Press Releases

(March 25, 2021) – The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce its 2021 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.

(March 23, 2021) – The Ecological Society of America condemns the escalating pattern of crimes occurring in our country over the past year against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.

(March 15, 2021) – The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is honored to announce the Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA) 2021 cohort. This award provides graduate students with the opportunity to receive policy and communication training before they meet lawmakers.

(March 15, 2021) – A paper published this week in Ecological Applications reports that whooping cranes migrating through the U.S. Great Plains avoid “rest stop” sites that are within 5 km of wind-energy infrastructure.

The latest research from ESA’s journals: Snorkelers find rare salamander eggs – An albino plant – Birds and burns – Public parks for native insects – Mountain-traversing seabirds

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.

Global circulating winds can carry bacteria, fungal spores, viruses and pollen over long distances and across national borders, but the United States is ill-prepared to confront future disease outbreaks or food-supply threats caused by airborne organisms, says a new Ecological Applications paper.