Robert H. MacArthur Award

The Robert H. MacArthur Award is given to an established ecologist in mid-career for meritorious contributions to ecology, in the expectation of continued outstanding ecological research and who generally are within 25 years from PhD.

To submit an award nomination please select the following link: https://esa-awards.secure-platform.com/a/.

Journals and Publications

The Scientific Naturalist series continues in the June issue of Ecology, where Cecala and Wilson Rankin detail how they paint-marked bees to track their foraging patterns on flowering plants inside commercial nurseries. Individual bees were highly consistent in their day-to-day flower choices, despite their florally diverse agricultural habitats, and insights into these foraging patterns could influence more effective conservation strategies.

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News

The wisdom of crowds: What researchers can learn from local communities of natural resources stakeholders

By Michigan State University 6/30/2020 How many elephants are in Tanzania? How many trees are in the Amazon? How many tuna are in the Atlantic? While we probably wouldn’t know the answers to these questions on an individual level, new research indicates that if we collectively consider all our wrong answers, as a group we would probably arrive at the…

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UW Researchers Look for Answers as to Why Western Bumblebees Are Declining

By University of Wyoming 6/29/2020 A University of Wyoming researcher and her Ph.D. student have spent the last three years studying the decline of the Western bumblebee. The two have been working with a group of bumblebee experts to fill in gaps of missing information from previous data collected in the western United States. Their goal is to provide information…

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Climate change: Spring is starting too early for deer

By The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research 6/29/2020 Plants are sprouting earlier and earlier due to climate change, but for roe deer, the timing of fawning is advancing more slowly. This results in changes to the food supply during critical periods of the fawns’ growth. Deer populations at lower altitudes are particularly affected, according to a…

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