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Brendan Bohannan, University of Oregon biology professor, has been named a fellow by the Ecological Society of America.

Jennifer Sunday named Early Career Fellow by ESA for her research examining how species and ecosystems respond to climate change.

A new study published this month (March 2021) in the journal Ecological Applications reveals that migratory habitat for the Whooping Crane is being gradually reduced by wind energy development.

Dr. Stefan Schnitzer, Mellon Distinguished Professor of Plant Community and Tropical Forest Ecology, and Dr. Nathan Lemoine, assistant professor of trophic and quantitative ecology, in Marquette University’s Klingler College of Arts and Sciences have been named fellows by the Ecological Society of America.

University of Georgia professor Pejman Rohani and alumnus Shuijin Hu are among a group of distinguished scientists elected Fellows of the Ecological Society of America in 2021, the organization announced March 25, 2021.

Biologists including Eleanor Pardini at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered that climate change represents a specific extinction threat for an endangered coastal lupine plant.

On Thursday, March 25, Dr. William Morris of Duke University was named a 2021 Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. Morris’ research focuses on understanding how plants and the insects that eat and pollinate them respond to climate change.

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) has added Pedro Peres-Neto, professor in Concordia’s Department of Biology, to its esteemed list of fellows.

University of Rhode Island Professor Laura Meyerson has been elected a fellow of the Ecological Society of America for her contributions to ecological research and policy.

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) recently announced its 2021 ESA Fellow awards, which recognize scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the field, and UC Santa Cruz’s faculty were the most decorated of any university on this year’s list.  

Lauren Shoemaker, a University of Wyoming assistant professor in the Department of Botany, has been selected as a 2021-25 Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA).

For his work advancing our understanding of the recovery of degraded marine species and ecosystems, Adrian Stier of UC Santa Barbara has been named a 2021 Early Career Fellow by ESA.

Jay T. Lennon, a professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology, has been elected as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America.

A Washington State University doctoral candidate is among 23 graduate students selected nationwide by ESA to receive the Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award.

(March 23, 2021) – The Ecological Society of America condemns the escalating pattern of crimes occurring in our country over the past year against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.

Florida State University researchers have found that coral vary in their response to ocean warming, a finding that has implications for the long-term health of coral reefs.

Researchers from NC State discovered abundant and stable rocks could be important for improving the recovery of aquatic insect populations in restored streams.

Researchers from Oregon State University and collaborators from the U.S. Forest Service looked at hundreds of long-term research plots in eastern Oregon to summarize historical and current forest structure.

University of Alberta biologist leads new study on “functional eradication” to curtail numbers of invasive species based on achievable targets for preventing ecological damage.

A team of biologists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) found that early exposure to heat and low oxygen makes oysters more vulnerable to same stressors later on.