Press Releases — Page 15

ESA’s upcoming Annual Meeting in Long Beach, Calif., Aug. 4–9, features a diverse array of talks and posters dedicated to the study of urban ecology.

ESA will present its 17th annual Regional Policy Award to San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District CEO Heather Dyer on Sunday, Aug 4, 5:00pm PDT, during the ESA Conference Opening Plenary.

Scientists studying biodiversity rely on public data, but USC Dornsife researchers found that butterfly sightings on one popular online platform are skewed by personal preferences.

Experts in fire ecology will converge at ESA’s upcoming Annual Meeting in Long Beach, Calif., Aug. 4–9, presenting the latest research on the causes and consequences of wildland fire in dozens of talks and posters.

Researchers find trees in parks are more drought-tolerant than species near homes.

Symposia will be a focal point of ESA’s upcoming Annual Meeting in Long Beach, California, Aug. 4-9, offering new insights on nature-based solutions, conserving soil biodiversity, harnessing AI for ecology and much more.

Excess nutrients in bodies of water leads to plankton blooms and turbidity—a new review highlights the need for a consensus definition of this phenomenon.

Tanzanian leopards, already in decline, can’t keep up with hyenas when people are around.

New research shows recovering wolves in northeast Washington are having less of an impact on white-tailed deer populations than other factors.

New research details a previously unreported behavior that Japanese honey bees use to defend their hives.

A new study describes an approach for anticipating the relationships between future fire sizes and burn severity patterns on a regional scale.

While many studies have been conducted to understand the effects of a carnivore reintroduction on their prey, less well studied is the effect of the reintroduction on other carnivores in the same food web, in this case foxes and martens.

The Search for Lost Birds, a collaboration between Re:wild, American Bird Conservancy and BirdLife International, has developed the most complete tally of bird species that are lost to science.

The potential for pines to establish in pine-free interior Alaska, honey bees as reservoirs of disease, internet sleuthing to assess birds’ extinction risk and more in the Ecological Society of America’s journals.

During an expedition to the Gulf of California, researchers observed a previously unknown species of squid carrying a cluster of exceptionally large eggs.

Something about city life seems to suit powdery mildew, a fungal disease that afflicts many plants, including leaves of garden vegetables and roadside weeds.

A group of scientists has released the first comprehensive list of birds that haven’t been documented in more than a decade.

How wolf reintroduction affects other carnivores, drought and grazing snails’ impacts in salt marshes, the key to an invasive fish’s success, and more in the Ecological Society of America’s journals.

Postdoctoral scholar M. Brooke Rose and her mentor, Janet Franklin, were recognized by the Ecological Society of America and the American Association of Geographers for co-authored study.

Atlantic marsh fiddler crabs facilitate the aboveground growth of a foundational saltmarsh grass, but this positive interaction becomes negative as crabs migrate north.