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 Snapshots of Change and The PhenoCam Network: What Are 130 Cameras Telling Us About Our Changing Planet?
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Biodiversity The Birds That Start Fires: Using Indigenous Ecological Knowledge to Understand Animal Behavior
I don’t remember too much from the eighties–other than Nintendo, Sonic, and how cool the Ghostbusters were. But I do clearly remember…
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Biodiversity Museums Are Strong Partners in Biodiversity Education
I love museums. A lot. And I am not alone. According to the American Alliance of Museums, there are approximately 850 million…
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Biodiversity Biodiversity Patterns in Melanesian Coral Reef Fish: New Research with Old Naturalists
Old naturalists are my jam. I dedicated my PhD dissertation to a 19th century botanist who had spent her childhood following Thoreau…
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Biodiversity Flying Foxes and Lilford’s Wall Lizards: At Your (Seed Dispersal) Service
I’m Dr. Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, a new PLOS Ecology Community Editor. Last summer I was a PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow at the 2016…
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Ecology Ants Are Essential Ecosystem Engineers
Ants are the dominant waste managers of tropical rainforests, new research shows. In a large-scale study in the Malaysian rainforest, ants were…
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Biodiversity Life in the Deep Sea is Mostly Mysterious
The deep sea covers around 65% of the planet’s surface, making it the largest habitat on Earth. Yet, this vast area remains…
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Climate Change Behavioral Flexibility May Help Some Animals Deal with a Changing Climate
A new study by the U.S. Geological Survey and its partners has identified the circumstances in which some animals change their behaviors…
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Climate Change Polar Bears, Ringed Seals, and the Complex Consequences of Climate Change
It’s well known that climate change is bad news for polar bears, but they are just one part of Arctic ecosystems. Climate…
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Climate Change Fanged Coral Fish’s Venomous Bite Could Lead to New Pain Treatments
The fearless coral reef fish known as the fang blenny might only grow to several inches long, but it packs a toothy…
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Climate Change Changing Our Attitudes Towards Invasive “Alien” Species
Above, zebra mussels on a native mussel; it has been estimated that invasive zebra mussels have cost Canada and the United States…
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Biodiversity What’s so “bad” about the Badlands, anyway?
Authorized as a National Monument in 1929 and redesignated as a National Park in 1978, Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota…