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There are a number of journal papers that list topics of interest in ecology and associated fields (e.g. Sutherland et al. 2006; Sutherland et al. 2009; Pretty et al. 2010; Sutherland et al. 2013). Even if the projects themselves are not of direct interest, they may inspire other project work since there is plenty of debate stemming from these papers on a variety of blogs and forums.

Natural England has a list of research ideas on their national nature reserves https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-opportunities-on-national-nature-reserves-in-england

There are many other resources that give examples of feasible ecological research projects. The series listed below are examples of some of those that cover either a wide range of habitat types, or a range of organisms.

 The Practical Ecology Series provide project ideas associated with grasslands (Brodie 1985), freshwaters (Gee 1986), the seashore (Jenkins 1983), and urban areas (Smith 1984).

 Routledge Habitat Guides each include a section (section 5) giving project ideas for the habitats associated with grasslands (Price 2003), uplands (Fielding and Howarth 1999), urban habitats (Wheater 1999), and woodlands (Read and Frater 1999).

 The Biology of Habitats Series covers a wide range of global habitat types and includes practical aspects of working within the habitat and some of the types of studies that are possible within them (e.g. Rydin and Jeglum 2013 for peatlands and Little et al. 2009 for rocky shores).

 The Naturalists' Handbook Series (now published by Pelagic Publishing) contains many ideas related to studying a group of species (e.g. Gilbert 2015 on hoverflies or Roy et al. 2013 on ladybirds), or different habitats (e.g. Hayward 2015 on sandy shores or Wheater and Read 1996 on animals under logs and stones), or implementing different techniques (e.g. Unwin and Corbet 1991 look at insects and microclimate, whilst Richardson 1992 examines pollution monitoring using lichens).