American Society of Naturalists

Featured Photographs

“Matrix models of hierarchical demography: Linking group- and population-level dynamics in cooperative breeders” (Photo: Arpat Ozgul)

“Adaptive foraging of pollinators can promote pollination of a rare plant species” (Photo: Gita Benadi)

“Geographic range dynamics drove ancient hybridization in a lineage of angiosperms” (Photo: Ryan A. Folk)

“A mechanistic model of ant battles and its consequences for territory scaling” (Photo: Sean Quinonez)

Special Announcements

Call for ASN Graduate Student Representatives

Posted on Aug 9, 2017

The ASN Graduate Student Council seeks members to serve on the Graduate Council. To apply, send an email to Emlyn Resetarits (eresetarits@utexas.edu) by August 30 with the subject line "ASN GC application" and attach a single PDF document containing your CV and a short paragraph about why you want to join and what you hope to contribute to the grad council.

Joint Societies Letter to the EPA on Using All Available Data

Posted on Jun 19, 2018 by ASN

Links to the ASN Policy Statements

Posted on Jun 19, 2018

Code of Conduct at Meetings

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Forthcoming Papers

“Models on the Runway: how do we make replicas of the world?”

Posted on Feb 26, 2018

Marlene Zuk and Mike Travisano (July 2018)

“Geographic range dynamics drove ancient hybridization in a lineage of angiosperms”

Posted on Mar 28, 2018

Ryan A. Folk, Clayton J. Visger, Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, and Robert P. Guralnick (Aug 2018)

Phyloclimatic modeling shows past climatic cooling may explain movement of genetic material across thousands of miles

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Announcements

2018 American Naturalist Student Paper Award

Posted on Mar 19, 2018

Meredith Cenzer is the recipient of the American Naturalist Student Paper Award for a paper appearing in Am Nat in 2017. Honorable Mentions go to Kimberly Gilbert and Thomas Haaland.

Sewall Wright Award 2018

Posted on Apr 3, 2018

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2018 Sewall Wright Award, John McNamra

Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award 2018

Posted on Apr 3, 2018

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2018 E. O. Wilson Award, Ben Sheldon

2018 Jasper Loftus-Hills Young Investigator Awards

Posted on Feb 19, 2018

Congratulations to Rachel Germain, Aaron Comeault, Rachael Bay, and Gijsbert Werner

Hurricane Relief

Posted on Nov 13, 2017

Donate to get grants to colleagues.

Colleagues, apply for hurricane recovery assistance.

2018 Presidential Award

Posted on Mar 27, 2018

The Presidential Award is chosen by the President of the American Society of Naturalists from all of the papers published in The American Naturalist during the preceding calendar year. The recipients of the award for 2018 are Jahnavi Joshi, Anupama Prakash, and Krushnamegh Kunte, for their paper, "Evolutionary Assembly of Communities in Butterfly Mimicry Rings"

The ASN Student Research Award Recipients for 2018

Posted on Apr 2, 2018

The ASN Student Research Awards support research by student members that advances the goals of the society: the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, and behavior.

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