The Ecological Society of America has named Sunshine Van Bael as the new editor-in-chief of its open-access journal Ecosphere. She will assume editorial leadership and oversight for the journal, which publishes research over a broad range of focal areas – ranging from agroecosystem ecology and disease ecology to eco-education, statistical theory, and methodology.
Van Bael is an associate professor at the School of Science & Engineering, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University. Her laboratory studies community ecology with emphasis on symbioses and plant-microbial interactions. Broadly, she is interested in how plants become involved in symbioses with other organisms to feed themselves and defend themselves from enemies. She is involved in projects in Ecuador, Panama and in the southeastern US that include microbial ecology, chemical ecology, biodiversity conservation, coastal restoration and agroecology.
Van Bael will assume the role as editor-in-chief Dec. 1, 2023.
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