Tag: Ecology
The westward spread of zebra and quagga mussels shows how tiny...
Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology
The zebra mussel has been a poster child for invasive species ever since...
Light pollution is disrupting the seasonal rhythms of plants and trees,...
Yuyu Zhou, Iowa State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Should we protect nature for its own sake? For its economic...
Bradley J. Cardinale, Penn State
As spring phases into summer in North America, with trees flowering and birds migrating,...
Beyond flora and fauna: Why it’s time to include fungi in...
Matt Kasson, West Virginia University; Brian Lovett, West Virginia University, and Patricia Kaishian, Bard College
It’s no secret that...
When endangered species recover, humans may need to make room for...
Veronica Frans, Michigan State University
Imagine discovering a sea lion in the middle of the woods, more than a mile inland from the beach. Or...
E.O. Wilson’s lifelong passion for ants helped him teach humans about...
Doug Tallamy, University of Delaware
E. O. Wilson was an extraordinary scholar in every sense of the word. Back...
Moving beyond America’s war on wildfire: 4 ways to avoid future...
Susan Kocher, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Ryan E. Tompkins, University of California, Division of Agriculture and...
Five years after largest marine heatwave on record hit northern California...
Erica Nielsen, University of California, Davis and Sam Walkes, University of California, Davis
Land–based heatwaves have a less obvious...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
