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Search The Newsoom Auburn researcher demonstrates NASA satellite’s ability to observe forest heath, generate data to support sustainable forest management Published: April 06, 2021 Decrease Font Size Font Size Increase Font Size Article body Lana Narine, an assistant professor of geospatial analytics in the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, is part of a research team whose recent study presented a breakthrough in the capabilities of a NASA satellite to examine the three-dimensional structure of forests.  Remote Sensing journal, shows how NASA’s ...

Why do Bradford pear trees smell like...that? Updated Mar 17, 2021; The trees are beautiful. Those Callery pear trees, known regionally as Bradford pears, are large and covered with white, five-petaled flowers, native to China and Vietnam. You’ve seen them bloom and flourish for several weeks in Alabama now, and you likely knew they were here before you ever laid eyes on them. Because, well, they stink. But what is that smell? You can’t quite place it. Not quite harsh or bitter enough to think it’s a dead animal in the vicinity of the tree. No, it’s the tree. It smells a bit rotten,...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Human behaviours highly determine where wildlife may move and persist in a landscape, hence showing the importance of 'Anthropogenic Resistance' in conservation planning. view more  Credit: Conservation Biogeography, Humboldt-University Berlin For species to survive in the wild, maintaining connectivity between populations is critical. Without 'wildlife corridors', groups of animals are isolated, unable to breed and may die out. In assessing wildlife connectivity, many aspects of the landscape are measured, but the impact of human behaviour has largely been overlooked...

Search The Newsoom Auburn University professor co-authors BioScience study re-examining role of mesophication in declining prominence of oak landscapes in US Published: January 27, 2021 Decrease Font Size Font Size Increase Font Size Article body An Auburn University professor has published a study reviewing the commonly held hypothesis—mesophication—that fire exclusion is responsible for reducing the prominence of oak trees across the central and eastern United States. Heather Alexander, assistant professor of forest ecology in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Science...

Leischuck Award winner Kerry Inger brings out the best in her accounting students Published: January 20, 2021 Decrease Font Size Font Size Increase Font Size Article body Kerry Inger wants her students to see the interesting aspects of tax in everyday situations, and especially those that aren’t every day, like how tax laws can affect a baseball caught at a Major League Baseball game. “Is that baseball taxable? It can depend on the player and situation,” she said. “An ordinary foul ball, no. But a key home run in the World Series, most definitely.” Inger, associate ...