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Climate change and biodiversity loss: A dangerous combination?

Diversity makes us stronger. The diversity of life, biodiversity, is what unites and sustains us as living things on this tiny planet. And without it our tiny planet is in trouble.
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19 Aug 2017

Here is where the wild things are

It’s 5:45 am. I need get out of my car and get to work, but I can’t. I’m alone, on a deserted road in the middle of the woods, and something is moving in the bushes right outside my door.
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13 Sep 2016

Bigger Than a 3-inch Fish

By now I’m sure you’ve heard Donald Trump‘s California rally declaration  “There is…
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30 May 2016

The Nanoscale

Sometimes the biggest marvels we see in nature arise from the smallest…
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10 Apr 2016

Mating Systems

Last blog I mentioned some specifics about horse shoe crab mating behavior…
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31 Aug 2015

A biologist’s bucket list

For every biologist there is a list of natural events or places…
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25 Jul 2015Comments: 2

BioBlitz: a coming together of scientists, naturalists, and the community

One of the reasons I wanted to start contributing to a blog…
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20 Jun 2015

There is more to mosquitoes than bloodsucking

As spring arrives, I cannot help but think about all of the…
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11 Apr 2015Comments: 1

What is causing eastern blacklegged tick range expansion?

The eastern blacklegged tick, formerly known as the deer tick, is an…
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30 Jan 2015

What is happening to the bees?

As a scientist that studies bees, I am often asked by people…
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16 Jan 2015
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Megan, Jill, Tony, Caroline and Dominic discuss their favorite topics in ecology and evolution in SciFund’s own Eco Tome Blog.

The aptly named clearwing butterfly (Photo credit: https://www.rockcostarica.com/lake-arenal/gallery/clearwing-butterfly/).
The aptly named clearwing butterfly (Photo credit: https://www.rockcostarica.com/lake-arenal/gallery/clearwing-butterfly/).

Their favorite topics include:

  • urban ecology
    
  • ecology of diseases and vectors
  • the evolution of biodiversity

They also tackle "big-issue" biology. Such as:

  • climate change
  • pollination ecology
  • evolution and creationism