Listing and delisting of species under the endangered species act (ESA) is a delicate political and scientific dance that can play out…
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Conservation When Biology and Policy are Moving Targets: The complex case of a potential success story
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Climate Change Climate change and the catastrophic wildfire
Image above: Wildfire in the Florida Panther NWR (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Creative Commons license). Editor’s Note: In just 10 days world…
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Conservation Telling the Story of the World’s Most At-Risk Forests
The most recent chapter of the World Wildlife Foundation’s Living Forests Report, Chapter 5: Saving Forests at Risks, identifies 11 deforestation fronts…
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Conservation China leads the way: Intercropping for ecological and economic efficiency in agriculture
Photo of maize intercropped with cowpea (above) – International Institute of Tropical Ag (Creative Commons License) Creating a sustainable agricultural system is…
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Conservation It never rains but it pours: climate change and drought
By Ginger Allington Originally published on the PLOS Ecology Field Reports blog, on August 10, 2015. Droughts have been getting a lot of…
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Conservation Increase in red spruce growth tied to the Clean Air Act
Research news from ESA 100 by Jeff Atkins Originally posted on PLOS Ecology Field Reports on August 11, 2015 The Clean Air…
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Conservation Measuring shocks to the global seafood supply
By Jeff Atkins ESA 100 research news originally posted on the PLOS Ecology Field Reports blog on Aug 14, 2015. Jessica Gephart, a Ph.D…
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Conservation What Will You Do When You Get There: A perspective on species range shifts
[Originally posted on PLOS Ecology Field Reports, August 17, 2015] By Jens Hegg The first question out of people’s mouths when they…
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Conservation Changing Ecosystems in Changing Climates: Three articles from the PLOS Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection
[Originally posted on PLOS Ecology Field Reports, August 15, 2015] By Jeff Atkins Mountain ecosystems cover nearly a quarter of the earth’s…
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Conservation What Ecologists are Most Worried About Now (in 2014)
[Originally published as a PLOS BLOGS Network Guest post on August 15, 2014] By John H. Matthews When scientists publish an analysis of the…
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Conservation Students Aged 9 to 65+ Study PLOS Research in Marine Megafauna MOOC
[Originally published as a PLOS Guest post on April 4, 2014] By Kim Manturuk An amazingly diverse and far-flung group of 11,000…