Study links exotic plant invasions with residential development

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Evaluating coastal feeding habitat for marine birds

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Can invasive species enhance the competitve ability of native grasses?

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...

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The non-target impacts of pesticides on insect communities

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Shifting baselines: how quickly we forget about declining species

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...

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The ecological benefits of reduced stream flows

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...

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Prioritizing wildlife migration routes for conservation

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Study tracks salmon farm escapees

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...

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Identifying minimum patch sizes for breeding success in birds

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Valuing ecosystem services from wetland restoration

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...

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