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 ...

Researchers at Rice University have uncovered a critical link between rising temperatures and declines in a species’ population, shedding new light on how global warming threatens natural ecosystems.

Eva Legge, a first-year Ph.D. student majoring in biology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), is the recipient of three prestigious honors: the Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) 2025 ...

There is an increasing nationwide demand for certification credentials in the environmental arena. Besides natural resource management, ecological expertise is needed on a host of other current ...

A BioBlitz is an opportunity to take a snapshot of the biodiversity, or variety of life, in an area. During a BioBlitz event, students, scientists, and the general public work together to find and ...

The Annual Meeting is the crown jewel, but our offerings include everything from regular informational and working webinars to workshops in ecology education to hands-on training in the management of ...

Are you looking for creative ways to bring the 4DEE Framework to life in your teaching? Watch Sara Scanga and Erica Tietjen’s Water Cooler Chat on exciting approaches to engaging Non-Majors with 4DEE ...

The Plant Population Ecology Section, founded in 1994, encourages research and communication in plant population ecology and related fields. Activities include programs at the Annual Meeting and ...

Ten years after WAMIE I, the Women and Minorities in Ecology Committee worked to assess progress toward implementing the original report’s recommendations. A new report, Profile of Ecologists: Results ...

The global scientific landscape still grapples with the severe underrepresentation and marginalization of women and gender minorities. Worldwide, only 33% of scientists are women, and the presence of ...

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’ ...

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