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The Dead of Winter | Dynamic Ecology

I link to this every year. Click the link below to read a lovely piece by Kieran Healy, from which the quoted passage...

An inexpensive fix for California’s struggling wildflowers

California's native wildflowers are being smothered by layers of dead, invasive grasses. A new UC Riverside study shows that simply raking these layers...

New study highlights the correlation between live corals and fishing yields

What does a decline in healthy coral reefs mean for fisheries? A new study published in Marine Resource Economics, led by the Woods...

This Friday linkfest is structured to improve rather than degrade learning

This week: AI teaching assistant, the limits of data, The Sound of Music nominalism, and more. C. Thi Nguyen on the limits of data....

A hub for enhancing soil carbon storage |

Qitong Wang and Huajun Yin, Chengdu Institute of Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, discuss their article: Rhizosphere as a hotspot for...

Revealing the hidden lives of non-breeding Black-tailed Godwits – The Applied Ecologist

In this blog post, Taylor Craft discusses the use of GPS tracking and satellite imagery to uncover the lives of Black-tailed Godwits in...

Shrubs can help or hinder a forest’s recovery after wildfire

Research from the University of California, Davis, is shedding light on when and where to plant tree seedlings to help restore forests after...

Understanding edge effects on seed production |

Katherine Hulting, from Michigan State University’s W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, discusses her article: Habitat edges decrease plant reproductive output in fragmented landscapes Fragmentation and...

For the first time, we have non-human, non-intelligent Friday linkfests, that can generatively enact ritual at high speed and industrial scale

This week: the world’s best blogger retires, the LLM spreadsheet revolution, Comedy Wildlife Photography awards, and more. Very good Henry Farrell post on how...

Surveys show full scale of massive die-off of common murres following the ‘warm blob’ in the Pacific Ocean

Murres, a common seabird, look a little like flying penguins. These stout, tuxedo-styled birds dive and swim in the ocean to eat small...

What is a unit of nature? New framework shows the challenges involved with establishing a biodiversity credit market

Leading ecologists have devised a new framework to classify how biodiversity credit operators define what a unit of nature is. The new analysis...

Human disruption is driving ‘winner’ and ‘loser’ tree species shifts across Brazilian forests

Fast-growing and small-seeded tree species are dominating Brazilian forests in regions with high levels of deforestation and degradation, a new study shows. This has...

Biodiversity at risk in most rainforests

New research has revealed less than a quarter of the remaining tropical rainforests around the globe can safeguard thousands of threatened species from...

Above-ground Disturbances and Below-ground Litter Decomposition |

Meijie Xi and Weile Chen from Zhejiang University, China, discuss their article: Soil moisture mediates the effect of plant below-ground carbon allocation on...
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