Conservation scientists are challenging the old-school mindset of preserving natural areas in a fixed, untouched state.

How much will strawberry harvests shrink when extreme heat harms pollinators? How much will timber production decline when ...

An article appearing in BioScience challenges conventional conservation wisdom, suggesting that protected areas such as ...

When a massive iceberg calved off the Antarctic coast earlier this year, it did more than just reshape the ice sheet—it ...

A study in Forest Ecosystems reveals that Australia's cool temperate rainforests are more disturbance-resilient than ...

Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood. A 2023 study in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone found that 88% to 92% of ...

Forest sounds reveal ecosystem health Another tool developed ... forest sounds and detect anomalies that may indicate ecosystem disturbances or human activity. Sound analysis is becoming an ...

My research focuses on the structure, function, and disturbance ecology of temperate forest landscapes of western North America. I use a combination of field-based longitudinal datasets, remote ...

"The ecosystem really needs the fire," said Polly Weigand, the Northeast fire project manager for the nonprofit Forest ...

The research suggests that the seafloor ecosystem of the Chatham Rise may be more resilient to disturbances than previously thought, says NIWA marine ecologist Dr. Rachel Hale, lead author for the ...

Although she prefers to monitor ecosystems from a distance ... and acoustic diversity helped them to classify the state of disturbance of some sites, while those of acoustic activity and energy ...