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Announcing Organizational Member WEST, Inc.

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) welcomes Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST) as an organizational member of the Society. “We launched our organizational membership to build better bridges with employers in the private and public sectors,” said ESA President Peter Groffman. “WEST’s staff and leadership have long been prominent in ESA, and the Society is glad to be able to…

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Covers of 6 ESA journals and the ESA Bulletin

Updates & Tips From the ESA Publications Department

There are two factors that often arise as challenges and can result in handling delays: figures that use images from other sources, and the availability of data and code. Please ensure that your submission to an ESA journal follows our guidelines.

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COP30 Brasil Amazonia Belém 2025

Voices from COP30: The First Week is Done — What Have We Seen?

By Astrid Caldas The crowds came. The Indigenous peoples staked their claims to representation and rights to land. The connection between biodiversity and climate change is a priority topic in this “Amazon COP”, as are synergies across the three Rio Conventions – which together address the interconnected challenges of climate change, desertification and biodiversity loss. The negative biodiversity impacts of…

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A Letter From the Executive Director

ESA members, I am especially pleased with all that ESA was able to accomplish in 2024.  The year began with staff supporting the strategic planning process, led by President-elect Stephanie Hampton, gathering information and feedback from many constituents. The ESA Governing Board adopted a new 3-year strategic plan in May, and rolled it out to the membership at the Annual…

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ESA’s 2024 Year in Review

This letter to our members is by Past President Shahid Naeem It’s my honor as 2024 ESA President to write a letter to the members, to sum up our accomplishments and introduce the full annual report. Since we realistically have to wait until the year is over to work on that, we typically don’t start until late in the winter…

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