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Small bird, big trick: How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists didn’t know what they were looking at. The day-old bird, smaller ...
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New discovery! The blue angel sea slug hunts using the devil’s hand
Blue sea slugs were believed to prey on the Portuguese man-of-war, which contains highly poisonous nematocysts, and uses the nematocysts for defense by incorporating them into the tips of its lateral ...
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Acoustic monitoring network for birds enhances forest management
A new study using the largest network of microphones to track birds in the United States is providing crucial insights for managing and restoring fire-prone forests across California’s Sierra Nevada ...
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Tiny sea slug could have a big impact on successful coastal conservation efforts
As climate change accelerates, finding effective solutions that deliver outsized impact becomes increasingly crucial. Now, new research from Chapman University shows that a tiny marine mollusk native ...
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Biology Ph.D. Student Receives Prestigious National Honors to Study Fungi’s Role in Forest Health
Eva Legge, a first-year Ph.D. student majoring in biology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), is the recipient of three prestigious honors: the Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) 2025 ...
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Study reveals how rising temperatures could lead to population crashes
Researchers at Rice University have uncovered a critical link between rising temperatures and declines in a species’ population, shedding new light on how global warming threatens natural ecosystems.
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ESA Early Career Fellows Program
ESA designates an Early Career Fellow of the Society as certain early career members (typically chosen within 8 years of receiving the Ph.D.) who have begun making and show promise of continuing to ...
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NEON Employees and ESA Certification
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Why Certify?
There is an increasing nationwide demand for certification credentials in the environmental arena. Besides natural resource management, ecological expertise is needed on a host of other current ...
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Plants to Populations: Predicting Diet Quality and Nutrient Intake of Deer from Forage Metrics
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Working with Non-Majors
Are you looking for creative ways to bring the 4DEE Framework to life in your teaching? Watch Sara Scanga and Erica Tietjen’s Water Cooler Chat on exciting approaches to engaging Non-Majors with 4DEE ...
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2025 SEEDS National BioBlitz Competition
A BioBlitz is an opportunity to take a snapshot of the biodiversity, or variety of life, in an area. During a BioBlitz event, students, scientists, and the general public work together to find and ...