Annals of BioShorts

2025, Volume 1, Issue 1

Online: ISSN 2978-8331


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Volume 1, Issue 1

BioShorts 2025 Conference on Ecology, Conservation, and Biodiversity

Editor: Callum C. Bannister, PhD

Published: 22/12/2025


  • Microalgae Nature-Based Solutions to Clean Our World: A North East Perspective

Gary S. Caldwell, PhD

  • MariFrom Student Project Report to Published Paper: Developing Scientific Curiosity, Research Skills and Ownership of the Results

Mirela Cuculescu Santana, PhD

  • Flower-Visiting Male Bumblebees: Parasites or Pollinators?

Rinke Vinkenoog, PhD

  • Using Selective Breeding to Advance Climate-Smart Coral Reef Conservation

Adriana Humanes, PhD

  • From Cryptic to Visible: Cephalopod Ecology Through Citizen Science Observations

Athena Allen

  • Potential impact of veterinary medicines and feed additives in the environment following use in the poultry industry

Bethany Adams

  • Turbulent Times - A Practitioner’s Perspective: Emerging Research Needs in UK Ecology under Biodiversity Net Gain and the Planning & Infrastructure Bill

Cameron Carmichael

  • Digging Deeper: Exploring Ants as Ecosystem Engineers

Daniel Turk

  • Assessing the Impact of Moorland Management on Peat Properties and Microbial Community Composition

Dilmi Nilupuli Mapatunage

  • Project SeaNet: Leveraging Custom-Built Machine Learning Approaches to Measure Seagrass Coverage from Underwater Survey Images

Harry Clarke

  • From Energy Budgets to Biodiversity Forecasts: Applying DEBBIES to Life History Strategies and conservation

Isabel Smallegange, PhD

  • Hogs on Film citizen science: getting the public involved in urban hedgehog conservation from the comfort of their own homes

Lea Grayston-Smith

  • Crouching leopard, hidden camera: comparing methods for estimating leopard density in an enclosed reserve

Robi Watkinson

  • Investigating Reef Carbonate Budgets of a Maldivian Island After a Mass Bleaching Event

Anoushka Olivia Pinto

  • Analysis of predation and scavenging marks (praedichnia) on common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) cuttlebones found along the coastline of the North Sea

Athena Allen

  • Assessing the Comparative Development of Saltmarsh Characteristics in Restored and Natural Sites Across Northeast England

Emily Scott

  • Microplastic Retention in UK Subtidal Seagrass Beds: Early Findings

Ida Kreuze

  • Assessing the impacts of peatland restoration on microbial communities in Northumberland

Isis Cohen Nicholson

  • The spatial and temporal dynamics of the benthic community composition and diversity of coral reefs in Nosy Be, Madagascar

Laura Field

  • Intertidal and subtidal Pagurus bernhardus hermit crabs exhibit plastic metabolic differences with no evidence of genetic divergence by tidal zone

Matthew Cooke

  • "What is the Role of the Ladybird in the Agro-Ecosystem?" Unravelling Secrets in Mass rearing, Feeding, DNA Metabarcoding and Diet!

Sara Alasady

  • New Bees on the Block: Assessing Invasive Potential of Bumblebees on the Faroe Islands

Shannon Goldberg

  • Restoring Ecological Function through Biodiversity Net Gain: A Northumberland Case Study

Zoe Dunnett

  • Poster: Investigating Reef Carbonate Budgets of a Maldivian Island After a Mass Bleaching Event

Anoushka Olivia Pinto

  • Poster: Analysis of predation and scavenging marks (praedichnia) on common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) cuttlebones found along the coastline of the North Sea

Athena Allen

  • Poster: The spatial and temporal dynamics of the benthic community composition and diversity of coral reefs in Nosy Be, Madagascar

Laura Field

  • Poster: Intertidal and subtidal Pagurus bernhardus hermit crabs exhibit plastic metabolic differences with no evidence of genetic divergence by tidal zone

Matthew Cooke

  • Poster: New Bees on the Block: Assessing Invasive Potential of Bumblebees on the Faroe Islands

Shannon Goldberg

  • Poster: Restoring Ecological Function through Biodiversity Net Gain: A Northumberland Case Study

Zoe Dunnett

2025, Volume 1, Issue 1