Using weather radar and bird count data, an international team of researchers reveals that millions of birds take flight after Dutch New Year’s Eve fireworks begin, with effects extending up to 10km away from each pyrotechnics display.
Research news from the Ecological Society of America: Recent findings from Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Organized by Natalia López Figueroa, Shelby Rinehart and Michael Schram Coastal and marine ecosystems serve as crucial components of our planet, offering a unique blend of biodiversity, invaluable resources, and essential ecological services. Yet, these environments face mounting threats from climate change, pollution, habitat degradation, and overexploitation. In this era of profound environmental challenges, it is imperative to recognize the…
Van Bael will assume editorial leadership and oversight for the journal, which publishes research over a broad range of focal areas – ranging from agroecosystem ecology and disease ecology to eco-education, statistical theory and methodology.
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.
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.
After a competitive search, the Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott L. Collins as the new editor-in-chief of its journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. In his new role, Collins will lead Frontiers in publishing ecological and environmental research that is timely, clearly written and relevant to all users of ecological science, including policy makers, resource managers and educators.
Get your professional development from your professional society! Beginning in fall 2023, ESA is adding scientific, technical and professional virtual content as a benefit to members and certified ecologists, and a resource for the community. While we ramp up to full capacity and resource, keep note of this page and our webinars schedule — and your email inbox — for opportunities to gain valuable skills at a fraction of the cost you’ll find elsewhere. And as always, ESA members save the most!
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.
Interdisciplinary Ecology in the Anthropocene September 14, 2023 RECORDING AVAILABLE HERE Ecological research is changing as scientists grapple with new challenges confronting organisms, people and natural systems in the anthropocene. How do we promote strategies for resilient socio-ecological systems? How do we understand natural and anthropogenic factors in freshwater systems? What might contribute to coral immunity in microbiomes? And…
Climate adaptation is a burgeoning science and practice that centers on addressing and preparing for climate change effects on species, ecosystems, land and water resources, disturbance regimes, infrastructure, cultural resources, and human socio-economic systems. Although the potential impacts of climate change on natural resources have been studied for decades, methods for conducting that research and applying the results to inform…
Adkins presents this research with the contributed poster, “Nitrogen Deposition is Not an Indicator of Continental-Scale Soil C Sequestration,” at 5 p.m. Pacific on Wednesday, Aug. 9, at the 2023 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.
Jessica Murray publishes in the journal ‘Geoderma’; presents at Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting on the basic mechanisms of soil carbon sequestration in canopy soils from sites in Costa Rica.
Newly published research describes the successful pilot of a novel method to study how well grassland birds are faring on croplands. The study may serve as a model for monitoring wildlife on working lands more generally, which can also include cattle ranches and logged forests.
A new University of Maryland-led study published online in the journal Ecology found a simple way to take advantage of spiders’ natural ecosystem service of being pest regulators: give tree-dwelling spiders a more diverse habitat.
New research underlines the need to monitor and understand how changes in the supply of organic material affect life in the sea, especially in view of climate changes.
A new study that analyzed more that 500,000 camera grid images taken at the HREC in the years before and after the Mendocino Complex Fire is one of the first studies to compare continuous wildlife observations made before and after a megafire.
Honey bees are more faithful to their flower patches than bumble bees when it comes to returning to collect more pollen and nectar, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service scientists.
The Wildlife Conservation Society released footage of a wolverine foraging for fish frozen in a perennial spring along a river in the Alaskan Arctic. It is the first-known observation of a wolverine eating fish – usual prey includes everything from snowshoe hares to caribou to voles.
In a study published in the journal Ecology, a University of Michigan-led research team used a pint-sized predator-prey-parasite system inside 20-gallon water tanks to test the “healthy herds hypothesis.”