ESA Election Results: Congratulations to ESA members who have been elected to the Governing Board and the Board of Professional Certification. The Governing Board members will join the Board after the annual meeting in August and the Board of Professional Certification members took office January 1, 2011. To see the results, click here.
The photo shows saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) burning intensely in a prescribed fire in Myakka River State Park in Sarasota County, Florida, USA. Prostrate stems and meristems typically survive such intense fires belowground, in part because the burning fronds are located well above the ground. In the December 2010 issue of Ecology, Gagnon et al. argue that pyrogenic plants like these incur lower mortality than if their fuels were to burn less readily on the ground. » read more
The 96th Annual Meeting will be held August 7-12, 2011, in Austin, TX. This meeting’s theme is "Earth Stewardship: Preserving and enhancing earth's life-support systems. The Call for Contributed Abstracts is now open! The submission deadline for all abstracts is February 24, 2011.
If you miss any of the Plenary Sessions at the ESA 2010 Annual Meeting listen to them now. Plenary 1 Panel: Environmental disasters in the US. Plenary 2: Steve Running: Innocence Lost. Plenary 3: Dr. John Holdren: Energy, the Environment, and the Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior.
