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Each week on the blog we pull back the curtain on our Wildlife Ecology & Conservation graduate students’ seminar class. This post is by master’s student Elysia Webb. How does the diversity of life emerge? This question motivates Dr…. Read More
Each week on the blog we pull back the curtain on our Wildlife Ecology & Conservation graduate students’ seminar class. This post is by PhD student Wesley Boone. The Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is arguably one of the most… Read More
Each week on the blog we pull back the curtain on our Wildlife Ecology & Conservation graduate students’ seminar class. This post is by master’s student Elysia Webb. Dr. Lisa Davenport had a mystery on her hands: her birds… Read More
Each week on the blog we pull back the curtain on our Wildlife Ecology & Conservation graduate students’ seminar class. This post is by master’s student Nick Vitale. In response to the looming threat of climate change, Dr. Stephen… Read More
Each week on the blog we pull back the curtain on our Wildlife Ecology & Conservation graduate students’ seminar class. This post is by master’s student Allison Cauvin. Dr. John Terborgh wants to answer an increasingly pressing question for… Read More
By Wesley Boone, PhD Student, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Dept. “If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To… Read More
By Adia Sovie, PhD student, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Dept. On islands throughout the Southern Ocean king penguins inhabit bare and windswept beaches. Contrasted next to the gray cobbles and brown-green patches of hardy grass the brilliant yellow… Read More
By Allison Cauvin, Masters student, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Dept. Dr. Daijiang Li has attempted to solve a fifty year-old mystery. Rather, he’s tried to consolidate data taken fifty years ago and compare it to trends he’s noticing… Read More
By Wes Boone, PhD student, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Dept. Madagascar is a land of endemism and anthropogenic destruction. In the ~88 million years since Madagascar separated from the Indian sub-continent, both plants and animals have been evolving… Read More
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By Ronit Amit, PhD, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Department The return of Florida panthers (Puma concolor coryi) from the border of extinction can be seen as a conservation success in terms of increasing genetic diversity and population size, but… Read More
