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The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a professional organization of ecological scientists. Based in the United States and founded in 1915, ESA publications include peer-reviewed journals, newsletters, fact sheets, and teaching resources. It holds an annual meeting at different locations in the USA and Canada. In addition to its ...
It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 13.780, ranking it eleventh out of 279 journals in the category "Environmental Sciences" [2] and fourth out of 174 journals in the category "Ecology". [3]
In 2012, the Ecological Society of America launched the Ehrenfeld Award to celebrate her contribution to urban ecology. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 2019, the New York–New Jersey Trail Conference established the Joan Ehrenfeld Award for Responsible Stewardship.
Environmental and conservation organizations in the United States have been formed to help protect the environment, habitats, flora, and fauna on federally owned land, on private land, within coastal limits, in-state conservation areas, in-state parks and in locally governed municipalities.
The Nature Conservancy developed out of a scholarly organization initially known as the Ecological Society of America (ESA). [6] The ESA was founded in 1915, and later formed a Committee on Preservation of Natural Areas for Ecological Study, headed by Victor Shelford .
Ecology is a scientific journal that publishes research and synthesizes papers in the field of ecology.It was founded in 1920 as the continuation of Plant World, and is published by the Ecological Society of America. [2]
An analysis published in 2016 by the Ecological Society of America found that approximately 50 species may have gone extinct while awaiting a listing decision. [4] Additional funding might enable the agency to direct more resources toward biological assessments of petitioned species and determine if they merit a listing decision. [137] [138]
When the Ecological Society of America (ESA) was chartered in 1915, it already had a conservation perspective. [104] Victor E. Shelford, a leader in the society's formation, had as one of its goals the preservation of the natural areas that were then the objects of study by ecologists, but were in danger of being degraded by human incursion. [105]