Ecological Society of America

The Ecological Society of America is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization of scientists that promotes ecological science.

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization of scientists that promotes ecological science. It aims to improve communication among ecologists; raise the public’s level of awareness of the importance of ecological science; increase the resources available for the conduct of ecological science; and ensure the appropriate use of ecological science in environmental decision-making by enhancing communication between the ecological community and policy-makers. The ESA’s members conduct research, teach, and use ecological science to address environmental issues that include biotechnology, natural resource management, ecological restoration, ozone depletion and global climate change, ecosystem management, species extinction and loss of biological diversity, habitat alteration and destruction, and sustainable ecological systems. It publishes a suite of publications, from peer-reviewed journals to newsletters, fact sheets, and teaching resources. The Society’s Public Affairs Office works to infuse ecological knowledge into environmental decision-making, convey ecological science to the media and the general public, and to provide services to the ecological community. Its Science Programs Office, founded in 1992 as the Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (SBI), promotes the continued development of ecological science and its integration into decision-making and education, linking the ecological research and management communities. The Education and Diversity Programs Office works to increase diversity within ecology-related professions, to engage the public in a dialogue on ecological research and issues, and to improve the quality of ecology education at all levels. The ESA Journals publishes results of ecological research that employ theoretical, modeling, analytical, experimental, observational, synthetic, historical, and descriptive approaches, including those of allied natural and social sciences. It publishes a suite of journals, in suitable forms, that address the interests of scientists, students, educators, resource managers, and other users of ecological knowledge. The Ecological Society of America was founded in 1915 and is based in Washington, D.C., United States.