A new study from the University of Nevada, Reno shows that house sparrows’ health closely correlates with urban density, and that sparrows are carrying surprisingly high loads of lead in their bodies.
Behavioral ecologists have discovered a way to harness animals’ olfactory ability to protect vulnerable plants and endangered animals.
(May 18, 2022) – Sessions focus on transforming the science of ecology – “a change is gonna come”
(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.
(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.
(April 12, 2022) – ESA is pleased to announce its 2022 Fellows. The Society’s fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which its members contribute to ecological research and discovery, communication, education and pedagogy, and management and policy.
(March 31, 2022) – Polygynous cranes, fungus-farming ants, light pollution impacts on migrating birds in Central America, and more in the Ecological Society of America’s journals.
(March 17, 2022) – Pathogenic hantavirus persists in marsh rice rats near New Orleans, drones fill gaps in ocean monitoring, and more in the Ecological Society of America’s journals.
(February 23, 2022) – A gazelle’s extraordinary journey across Mongolia, improvements to raccoon vaccination strategies, and more in the latest research from the ESA journals.
(February 3, 2022) – ESA is honored to announce the Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award 2022 cohort. This award provides graduate students with the opportunity to participate in a virtual Congressional Visits Day.
(January 31, 2022) – A new seed dispersal mechanism, public conservation voting for gray wolves, the oldest living tree in the European Union and more in the Ecological Society of America’s journals.
(January 20, 2022) – After a competitive and rigorous search process, The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce Madhusudan Katti as the new executive editor of the Bulletin.
(January 13, 2022) – A wayfaring Arctic hare, eBird during COVID-19, and more in the latest research from the ESA journals.
(December 15, 2021) – After a highly competitive search, the Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the appointment of Jean-Philippe Lessard as the new editor-in-chief of its journal Ecological Monographs.
(December 8, 2021) – ESA is pleased to announce the results of its recent election for five positions on its Governing Board and two positions for its Board of Professional Certification.
(October 28, 2021) – The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the recipients of the first cohort of the ESA Excellence in Ecology (EEE) Scholars: Dr. Na’Taki Osborne Jelks, Dr. Theresa Wei Ying Ong, Dr. Adriana Lucia Romero-Olivares, and Dr. Erika S. Zavaleta.
(October 27, 2021) – The latest research from ESA’s journals: Tallying tropical vertebrates – Animal personalities – Deep-sea ecosystems – And more
(October 20, 2021) – The latest research from ESA’s journals: Tropical versus temperate fruits – Carnivorous cattle – Forecasting the future of Yellowstone and U.S. wilderness – And more
(August 23, 2021) – The San Nicolas Island fox, a subspecies of the Channel Island Fox only found on the most remote of California’s eight Channel Islands, is at a low risk of extinction, new research published last week in Ecosphere shows.
(August 16, 2021) – A new study links high land prices near Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve to the area’s wildlife conservation efforts.