Urban Ecology: where the wild meets the city post-info Urban ecosystems are expanding around the world as people migrate to cities and the human population continues to grow. What happens to other speciesCategory Archives: urban ecology
Urban Ecology: where the wild meets the city
Urban Ecology: where the wild meets the city post-info Urban ecosystems are expanding around the world as people migrate to cities and the human population continues to grow. What happens to other speciesUrban Forestry In the Schoolyard: New PLOS ONE Research on Trees and Student Performance
0000-0002-8715-2896 Research into how nature impacts our well-being has shown that being outside makes us feel better. Images of nature alone have been shown to lift people’s mood. But is there any connection with howHow to find a moose: intentions in phenomenological and mechanistic models by Adam Clark
The above image is by USFWS Midwest (creative commons license). Guest Post by Adam Clark at the University of Minnesota How might you go about finding a moose? It turns out that thisPosted by in featured, Modeling, statistics, urban ecology
City lights, urban sprawl, and uncovering the future of ecology with Dr. Peter Groffman
“For a long time in environmental science we’ve done a pretty good job of keeping people outside the box of ecosystems” says Dr. Peter Groffman, who studies the microbial and chemical ecology of urban landscapesPosted by in biodiversity, climate change, conservation, ecology, featured, holiday, medically unexplained symptoms, urban ecology
Life as a Bird – biodiversity management in New York City
The above image is by Daniel Piraino (creative commons license) By Lauren Alleman & Sasha Wright We are in an extinction crisis. Global loss of biodiversity is nearly 4 orders of magnitude greater than at anyPumas on the edge of town: how human-puma interaction may change the food web
My phone buzzed in distress the evening of Nov. 10. UC Santa Cruz had just sent a text alert warning me and other students that someone had seen a mountain lion on campus. Stay indoors,Posted by in California, carnivore, catamount, conservation, cougar, ecology, featured, food webs, guest post, halloween, human interaction, mountain lion, prey, puma, Twitter Chat, urban ecology, Uta Frith
Are Food Deserts also Food Monocultures? Proposing a Citizen Science Project in Urban Ecology
Editor’s Note: This is a two-part post, a version of which first appeared on the author’s blog. Drive through the United States, and one thing you will notice is a high degree of repetition in the scenery. Highways cross through large … Continue reading
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