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 Say Cheese! Camera Traps and Ecology
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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…
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Climate Change There’s no money to fight fire with fire – by Sarah McQuate
In 2000, my husband’s cat made the news. The Cerro Grande Fire had chased his family from their home in Los Alamos…
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Biodiversity #Halloween Flashback: Understanding biological diversity using ghosts and goblins: a spooky ecology lesson!
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 Matetsi
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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Collaboration Detection Dogs Sniff Out the Droppings of Endangered Primates
Detection dogs – working dogs trained to use their noses to find substances like drugs or explosives – have also found work…
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Climate Change The ecology and economics of autumn leaves
Beyond pumpkin flavored everything, autumn is big business in some parts of the United States. And the main draw are the leaves…
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Biodiversity A day in the park–tracking mercury with dragonfly larvae
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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Conservation Critically Endangered Hawaiian Crow Joins the Tool-Users Club
Hawaiian crows (Corvus hawaiiensis) use tools when foraging for food, finds an international team of scientists and conservationists. These birds, also known…
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Biodiversity Invasion Ecology at ESA 2016
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Kelsey K Graham, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in…
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Citizen Science Science Communication, Simple Words, and Story Telling at ESA 2016
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Caitlin McDonough, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in Ft…
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Biodiversity Leveraging the Power of Biodiversity Specimen Data for Ecological Research
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Caitlin McDonough, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in Ft…