by proffessional job title. You are a rare breed (in the UK anyway) and we want to know how you are getting on!
It is important that University courses deliver what Landscape Ecology needs interms of skilled proffessionals. I take a whistle stop tour of four Masters Courses based in Northern Europe to see what's available and how they compare.
Defra have recently launched a new badger vaccination scheme as part of the governments comprehensive strategy to reduce the spread of bovine TB in England
The November issue includes several research papers on Landscape genetics, American studies, landscape fragmentation and others, whilst the October Issue focuses entirely on Intergrating Ecosystem Services with Landscape Planning.
