The
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
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List of ecology awards
References
External links
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American science and technology awards
Awards established in 1983
Ecology awards