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A rocky landscape with short vegetation in the Canadian tundra
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Does a Greening Arctic Affect Groundwater Recharge?

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 11 June 202014 March 2023

New research examines how shifts in aboveground ecology influence belowground hydrology in the Arctic.

A colony of 60,000 pairs of king penguins stands on the exposed gray bedrock of South Georgia.
Posted inNews

How Climate Science Is Expanding the Scale of Ecological Research

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 31 March 202025 April 2022

Tools developed for climate science can help researchers forecast ecological dipoles: the contrasting effects of climate on populations separated by thousands of kilometers.

Two oil-drilling platforms off the Long Beach, Calif., coast
Posted inNews

The Ecological Costs of Removing California’s Offshore Oil Rigs

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 5 March 202025 March 2024

Offshore oil- and gas-drilling platforms are rich habitats for fish, and removing them completely would result in a loss of over 95% of fish biomass, new research has revealed.

Thick pine forest of Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in Cape Cod, Mass.
Posted inNews

New England Forests Were Historically Shaped by Climate, Not People

Rachel Fritts, Science Writer by Rachel Fritts 28 February 20205 June 2023

A first-of-its-kind study combining paleoecology and archeology indicates that the New England landscape was not actively managed with fire prior to European arrival.

Water flows between encroaching ice crystals.
Posted inNews

River Ice Is Disappearing

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 18 February 202023 March 2023

Over the past 3 decades, the persistence of river ice has decreased by almost a week. The decrease in ice has important implications for ecology, climate, and the economy.

Water droplets on leaf
Posted inEditors' Vox

Ecohydrology: What’s in a Name?

by D. Scott Mackay 13 May 20191 April 2022

Scientists were studying ecohydrology for decades before it became an official ‘ology’. Find out how this field has evolved over the past century.

Vegetation growing in the heathlands of Chobham Common, Surrey
Posted inScience Updates

Ancient Fires and Indigenous Knowledge Inform Fire Policies

by C. Adolf, D. Hawthorne and D. Colombaroli 22 March 20194 May 2022

Global Paleofire Working Group 2: Diverse Knowledge Systems for Fire Policy and Biodiversity Conservation; Egham, United Kingdom, 4–9 September 2018

Phytoplankton bloom in the Tasman Sea captured by the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite on 21 November 2017.
Posted inFeatures

Interpreting Mosaics of Ocean Biogeochemistry

by Andrea Fassbender, A. Bourbonnais, S. Clayton, P. Gaube, M. Omand, P. J. S. Franks, M. A. Altabet and D. J. McGillicuddy Jr. 17 December 201816 April 2025

Advances in technology and modeling capabilities are driving a surge in progress in our understanding of how ocean ecosystems mix and mingle on medium to small scales.

Ecologist Maria Uriarte of Columbia University records damage that Hurricane Maria did to trees in Puerto Rico
Posted inNews

Congress Throws Tropical Forest Research Program a Lifeline

by G. Popkin 5 October 201813 March 2023

Climate researchers and ecologists laud the continuation of effort to fuse data from tropical forests with modeling.

Niwot Ridge Long Term Ecological Research site, Boulder, Colorado
Posted inScience Updates

Modeling Global Change Ecology in a High–Carbon Dioxide World

by S. J. Cheng, N. G. Smith and A. R. Marklein 16 March 201821 March 2022

Ignite-style Session, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting; Portland, Oregon, 11 August 2017

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