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The world's largest community of ecologists -- dedicated to understanding life on earth and fostering a thriving planet.

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🐜🌳 Our new open-access article on ant–plant interactions is out! Dive into the fascinating world of extrafloral nectaries and ant behavior. Co-authored with an amazing team! doi.org/10.1002/bes2... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social

🔎Also see: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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New on the ESA Career Center:
* Division Director, Environmental Sciences, Oak Ridge Natl Lab
* Lab Tech, Biology/Environmental Studies Bowdoin College
* Watershed & Water Resources Science Faculty University of Maryland CES

These & more waiting for your app! https://www.esacareercenter.org/jobs/
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21 jobs to view and apply for now with ESACareers Career Center
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December 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Don't miss tomorrow's special edition of our career exploration webinar series -- featuring the boss!
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Our next career exploration webinar is a special edition featuring Executive Director Catherine O'Riordan reflecting on her career story through the STEM world and offering insights and advice. 12/9 at 2:00 PM ET https://esa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xPS-s_lwQ7iKQGiMuFj8YA
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Exploring Career Opportunities in Ecology -- Special Session with ESA’s Executive Director. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us for a special edition of our series featuring Catherine O’Riordan, ESA’s Executive Director. In this session, Catherine shares her career story, offering insights, advice, and inspiration for students and professionals exploring diverse paths in ecology.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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📢Grad students: Applications for ESA’s Graduate Student Policy Award are now OPEN!

Awardees receive:
💼Science policy training
🏛️Facetime w/ congressional decision-makers
✈️All-expenses-paid trip to DC, Feb 24-25

Deadline: Jan 7, 2026. Learn more/apply: https://ow.ly/Zpji50XCMgR
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Take a peek—the December cover of "Ecosphere" is here! With a curious marten photographed as part of a recent study that finds these small carnivores have remarkable foraging and diet flexibility across North American forests

Browse the issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21508925...
Cover of the December 2025 issue of Ecosphere
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Want to learn ways to incorporate community-engaged research into your teaching? Join this free event next week hosted by the ESA Education Committee. Find solutions to making ecology real for your students, or share your own experiences! https://ow.ly/ibAL50XBUiM
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Community-Engaged Research as a Teaching Tool. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Want to learn ways to incorporate community-engaged research into your teaching? Finding challenges making ecology real for your students? Or maybe you have resources to share with your colleagues! Bring your favorite beverage and join the conversation hosted by the ESA Education Committee. Host: Helaina Gomez, Tennessee Aquarium Speakers: Melissa Weatherwax, Blackfeet Community College Gabriela Garcia, EEE Scholar, Northeastern University
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December 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Are you an ECR attending #BES2025 looking for some tips to help get your research published? 💭

Come along to our workshop, organised by @britishecologicalsociety.org, @nordicoikos.bsky.social & @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social where we'll be covering each aspect of the academic publishing journey 📚
December 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Final reminder to submit your #ESA2026 workshop, short course, field trip & special session proposals by today at 5:00 PM ET! These sessions let organizers share practical learning and transformative experiences, and showcase unique sites near our host city. https://ow.ly/QpvV50XBT4Z
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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New paper alert!! Repetition and order of exposure to salinization and nutrient enrichment drive freshwater microbial community responses, led by PhD student Rose Fuggle with supervisors Mariana Mayer Pinto, Miguel Matias and Ziggy Marzinelli. 🧪🌐🦠

Read here: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

#microbes
Repetition and order of exposure to salinization and nutrient enrichment drive freshwater microbial community responses
Biological systems face multiple stressors that impact biodiversity and ecosystem functions, with complex interactions that vary spatially and temporally leading to unpredictable outcomes. In freshwa...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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In this new paper led by Marina Corella Tor, we analyzed international migratory bird agreements and found
• Fewer agreements at lower latitudes;
• Only 28% of species have full range coverage; 14% have none. doi.org/10.1002/fee....
PDF kaizenconservation.com/wp-content/u...
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Spatial and taxonomic coverage of international migratory bird agreements
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December 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Get a head start on building your scientific career pathway! This workshop series is designed to help you chart a successful, fulfilling career pathway in ecology.
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📣New workshop series! *Future-proof Your Science Career* from Cassie Briggs, PhD at Success in Science Career Coaching is a 3-part series kicking off in January. Join individual events or register for the bundle to save even more! https://ow.ly/Oqbf50XualQ
December 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The December cover star of "Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment"—a young vervet monkey photographed by Graeme Cumming—illustrates Cumming’s study on “spillover effects” when protected species roam beyond park boundaries, bringing benefits and costs

Browse the full issue: tinyurl.com/2stvspyp
December 2025 cover of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Discover the latest in ecological research with our new media tip sheet!📰

From urban pollinator pathways to sea urchin halos and migratory bird protections, explore 6 fascinating studies in our November roundup:
https://ow.ly/21cs50XBmi7
a microscopic photo of mycorrhizae
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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New in Ecosphere's "Microbial Ecology" track!⬇️
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The first chapter of my dissertation is finally published in @esajournals.bsky.social! We determined which microbial characteristics best explain soil nutrient cycling and their importance compared to plant and soil factors 🍄🌱 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2... @nahpo.bsky.social @k8eatherton.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Our next career exploration webinar is a special edition featuring Executive Director Catherine O'Riordan reflecting on her career story through the STEM world and offering insights and advice. 12/9 at 2:00 PM ET https://esa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xPS-s_lwQ7iKQGiMuFj8YA
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Exploring Career Opportunities in Ecology -- Special Session with ESA’s Executive Director. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us for a special edition of our series featuring Catherine O’Riordan, ESA’s Executive Director. In this session, Catherine shares her career story, offering insights, advice, and inspiration for students and professionals exploring diverse paths in ecology.
esa.zoom.us
December 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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⏰Tomorrow at 2:00! Learn how to implement drawing in your curriculum & improve your ecology education goals.
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New workshop! *Drawing as a Teaching Tool for Learning in the Ecology Classroom, Lab & Field* 12/2 @ 2:00 PM ET. Learn practical drawing tools to enhance observation, generate questions, spark interest & encourage exploration @sciencecandance.bsky.social
https://ow.ly/2WkF50XqEaL
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December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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🆕 in Ecosphere's #MacrosystemsEcology track: A Cleveland Metroparks study finds deer lean into suburbia for forage (& maybe safety from predators)

📄White-tailed deer preferentially use areas with greater anthropogenic development in a suburban metropark system
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(A) Map of landcover in northeast Ohio according to Landfire National Vegetation Classification (NVC) subclass type with white points indicating camera-trap locations in the Cleveland Metroparks. (B) Enlargement of the area of the white square in (A), displaying a single camera trap location with the 500-m radius buffer that we used to estimate landcover and enhanced vegetation index surrounding each camera station.
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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A 🆕 Perspective in "Earth Stewardship": From the lab to legislature—scientists are uniquely positioned to turn evidence into policy for restoration, climate action, & more

📄Scientists as policymakers: Greenlighting restoration and climate action
doi.org/10.1002/eas2...
A case study illustrating how policymaking can intervene to alter the course of climate change.
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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A friendly reminder #ESA2026 workshop, short course, special session & field trip proposals are due 12/4 @ 5:00 PM ET. These sessions add immense value & help to transmit vital scientific skills & insights to other ecologists. Help make this program great!
https://ow.ly/ewLM50Xyo07
A promotional image of ecologist Adriana L. Romero Olivares, with a quote written next to her: "I organized this special session to bring attention to the impacts of global change on drylands, which are often overlooked compared to other ecosystems, and to connect with others working on similar systems. The session revealed shared research themes and highlighted key knowledge gaps than can help move the field forward."
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Thankful for our members and their commitment to each other -- as of last week's deadline, we received the greatest number of awards and fellows nominations as we had in many years. 👏👏Well done to you all ... and stay tuned for leadership nominations in the coming weeks!
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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🆕 & #OpenAccess in "Ecological Applications": Ocean models, particle tracking, and DNA data reveal marine larval routes linking deep-sea seamounts

📄Seamount larval dispersal networks: A potential strategy for conserving ecological connectivity from deep-sea mining
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Modeled larval dispersal networks. The results for depths of (a) 100 m, (b) 600 m, (c) 1000 m, and (d) 1500 m are shown. Yellow, thicker edges indicate higher dispersal probabilities. The edges with dispersal probabilities of <0.1% are shown in black. The edges are directional, curving counterclockwise from the beginning points to the end points. Red indicates seamounts with contract areas for cobalt-rich crust exploration as of July 2024; magenta indicates seamounts whose contract area was relinquished in July 2024; and blue indicates other seamounts. The bathymetric contours are drawn at intervals of 2000 m
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Spatial distribution of rare and common phytoplankton taxa is controlled by geospatial and physicochemical variables esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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🧪🐷🦌New paper out today on (lack of) competition between native deer and wild pigs: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Leveraging multiple data sources to assess competition between introduced wild pigs and native deer
Introduced species have diverse impacts on native wildlife and ecosystems. Negative effects of introduced species on native species through competition or amensalism are frequently hypothesized, but ...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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⚡️ New Paper ⚡️
“Indigenous invisibility: Gaps in education about Indigenous peoples among environmental decision-makers” led by Dr. Brittany Hunt (Virginia Tech).

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Indigenous invisibility: Gaps in education about Indigenous peoples among environmental decision‐makers
Millions of Indigenous people belong to hundreds of Tribal nations and self-determined communities throughout the United States. Many of these groups continue to steward lands and waters that have sh...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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🆕 & #OpenAccess in "Ecological Monographs": Coexistence in the Serengeti isn’t simple: body size, dental traits, and water needs together shape how herbivores divide space and food

📄Multidimensional resource partitioning by Serengeti herbivores
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Multidimensional resource partitioning by large herbivores. Herbivores can reduce interspecific competition for food by selecting different sites (space), different plant taxa, and different plant organs. In this graphic, herbivores partition space, plant species, and organs in relation to three key trade-offs: Grazer-browser continuum, forage quality–quantity continuum, and water requirements continuum. Here, we use functional traits as proxies for the positioning of 15 large-herbivore species along these three axes to integrate multiple dimensions of food partitioning. We investigate their ability to explain partitioning of space and plant taxa (we did not consider partitioning of plant parts in this study). Underlined traits have been used as proxies for the three dimensions in this study
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM