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By Sam Baraoidan, Masters student, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Department When we are looking to buy a home, a primary concern is always whether or not our new house will be in a good neighborhood. But… Read More
By Simona Picardi, PhD student, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Dept. Incorporating cutting-edge mathematical tools in macroecological theory, in order to gain better understanding of large ecological systems’ function: this is the challenge undertaken by Dr…. Read More
By Bradley Udell, Masters student, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Department For the last 40 years, Dr. Charles Krebs has been studying the 10-year snowshoe hare and lynx population cycles in the Yukon, trying to understand… Read More
By Diego Juárez-Sánchez, Masters student, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Dept. “Hunting and poaching can precede habitat loss as a threat to wildlife. Sometimes we can have a good forest cover but no wildlife,” says Willandia… Read More
By Ethan Noel, Masters Student, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Dept. By 2030, the world population will exceed 8.5 billion people. During this time, Florida’s population will have increased by 5 million. Unfortunately, this rapid growth… Read More
By Andrew Marx, Masters student, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Imagine a remote island, its citizens valiantly trying to survive while besieged by foreign invaders and catastrophe. This was the story presented this week by Dr…. Read More
By Harrison Jones, Masters student, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Dept. Ask anyone with a birdfeeder and they might agree that the chickadee is the preteen of the songbird world. Moving around in cliquish groups,… Read More
By Julia Salvador, Masters Student, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Dept. The Iberá Wetlands are a mix of swamps, bogs, stagnant lakes, lagoons, natural slough and courses of water. Iberá is one of the most important… Read More
By Kevin Kloda, Masters student, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation How do you manage for a species you know little about? Aldo Leopold, arguably one of the most influential wildlife conservationists, wrote about the law of… Read More
By Joshua Epstein, Masters Student, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Every evening when temperatures exceed 65 °F, thousands of bats can be seen swiftly emerging from the Bat Barn and Bat House on the… Read More
