Her speech, The Path and Progress of American Women Ecologists, was published in the ESA Bulletin the following December. In the introduction, she wrote: “For my address to the Society, it seemed ...

See all related posts. Thirty years ago, Dr. Jean Langenheim initiated a project on “women ecologists” by sending letters to dozens of women who were practicing ecology, most of whom were in the ...

No list of prominent female ecologists would be complete without the inclusion of the three women who changed the way the world looked at primates. Dian Fossey's extensive study of the mountain ...

For decades it had been a mystery how female Bonobos, cousins to humans, claim higher positions than males in their troop hierarchy.

In the present study, the authors surveyed the Organization for Tropical Studies graduate database, which also was surveyed in 1988, to determine the challenges still faced by women ecologists.

where most species were dominated by males and female dominance was anecdotal," says co-author Elise Huchard, a behavioral ecologist at the Institute of Evolutionary Science in Montpellier ...

Ensuring women have equal rights to inheritance and property ownership is key to tackling climate breakdown. Securing these reforms would help women break the cycle of poverty, benefiting them, their ...

Women’s organising in Kyrgyzstan serves as an example of the inseparable linkages between gender, environmental and economic justice. The sheer scale of the challenges faced by our planet is difficult ...

This new study in Scientific Reports, titled “An integrative measure of cognitive performance, but not individual task performance is linked to male reproductive output in budgerigars,” found that ...