Early Warning System Provides Forecasts of the Upcoming Wildfire Season
Author(s): Paul Pickell & Nicholas Coops Published in: Scientific Reports (October 27, 2017) URL: doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14730-0 An early warning system to forecast the close of the spring burning window from satellite-observed greenness The majority of wildfires in Alberta are caused by humans, resulting in unnecessary costs associated with extinguishing them. Human-caused wildfires tend to occur […]
Environmental and Social Aspects of Underwater Logging
Underwater logging is a relatively new concept in forestry that has significant economic benefits but also consequences for the environment and local communities.
Exploring the Diversity of Invertebrates around Streams and Rivers
Riparian habitat is the transitional zones between aquatic and terrestrial habitat that extends through areas adjacent to water bodies like streams, into the soil and groundwater, and vertically into the forest canopy.
Exploiting Natural Variation to Uncover Biosynthetic Enzyme
The plant cuticle represents the primary interface between the plant and environment, serving several important functions, including protection against desiccation, and defense against pest and pathogen infection, to mention only a few.
How pathogens and capture duration affect survival of released salmon
Adult salmon that are released after being captured are stressed and injured. Injured fish are an easy target for bacteria, viruses and other pathogens that can kill fish before they spawn, especially in warm water. Our research examines how gillnet entanglement duration and water temperature affect disease development and survival.
Updated Teaching Guide to “Hands-On” Landscape Analysis
Author: Sarah Gergel Published by: Springer (April 23, 2017) URL: www.springer.com/us/book/9781493963720 Learning Landscape Ecology, 2nd Edition This title meets a great demand for training in spatial analysis tools accessible to a wide audience. Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting discipline with much to offer for solving pressing and emerging problems in environmental science. Much of the […]
No time to lose – Green the cities now!
In this paper we review and evaluate existing knowledge on human health impacts of urban natural spaces, such as parks and open water elements, and make a case for increased investments in such.
Conservation value of Mountain habitats for birds
From an extensive literature-based survey, we found that one-third of bird species breeding in continental North America use mountain habitats for at least one critical period of their annual life cycle (breeding, migration or winter).
Watching wildlife: remote camera networks to support biodiversity conservation
Effective monitoring of global trends in biodiversity is an important component of international commitments to protect wildlife. Remote cameras (aka camera “traps”) are a rapidly growing technology with great potential to transform the way wildlife monitoring is done.
Who logs illegally and why? Evidence from the Ecuadorian Amazon
Using data from a household survey covering colonist and Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon, we have analyzed the socioeconomic determinants of legal and illegal smallholder timber harvesting. The results of a multinomial probit model reveal that non-harvesting households are statistically likely to be poor, to receive nonfarm income, to have smaller areas in primary forest and to reside closer to population centers.