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Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by Policy Analyst Terence Houston. Read more
Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by Policy Analyst Terence Houston. Read more
Landscape ecologist Monica Turner travels in her team’s boat, PICO1, across Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park in July 2012 to access long-term study plots in areas that burned during the 1988 Yellowstone Fires. Named for Pinus contorta, the lodgepole pines that dominate Yellowstone’s forests, PICO1 gets Turner and her group to remote study areas that are more easily reached from the lakeshore. The July trip was part of a major resampling of long-term plots 25 years after the 1988 fires. Turner took over the presidency of the Ecological Society of America in August, 2015, and will serve one year. Credit, Monica Turner.
Monica Turner, the Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology and a Vilas Research Professor in Read more
Human civilization has long used nature to inspire technological innovation. This process is called biomimicry, Read more

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