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Robert H. MacArthur Robert Helmer MacArthur (April 7, 1930 – November 1, 1972) was a Canadian-born American ecologist who made a major impact on many areas of community and population ecology. He is considered to be one of the founders of ecology. Early life ...
Award is a biennial prize given by the
Ecological Society of America The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a professional organization of ecological scientists. Based in the United States and founded in 1915, ESA publications include peer-reviewed journals, newsletters, fact sheets, and teaching resources. I ...
to ecologists for their pivotal contributions to their field. The acceptance speeches of many recipients have been given at the annual meeting of the society and subsequently published in the ESA's journal, ''
Ecology Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their Natural environment, environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community (ecology), community, ecosystem, and biosphere lev ...
''. The following is a self-descriptive quote taken from the Robert H. MacArthur Award page on the ESA's website: "The Robert H. MacArthur Award is given biennially to an established ecologist in mid-career for meritorious contributions to ecology, in the expectation of continued outstanding ecological research. Nominees may be from any country and need not be ESA members. The recipient is invited to prepare an address for presentation at the annual meeting of the society and for publication in Ecology."


Recipients

Source
ESA
*1983
Robert Treat Paine Robert Treat Paine (March 11, 1731May 11, 1814) was a lawyer, politician and Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and Declaration of Independence as a representative of the colonial era Province of Massachu ...
, United States *1984 Robert McCreadie May, United Kingdom *1986 Thomas W. Schoener, United States *1988 Simon Asher Levin, United States *1990 William W. Murdoch, United States *1992 Peter M. Vitousek, United States *1994 Henry Miles Wilbur, United States *1996
David Tilman George David Tilman (born Titman; July 22, 1949), ForMemRS, is an American ecologist. He is Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology at the University of Minnesota, as well as an instructor in Conservation Biology; Ecology, E ...
, United States *1998
Robert V. O'Neill The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, prais ...
, United States *2000 Stephen R. Carpenter, United States *2002 James H. Brown, United States *2004
May Berenbaum May Roberta Berenbaum (born July 22, 1953) is an American entomologist, who is a professor of entomology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the chemical interactions between herbivorous insects and their host plan ...
, United States *2006
Alan Hastings Alan Matthew Hastings is a mathematical ecologist and distinguished professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. In 2005 he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ...
, United States *2008
Monica Turner Monica G. Turner is an American ecologist known for her work at Yellowstone National Park since the large fires of 1988. She is currently the Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Life and career Turn ...
, United States *2010 Stephen W. Pacala, United States *2012
Anthony Ragnar Ives Anthony, also spelled Antony, is a masculine given name derived from the ''Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants ...
, United States *2014 Mercedes Pascual, United States *2016 Anurag A. Agrawal, United States *2018 Katharine N. Suding. United States *2020 Jonathan M. Levine, United States *2022 Priyanga Amarasekare, United States *2024 Kathleen Treseder, United States


See also

* List of ecology awards


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Macarthur Award American science and technology awards Awards established in 1983 Ecology awards