A recent opinion piece in the Washington Post from Dr. Robert Alexander Pyron has created quite the stir in the conservation and…
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Biodiversity Saving Species from OurselvesRead more
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Biodiversity Museums Are Strong Partners in Biodiversity EducationRead more
I love museums. A lot. And I am not alone. According to the American Alliance of Museums, there are approximately 850 million…
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Biodiversity Biodiversity Patterns in Melanesian Coral Reef Fish: New Research with Old NaturalistsRead more
Old naturalists are my jam. I dedicated my PhD dissertation to a 19th century botanist who had spent her childhood following Thoreau…
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Biodiversity Spooky Ecology 2017: The Weird and WonderfulRead more
Halloween is the best. The clear, superior holiday to all others. Head and shoulders above the rest. Why not celebrate with a…
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Biodiversity A Little Light ReadingRead more
As the leaves fall this October and the canopies bare their skeletal limbs, there’s suddenly more light filtering across the riverside trails…
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Biodiversity Where Have All the Flying Insects Gone?Read more
The past 27 years have seen a dramatic decrease in total flying insect biomass, according to a new study published in PLOS…
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Biodiversity An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Invasive Alien SpeciesRead more
A guest post from Susanna Lidström from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Simon West of the Stockholm Reslience Centre Recently, Russell…
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Biodiversity Flying Foxes and Lilford’s Wall Lizards: At Your (Seed Dispersal) ServiceRead more
I’m Dr. Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, a new PLOS Ecology Community Editor. Last summer I was a PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow at the 2016…
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Biodiversity Life in the Deep Sea is Mostly MysteriousRead more
The deep sea covers around 65% of the planet’s surface, making it the largest habitat on Earth. Yet, this vast area remains…
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Biodiversity Bat Species Found Only on Islands in Trouble WorldwideRead more
About a quarter of the over 1,300 species of bat are endemic to islands, meaning they are found there and nowhere else…
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Biodiversity How Do You Count All Those Trees, Anyway?Read more
Like many scientists, Jean-François Bastin and colleagues had a question. A question that on its surface seems like it may have an…
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Biodiversity The Science of SpringRead more
I have to admit, at first I didn’t really notice. I live in Virginia, a state in the approximate middle of the…