COP16 is a soup of people, from organizations, students, communicators and country representatives. People are talking about ...

A recurring theme is the shift from merely mitigating biodiversity loss to aiming for “nature-positive” targets by 2030. Countries like Colombia, home to 10% of the world’s biodiversity, are leading ...

Four fifths of Switzerland’s drinking water comes from hidden underground aquifers. Numerous groundwater extraction sites tap into these reserves. Drinking water supplies are under increasing pressure ...

Polar bears in some parts of the high Arctic are developing ice buildup and related injuries to their feet, apparently due to changing sea ice conditions in a warming Arctic. While surveying the ...

Applications for the Graduate Student Policy Award are closed. Applications for the 2025 cohort will open December, 2024. Offered each year, the Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award ...

ESA designates an Early Career Fellow of the Society as certain early career members (typically chosen within 8 years of receiving the Ph.D.) who have begun making and show promise of continuing to ...

Dr. Fernando Maestre received his BsC and PhD in biology from the University of Alicante (Spain) in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He then did a postdoc at Duke University and moved in 2005 to Rey Juan ...

We understand and would like to make things a little easier for you. In response to the mounting pressure for faculty to switch to online teaching within a very short time, we have compiled some ...

Multiple times throughout the year, ESA’s public affairs staff arrange meetings for Society members to connect with policymakers and discuss issues of concern to the ecological science community.

Dr. Mark Vellend is a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec and a 2020 ESA Fellow. Since the start of his career, Dr. Vellend has been interested in long-term changes in the composition ...

The Eugene P. Odum Award recognizes an ecologist for outstanding work in ecology education. This award was generously endowed by, and named for, the distinguished ecologist Eugene P. Odum. Through ...