Fish, Freshwater, Invasive, Restoration In the conservation world, conventional wisdom holds that restricting the hydrology of a stream is a bad thing. However, a new article in the journal BioSciences provides a contrarian perspective...
Fish, Freshwater, Marine Where do salmon go when they escape from fish farms? A new study experimentally releases farmed salmon in Norway and Scotland to answer this question...
Economics, Restoration, Wetland How much are ecosystem services from wetland restoration worth to society? Researchers try to put a dollar figure on three ecosystem services from a program restoring forested wetlands in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley...
Mammals, Protected Areas Can you change the behavior of a bear that raids campgrounds, nuzzles through trash, or knocks side view mirrors off cars? A new study finds evidence that a method called aversive conditioning can be successful in modifying the behavior of some bears but fully averting conflicts with humans will require changing how people act as well...
Freshwater, Invertebrates, Restoration The enhancement of in-stream habitat has emerged as a major river restoration tool with over $1 billion spent over the last ten years. For all that money spent, the question arises whether restoration projects are consistently benefiting aquatic organisms...
Birds A fascinating study from the journal Oecologia finds evidence that differences in levels of vitamin E and other antioxidants explain which birds are able to successfully invade and persist in urban environments...
