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{"title":"Cover","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/bes2.2165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2165","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>COVER PHOTO:</b> A Toppin’s titi monkey (<i>Plecturocebus toppini</i>) feeds on flowers in southeast Peru. The monkey was observed during fieldwork for a study on mammal diversity patterns along an elevational gradient from the Amazonian lowlands to the high Andean peaks. Detailed field measurements of net primary productivity accurately predicted mammal abundance and diversity, while satellite proxies failed, as described in Holzmann et al. 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70059). Photo credit: Kim Holzmann.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":93418,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.2165","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524916","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}

{"title":"ESA Governing Board Spring 2025 Meeting Minutes Ecological Society of America Washington, DC and Zoom Meeting May 13–14, 2025","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/bes2.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70027","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;President Hampton presiding, meeting called to order at 10:00 a.m. EST&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I. Roll Call and Agenda (Hampton)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A. Adopt Agenda&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Motion to Adopt Meeting Agenda:&lt;/b&gt; Motion moved by Jeannine Cavender-Bares and motion seconded by Kelly Ramirez. All aye.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;B. Consent Agenda&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No objections were made. The consent agenda was approved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;II. Reports&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A. Report of the President (Hampton)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;President Hampton reminded the Governing Board (GB) of the conflicts of interest and especially the case where a GB member is working with another organization with similar goals. She also addressed the current climate of uncertainty, reflected on the concept of purposeful engagement, and lauded the ongoing efforts of the ESA staff. She ended by expressing her appreciation on behalf of the GB for the staff's efforts and dedication.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;III. Strategic and Operational Updates&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A. Publications Update/New Journals&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ESA Publications Director Adrienne Sponberg discussed progress made in the journals program since November 2024. ESA experienced a slight decline in publishing revenue between 2023 and 2024. This report explains some of the factors that caused the decline, actions taken to reverse the trend, and provides updated metrics for ESA publications. Her report summarized operational challenges and efforts underway across the publication portfolio, as requested by the Governing Board at the November 2024 board retreat. Also included are updates on major changes to the peer review software we use and activity around a possible new ESA journal. The GB noted the considerable work that went into reducing the publications backlog and also discussed the new REX system and support that could be provided to the Editorial Office and Editors during the transition.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;C. Annual Meeting Updates for 2025&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;E. Impacts of Executive Orders on Higher Education and Scholarly Societies&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Art Coleman, a Founding Partner of Education Counsel, LLC, spoke with the Governing Board during lunch to discuss the impacts of executive orders on higher education and scholarly societies. Following the presentation, the GB sought clarity from Mr. Coleman on issues relevant to the Executive Orders relevant to ESA. The GB members also asked general questions related to ongoing litigation in response to the EO's, including how courts generally viewed standing to seek relief and the strategies and partnerships Mr. Coleman considered particularly notable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;F. Task Force Report (Pataki)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Task Force to Establish a Research Agenda in Actionable Ecological Science chair Diane Pataki reported on recent progress and developments. The task force has met several times and is proposing a new focus of their work. Given the uncertainty in funding at NSF and other agencies, and the current attack on science, it is critical to communicate strong narrativ","PeriodicalId":93418,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.70027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524977","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}

{"title":"The ESA Editorial Fellowship: Navigating the Publishing Landscape as Early-Career Scientists From the Global South","authors":"Bruno E. Soares,&nbsp;Andrea Paz","doi":"10.1002/bes2.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70026","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Publishing is a cornerstone of scientific development and progression of scientific careers, often serving as a currency or benchmark guiding decision-making for academic jobs, grant applications, awards, and more. Maintaining the publishing system is complex. It relies on the quality of submitted manuscripts but also on the collaborative efforts of editors and reviewers. Authors write and submit manuscripts, often without being fully aware of the criteria that will be used by editors to assess the fit of the manuscript for a particular journal. Editors ensure that manuscripts align with the journal's scope, rigorously evaluating their scientific relevance and managing the peer-review process. Then, volunteer reviewers assess the soundness, originality, and coherence of the research, offering constructive feedback to refine the work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite its central importance to scientific careers, there is a visible gap in specific training for academic publishing, with journals usually lacking training spaces and materials for all the actors involved in the publishing ecosystem (but see British Ecological Society &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;). In our experience, while you are trained in academic writing during a PhD, graduate programs often fail to provide training for students in the other activities of academic publishing, instead relying on individual advisors for this experience. Hence, graduate students and early-career researchers are expected to publish, often in well-known outlets and contribute time to the publishing ecosystem (reviewing, even editing), yet there are few formal opportunities to prepare them for this critical part of their career.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the lack of training, the fast-paced shifts in academic publishing pose additional challenges for researchers to effectively navigate the publishing landscape without proper training. These changes include an exponential growth of the “pay to publish” system for open access to articles (free to read), AI tools, adoption of double-anonymous review systems, and open science practices. While providing new opportunities for researchers in many instances, these changes require researchers to constantly learn and adapt to this quickly evolving publishing ecosystem (Box 1). Open publishing agreements now allow some researchers to publish “for free” and other agreements provide discounted rates in specific journals, but many researchers are unaware of these opportunities. AI tools that can generate codes for statistical analyses or even text (e.g., ChatGPT) introduce new ethical challenges, which are being addressed by new guidelines from societies and publishers on when and how to use such tools (COPE Council &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). Peer-review models have also shifted, with discussions surrounding review type (e.g., single-anonymous or double-anonymous; Cássia-Silva et al. &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;; Fox et al. &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;) igniting debate on how to balance scientific rigor, fairness, and accountabi","PeriodicalId":93418,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524841","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}

{"title":"Recalling Margaret Bryan Davis, Pioneer in Paleoecology and Trailblazer for Women in Ecology 1931–2024","authors":"Jeannine Cavender-Bares,&nbsp;Sarah E. Hobbie,&nbsp;Elizabeth T. Borer","doi":"10.1002/bes2.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70030","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;As detailed in Hotchkiss et al. (&lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;), Margaret Bryan Davis studied long-term change in forests and greatly accelerated developments within the fields of paleoecology and Quaternary palynology in her efforts to understand how forests respond to disturbance and environmental change. She used fossil pollen from cores of lake sediments and soil to reconstruct plant communities and migration patterns of trees over the last 14,000 years during and after glacial retreat. Her work demonstrated that tree species have independent migration paths, assembling into communities based on their own dispersal abilities and environmental constraints. This work essentially ended the debate between community ecologists Frederick Clemens and Henry Gleason about whether communities are “superorganisms” or co-occurring species, assembled independently. Her research laid the foundation for understanding and predicting changes in forest composition in response to climate change. Because of her work, Margaret was one of the first women elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1982), and she was awarded both ESA's Eminent Ecologist Award (1993) and the William S. Cooper Award (2011). She also was elected to serve as the President of ESA (1987–1988).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Margaret navigated ecology at a time when women were poorly represented in the discipline and often blocked from participation. On at least one occasion, she was denied a faculty position and told that it should be reserved for a man. When she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982, the engraved award she was handed at the ceremony used male pronouns, which she refused to let them correct. She studied plant physiology and ecology at Radcliffe College, graduated in 1953, and completed a Ph.D. in biology at Harvard University in 1957. She worked in Greenland on fossil pollen from the Quaternary period during a Fulbright fellowship. After several postdoctoral fellowships, she joined the Botany Department at the University of Michigan in a non-faculty research position to be near her then husband. She was later promoted to full professor but remained the lowest paid member of the faculty at her rank. Only by threatening a lawsuit was she able to receive a salary increase and back pay. In 1973, she joined the biology faculty at Yale University. Despite her success there, she was frustrated by the institutional culture at the time and left the position in 1976 to become head of the relatively new Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB) at the University of Minnesota. During her career, she mentored many notable doctoral students, including Sara Hotchkiss (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and post-docs, including Thompson Webb III (Brown University) and Shinya Sugita (Tallinn University in Estonia).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Margaret played a pivotal role in establishing EEB at the University of Minnesota as one of the leading ecology and biodiversity departments in the world, which she ensured wa","PeriodicalId":93418,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.70030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524800","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}

{"title":"Conservation Shapes Canid Interactions in Prairie Landscapes","authors":"Ty J. Werdel,&nbsp;Mason Fidino,&nbsp;Colleen W. Piper,&nbsp;Andrew M. Ricketts,&nbsp;Matthew S. Peek,&nbsp;Adam A. Ahlers","doi":"10.1002/bes2.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>These photographs illustrate the article “Influence of landscape composition on spatiotemporal interactions between sympatric canids” by Ty J. Werdel, Mason Fidino, Colleen W. Piper, Andrew M. Ricketts, Matthew S. Peek, and Adam A. Ahlers, published in <i>Ecological Applications</i>. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70047</p>","PeriodicalId":93418,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.70029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524606","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}

{"title":"Alpine–Subalpine Linkages via Transboundary Subsidies of Arthropods","authors":"Daichi Iijima,&nbsp;Masashi Murakami","doi":"10.1002/bes2.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>These photographs illustrate the article “Alpine birds in a sky island: resource subsidies from foothill areas” by Daichi Iijima and Masashi Murakami published in <i>Ecology</i>. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70037</p>","PeriodicalId":93418,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.70025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524799","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}

{"title":"Where the Wind Wins: How Wind-Eroded Patches Expand in Semi-Arid Sandlands","authors":"Shudong Zhang,&nbsp;Xuehua Ye,&nbsp;Guofang Liu,&nbsp;Zhenying Huang,&nbsp;J. Hans C. Cornelissen","doi":"10.1002/bes2.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>These photographs illustrate the article “Positive feedback between wind-eroded patch size, plant recruitment failure and desertification in semi-arid sandlands” by Shudong Zhang, Xuehua Ye, Guofang Liu, Zhenying Huang, and J. Hans C. Cornelissen published in <i>Ecological Applications</i>. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70040</p>","PeriodicalId":93418,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.70024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524942","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}

{"title":"Trapped Fungus Gnats Oviposit in the Lethal Kettle of Arisaema While Corpses Provide Essential Food for Larval Development","authors":"Wen Huang,&nbsp;Chun-Feng Yang","doi":"10.1002/bes2.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>These photographs illustrate the article “Scavenging contributes to larval food intake in fungus gnats using the Arisaema kettle trap as a brood site” by Wen Huang, Xin Li, Qing-Feng Wang, Chun-Feng Yang, Jon Ågren published in <i>Ecology</i>. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70118</p>","PeriodicalId":93418,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524957","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}

{"title":"Early-Career Publishing and Reviewing: Pitfalls and Perspectives","authors":"Kathleen A. Carroll,&nbsp;Alyson East,&nbsp;Xiulin Gao,&nbsp;John George McMullen II,&nbsp;Nathan Emery","doi":"10.1002/bes2.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While the publishing landscape has drastically changed in recent decades, publishing productivity metrics (e.g., citation scores) and support for early-career researchers (ECRs) have not kept pace. ECRs are individuals currently in school, up to 8 years post final degree, or on the job market, and being an ECR is inherently characterized by transitions that coincide with potential career instability and pressure to find a permanent job. The global pandemic years exacerbated the publishing challenges ECRs faced, from reviewer scarcity to publishing equity gaps across gender and race. We sought to evaluate ECR attitudes towards publishing, reviewing, and open access (OA), as well as identify common barriers ECRs encountered in the current publishing system. We solicited ECR perspectives by distributing a survey to ECRs from September to October of 2023, resulting in 162 self-identified ECRs in ecology, including students (38%), postdoctoral scholars (29%), those in permanent positions (31%; e.g., faculty, state, and federal government), or working outside ecology altogether (2%). Overwhelmingly, cost, reviewer compensation, time constraints, and insufficient mentorship were the major barriers identified by ECRs. We suggest that institutions, journal publishers, mid- and late-career ecologists, and professional societies adopt focused strategies to support ECRs through more diverse and inclusive financial support for publishing, broader metrics to measure scientific productivity beyond traditional citation-based metrics, additional means to compensate reviewers, and training and mentorship to students and postdoctoral researchers on reviewer expectations and etiquette. Several survey respondents also noted that the publishing system would be more equitable if all scientific journals transitioned to double-blind peer review. If scientific organizations, institutions, and publishers wish to promote a sustainable and diverse scientific publishing system in the future, they need to focus on the needs and challenges of early-career researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":93418,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524929","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}

{"title":"Candidates for the Fall 2025 ESA Election","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/bes2.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Respectfully submitted by the 2025 ESA Nominations Committee</p><p>Shahid Naeem, Chair (2024–2025), Peter Groffman, Diogo Provete, James Rattling Leaf, Angee Doerr, Pacifica Sommers, Kat Superfisky\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":93418,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524570","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}