ecology
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Hit the (Forest) Floor – The Importance of Leaf Litter
We’ve learned about leaf color change in part 1, and why trees lose their leaves in…
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Can we eat our way out of biological invasions?
Eating invasive species might be one way to reduce their populations. Does it work?
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Beyond Bees – Five Truly Rare Pollinators
Here are some of nature’s most weird, wonderful, and surprising pollinators.
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Good Hosts, Good Guests: Parasitic Plants, Symbiosis, and Root Words
Parasitic flowers are the mysterious plants you didn’t know you needed to know.
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Why I chose to be a field ecologist
Think everyone who works outside likes dirt? Think again!
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What Happened to Your Nose?
Fancy schnozzes have surprising functions across the mammal family tree.
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Opposition Research on My Garden’s Greatest Nemesis
Even if a woodchuck could chuck wood, it would still rather eat your garden!
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Building with Microbes (In Mind)
Human microbiome studies have demonstrated how crucial bacteria are to our health. Will microbiome of the…
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The Earth is a blue marble (and the world is green)
You may have heard the Earth called the blue marble, but do you know why the…