... their attention to the evolution and ecology of migration biology as a specific focus. Although... and management of such wetland ecosystem and the fish and wildlife dependent thereon." (175...
Research like this is part of the relatively new field of urban ecology, the study of how urbanization affects interactions between the living and non-living components of a city. Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, Phoenix - the fifth-largest city in the nation and still growing like mad amid a fragile desert ecosystem - is one of urban ecology's busiest study sites. Researchers here are discovering insights about urban ecology that they hope will apply to other cities in the West, and to arid urban areas around the globe. "I think we're providing a new range of information for people making decisions," says [Charles Redman], co-director of the project, "all the way from the individual house owner to homeowners' associations to town planners. Humans also cause dras...
...Ecosystem Services Implementation Survey. AGENCY: United Sta...For example, in ecology, processes such as nutrient cycling, atmospheric r...
Even if erosion is controlled, just beneath the soil, thousands of biological weapons - cheatgrass seeds - are preparing to unleash their destructive power. Healthy sagebrush communities, [Steve Monsen] says, repel cheatgrass invasion: Sagebrush roots take every available drop of water and prevent weed seeds from germinating. But fire leaves a power vacuum, just waiting for competing factions of weeds to start fighting for dominance. Alongside cheatgrass is squarrose knapweed, which swarms to burned areas in the sagebrush ecosystem. And, unlike cheatgrass, whose combustible straw degrades by late summer, knapweed dries into tinder that sticks around through the winter, raising the specter of a practically year-round fire season. The work's not easy, though, and, like other restoration e...
...Bill Baker, who teaches fire ecology at the University of Wyoming, says that on the Unc...
Jerry Franklin, professor of ecosystem science at the University of Washington, and one of the deans of restoration ecology, says the work in the Cedar River Watershed is on the cutting edge of forest restoration. "People suggest that once you walk away from (a forest) you can leave it alone and that it will take care of itself. It's not true. Nature will adjust, but you won't like the outcome. You'll lose values. You'll lose big old trees. You'll lose owls. You'll lose watershed protection. Fire crews arrived quickly, but when a messenger ordered water pumping crews to "Give her all she'll take," they responded, "We've already given her all she'll take." There wasn't enough water. Before the fire could be contained, it burned over 115 acres and destroyed the downtown retail and indust...
The Ferry Beach Ecology School in Saco has given a new name to its organic garden. We are calling it a 'sustainable food ecosystem,' " said John Ibsen, coordinator of the school's Food for Thought program. "This garden is our feeble attempt to replicate a natural ecosystem.
ATHENS, Ga. - The bust of one of science's most respected ecologists stands at the entrance to the nation's first university- level school of ecology with a ready reminder: The ecosystem is greater than the sum of its parts. The quote and the bust honor Eugene Odum, the legendary University of Georgia ecologist and namesake of the school, which officially opened last month. Now the late scientist's favorite mantra is being put to the test.
BOSTON, April 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thomas H. Kunz, Warren Distinguished Professor and director of Boston University's Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology, and a team of researchers, including Elizabeth Braun de Torrez, graduate student in BU's Department of Biology; Dana M. Bauer, assistant professor in BU's Department of Geography and Environment; Tatyana Lobova, assistant professor in Old Dominion University's Department of Biology; and Theodore H. Fleming, emeritus professor of biology at the University of Miami and adjunct professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, recently published an important review paper on "Ecosystem Services Provided by Bats" in the journal Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.(1) This paper follows...
... that successful restoration of the Gulf ecology and economy will require an immense information-ga...
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