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Special Policy News 10: The Transition
We are keeping you up-to-date on the appropriations process with a Federal Budget Tracker for Read more
Roads as drivers of evolution. A suite of common ecological impacts of roads are shown as labeled arrows. While these effects are well described in road ecology, their role as known or likely agents of natural selection is poorly understood. Yet these factors are capable of driving contemporary evolutionary change. Studying the evolutionary effects of these factors will provide a more comprehensive understanding of the ways in which organisms are responding to the presence and consequences of roads.
Road ecology: shifting gears toward evolutionary perspectives
Steven Brady is an evolutionary ecologist with the Department of Water and Land Resources at Read more
A flock of greater flamingos in the Doñana wetlands, where up to 30,000 are recorded, making them a major ecotourism attraction. Doñana is Europe’s most important wetland for waterfowl. Credit: Rubén Rodríguez, EBD-CSIC
Safe operating space for wetlands in a changing climate
Edwin Peeters, associate professor at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and Edward Morris, postdoctoral scientist at Read more
Jennifer Williams and colleagues receive the Mercer Award for outstanding papers by young researchers
The George Mercer Award recognizes an outstanding and recently-published ecological research paper by young scientists. Read more
ESA Announces 2017 Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Read more
Special Policy News 9: The Transition
We are keeping you up-to-date on the appropriations process with a new Federal Budget Tracker Read more