W.S. Cooper Award

The W. S. Cooper Award is given to honor an outstanding contributor to the fields of geobotany and/or physiographic ecology, the fields in which W. S. Cooper worked. This award is for a single contribution in a scientific publication (single or multiple authored).

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Recent recipients include Songlin Fei, Johanna M. Desprez, Kevin M. Potter, Insu Jo, Jonathan A. Knott, Christopher M. Oswalt

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Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois spp) have established invasive populations in the western Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Given that extirpation across their broad invaded range is impractical to achieve, resource managers could designate these predators as candidates for “functional” eradication, setting quantitative targets for suppression efforts at priority locations. In the March issue of Frontiers, Green and Grosholz explain how this strategy may minimize the species’ adverse ecological impacts and recolonization.

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

News

Human-modified habitats amplify seasonal differences for bird flocks in the Amazon

A recent Louisiana State University doctoral graduate explores how mixed-species flocks of birds living in fragmented Amazon rainforest habitats are affected by seasonal changes.

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A Dynamic Forest Floor

A new model from researchers at UC Santa Barbara reveals how two radically different communities coexist beneath the canopies of California’s iconic kelp forests

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February research news from the Ecological Society of America

The latest research from ESA’s journals: Snorkelers find rare salamander eggs – An albino plant – Birds and burns – Public parks for native insects – Mountain-traversing seabirds

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Plant pirates of the Caribbean: Union professor part of research team studying biological invasions

Trade and tourism are among the most important factors in understanding the establishment of invasive species in Cuba, but the nation’s revolution and the subsequent U.S. embargo also influence the island’s biodiversity today.

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Ann Somers Publishes Groundbreaking Paper On Eastern Box Turtles

UNC Greensboro’s Ann Berry Somers, senior lecturer in biology, with John H. Roe, professor at UNC Pembroke, recently announced the release of a new paper on eastern box turtles, the North Carolina state reptile.

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New study reveals biodiversity important at regional scales

Research shows that biodiversity is important not just at the traditional scale of short-term plot experiments, but also when measured over decades and across regional landscapes as well.

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Biodiversity protects bee communities from disease, U-M study concludes

University of Michigan researchers netted and trapped more than 4,000 bees from 60 species to discover that the most diverse bee communities have the lowest levels of three common viral pathogens.

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