Check out Christina Alba, PhD, our featured Vegetation Ecologist, and her education and career paths and current projects in the area of vegetation ecology.

This award is given annually to the best paper in vegetation ecology published in the previous year that was nominated by a section member. Check out the latest award winners here.

This student award is given each year for the best oral presentation in vegetation science at the ESA Annual Meeting by a graduate student (or recent post-graduate). Check out the latest winners of the award here.

Check out our current section governance team, or explore who were our past section officers since 1984!

This month's photo is brought to us by Dr. Alyssa Young, the winner of 2023 Robert P. McIntosh award for the best paper in vegetation ecology. The photo shows North Carolina Longleaf Pine Savanna where >500 undergraduate students investigated the effects of heatwaves on dominant understory grasses in a series of greenhouse experiments as a part of the Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE).

Learn about the latest events and news at the Vegetation Section of the Ecological Society of America!