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All it took was one college research trip to Colorado’s Rocky Mountains for Danielle Ignace to know her intended career path in medicine was the wrong fit. After spending a month in the mountains, she quickly learned she wanted to study ecology. “I was just kind of hooked,” she told The Revelator. “I really wanted to work on these big questions about how climate change and environmental issues impact our ecosystems.” And she has. Trained as a plant physiologist, ecologist and ecosystem scientist, she’s been teaching at Smith College in Massachusetts and is also a research associa...

Date Time Species losses on isolated Panamanian island show importance of habitat connectivity CORVALLIS, Ore. – Free from human disturbance for a century, an inland island in Central America has nevertheless lost more than 25% of its native bird species since its creation as part of the Panama Canal’s construction, and scientists say the losses continue. The Barro Colorado Island extirpations show how forest fragmentation can reduce biodiversity when patches of remnant habitat lack connectivity, according to a study by researchers at Oregon State University. Even when large remnants of f...

Two Hollywood stars are creating a film based on Canadian forest ecology expert Suzanne Simard's memoir, Finding the Mother Tree.

Leon Godwyn/UC-Davis Early-blooming species 'lengthen the amount of time herbivores have in a given year to eat their leaves.' scientist says. Suggested Event Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021 Many plant species are leafing out and flowering earlier in response to rising temperatures, and those that are not are “declining at alarming rates in some circumstances,” says urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology in newly published research in the journal  Global Change Biology.  “However, the plants that ar...

Preservation of Plastics German Democratic Plastics in Design: A Research Project on Material, Technology, and Conservation Fernsehgerät FS Alex, 1957. Horst Giehse, Jürgen Peters, designers. VEB Stern Radio Berlin, producer. Photo: ©Die Neue Sammlung–The Design Museum, A. Laurenzo. The preservation of plastic objects poses a difficult challenge for conservators. Research into conservation of plastic objects, which only emerged in the 1990s, has been primarily focused on the identification of plastics, their degradation, and possible conservation and restoration methods. The extent to wh...