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The ʻōhiʻa tree, which is endemic to Hawaiʻi, may be easier to repopulate than previously thought, according to new research from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

(April 28, 2022) – The 107th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America will be held at the Montréal Convention Centre, August 14-19, 2022. ESA invites press and institutional public information officers to attend for free.

Priyanga Amarasekare, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA, has won ESA’s 2022 Robert H. MacArthur Award.

Jacquelyn Gill and Kit Hamley are co-authors on a research paper that was recently selected as the winner of ESA’s W.S. Cooper Award for a study of seabirds in the Falkland Islands.

Hanqin Tian, the Solon and Martha Dixon Endowed Professor in Auburn University’s College of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, has been elected as a fellow of ESA.

Dulcinea Groff, a University of Wyoming postdoctoral research associate, has been named the recipient of ESA’s William Skinner Cooper Award.

ESA recently selected a research paper whose lead author is Myla Aronson, an assistant professor at Rutgers University, as the winner of its Sustainability Science Award.

Research led by University of Vermont scientists shows that forest management in Europe is out of alignment with natural patterns.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed high-resolution maps that can help conservation managers focus their efforts where they are most likely to help birds.

Two University of Washington professors have been honored by the Ecological Society of America for their knowledge and contributions to the field of ecology.

Ohio Wesleyan University professor Laurel J. Anderson is the 2022 winner of the Ecological Society of America’s Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education.

Stan Wullschleger, associate laboratory director for biological and environmental systems science at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is the recipient of ESA’s 2022 Commitment to Human Diversity in Ecology Award.

Congratulations to alumnus Jianguo “Jack” Liu, PhD ’92, who has received the 2022 Eminent Ecologist award from the Ecological Society of America.

Analysis of data from 140 countries suggests many rich countries could use less energy per capita without compromising health, happiness or prosperity. Countries struggling with energy poverty may be able to maximize well-being with less energy than previously thought.

A UC Santa Barbara forest scientist has been selected as an early career fellow of the Ecological Society of America for her work elucidating how sylvan ecosystems respond to climate change.

(April 19, 2022) – The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the winners of its 2022 awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to ecology in new discoveries, teaching, sustainability, diversity and lifelong commitment to the profession.

A new article in the Bulletin serves as a how-to guide for students to become professional ecological field technicians.

Findings recently published in Ecosphere show that areas in Maine with more recent and more intense timber removal activities were associated with population declines of martens and fishers.

UC Riverside ecologists and their UC collaborators applied a new theory for predicting biodiversity to the high mountain streams of California’s Sierra Nevada.

A new paper from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences explores the mechanisms that shape the organization and diversity of herbivore communities, providing a new perspective on the improvement of biological control efficiency.