Robert H. MacArthur Award
The Robert H. MacArthur Award is given biannually to an established ecologist in mid-career for meritorious contributions to ecology, in the expectation of continued outstanding ecological research. Nominees may be from any country and need not be ESA members. The recipient is invited to prepare an address for presentation at the annual meeting of the society and for publication in Ecology.
| Year | Full Name | Last Name | ESA Bulletin | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Priyanga Amarasekare | Amarasekare | Link | |
| 2020 | Jonathan M. Levine | Levine | Link | |
| 2018 | Katharine N. Suding | Suding | Link | |
| 2016 | Anurag A. Agrawal | Agrawal | Link | |
| 2014 | Mercedes Pascual | Pascual | Link | |
| 2012 | Anthony R. Ives | Ives | Link | Theoretical inference from models and data |
| 2010 | Stephen W. Pacala | Pacala | Link | How to build a young field in a crisis: Lessons from studies that added greatly to the basic intellectual foundation of ecology while solving an important applied problem |
| 2008 | Monica Turner | Turner | Link | Disturbance and landscape dynamics in a changing world. Ecology 91:2833–2849. |
| 2006 | Alan Hastings | Hastings | Link | Timescales, dynamics, and ecological understanding. Ecology 91:3471–3480. |
| 2004 | May Roberta Berenbaum | Berenbaum | Link | |
| 2002 | James Hemphill Brown | Brown | Link | Toward a metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology 85:1771-1789. Link |
| 2000 | Stephen Russell Carpenter | Carpenter | Link | Ecological futures: building an ecology of the long now. Ecology 83:2069-2083. Link |
| 1998 | Robert V. O'Neill | O'Neill | Link | Is it time to bury the ecosystem concept? (With full military honors, of course!). Ecology 82:3275-3284. Link |
| 1996 | David Tilman | Tilman | Link | The ecological consequences of changes in biodiversity: A search for general principles. Ecology 80:1455-1474. Link |
| 1994 | Henry Miles Wilbur | Wilbur | Link | Experimental ecology of food webs: complex systems in temporary ponds. Ecology 78:2279-2302. Link |
| 1992 | Peter Morrison Vitousek | Vitousek | Link | Beyond global warming: ecology and global change. Ecology 75:1861-1876. Link |
| 1990 | William M. Murdoch | Murdoch | Link | Population regulation in theory and practice. Ecology 75:271-287. Link |
| 1988 | Simon Asher Levin | Levin | Link | The problem of pattern and scale in ecology. Ecology 73:1943-1967. Link |
| 1986 | Thomas William Schoener | Schoener | Link | Food webs from the small to the large. Ecology 70:1559-1589. Link |
| 1984 | Robert McCreadie May | May | Link | The search for patterns in the balance of nature: advances and retreats. Ecology 67:1115-1126. Link |
| 1983 | Robert Treat Paine | Paine | Link | Ecological determinism in the competition for space. Ecology 65:1339-1348. Link |