Registration and abstract submissions are now open for Europe’s largest conference dedicated to ecology, the BES Annual Meeting. In 2022, more than 1,500 delegates from over 50 countries attended the BES Annual Meeting in person or online. This year the event is set to be bigger than ever as it returns to the beautiful city of Belfast in Northern Ireland from 12-15 December 2023.

Abstract submission

The vast majority of talks and poster presentations for the Annual Meeting are selected from this open call to maximise the opportunities for delegates to present their research. For this reason, we also limit submissions to one abstract per person. The abstract topics are:

• Agricultural Science and Policy
• Behavioural Ecology
• Community Ecology
• Conservation Science and Policy
• Ecosystem and Functional Ecology
• Environmental Physiology
• Evolutionary Ecology
• Invasive Species
• Macroecology and Biogeography
• Microbial Ecology
• Nature and Humans
• Palaeoecology
• Parasites Pathogens or Wildlife Disease
• Population Ecology
• Soil Ecology and Plant-soil Interactions
• Species Interactions
• Theoretical or Computational Ecology
• Other

For more information on abstract submissions, please visit the website.

Abstract submission deadline: 6 September 2023.

Cover image by K. Mitch Hodge.