American Society of Naturalists

Featured Photographs

“Stage-structured evolutionary demography: linking life histories, population genetics, and ecological dynamics” (Photo © Jan van Arkel, IBED/University of Amsterdam)

“Mate choice vs mate preference: inferences about color assortative mating differ between field and lab assays of poison frog behavior” (Photo: Yusan Yang)

“Upscaling microclimatic conditions into body temperature distributions of ectotherms” (Photo: Juan G. Rubalcaba)

“Higher nest predation favors rapid fledging at the cost of plumage quality in nestling birds” (Photo: Jay McGowan)

Special Announcements

Call for ASN Graduate Student Representatives

Posted on Apr 15, 2019

The ASN Graduate Student Council seeks members to serve on the Graduate Council. Application deadline June 30

2019 Presidential Award

Posted on Apr 15, 2019

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 2019 are Meike J. Wittmann and Tadashi Fukami, for their paper, Eco-Evolutionary Buffering: Rapid Evolution Facilitates Regional Species Coexistence despite Local Priority Effects

Results of the 2019 Election

Posted on Apr 15, 2018 by ASN

Congratulations to Butch Brodie (2021 ASN President), Suzanne Alonzo (2021 ASN Vice President), and Becky Fuller (2010-2022 ASN Secretary)

2019 American Naturalist Student Paper Award

Posted on Apr 15, 2019

Marta Strecker Shocket is the recipient of the American Naturalist Student Paper Award for a paper appearing in Am Nat in 2018. Honorable Mentions go to a paper by Nicolas Schnedler-Meyer and a paper by Amanda Gibson.

Sewall Wright Award 2019

Posted on Mar 14, 2019

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2019 Sewall Wright Award, Jonathan B. Losos

Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award 2019

Posted on Mar 14, 2019

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2019 E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award, Anurag Agrawal

The ASN Student Research Award Recipients for 2019

Posted on Apr 10, 2019

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.

Outside the Distribution--Pitch your story! Come to the Show!

Posted on Apr 10, 2019 by ASN

On June 23, 2019, The Story Collider will host a live show of diverse voices in Evolutionary Biology at #Evol2019 in Providence. Tickets are $15. Story pitches due May 3.

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Forthcoming Papers

“Rising temperatures, molting phenology and epizootic shell disease in the American lobster”

Posted on Jul 10, 2018

Maya L. Groner, Jeffrey D. Shields, Donald F. Landers Jr., John T. Swenarton, and John M. Hoenig (Nov 2018)

Rising temperatures cause phenological mismatch between molting and epizootic shell disease in the American lobster

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Announcements

Letter to Secretary Azar on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender

Posted on Oct 31, 2018

As scientists, the Joint Societies write to express our concerns about the attempt by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to claim that there is a biological basis to defining gender as a strictly binary trait (male/female) determined by genitalia at birth.