A New Chapter is Born on the Centennial: An Introduction to the Latin American Chapter of the Ecological Society of America

Human Dimensions: The Latin America and the Caribbean Chapter of ESA. Embracing Our Diversity During Adverse Times

“…The Latin American Chapter was born in 2015 during the centennial meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in Baltimore, Maryland, as an initiative of the former Mexican and South American Chapters of ESA to integrate ESA members with interest and/or working on ecological issues in Latin American and Caribbean countries (Cruz Maysonet et al 2016). In the last general meeting of our chapter, at the first fully online ESA annual meeting in 2020, our members decided to explicitly include the Caribbean region in our chapter's name, as this region is part of the chapter's geographic scope.…”