COVER PHOTO: This photo, taken on March 19, 2023 by Catherine Hulshof De La Peña, shows the view from an abandoned pasture toward the peak of Volcán Cacao (1650 m above sea level) and its tropical cloud forests, in Sector Cacao, Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica. As described in Walter et al. (https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4442), evidence shows that temperature and precipitation regimes are shifting across ACG, leading to upslope migration in some taxa, making this elevational gradient an elevator to extinction. Studies like ours to track the ecotone between lowland seasonal tropical dry forests and upland aseasonal wet and cloud forests help identify biological corridors and point to mechanisms driving changes in forest composition and phenology in response to changes in seasonality. Additional images appear in this issue of the Bulletin's Photo Gallery.
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<p>In the face of accelerating anthropogenic pressures threatening global ecosystems, the need for environmental monitoring grows ever more important. Continuous tracking of species and ecosystems helps us to understand ecosystem dynamics and functioning in these uncertain times. Scientists and conservationists everywhere are emphasizing that technological advancements can improve monitoring efforts by increasing spatial and temporal resolution and allowing for real-time data streams (Hahn et al. <span>2022</span>, Speaker et al. <span>2022</span>). The enhanced understanding of global ecosystem responses to, for instance, climate change is critical to inform policy decisions and guide conservation and environmental management (Allan et al. <span>2018</span>). More and more, the scientific and conservation community are creating new affordable monitoring systems fully tailored to their specific needs, mostly by leveraging open-source electronics such as the Arduino or Raspberry Pi platforms (e.g., Pearce <span>2012</span>, Jolles <span>2021</span>, Mühlbauer et al. <span>2023</span>). These success stories are published in various scientific journals, but when problems or failures occur they remain underexposed, potentially creating inflated expectations for readers (Lahoz-Monfort et al. <span>2019</span>). While reflective practice (see Box 1) is strongly embedded in social sciences research, it is rarely adopted in the natural sciences, let alone distributed via scientific publications (but see the Centre and Journal of Trial and Error; https://trialanderror.org/).</p><p>This piece of reflection grew from the complications we faced and insights we gained when developing an innovative phenology monitoring system ourselves. With this writing, we want to look beyond the technology hype and associated good news narratives to think about a future with sustainable technological innovations for ecological research and conservation. Sustainability, in this case, implies performance, stability, and reuse, which is definitely not the same as achieving successful measurements over 1 week, month, or year for one project. We firmly believe in the potential of technology to help us better understand the challenges our planet is faced with and we hope this testimony can serve as a motivation to take on ambitious innovation projects but with a realist view and a collaborative mindset.</p><p>Within our research project, we study how global environmental change affects flowering and vegetative phenology of forest understorey plant species. More specifically, we assess phenological shifts in a global change mesocosm experiment in which small plant communities are being exposed to warming, light addition, and nutrient addition. To investigate flowering phenology, we counted flowers every 2 days throughout the flowering season of 2021 and 2022 (Lorer et al. <span>2024</span>). Since the temperate forest understory harbors both early flowering and summer flowering s
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Amanda E. Sorensen, Rebecca C. Jordan, Maria Ceron, Steven A. Gray
<p>The Ecological Society of America (ESA) supports professionals and students in the field of ecology, which is loosely defined as the study of organisms (including humans) and their interactions with the environment (i.e., natural, altered, and built). Each year the ESA hosts an annual meeting that attracts individuals from the US and around the world to share their work and according to the society's website (www.esa.org), ~4,000 individuals attend the meeting, which results in study abstracts being accessed for a year following the conference. In 2024, the 109th annual meeting was held in Long Beach, California, USA from August 3 to 9, and sessions were loosely organized around the theme of “Supporting Ecologists Throughout their Careers.” This meeting review summarizes the thematic takeaways of Contributed Oral Session 173, <i>Education Research and Assessment 2</i>, held during the 2024 ESA Annual Meeting on August 8th, related to the conference theme.</p><p>Emergent from this session was a thematic focus on supporting students in learning within a discipline that inherently engages with wicked and complex socioecological problems. As E. P. Odum posited in <span>1977</span>, ecology is inherently an “integrative discipline that links physical and biological processes and forms and bridge between the natural and social sciences.” Presentations from this session addressed this integration both from a learning perspective, in supporting students in the practices of scaffolded reasoning across disciplinary boundaries to address SES problems, and applying theory and practice from the social sciences in support of ecological education.</p><p>Below, we will summarize the four presentations given in this session. Because several, but not all, authors have worked together, these presentations were placed in this single session. Below, we summarize the speaker's presentations and connection to the theme.</p><p>Rebecca Jordan (Michigan State University) shared a presentation on meeting students' educational goals around climate change education. In this session, Jordan focused on gaps in students' knowledge about climate change using the context of food systems (see Jordan et al. <span>2023a</span>). While students were able to define the problem and some of the drivers, they struggled to discuss solutions. Indeed, students themselves acknowledged this gap and indicated that more climate change education, especially in the social sciences, is warranted and needed in ecological curriculum. Jordan proceeded to share a socioecological systems (SES) perspective where social, natural, and altered drivers work in concert to drive global change and ended the session with a call for more research on college students' understanding of SESs to tailor postsecondary climate change education to both ecology students and in general STEM education.</p><p>Maria Ceron (University of South Florida) shared information on the societal programs to support diverse communit
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These photographs illustrate the article “Orchards and paddy differentially impact rock outcrop amphibians: Insights from community- and species-level responses” by Vijayan Jithin, Manali Rane, Aparna Watve, and Rohit Naniwadekar published in Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.3058
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These photographs illustrate the article, “Urbanization alters sandy beach scavenging assemblages and dogs suppress ecosystem function” by Francis D. Gerraty, Ann Gobei-Bacaylan, and Kaia Diel published in Ecosphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70016
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Fairo F. Dzekashu, Marcell K. Peters, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Jayne M. Macharia, Kennedy W. Matheka, Abdullahi A. Yusuf, Christian W. W. Pirk, H. Michael G. Lattorff
These photographs illustrate the article “Floral Turnover and Climate Drive Seasonal Bee Diversity Along a Tropical Elevation Gradient” by Dzekashu, Fairo F., Abdullahi A. Yusuf, Christian W. W. Pirk, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, H. Michael G. Lattorff, and Marcell K. Peters. published in Ecosphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3964
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These photographs illustrate the article “Ants, camel crickets, and cockroaches as pollinators: The unsung heroes of a non-photosynthetic plant” by Suetsugu and Hashiwaki, published in Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4464
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Ilaine Silveira Matos, Mickey Boakye, Monica Antonio, Sonoma Carlos, Ashley Chu, Miguel A. Duarte, Andrea Echevarria, Adrian Fontao, Lisa Garcia, LeeAnn Huang, Breanna Carrillo Johnson, Shama Joshi, Diana Kalantar, Srinivasan Madhavan, Samantha McDonough, Izzi Niewiadomski, Nathan Nguyen, Hailey Jiyoon Park, Caroline Pechuzal, James Rohde, Roshni Sahu, Meg Scudder, Satvik Sharma, LeeDar Sneor, Jason To, Bradley Vu, Natalie Vuong, Nicole Yokota, Luiza Aparecido, Holly Forbes, Mark Fricker, Benjamin Wong Blonder
These photographs illustrate the article “Leaf architecture and functional traits for 122 species at the University of California at Berkeley Botanical Garden” by Ilaine Silveira Matos et al., published in Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4436
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<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <span> <span> <b>3.4 Transition Rules</b> </span> </span> </p><p> <span> <span> <b>(a) Vice Presidents</b> </span> </span> </p><p> <span> <span> <b>(b) Members-at-Large</b> </span> </span> </p><p> <span> <span> <b>(c) Special Terms</b> </span> </span> </p><p><b>Section 1. Elections</b>. All members of the Governing Board shall be elected by the voting members of the Society.</p><p><b>Section 2. Election Procedures</b>. The Governing Board shall establish Election Procedures.</p><p><b>Section 3. Nominations Committee</b>. The Nominations Committee shall be responsible for identifying candidates. The Nominations Committee shall serve for 1 year and consist of the Past President as Chair, the President-Elect, Board Members, and two additional members of the Society by the President</p><p><b>Section 4. Nominations</b>. The Nominations Committee shall submit to the Secretary to be filled. Names of the candidates shall be announced on the Society's website no later than 30 days before the first day of the Annual Meeting. Additional nominations may be made no later than the last day of the Annual Meeting in accordance with the Election Procedures by a petition signed by 1% of members eligible to hold office in the Society.</p><p> <span> <span> <b>Section 5. Teller's Committee</b> </span> </span> </p><p> <b>What do you see as most important now for ESA to work toward in DEIJ-focused issues and activities?</b> </p><p> <b>What is ESA doing that you find most valuable in developing a culture of inclusion and proactive addressing of DEIJ concerns</b> </p><p> <b>What do you see as most important for now to ESA to work toward in DEIJ-focused issues and activities</b> </p><p>SEEDS program!</p><p>Accessible for students and feel welcome</p><p>Branching out beyond the “regular” network (e.g., partnering with other societies and conferences).</p><p>Supporting more students</p><p>Recruitment, access to meetings—partner with other conferences/societies</p><p>ESA programming that is alignment with early career scholars</p><p>Push critical dialogue—human–Earth relationship</p><p>Empowering the community to support</p><p>Code of Conduct</p><p>Watch out for DEIJ for being hyperfocus—be more thoughtful</p><p> <b>What is ESA doing that you find most valuable in developing a culture of inclusion and proactive addres
{"title":"ESA Summer 2024 Council Meeting, 1:30–4 PM PDT Hyatt Regency, Long Beach, CA Shoreline A","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/bes2.2196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2196","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><p>\u0000 \u0000 </p><p>\u0000 <span>\u0000 <span>\u0000 <b>3.4 Transition Rules</b>\u0000 </span>\u0000 </span>\u0000 </p><p>\u0000 <span>\u0000 <span>\u0000 <b>(a) Vice Presidents</b>\u0000 </span>\u0000 </span>\u0000 </p><p>\u0000 <span>\u0000 <span>\u0000 <b>(b) Members-at-Large</b>\u0000 </span>\u0000 </span>\u0000 </p><p>\u0000 <span>\u0000 <span>\u0000 <b>(c) Special Terms</b>\u0000 </span>\u0000 </span>\u0000 </p><p><b>Section 1. Elections</b>. All members of the Governing Board shall be elected by the voting members of the Society.</p><p><b>Section 2. Election Procedures</b>. The Governing Board shall establish Election Procedures.</p><p><b>Section 3. Nominations Committee</b>. The Nominations Committee shall be responsible for identifying candidates. The Nominations Committee shall serve for 1 year and consist of the Past President as Chair, the President-Elect, Board Members, and two additional members of the Society by the President</p><p><b>Section 4. Nominations</b>. The Nominations Committee shall submit to the Secretary to be filled. Names of the candidates shall be announced on the Society's website no later than 30 days before the first day of the Annual Meeting. Additional nominations may be made no later than the last day of the Annual Meeting in accordance with the Election Procedures by a petition signed by 1% of members eligible to hold office in the Society.</p><p>\u0000 <span>\u0000 <span>\u0000 <b>Section 5. Teller's Committee</b>\u0000 </span>\u0000 </span>\u0000 </p><p>\u0000 <b>What do you see as most important now for ESA to work toward in DEIJ-focused issues and activities?</b>\u0000 </p><p>\u0000 <b>What is ESA doing that you find most valuable in developing a culture of inclusion and proactive addressing of DEIJ concerns</b>\u0000 </p><p>\u0000 <b>What do you see as most important for now to ESA to work toward in DEIJ-focused issues and activities</b>\u0000 </p><p>SEEDS program!</p><p>Accessible for students and feel welcome</p><p>Branching out beyond the “regular” network (e.g., partnering with other societies and conferences).</p><p>Supporting more students</p><p>Recruitment, access to meetings—partner with other conferences/societies</p><p>ESA programming that is alignment with early career scholars</p><p>Push critical dialogue—human–Earth relationship</p><p>Empowering the community to support</p><p>Code of Conduct</p><p>Watch out for DEIJ for being hyperfocus—be more thoughtful</p><p>\u0000 <b>What is ESA doing that you find most valuable in developing a culture of inclusion and proactive addres","PeriodicalId":93418,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America","volume":"106 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.2196","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Richard A. Houghton, Eric A. Davidson, Jerry M. Melillo, William H. Schlesinger, Gaius R. Shaver
<p>In view of George M. Woodwell's many contributions to the Ecological Society of America, to the advancement of ecological science in general, and especially to the application of ecological insights to public affairs, we offer this Resolution of Respect (Photo 1).</p><p>George Masters Woodwell was born October 23, 1928, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and died June 18, 2024, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Boston Public Latin School and from Dartmouth College (AB 1950). He spent 3 years in the US Navy (1950–1953) before attending graduate school at Duke University, where he received an AM in 1956 and a Ph.D. in 1958, both in botany, working with Henry J. Oosting.</p><p>After leaving Duke, Dr. Woodwell taught for 3 years in the Department of Botany at the University of Maine before joining the staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory in the spring of 1961. In 1975, he moved to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole to become the Director of The Ecosystems Center. In 1985, he founded and was director of the Woods Hole Research Center (now the Woodwell Climate Research Center). He also held an adjunct appointment at Yale University.</p><p>Dr. Woodwell's research focused on the structure and function of natural ecosystems and their role as building blocks of the biosphere. He is perhaps best known for his work with DDT, ionizing radiation, and climate, but his focus was ecosystem science. He demonstrated the persistence of DDT in soil and its amplification through food chains. He studied the effects of ionizing radiation on an oak–pine forest, but the work pertained to chronic disturbances of all kinds, the effects of which he labeled “biotic impoverishment.” His work on forests with R. H. Whittaker also led to the development of the production equations (gross and net primary production, autotrophic and ecosystem respiration, and net ecosystem production), which categorized the functioning of ecosystems in terms of energy and carbon budgets. Dr. Woodwell's later work distinguished between direct and indirect anthropogenic effects (e.g., land-use change and climatic feedbacks, respectively) on the global carbon budget.</p><p>Dr. Woodwell was a member of the National Academy of Science and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Heinz Environmental Prize in 1996, the John H. Chafee Excellence in Environmental Affairs Award in 2000, and the Volvo Environment Prize in 2001. He received an honorary doctorate from Duke in 1994.</p><p>Having worked at research centers, Dr. Woodwell did not have students, as such, but he did mentor a number of postdoctoral investigators and early-career scientists, including Henry Art, Daniel Botkin, Eric Davidson, Charles Hall, Richard Houghton, Robert Howarth, Jerry Melillo, Peter H. Rich, and David Whitney.</p><p>Dr. Woodwell was among the first scientists to recognize the threats to people and the planet of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. In 19
{"title":"Resolution of Respect: George M. Woodwell (1928–2024)","authors":"Richard A. Houghton, Eric A. Davidson, Jerry M. Melillo, William H. Schlesinger, Gaius R. Shaver","doi":"10.1002/bes2.2204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2204","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In view of George M. Woodwell's many contributions to the Ecological Society of America, to the advancement of ecological science in general, and especially to the application of ecological insights to public affairs, we offer this Resolution of Respect (Photo 1).</p><p>George Masters Woodwell was born October 23, 1928, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and died June 18, 2024, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Boston Public Latin School and from Dartmouth College (AB 1950). He spent 3 years in the US Navy (1950–1953) before attending graduate school at Duke University, where he received an AM in 1956 and a Ph.D. in 1958, both in botany, working with Henry J. Oosting.</p><p>After leaving Duke, Dr. Woodwell taught for 3 years in the Department of Botany at the University of Maine before joining the staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory in the spring of 1961. In 1975, he moved to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole to become the Director of The Ecosystems Center. In 1985, he founded and was director of the Woods Hole Research Center (now the Woodwell Climate Research Center). He also held an adjunct appointment at Yale University.</p><p>Dr. Woodwell's research focused on the structure and function of natural ecosystems and their role as building blocks of the biosphere. He is perhaps best known for his work with DDT, ionizing radiation, and climate, but his focus was ecosystem science. He demonstrated the persistence of DDT in soil and its amplification through food chains. He studied the effects of ionizing radiation on an oak–pine forest, but the work pertained to chronic disturbances of all kinds, the effects of which he labeled “biotic impoverishment.” His work on forests with R. H. Whittaker also led to the development of the production equations (gross and net primary production, autotrophic and ecosystem respiration, and net ecosystem production), which categorized the functioning of ecosystems in terms of energy and carbon budgets. Dr. Woodwell's later work distinguished between direct and indirect anthropogenic effects (e.g., land-use change and climatic feedbacks, respectively) on the global carbon budget.</p><p>Dr. Woodwell was a member of the National Academy of Science and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Heinz Environmental Prize in 1996, the John H. Chafee Excellence in Environmental Affairs Award in 2000, and the Volvo Environment Prize in 2001. He received an honorary doctorate from Duke in 1994.</p><p>Having worked at research centers, Dr. Woodwell did not have students, as such, but he did mentor a number of postdoctoral investigators and early-career scientists, including Henry Art, Daniel Botkin, Eric Davidson, Charles Hall, Richard Houghton, Robert Howarth, Jerry Melillo, Peter H. Rich, and David Whitney.</p><p>Dr. Woodwell was among the first scientists to recognize the threats to people and the planet of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. In 19","PeriodicalId":93418,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America","volume":"106 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.2204","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143120366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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