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It’s pretty remarkable to see the bipartisan support for science from current members of the House and Senate. We heard ...
A greater diversity of herbaceous and woody plants in olive groves can promote bird abundance and diversity without negatively affecting production. This is demonstrated by a new study led by the ...
Dr Shawan Chowdhury is an ecologist specialising in insects and biodiversity on our changing planet. Among his published papers is a 2021 review of butterfly migration worldwide, a study he led in ...
Featured presentations at the 110th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Baltimore, Maryland July 24, 2025 For immediate release Contact: Mayda Nathan, (202) 833-8773 ext. 211, mayda ...
The webinar is scheduled for live viewing on Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 1:00 pm ET. The Zoom Webinar platform will be used for the presentation. Be sure to connect to the webinar using a device ...
Here are additional details about the requirements for each certification level. Ecologist in Training This category is for graduating students who have met the education requirements for ESA ...
In many plant breeding programs, secondary traits other than the main trait of interest, are routinely collected throughout the year. These layers of information are referred to as 'omics’, and ...
For information about past ESA meetings beyond the most recent 10 years, please visit the Historical Records Committee’s archive. Meetings before 2009 ...
Cultural vegetation is defined as “vegetation with a distinctive structure, composition, and development determined by regular human activity.” Often, cultural vegetation has been planted, treated, or ...
Natural (and semi-natural) vegetation is defined as “vegetation where ecological processes primarily determine species and site characteristics”. Human activities may influence vegetation interaction ...
In the spirit of continuing education, some activities are capped per event or year with the aim of distributing effort and professional development across multiple activities and multiple years.