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Tag: Ecology

Bison are back, and that benefits many other species on the...

Matthew D. Moran, Hendrix College Driving north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, an extraordinary landscape comes into view. Trees disappear and an immense landscape of grass emerges,...

Listening to nature: How sound can help us understand environmental change

Garth Paine, Arizona State University Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything...

Caught on camera: The fossa, Madagascar’s elusive top predator

Asia Murphy, Pennsylvania State University Mention wildlife on Madagascar and the first thing listeners probably picture is the island’s famed lemurs. As many people know,...

How virtual worlds can recreate the geographic history of life

Robert K. Colwell, University of Connecticut and Thiago F. Rangel, Universidade Federal de Goias The Amazon and the adjacent Andean slopes in South America host...

US rivers are becoming saltier – and it’s not just from...

Sujay Kaushal, University of Maryland; Gene E. Likens, University of Connecticut; Michael Pace, University of Virginia, and Ryan Utz, Chatham University The United States has...

Why were California’s wine country fires so destructive?

Jon Keeley, US Geological Survey As of late October more than a dozen wildfires north of San Francisco had killed more than 40 people, burned...

Sharkathon 2017 is here: How to watch it like a scientist

George Burgess, University of Florida Just when you thought it was safe to turn on your television, the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week and National Geographic...

The extraordinary return of sea otters to Glacier Bay

Perry Williams, Colorado State University and Mevin Hooten, Colorado State University Human beings have a long history of persecuting apex predators such as...

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