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Welcome, Fellows
This year, the ESA Governing Board has confirmed nine new Fellows and 10 new Early Career Fellows. Learn more about them and their important contributions!
Welcome, FellowsEffective DEI Statements
Our webinar series on landing academic positions continues 5/22 with "Writing an Effective DEI Statement." You can register for each session through October!
Effective DEI StatementsElevate Your Poster Presentation
Keep those butterflies quiet whether it's your first poster or your 100th! This workshop will help you to iron out your presentation, tell a compelling story and have your visitors leave impressed.
Elevate Your Poster PresentationJournals & Publications
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ESA's Journals & Publications
The Ecological Society of America has over 100 years of journal publishing history and offers some of the most widely read and cited journals in the field of ecology. The seven journals in our portfolio encompass a wide array of aims and scope of study, making them an important and accessible outlet for scientists, researchers, practitioners, professionals, citizen scientists, and others seeking to publish their work. The ESA staff provides editorial support with our publishing partner, John Wiley & Sons. Several discounts towards publication in the ESA journals are available from ESA and our publisher. We welcome your submissions.
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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
In urban settings, assessments of landscape connectivity for predators such as coyotes (Canis latrans) have important implications for conservation and human-wildlife conflict management. By tracking coyote movements within Toronto, Canada, over nine consecutive years, Gelmi-Candusso et al. found that coyotes generally preferred densely vegetated areas during daytime while favoring transportation infrastructure, especially low-traffic roads, during nighttime. The study, published in the May issue of Frontiers, also found that social status played a role in the observed movement patterns, given that resident coyotes largely drove their transient counterparts into suboptimal movement pathways, including areas with higher building density. To improve connectivity for urban wildlife, city planners should consider—among other initiatives—enhancing the structural complexity of vegetation along roads and within parks, and protecting wetlands from canalization practices.
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Ecosphere
A novel, hybrid offspring was recently discovered on US Pacific Northwest coastal dunes, a result of the breeding of two invasive, dune-building beachgrasses, Ammophila arenaria (European beachgrass) and A. breviligulata (American beachgrass). Through surveys of hybrid beachgrass patches, Askerooth et al. found its distribution and abundance to be much greater than previously known, with additional opportunities for hybridization outside of its existing range. Their study, published in the April issue of Ecosphere, highlights the prevalence of this new beachgrass and how the hybrid poses a conservation management concern and may play a substantial role in influencing dune functions and services.
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Ecology
The photo on the cover of the May issue of Ecology shows a male Dupont's lark (Chersophilus duponti) cautiously navigating through the scrub steppes of Molina de Aragón, Spain, in June 2023. This threatened species coexists with other passerines in the Iberian steppes. Using data from this study area, Barrero et al.'s study in the May issue describes a low niche overlap in the whole community assemblage, although the degree of niche overlap varied between pairs of species. No effects of heterospecific density on species niche breadth was found; however, increasing conspecific density caused niche contraction in some species, contrary to predictions from competition theory.
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Ecological Monographs
The photo on the cover of the May issue of Ecological Monographs illustrates the challenges faced by hatchling Galapagos tortoises as they disperse—often immense distances—from their nests in the aftermath of hatching. This Galapagos tortoise (Chelonoidis porteri) hatchling, named “Samuel” by Blake et al. and from their study published in the May issue, was radio-tagged in February 2013 when he weighed just 75 grams. Now 8 kilograms, Samuel is one of the few survivors from over 100 hatchlings followed over nine years to determine egg and hatchling survival and growth and female fecundity along elevation gradients on the Galapagos. While nine years provides a long period of ecological research, it may be less than 5% of Samuel's lifespan.
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Ecological Applications
Anolis gundlachi is a shade specialist lizard endemic to Puerto Rico that inhabits old-growth forests and forests in earlier stages of succession if these provide the shaded conditions required for its physiological needs. Acevedo et al. studied the recolonization of secondary forests by this shade specialist through the lens of range expansion theory. They found differences in phenotypic traits, and lower densities and parasitism rates in younger forests when compared to matured forests as predicted by range expansion theory. Their study can be found in the April issue of Ecological Applications.
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The Bulletin
In the April issue of the ESA Bulletin, ESA President-Elect Stephanie E. Hampton and recent Past-Presidents Kathleen C. Weathers and Dennis S. Ojima summarize ESA's publishing portfolio and the benefits of publishing in ESA journals. Our journals are widely available and offer many discounts to authors thanks to our publishing partnerships, and publication in ESA journals provides ESA with opportunities to enrich our programs that support students, early career researchers, and underrepresented groups, and more.
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Earth Stewardship
We are delighted to announce a call for submissions for the inaugural issue of Earth Stewardship. This exciting new Open Access journal, launched with our publishing partner, John Wiley & Sons, calls for a broad spectrum of scientifically and technologically innovative and groundbreaking contributions including cross-cultural perspectives from leading researchers, policymakers, traditional custodians of land and sea and indigenous communities. Earth Stewardship publishes applied and theoretical articles to promote a broad, intercultural, and participatory foundation for earth stewardship.
Professional Certification
Employers in all sectors value a credential that validates your skill as a professional. Learn more about ongoing changes to ESA certification and start your application today!
Professional CertificationOpportunity Fund Donations
Make a difference and fund programs which empower, educate and embolden both the current and next generation of scientists in the vast field of ecology.
Opportunity Fund DonationsThis Year's Meeting
The 2024 Annual Meeting will be held in Long Beach California. Select the following link and check out the theme, preliminary schedule, exhibitor opportunities and upcoming deadlines for proposals.
This Year's MeetingJoin Us for 2024
Only ESA members enjoy full access to our portfolio of leading journals, big discounts on professional programs and events, and opportunities to network in our international community of thousands.
Join Us for 2024Generalized Linear Models in R
In this 3-day course from Physalia & ESA, dive into a thorough intro to GLM using R. Ideal for anyone interested in advanced statistical modeling! Just 2 spots remaining!
Generalized Linear Models in RImprove Your Abstract
Before you submit your abstract for #ESA2024, make it the best it can be! We again present Bruce Kirchoff with tips to optimize your work, get it accepted and draw attention to your presentation.
Improve Your Abstract