Stories indexed under: Forest and wildlife ecology
Total: 3
- As climate warms, bark beetles march on high-elevation forests Dec. 31, 2012 Trees and the insects that eat them wage constant war. Insects burrow and munch; trees deploy lethal and disruptive defenses in the form of chemicals.
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Study evaluates bat deaths near wind turbines
Oct. 31, 2011
It's something of an ecological murder mystery - countless numbers of bats are turning up dead near wind farms. But what is killing them?
- Unique cooperative class gets national view of popular conservation technique May 31, 2011 Using a national approach to studying a complex question of environmental policy, Adena Rissman, a professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, guided a graduate seminar that examined the use of conservation easements in Wisconsin.