ESA’s Vegetation Panel sponsored a field trip to a coastal plain and serpentine woodland (pictured above) to highlight the use of the US National Vegetation Classification (USNVC). Panel members also ...

A new study published today in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment leveraged participatory science to reveal regional variation in bird responses to fire across the continental United ...

Heading to the 2025 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Baltimore? If you’re interested in the intersection of science and policy, you won’t want to miss the exciting lineup of events ...

The Ecological Society of America’s Public Affairs Office, in partnership with ESA’s Governing Board, are closely monitoring the status of federal policy that impacts the ecological science community.

Ph.D. candidate Sarah Cuprewich spent a day on Washington DC’s Capitol Hill as part of ESA’s 2025 Graduate Student Policy Award events. Photo courtesy of Sarah Cuprewich The 2025 ESA Graduate Student ...

The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to ecology in new discoveries, teaching, sustainability, diversity ...

Tuesday, 19 December 2017 For Immediate Release Contact: Liza Lester, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, [email protected] In a frozen lake in Quebec, tiny red creatures zip about under the ice. Guillaume Grosbois ...

As you may know, President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) budget request sent to Congress cuts research accounts across federal agencies that would devastate America’s scientific enterprise. The ...

The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce its 2025 Fellows. The Society’s fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which its members contribute to ecological research, ...

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) presents a roundup of five research articles recently published in its esteemed journals. Widely recognized for fostering innovation and advancing ecological ...

The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA). Students in the 2025 cohort are engaged in advocacy with ...

Nest researcher Auke-Florian Hiemstra stumbled upon a bird nest that appeared to go back 30 years in time – filled with historical plastics. His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ ...