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 Function over Form: Predicting Disturbance Responses with Functional Traits at ESA 2016
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Biodiversity Improving Earth Systems Models Through Research in the Tropics
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Daniel E. Winkler, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in…
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Biodiversity Redundancy in response to global change: Ecosystem processes buffered by functional diversity
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Daniel Winkler on the 2015 PLOS One paper “Functional Resilience against Climate-Driven Extinctions…
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Biodiversity The fore-front of Restoration Ecology at ESA 2016
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Liz Kimbrough, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in Ft…
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Climate Change With disappearing sea ice, polar bears spend more time on land
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Kelsey Graham on the 2015 PLOS One paper “Increased Land Use by Chukchi Sea…
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Biodiversity Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection 2015-2016
How climate change affects the structure and function of ecosystems—past, present, and future–is a well-represented topic in PLOS publications for 2015-2016. The…
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Biodiversity When a Wolf isn’t Actually a Wolf: Recent research and the messy job of classifying species
Did you know that one of the wolf species protected under the Endangered Species Act isn’t actually a unique species? That…
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Biodiversity What Does Your Poop Say About Your Evolution, and Other Ecological Connections to the Microbiome.
What does the bacteria in animal guts have to do with ecology? It turns out quite a bit more than you might…
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Conservation Bats and Wind Turbines
In laudable efforts to counter climate change, many countries around the world are turning to renewable energy sources, such as wind. Wind…
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Biodiversity Is Intentional Extinction Ever the Right Thing?
Consider this. It may be possible to eliminate some of the world’s deadliest diseases, save 2.7 million human lives per year, and…
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Citizen Science Can drinking tea help us understand climate change?
For the price of a cup of tea, or perhaps several, we are making strides towards better understanding climate change thanks to…
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Collaboration Ghost forests of the Carolinas: An interview with Dr. Ryan Emanuel
“One of the most iconic sights associated with salinization and sea level rise are ‘ghost forests’” –Dr. Ryan Emanuel, North Carolina State…