Commitment to Human Diversity in Ecology

The Commitment to Human Diversity in Ecology Award is in recognition of long-standing contributions of an individual toward increasing the diversity of future ecologists through mentoring, teaching, or outreach.

This ESA award is for a single scholarly contribution (book, book chapter, or peer-reviewed journal article) published in the last five years.
Awarded annually (frequency)

Past Recipients

Recent recipients include Maria Miriti, Charles Nilon, Mary McKenna, Frank Day, and Gillian Bowser.

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News

Introducing 2023 ESA Excellence in Ecology Scholars

ESA EEE Scholars 2023- Top row left to right: Drs. Sara Bombaci and Aidee Guzman. Bottom row left to right: Drs. Danielle Ignace and Lynette Strickland.

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ESA November Research News from Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Researchers are increasingly turning to citizen scientists for data collection on bird-window collisions because in the US alone, it is the cause of hundreds of millions bird deaths each year.

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Rider on the storm: Shearwater seabird catches an 11 hour ride over 1,000 miles in a typhoon

New research from Japan published in the Ecological Society of America’s journal Ecology suggests that increasingly severe weather driven by climate change may push oceangoing seabirds to their limits.

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Who defends the defenders? Tropical cyclones pose a risk to the mangroves that protect cities

Mangroves play a vital role in protecting human habitations from strong storms. But how does that protection affect the mangroves themselves? A team of environmental scientists led by Yu Mo of Trinity College in Dublin harnessed the power of satellites to analyze the damage to mangroves caused by every tropical cyclone around the world since the year 2001. Their results were published in the Ecological Society of America’s journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

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Journals and Publications

Bactrian camels (Camelus bactrianus), called тэмээ (or temee) in the Mongolian language, are one of several species of livestock that have provided livelihood to herders in Mongolia for thousands of years. After the transition from socialism to democracy in 1990, institutions for the management of livestock broke down, leading to dramatic increases in livestock numbers (mostly goats and sheep) and a widespread perception of overgrazing and rangeland degradation. In their study in October issue of Ecosphere, Dashbal et al. describe a strategy to re-establish institutions to manage livestock grazing using community-based natural resource management approaches that are informed by vegetation monitoring against rangeland health benchmarks and state-and-transition models and are supported by local and national government as well as market-based incentives. What is termed "resilience-based management" integrates information about ecosystem dynamics with novel governance approaches to improve rangeland conditions at a national scale.

Ecosphere