{"id":842,"date":"2020-02-05T19:44:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T19:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/?page_id=842"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:29:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:29:52","slug":"2020-annual-meeting-plenary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/past-meetings\/2020-annual-meeting-plenary\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Annual Meeting Plenary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-844 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2020\/02\/daniel-simberloff_250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2020\/02\/daniel-simberloff_250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2020\/02\/daniel-simberloff_250-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><br>\nThe 2020 MA-ESA plenary on Saturday morning will be given by Dan Simberloff, author of \u201cEncyclopedia of Biological Invasions.\u201d Dan is the Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Tennessee Knoxville and was named Eminent Ecologist by ESA in 2006. <a href=\"https:\/\/eeb.utk.edu\/people\/daniel-simberloff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about him here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-845 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2020\/02\/encyclopedia-biological-invasions_250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2020\/02\/encyclopedia-biological-invasions_250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2020\/02\/encyclopedia-biological-invasions_250-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><br>\nHis book illuminates a topic at the forefront of global ecology\u2014biological invasions, or organisms that come to live in the wrong place. Written by leading scientists from around the world, Encyclopedia of Biological Invasions addresses all aspects of this subject at a global level\u2014including invasions by animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria\u2014in succinct, alphabetically arranged articles. <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Encyclopedia_of_Biological_Invasions.html?id=hq5uc8O5pDQC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/eservices.esa.org\/Eservices\/Events\/2020MA.aspx?EventKey=MAESA2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Register today!<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 MA-ESA plenary on Saturday morning will be given by Dan Simberloff, author of \u201cEncyclopedia of Biological Invasions.\u201d Dan is the Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Tennessee Knoxville and was named Eminent Ecologist by ESA in 2006. Learn more about him here. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 His book illuminates a topic at the forefront of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-842","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/842\/revisions\/1450"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}