Monday
Jan252010
Saturday
Jan232010
Study finds nutrients homogenize the biodiversity of lakes
Filed under : 
Biodiversity, Freshwater
Biodiversity, Freshwater A new study from researchers at Trinity College has found that the addition of nutrients like nitrogen can homogenize the benthic diversity of lakes...
Friday
Jan222010
Climate change reducing stream habitat for fish
Filed under : Climate, Fish, Freshwater
Climate, Fish, Freshwater 
Friday
Jan222010
The value of 'ignorance' in restoration
Filed under : Restoration, Wetland
Restoration, Wetland We interview Dr. Eugene Turner, a leading wetland scientist at Louisiana State University. He argues that restoration practitioners need to abandon a knowledge-based world view and start embracing ignorance...
Thursday
Jan212010
Wednesday
Jan202010
Evaluating coastal feeding habitat for marine birds
Filed under : Birds, Marine, Planning, Technology-GIS
Birds, Marine, Planning, Technology-GIS 
Tuesday
Jan192010
Can invasive species enhance the competitve ability of native grasses?
Filed under : Invasive, Plants, Restoration
Invasive, Plants, Restoration Over the past few years, restoration ecologists have made a surprising discovery - the invasion of exotic plants may enhance the competitive ability of native species. Scientists hypothesize that native plants which survive an invasion of exotic species may possess a competitive advantage against the invader which is then reinforced through evolutionary selection...
Monday
Jan182010
Monday
Jan182010
Shifting baselines: how quickly we forget about declining species
Filed under : Freshwater
Freshwater A new study demonstrates that human society has a surprisingly short collective memory of past ecological conditions. This “community amnesia” results in the shifting baseline syndrome, in which people misperceive ecological health and the magnitude of ecosystem changes...
Friday
Jan152010
Hopes for 2010: a conservation policy wish list
Filed under : Policy
Policy As a follow up to our piece, Grading Obama: a 2009 conservation policy review, we asked five leading conservation organizations about their hopes for 2010. Each organization gave us a list of policy achievements that they would like to see. We compiled some of their responses in a 2010 conservation policy wish list...