Changing climate, changing landscape: monitoring the vast wilderness of interior Alaska [ 32:40 | 29.91 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (37)

  National Park Service plant ecologist Carl Roland lives in Alaska, where climate change is palpably present. Ecologists have predicted major landscape-scale changes in the future of the Alaskan interior, with a potential shift from the iconic black and white spruce boreal forest, to broadleaf trees, or even grasslands, through a combination of heat, drought, [...]

Where the ecologists are: geographical bias in field research [ 23:18 | 21.33 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (18)

“It matters because we’re facing global change – these are global phenomena, so we need global information,” said Erle Ellis, a professor of geography & environmental systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, talking about the low resolution of ecological data from many parts of the world. A review of five years of ecological [...]

Immersed in the clouds [ 7:51 | 6.76 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3)

There is a world within the canopy of a tropical cloud forest that not many people get to see. In this unique ecosystem – maintained by the exceptionally wet microclimate of cloud cover—orchids, moss, lichens and other epiphytes grow in every crease and pocket of the supporting tree branches. Here, hundreds of species of birds, [...]