Depression-era drainage ditches emerge as sleeping threat to Cape Cod salt marshes
Contemporary recreational fishing combines with old WPA project to hasten marsh die-off
Cape Cod, Massachusetts has a problem. The iconic salt marshes of the famous summer retreat are melting away at the edges, dying back from the most popular recreational areas. The erosion is a consequence of an unexpected synergy between...Read More »Elk bones tell stories of life, death, and habitat use at Yellowstone National Park
Josh Miller likes to call himself a conservation paleobiologist. The label makes sense when he explains how he uses bones as up-to-last-season information on contemporary animal populations.
Bones, he says, provide baseline ecological data on animals complementary to aerial counts, adding a historical component to live observation. In his November cover...Read More »Global economic pressures trickle down to local landscape change, altering disease risk
The pressures of global trade may heighten disease incidence by dictating changes in land use. A boom in disease-carrying ticks and chiggers has followed the abandonment of rice cultivation in Taiwanese paddies, say ecologist Chi-Chien Kuo and colleagues, demonstrating the potential for global commodities pricing to drive the spread of...Read More »Sevilleta LTER's Scott Collins Named President of the Ecological Society of America
Scott Collins, Regent's Professor of Biology and Loren Potter Chair of Plant Ecology at the University of New Mexico became President of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) on August 10, 2012. Elected by the members of ESA for a one-year term, Collins will chair the ESA Governing Board, the...Read More »Ken Bierly of the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to receive ESA Regional Policy Award
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) will present its fifth annual Regional Policy Award to Ken Bierly of the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board during the Society's upcoming conference in Portland, Oregon. The ESA award recognizes an elected or appointed local policymaker who has an outstanding record of informing political decision-making...Read More »Inaugural cross-disciplinary Public Participation in Scientific Research conference gathers at the 97th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America
Special "Citizen Science" issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment accompanies the event Though public participation in scientific research has deep roots in the history of science, in the last few years it has taken off spectacularly from launch pads across the disciplines of science and education, fueled by advances...Read More »The Ecology of Natural Gas
Scientists examine process chain of natural gas, from rural extraction to urban distribution "Fracking" stories about shale gas extraction hit the news daily, fueling a growing conflagration between environmental protectionism and economic interests. Otherwise known as hydraulic fracturing, fracking has become a profitable venture thanks to advances in horizontal drilling technology,...Read More »Ecological Society of America announces 2012 award recipients
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) will present eight societal awards recognizing outstanding contributions to ecology during ESA's 97th annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. The meeting, which will be held from August 5 - 10, is expected to draw over 4,500 scientists from around the globe to share their research...Read More »Risks and rewards of quantifying nature's "ecosystem services"
Symposium takes on the ecological science underpinning dollar assessments of ecosystem services at the 97th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Portland, Oregon
How much is a stream worth? Can we put a dollar value on a wetland? Some conservation proponents have moved to establish the economic value...Read More »Dry rivers, vibrant with culture and life
Ecologists review the human and biological communities of wadis, arroyos, gulches, washes, and other intermittent flows.
WASHINGTON-'When the River Runs Dry' is a familiar song in Australia. Some rivers in the arid center of the continent flow only after a stiff monsoon season, and smaller tributaries all over the country commonly...Read More »Older Entries »