The European Ecological Federation (EEF) is the umbrella organisation of specialist ecological learned societies in Europe.
Tasks The EEF aims to be a forum for ecological science in Europe and at the same time a link organisation to other continents or international ecological organisations (e.g. INTERCOL). To this end, it primarily aims to increase cooperation between national organisations, which is why only associations are members. Only individuals without a national organisation can become members directly.
Work To increase co-operation, the EEF supports conferences and publishes its own journal. In addition, the EEF acts in an advisory capacity for European institutions. It responds to requests from the European Commission, proposes experts for advisory committees and invites political decision-makers to conferences in order to promote the exchange between science and politics.
Journal The EEF publishes the journal Web Ecology since 2000 (ISSN 1399-1183). The journal publishes research articles via diamond open access from all fields of ecology. The Impact Factor (2024) is 1,5 and the journal ranks 125th of 469 ecology journals.
Ernst Haeckel Prize Since 2011, the EEF awards persons with the Ernst Haeckel Prize for extraordinary contributions to European ecological research.
Members The federation represents 17 learned societies of ecology from over 20 countries with about 8,000 members (status 2014) List (Status 2021):
British Ecological Society (BES), United Kingdom and Ireland Czech Union of Ecologists (CSPE), Czech Republic Ecological Association of Terrestrial Ecology (AEET), Spain Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Association (ekoevo), Turkey Estonian Naturalists’ Society (ELS), Estonia Gesellschaft für Ökologie, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein Hellenic Ecological Society (HELECOS), Greece Hungarian Ecological Society (MÖTE), Hungary Irish Ecological Association (IEA) associated to British Ecological Society, Ireland Macedonian Ecological Society, North Macedonia Netherlands-Flemish Ecological Society (NecoV), Netherlands and Flanders Nordic Society Oikos (NSO), Nordic countries Polish Ecological Society Petecol, Poland Romanian Ecological Society (SRE), Romania Slovak Ecological Society (SEKOS), Slovakia Sociatá Italiana di Ecologia (S.It.E), Italy Société Française d'Ecologie, France and Belgium Sociedade Portuguesa de Ecologia (SPECO), Portugal Société Française d’Écologie et d’Évolution (sfe²), France and Belgium Society of Biological Sciences in Cyprus (SBSCy), Cyprus
History
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External links European Ecological Federation Web Ecology
External links European Ecological Federation