Monday
Dec072009
Friday
Dec042009
Mitigation transforms streams and wetlands at landscape level
Filed under : 
Freshwater, Wetland
Freshwater, Wetland A new study indicates that mitigation programs may actually alter the overall distribution of streams and wetlands across the landscape and consequently modify their function with both negative and positive consequences...
Thursday
Dec032009
Wednesday
Dec022009
What is the social cost of conservation in poor countries?
Filed under : Economics, Protected Areas
Economics, Protected Areas Pamela McElwee from Arizona State University recently published an important study on the social costs of protected areas looking at the case of the Ke Go nature reserve in Vietnam. She wrote an excellent research summary for her self-titled blog, which she has graciously granted us permission to re-post here.
Tuesday
Dec012009
The effects of climate change on coastal ecosystems: interview with Chris Craft
Chris Craft‘s lab at Indiana University has been grappling with effects of natural and anthropogenic stressors on biogeochemical cycles in coastal and inland wetlands. He presented his lab’s latest research at the recent Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation biennial conference...read more
Friday
Nov272009
Extinction in our times - global amphibian decline: book review
Filed under : Biodiversity, Herps
Biodiversity, Herps 
In the early 1970s, Cynthia Carey was writing her doctoral dissertation on boreal toads when a mysterious bacteria contaminated the Colorado population she was studying. Soon, she could only find dead carcasses. What she assumed was a strike of bad luck and a strictly local phenomenon was in fact occurring all over the world...read more
Wednesday
Nov252009
A cautionary tale: botanical gardens and the hybridization of endangered species
Filed under : Evolutionary Bio, Plants
Evolutionary Bio, Plants Botanical gardens play an important role in conserving plant species that are highly endangered or even extinct in the wild. But as a new study shows, botanical gardens can pose their own dangers for these at-risk species, specifically from hybridization with other plants in the collection.
Tuesday
Nov242009
Blending economics and ecology to protect bird habitat in the tropics
Filed under : Birds, Economics, Planning, Preservation
Birds, Economics, Planning, Preservation 
An innovative program uses mitigation money from New York and a planning tool based on economics to protect habitat for the Bicknell's thrush in the Caribbean...
Monday
Nov232009
