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ESA voices concern about EPA’s effort to weaken the Clean Water Rule

The Ecological Society of America is concerned with the proposed rule issued today by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to replace the 2015 Clean Water Rule (Waters of the United States Rule or WOTUS).

Laura Huenneke selected to lead as President of the Ecological Society of America for 2018-2019 term

Laura Huenneke, an ecologist and conservation scientist who has also served in university and nonprofit leadership positions, became President of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) during the Society’s annual meeting in New Orleans, LA. Elected by the members of ESA for a one-year term, Huenneke presides over the world’s largest professional society of ecologists.

2017 Annual Meeting Photo Contest Winners

The ecological community gathers each year for the ESA Annual Meeting. The heart of our society is its members and the free exchange of scientific ideas. Thus, the theme for the 2017 photo contest was “Exchanging Ecological Ideas”.

Ecological Society of America announces 2017 Fellows

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce its 2017 Fellows. The Society’s fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which its members contribute to ecological research and discovery, communication, education and pedagogy, and management and policy. Fellows are members who have made outstanding contributions to a wide range of fields served by ESA, including, but not restricted…

Science Debate and US Presidential Candidates

ESA joined 56 of America’s leading nonpartisan organizations in posing 20 questions on current science issues to the Presidential candidates.

USGS scientist named Ecological Society of America president

Jill Baron takes up the chair of ESA’s governing board, which lays out the vision for overall goals and objectives for the Society.

In the January issue of Ecosphere, Bouwmeester et al. document the spawning timing of the tropical coral P. verrucosa in the central Red Sea, on reefs both from western reefs (i.e., Sudan) and from eastern reefs (i.e., Saudi Arabia), reporting for the ﬁrst time coral reproduction in Sudan with individuals from both coasts of the central Red Sea spawning within a 25-day window in the spring, following a period of rapidly increasing water temperatures.

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Plant pirates of the Caribbean: Union professor part of research team studying biological invasions

Trade and tourism are among the most important factors in understanding the establishment of invasive species in Cuba, but the nation’s revolution and the subsequent U.S. embargo also influence the island’s biodiversity today.

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Ann Somers Publishes Groundbreaking Paper On Eastern Box Turtles

UNC Greensboro’s Ann Berry Somers, senior lecturer in biology, with John H. Roe, professor at UNC Pembroke, recently announced the release of a new paper on eastern box turtles, the North Carolina state reptile.

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New study reveals biodiversity important at regional scales

Research shows that biodiversity is important not just at the traditional scale of short-term plot experiments, but also when measured over decades and across regional landscapes as well.

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Biodiversity protects bee communities from disease, U-M study concludes

University of Michigan researchers netted and trapped more than 4,000 bees from 60 species to discover that the most diverse bee communities have the lowest levels of three common viral pathogens.

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Shrinking shark numbers on Great Barrier Reef unlikely to have cascading impacts

University of Queensland researchers offer new evidence suggesting that the ongoing overexploitation of ocean predators on the northern Great Barrier Reef is unlikely to have cascading impacts on corals. The findings introduce new layers of complexity to the paradigm of reef sharks being regarded as apex predators.

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Small mammals climb higher to flee warming temperatures in the Rockies

In a new study spanning nearly 13 years, researchers at UC Boulder discovered that the ground squirrel has joined many other small mammals in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains that are making an ominous trek: They’re climbing uphill to avoid warming temperatures in the state brought on by climate change.

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Why plant diversity is so important for bee diversity

Researchers at the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects (LASI) at the University of Sussex show that honey bees and bumble bees dominate on different flower species and have found out why.

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