Birthday checks, hungry bears, and subsidy dynamics in the Everglades on the Oikos blog
Hi all, Check out my post on the Oikos blog about subsidy regulation in the Everglades! Click on the link below to read the entire story Oikos blog full story
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Extreme ecology: taking a look at the 2010 freeze
Happy new year folks! I am writing today to discuss extreme ecology! As much as I wish that “extreme ecology” is studying ecology while surfing or snowboarding, it is not. Rather, extreme ecology or the” ecology of extremes” is the study of how ecosystems change following very rare natural disturbances. These disturbances are more like natural disasters, that include volcanic eruptions, biblical floods, hurricanes, super storms, and boiling heat waves. Extreme disturbance events are so harmful because they often kill everything that happened to be in the path of the disturbance. On top of destroying ecosystems, these events incur billions of dollars of damages to humans. The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens provides a good example of an extreme disturbance event. Mount St. Helens before and after the 1980 eruption You can see in this picture that after the eruption of Mount St. Helens, swaths of forests that are harvested for timber were ...
Awesome research animals!
Good morning everyone, This blog is a tribute to all the animals that get caught up in science. Without their help, we would know alot less about the environment and the natural resources we all love! Lobster toupee None of the other lobsters can tell its scientific equipment: These tags are the same as the ones I use . They send a sound pulse that can be detected by underwater equipment and are used to track movement patterns (photo courtesy of FWRI http://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/telemetry/) Gopro shark (insert dup-step music here) These are cameras attached to the sharks back that used to video and understand shark feeding habits. Courtesy of the Shark bay ecosystem research project and the Heithaus lab (http://www2.fiu.edu/~heithaus/SBERP/projects/tigerres.html). Punk rocker walleye… His girlfriend’s parents are not impressed Lip tags are used in mark recapture studies. A fish gets a lip ring with a unique number and released back in...