Using DNA barcodes to track the illegal wildlife trade
Evolutionary Bio 
The trade in illegal bushmeat may be booming. But a team of scientists has moved us a step closer to the future of wildlife law enforcement...read more
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Evolutionary Bio 
The trade in illegal bushmeat may be booming. But a team of scientists has moved us a step closer to the future of wildlife law enforcement...read more
Mitigation banks have emerged as a preferred alternative for complying with the Clean Water Act's stated goal of no net loss' of wetlands. But are they working?
Invasive,
Planning,
Technology-GIS Internet savvy researchers have created a web-based tool to integrate local expertise about invasive species occurance into regional- scale maps...read more

Massive natural gas development projects are being built on public lands in the western U.S. A new study looks at the impacts on wintering mule deer...read more
Restoration,
Wetland 
A new study may disappoint those hoping to quickly restore wetlands back to reference conditions. Researchers looking back over 50 years have found that soil development after wetland restoration proceeds much slower than previously thought...read more
If eradicating invasive species depends largely on the cooperation of neighbors, what happens when they don't cooperate? A new study explores the challenges of invasive species control within a fragmented management mosaic...read more
Technology-GIS 
In a new study published in the open source journal Computational Biology, researchers apply Google's Page Rank algorithm to the food web to predict the consequences of species extinction on ecosystems...read more
Invasive
Scientists develop a theoretical model based on population dynamics to predict in what circumstances efforts to control invasive species will backfire...read more

In a new study, scientists look at the effect of wildlife-friendly forestry on avian species in the bottomland hardwood forests of Louisiana...read more