With the theme "Ecology is Everywhere," the Ecological Society of America held its annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, August 10-15, 2025. The event featured presentations, networking and discussions on a broad range of ecological science topics.

There were 10 participants from the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS):

• Kara Dobson, a postdoctoral fellow, presented "Experimental warming drives community thermophilization, with a few key species playing a major role in this shift."
• Yihang Duan, a postdoctoral fellow, was co-organizer of "Microbial Mechanisms of Soil Carbon Cycling Response to Environmental Change."
• Peter Flood, a postdoctoral fellow, presented "Variable influence of climate warming on fish body size within and among thermal guilds using long-term and regional-scale data."
• Ana Gunther, a PhD candidate, presented a poster, "Linking ecosystem traits, organic matter fractions, and soil carbon storage on working farms and adjacent forests."
• Alexis Heinz, a master's student, presented a poster, "Ratio of vehicle to nature observations compared with the distance from roadway and road type."
• Inés Ibáñez, a SEAS professor, presented "Mycorrhizal fungi influence on mature tree growth: stronger in high-nitrogen soils for an EMF tree and in low-nitrogen soils for two AMF trees."
• Yi Liu, a PhD candidate, presented a poster, "Consistent spatial and temporal flowering time sensitivities to temperature from field observations and herbarium data."
• Morgan McPherson, a postdoctoral fellow, presented "Mycorrhizal type determines tree responses to soil N availability and eCO2."
• Isabella Shehab, a PhD candidate, presented "Beyond the ‘green bubble’: Assessing demographic bias in ecologically functional residential landscape management research."
• Heng-Zing Zou, a postdoctoral fellow, presented "Non-adaptive functional shifts in North American avian communities dominated by just a few species."