I’ve got my conference roadtrip routine dialed in. This spring I drove to the Northeast Natural History Conference (215 miles each way)…
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Conservation Book Review: The Feather Thief
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Biodiversity Urban Forestry In the Schoolyard: Trees and Student Performance
Research into how nature impacts our well-being has shown that being outside makes us feel better. Images of nature alone have been…
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Biodiversity The most talked about research of 2017
While citations to academic papers are easy to track (see Google Scholar, World of Science), it’s quite informative to see what research…
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Climate Change Balancing Science and Advocacy in the Face of Climate Denial: A climate scientist reports from COP23
A guest post by John Fleming on a Trump Administration-sponsored session at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn Germany…
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Climate Change US to leave the Paris Climate Accords: What now for ecologists?
UPDATED June 1, 2017 Well he’s gone and done it. In light of President Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of…
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Biodiversity How Do You Count All Those Trees, Anyway?
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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Climate Change Changing Our Attitudes Towards Invasive “Alien” Species
Above, zebra mussels on a native mussel; it has been estimated that invasive zebra mussels have cost Canada and the United States…
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Citizen Science The Importance of Storytelling in Science
“We owe it to each other to tell stories.” – Neil Gaiman Scientific writing is often belied as dry, stale; a…
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Citizen Science Online science communication and the importance of empathy
Above banner image by Thomas Leuthard (Coffee & Social Media, creative commons license) Guest Post by Nicole Miller-Struttmann, Laurence L. Browning Jr…
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Climate Change Critical Mid-Winter Ecosystem Services to Low Latitudes Endangered by Polar Warming
Reprinted with permission from Polar Ecology Letters, Vol 12, Issue 25, pp. 2016. Dear esteemed colleagues, It is with mounting…
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Biodiversity Say Cheese! Camera Traps and Ecology
You may have already seen the pictures from the Gardner Police Department’s camera trap by now, but if not, they are going…
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Ecology The Internet, Elk Teeth, and the Gnawing Hunger for Information: ecological theory and browsing behavior
You clicked on this link because your behavior conforms to an ecological theory, and I can prove it. “What!” you say…