During the 1990s, over 90,000 square kilometers of forest cover in the continental United States were lost—an approximate decline in coverage of…
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Biodiversity Average Distance to the Nearest Forest is Increasing with Forest Loss in the USRead more
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Biodiversity Counting Songbirds With DronesRead more
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, also known as drones) are rapidly finding a place in ecological research. In a new study from The…
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Biodiversity What’s so “bad” about the Badlands, anyway?Read more
Authorized as a National Monument in 1929 and redesignated as a National Park in 1978, Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota…
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Biodiversity Using Arctic Shrews and Their Parasites to Understand the Effects of Climate ChangeRead more
How do species respond as the climate warms? Although most research on Arctic animals focuses on economically important or charismatic species like…
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Biodiversity The Grey Zone: Napoleon Dynamite and what makes a speciesRead more
When most people think of a species they assume it is a unique, inviolate category of organism. Most of us learned in…
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Biodiversity Wild Thoughts on the WildRead more
A guest post from Dr. Anita George, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane Australia People love learning about…
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Biodiversity Say Cheese! Camera Traps and EcologyRead more
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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Biodiversity #Halloween Flashback: Understanding biological diversity using ghosts and goblins: a spooky ecology lesson!Read more
We’re marking Halloween 2017 with some memorably spooky posts from our seven year PLOSBLOGS archive. Here’s one by PLOS Ecology Community Editor…
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Biodiversity Herbivores, sustainability, and trophy hunting in the MatetsiRead more
Trophy hunting is the selective hunting and harvesting of wild game for human recreation—with the “trophy” being the portion of the animal…
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Biodiversity A day in the park–tracking mercury with dragonfly larvaeRead more
Mercury is a toxic element that can adversely impact human and wildlife health. And while it can be found as an introduced…
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Biodiversity Augmenting the Reality of Ecology EducationRead more
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Uma Nagendra, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in Ft…
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Biodiversity Invasion Ecology at ESA 2016Read more
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Kelsey K Graham, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in…