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Forest fires and fireside chats: UW students learn about management challenges
An intensive two week field course – visiting sites of spectacular wildfires as well as forest restoration areas – helped 20 University of Washington students learn firsthand about the challenges of...
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Fearless birds and shrinking salmon: Is urbanization pushing Earth’s...
These are examples of documented human-driven evolutionary change in selected species. Upper-left: Reproduction in the Daphnia, a zooplankton which plays a key role in the food webs. Center: Body size...
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Scientists crack secrets of the monarch butterfly’s internal compass
“Now where was I going?”Flickr/Wikimedia Commons Each fall, monarch butterflies across Canada and the United States turn their orange, black and white-mottled wings toward the Rio Grande and migrate...
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In times of plenty, penguin parents keep feeding their grown offspring
Humans are not alone in continuing to support offspring who have “left the nest.” It happens in Galapagos penguins, too. In a paper published online March 13 in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, a...
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With climate change, Mount Rainier floral communities could ‘reassemble’ with...
Central to the field of ecology is the mantra that species do not exist in isolation: They assemble in communities — and within these communities, species interact. Predators hunt prey. Parasites...
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California plain shows surprising winners and losers from prolonged drought
Carrizo Plain National Monument in the spring 2017 wildflower bloom.Bureau of Land Management/Wikimedia The Carrizo Plain National Monument is a little-known ecological hotspot in Southern California....
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Common allergen, ragweed, will shift northward under climate change
New research from the University of Washington and the University of Massachusetts – Amherst looks at how the most common cause of sneezing and sniffling in North America is likely to shift under...
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Assessing riverside corridors — the ‘escape routes’ for animals under climate...
The Owyhee River Canyon in Oregon shows the difference between shadier riverside habitat and the hotter, dryer upland areas.Bureau of Land Management/Flickr Under climate change, plants and animals...
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When coyote parents get used to humans, their offspring become bolder, too
Seven-week-old coyote pups walk through the research facility in Utah as the mother follows. The first pup carries a bone in its mouth. Photo courtesy of the USDA National Wildlife Research...
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Flowering plants, new teeth and no dinosaurs: New study sheds light on the...
Akidolestes cifellii (Specimen No.: NIGPAS 139381; Formation: Yixian; Age: 122.2–124.6 million years ago; Provenance: China) is one of many of the early mammals discovered over the past 30 years.Meng...
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Climate change to fuel increase in human-wildlife conflict, UW biologist says
With wildfires spreading across the parched Western U.S., severe floods in Europe and in the coming decade a potential surge in coastal flooding, 2021 could be a pivotal year in how governments,...
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‘More pepper, please’: New study analyzes role of scent compounds in the...
A short-tailed fruit bat, Carollia castanea, a Piper specialist.David Villalobos Chaves A study published Aug. 11 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B by researchers at the University of...
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Top predators could ‘trap’ themselves trying to adapt to climate change,...
African wild dog pups.Bobby-Jo Vial As climate change alters environments across the globe, scientists have discovered that in response, many species are shifting the timing of major life events, such...
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Climate ‘presses’ and ‘pulses’ impact Magellanic penguins — a marine predator...
A summer scene at the Magellanic penguin colony at Punta Tombo in Argentina.Dee Boersma/UW Center for Ecosystem Sentinels Climate change will reshape ecosystems worldwide through two types of climate...
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Human-wildlife conflicts rising worldwide with climate change
Polar bears scavenging through garbage in Churchill, Manitoba. The rapid loss of sea ice in northern latitudes has driven many polar bears onto land and into human settlements to find food.Keith...
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