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The article offers information about several conventions of the British Ecological Society in Great Britain. The symposium titled "The Water Relations of Plants," organized by the Society on April 5-8, 1961, was attended by 112 members and overseas visitors. The meeting of the Tropical Ecology Group of the Society on April 6, 1961 in the Department of Botany was attended by 55 members which was arranged by P. W. Richards. The 1961 Summer Meeting was centered on the Departments of Botany and Zoology which was participated by 35 members who joined in the excursions by several local members. Various topics are also mentioned on each of the events.

The article addresses criticisms of the BIODEPTH project, a biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research in Great Britain. It shows that patterns for legume species are not generally consistent with the multispecies sampling effect for legumes proposed by Huston & McBride in 2002. The BIODEPTH results are not also consistent with transient biodiversity effects. Researchers propose that the conflict in the results of biodiversity experiments and observational biodiversity studies arises because they use different approaches to address different questions.