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Access to ESA Journals - Austral Ecology and Ecological Management & Restoration (EMR)

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Join us for the Ecological Society of Australia’s 60th Anniversary Conference - 29 November to 4 December 2020.

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The ESA awards more than 100 prizes each year to students and professionals for research excellence, study, travel, conference presentations and science communication.

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Did you get your ESA e-news?

Have you been recieving the weekly ESA e-news? If not you can read this week’s….... Read more

Awards

What do frogs need to survive 2020 and beyond?

It’s not just humans who doing it tough in 2020. Our native frogs are also….... Read more

Industry News

Happy Birthday to us! 60 years of ESA

2020 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of a national society for ecology. The….... Read more

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The implant making native mammals toxic to feral cats

This year’s Jill Landsberg Trust Fund Scholarship recipient will use the funding to undertake field….... Read more

Bulletin

ESA Bulletin – June 2020

Download the full June 2020 edition of the ESA Bulletin as a PDF here. Or….... Read more

Bulletin

ESA2020: Understanding Ecological Extremes: Mechanisms of Resilience and Recovery

Toni Stevens, ESA media officer It’s hard to believe the theme for this year’s Ecological….... Read more