Land Rehabilitation Doesn’t Always Produce Desired Results
Photo courtesy Susan Colby
One of the guiding principles of rehabilitating disturbed landscapes and mine sites – that if you restore their plant diversity, the animals that once lived there will return – does not always hold true,...
Feb
13
Moose act as conduits of nitrogen between water bodies and the edges of lakes, ponds
This article is the fourth in a series on NSF’s Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) awards. Visit parts one, two, three and five.
Isle Royale is a perfect place for moose: Water in every...
Feb
08
This article is the third in a series on NSF’s Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) awards. Visit parts one, two, four and five.
Flowers in Chile's Bosque de Fray Jorge Park are important for nectar for hummingbirds. Credit: Andrew Engilis
Camanchaca, or coastal fog,...
Jan
17
Easy Catch Out of the Reserve
The research showed that fish raised on marine reserves let fishers with spear guns get a lot closer than regular fish did. This study could help obtain more support for protected marine areas around the world, which are often opposed by fishers.
Big fish that have...
Nov
13
The Great Barrier Reef has Lost Half of its Coral in the Last 27 Years
Crown of Thorns starfish. Photo Jon Hanson/Wikimedia Creative Commons
Can we save the reef by controlling crown of thorns starfish?
The Great Barrier Reef has lost half its coral cover in the last 27 years. The loss was due to...
Oct
08
Corals’ Choice of Symbiotic Algae May Hold the Key
The following is part ten in a series on the National Science Foundation’s Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network.
Visit parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, eleven and twelve in this series.
Coral...
Sep
27
By Sarah Yang, U.C. Berkeley News Center
“We find that precipitation changes can have a major, opposing influence to temperature in a species’ range shift. Climate change may actually be tearing communities of organisms apart.”
- Morgan Tingley
Two new studies by scientists at UC Berkeley...
Aug
16
By Orianne Lee Johnston
Originally published by Izilwane.org
Meeting the Girls
Mungwezi’s body is silhouetted on either side by a broad band of brilliant red, that fire of color from the moment when the sun has sunk into the western horizon sometime before the stars become visible. In the...
Aug
15
