European Ecological Federation

• Name — European Ecological Federation • Abbreviation — EEF • Formation — 1989 • Founding Location — Siena • Purpose — promote ecological science • Membership — 17 • Num Members Year — 2014 • Language — English • Leader Name — Cristina Máguas • Main Organ — council • Publication — Web Ecology • Website — www.europeanecology.org

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.

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.

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.

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

Presidents • Name — Begin — End • Cristina Máguas • Stefan Klotz — 2006 • Pehr Henrik Enckell — 2002 — 2006 • John Pantis — 1999 — 2002 • Piet Nienhuis — 1995 — 1999 • Reinhard Bornkamm — 1993 — 1995 • Robert James Berry — 1990 — 1992 Conference • Year — Location — Country — Partner organisations • 2024 — Lund — Sweden — NSO • 2022 — Metz — France — GfÖ, sfe² • 2019 — Lissabon — Portugal — SPECO • 2017 — Gent — Belgium — BES, GfÖ, NecoV • 2015 — Rom — Italy — S.It.E • 2011 — Ávila — Spain — AEET, SPECO • 1998 — Groningen — Netherlands