A guest post from Talia Young, Ph.D., David H. Smith Conservation Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University & Director of Fishadelphia I recently saw another ecology talk refer…
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Ecology Sex ≠ Gender
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Conservation Up All Night
As a parent to a newborn, I was drawn to the recent PLoS ONE paper ‘Creeping in the Night.’ I’m creeping…
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Citizen Science Summer Reading (Part 2)
Last week I wrote about my favorite new papers on mountains and phenology after a summer of scientific reading. In the second…
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Biodiversity Summer Reading (Part 1)
We’re rushing out of the dog days of summer and into the start of a new semester — or in my case the…
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Ecology The Rollercoaster of Exploding Pollen
When I think about reading peer-reviewed natural history papers — including contemporary articles in a ‘Natural History Miscellany Note’ or ‘The Scientific…
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Conservation Reading, Walking, Wishing
June in New England is a long stretch of long-lit days. When I was a PhD student, my Junes were the peak…
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Climate Change Carbon Dioxide, an Autobiography: #CO2andMe
September, 1975 My parents are married by a Justice of the Peace in Davidson County, North Carolina. My dad is working…
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Climate Change Coming Down the Mountain: How Changes in the Water Cycle are Affecting Mountain Ecosystems
As plants take in sunlight and carbon dioxide to grow, they also respire or “breathe” out part of that carbon dioxide back…
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Biodiversity Mark Twain and The Big Stump: Can We Save Nature From Ourselves?
As you enter Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park from highway 180 there is a small little parking lot to the side…
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Climate Change An Epic Joshua Tree Roadtrip & the Reproductive Ecology of an Iconic Southwest Plant
Think of your most amazing four-state roadtrip. How much data did you collect between stops at Disney Land and the hotel pool?…
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Biodiversity Snapshots of Change and The PhenoCam Network: What Are 130 Cameras Telling Us About Our Changing Planet?
As flowers began to bloom and leaves slowly emerge in the northern hemisphere this time of year, most people are thinking about…
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Biodiversity The “Big Ideas” in Ecology
If you want to get “technical” about it, dentistry, is about 13,000 years old. However, while the fillings Neolithic peoples performed with…