Title Image: Life beneath the kelp forest. La Jolla Cove, San Diego. Corinne Klein/Chambers Group Inc, used with permission. Our oceans support an…
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Biodiversity Conserving ocean life: three ways to improve U.S. marine protected areas By Heather Welch
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Collaboration Science by Donation: Escaping the crowdfunding doldrums means creating your own breeze!
What does it take to get ordinary people to fund your science? This is the third in a series of posts that…
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Biodiversity Paying for rainforests: current PLoS research on the economic valuation of ecosystem services by Katie Barry
The above image was taken of rainforest patrol workers in Viet Nam as part of the Forest Ecosystem Services unit (Asian Development…
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Biodiversity Is Biodiversity Research Biased?
In 2012, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a comprehensive, multi-lateral treaty signed by 193 nations, established 20 biodiversity targets to coincide…
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Climate Change Becoming a Salmon: Highlighting deeper questions in education, decision making and ecology through simulation
Water bubbles and the distant rumble-swoosh of rapids can be heard upstream. On shore the occasional bird calls from the surrounding forest…
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Biodiversity City lights, urban sprawl, and uncovering the future of ecology with Dr. Peter Groffman
“For a long time in environmental science we’ve done a pretty good job of keeping people outside the box of ecosystems” says…
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Biodiversity Life as a Bird – biodiversity management in New York City
The above image is by Daniel Piraino (creative commons license) By Lauren Alleman & Sasha Wright We are in an extinction crisis. Global…
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Climate Change More research highlights from the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting
The 2015 AGU Fall Meeting was filled with many highlights, from R2-D2 to Elon Musk. PLOS Ecology’s own Jens Heggs wrote about…
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Climate Change AGU 2015: Takeaways from the largest earth and space meeting in the world.
Between December 14th-18th this year nearly 24,000 people descended on downtown San Francisco for the largest earth and space sciences meeting in…
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Conservation Interrupting dinner: In urban outskirts, changes to puma eating habits could ripple through the food web
My phone buzzed in distress the evening of Nov. 10. UC Santa Cruz had just sent a text alert warning me and…
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Conservation Eavesdropping on seabirds By Emily Benson
By Emily Benson Ecologists trying to pin down the complex web of connections swirling around a particular species need to start with…
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Conservation Long-range ecosystem sensing: biodiversity monitoring from space By Joe Mascaro
The above image by Kreg Steppe (creative commons license). “Mr. Data… can you find a way to scan for lifeforms?” “I would be happy to…