(June 9, 2021) Scientists from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute recently collaborated with more than 150 scientists on the first-ever nationwide wildlife survey, called Snapshot USA. The goal of the survey is to standardize the monitoring of mammal populations at a national scale.
(June 8, 2021) Researchers have found certain species of trees in the mountains of southwestern Mexico could be more vulnerable to decline as the environment becomes hotter and drier due to climate change.
(June 3, 2021) Researchers at Colorado State University and The Ohio State University have created an index depicting the mix of social values among people across all 50 states, revealing which wildlife conservation policies or initiatives people are likely to support or be opposed to.
(June 3, 2021) – Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a computer simulation tool that allows them to predict future attacks on crops or forests by pests and diseases, as well as test management strategies to contain them.
(June 7, 2021) – Researchers from the University of North Texas, Georgia Southern University and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies present new research on the effects of particulate matter found in canopy waterways.
Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Science have identified a hybrid of two species of sand-stabilizing beachgrasses introduced to the Pacific Northwest starting in the early 1900s.
(May 20, 2021) – A new understanding of relationship between stream flows and salmon survival provides a critical tool for balancing water needs in the highly managed Sacramento River.
(May 6, 2021) – University of Delaware researchers developed a text alert system to help fishers avoid Atlantic sturgeon and to provide them with a three-day forecast highlighting where sturgeon will be in the future.
(May 18, 2021) Researchers have analyzed how environmental factors influence the growth and health of corals and found that more species of corals are living in the mangrove forests than in nearby shallow reefs.
(May 10, 2021) – Researchers conducted experiments on the North Carolina coast to determine how an invasive marine fouling species interferes with recovery in the aftermath of natural disasters.
(May 3, 2021) – A study published in Ecological Applications from the University of California, Davis, and UC Santa Cruz suggests that green energy and species conservation goals may come into conflict in California’s Mojave Desert.
Dr. Rebecca Ostertag has been elected a 2021 Fellow of ESA or her “outstanding intellectual leadership in the areas of tropical forest ecology and conservation and a deep commitment to mentoring and enhancing diversity in the next generation of ecologists.
Erik Van Vleck, professor of mathematics, along with his co-authors, was awarded the 2021 Robert P. McIntosh Award as the best nominated paper in vegetation ecology in the previous two years by the vegetation section of ESA.
Castilleja F. Olmsted, a PhD student at University of Pittsburgh, was recently awarded the ESA Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award.
Bethany Bradley, Environmental Conservation at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Wins Mercer Award from ESA.
Two students from Oregon State are among the 22 receiving a Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award, presented annually by ESA.
Professor Juan Armesto, an academic at the Catholic University of Chile, received the ESA Whittaker Prize.
Dr Raj Whitlock, a Senior Lecturer in the University’s Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, is a 2021 recipient of ESA’s prestigious George Mercer Award.
ESA announced Howard University Professor of Biology George A. Middendorf as the winner of its 2021 Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education.
A five-year study by the University of Wyoming researchers of mule deer does and newborn fawns in western Wyoming shows that migrating deer have a lot to balance when it comes to birth timing.