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Onja Razafindratsima, a graduate student at Rice University, observes a lemur in a Madagascar rainforest. Razafindratsima led a three-year study to explore the relationship between lemurs and trees. Lemurs eat the fruit and spread its seeds far from the parent tree. Credit, Onja Razafindratsima/Rice University.
On the island nation of Madagascar, the long-limbed local primates, lemurs, are for some trees, Read more
Plant biology PhD student Uma Nagendra of the University of Georgia, Athens, wins the 2014 Dance Read more
Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by Policy Analyst Terence Houston. Read more
A guest post by Greg Goldsmith, a tropical plant ecologist and part of the multitalented Read more
A Japanese seaweed gains a holds on a mudflat in Charleston Harbor, S.C., by clinging to tube-building decorator worms (Diopatra cuprea) rooted firmly in the mud. The invasive Gracilaria vermiculophylla seaweed provides shelter for a small native crustacean. Credit, Erik Sorka.
On the tidal mudflats of Georgia and South Carolina, the red Japanese seaweed Gracilaria vermiculophylla Read more
The tall, mature trees of a late-succession forest (right) stand next to the young regrowth of a clear-cut forest in central Pennsylvania. The deeper volume of organic matter on the floor of a mature forest can capture more of the nutrient nitrogen when it enters the forest than the clear-cut can. Credit, David Lewis.
Ecologists working in central Pennsylvania forests have found that forest top soils capture and stabilize Read more

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