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 Counting Songbirds With Drones
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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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Climate Change Invasive Wild Pigs Leave a Swath of Destruction Across U.S. – And They Keep Spreading
They go by many names: wild boar, wild hog, razorback, Eurasian boar, feral swine. But whatever you call them, invasive wild pigs…
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Biodiversity Using Arctic Shrews and Their Parasites to Understand the Effects of Climate Change
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 species
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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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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Climate Change Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change: NOAA and AMS Issue Annual Report
The attribution of extreme events to human-induced climate change—what is termed anthropogenic climate change—has been a burgeoning scientific frontier as scientists grapple…
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Ecology Reunited and It Feels So Good: How Cheetahs Find Each Other After Separation
In the first study to track the detailed movements of cheetahs in a coalition, researchers from the Royal Veterinary College, UK, and…
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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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Ecology When to Call in the Posse: Ecology answers when to hunt (or shop) with others, and when to go it alone
Fisherman are notorious hoarders of secrets. Your grandfather’s favorite fishing hole is information that might be shared only after you’ve attained an…
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Ecology Giant Coconut Crabs Pinch Harder Than Most Animals Bite
The claws of coconut crabs can pinch with the strongest force of any crustacean, also exceeding the bite force of most land…
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Conservation Birds Mistake Plastic for Food Due to Its Smell
Eating plastic debris is a major problem for hundreds of species of marine animals, from tiny zooplankton to giant baleen whales. But…