Show overview
Ecology Podcast has been publishing since 2011, and across the 15 years since has built a catalogue of 285 episodes. That works out to roughly 90 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.
Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 9 min and 25 min — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 23 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2013, with 64 episodes published.
From the publisher
Podcasts from the British Ecological Society
Latest Episodes
View all 285 episodesELM Network | Episode 5: Leading with noble intent, with Professor Sue Hartley
“All ecosystems are gendered” | an interview with Dr Robyn James
Which red sea fish will invade the Mediterranean sea next? | The story behind the paper
Plastic social buffering of environmental variation | a Special Feature for Journal of Animal Ecology
Which Red Sea fish will invade the Mediterranean Sea next? | the story behind the paper
Spots or stripes? Identifying Individual Animals Based on their Patterns | The Story Behind the Paper
Lessening Human-Wildlife Conflict | The Story Behind the Paper
Does geography affect life history? A case study in Storks | The story behind the paper
what a changing Arctic means for Little Auks | the story behind the paper
Forwarding forest restoration | The Story Behind the Paper
Are goldfish damaging ecosystems? | The story behind the paper
Drone use in Ecology with Jenna Klein | 2025 Robert May Prize Winner
Understanding the climate vulnerability of social bees | The story behind the paper
Honey-hunter and honeyguide communication | The Story Behind the Paper
Turning science into action with BES Fellows, Dr Caroline Howe and Niru Dorrian
Michaela Guo Ying Lo talks about gender representation in ecology
In this special International Women’s day edition of the BES podcast, Senior Assistant Editor Ivy talks with Michaela Guo Ying Lo, Chair of the Equity and Diversity for all Genders in Ecology (EDGE) network at the BES, which looks at addressing challenges relating to gender inequity and more within the field of ecology. They discuss what the EDGE network has been working on and its future plans, as well as the various challenges gender minorities may face as ecologists. You can learn more about the EDGE network here: https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/join-the-edge-network/ And read the resource page for women in ecology here: https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/resources-for-women-in-ecology/
Mental health and urban green | The Story Behind the Paper
In this podcast, People and Nature author Marilisa Herchet talks to Publishing Assistant Anna Nisbett about her article “Mental health benefits of urban green—A systematic review and meta-analysis of 56 pre-post control experiments”. Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70250
The fall and rise of elm | The Story Behind the Paper
In this podcast, People and Nature author Fritha West talks to Publishing Assistant Anna Nisbett about her article “Social and cultural considerations for the restoration of ‘lost’ tree species: The fall and rise of elm”. Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70206 Read the Winter 2023 Niche piece here: https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/the-swing-tree-on-childhood-memory-and-tree-species-loss/
Automatic information extraction from museum specimen labels | the story behind the paper
In this episode, Methods in Ecology and Evolution author Margot Belot talks to publishing assistant Hannah about her article 'High-throughput information extraction of printed specimen labels from large-scale digitization of entomological collections using a semi-automated pipeline' Margot's article introduces a tool that can be used to automatically real the labels of museum specimens, helping to catalogue and digitise their vast collections Read the full article here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210x.70235 And a blog post about the work: https://methodsblog.com/2026/02/10/from-trowels-to-tensorflow-bridging-the-gap-between-ancient-past-and-digital-future/
Sensors versus surveyors | the story behind the paper
In this podcast, Ecologist Sebastian Hoefer talks to Methods in Ecology and Evolution assistant editor Harriet Rhodes about his article ‘Sensors versus surveyors: Comparing passive acoustic monitoring, camera trapping and observer-based monitoring for terrestrial mammals’. The paper compared different methods of monitoring, focusing on passive acoustic monitoring and observer based monitoring like camera trapping over several years in Eastern Australia, and they discuss some of the challenges involved in remote ecology. Read the full article here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.70169