Bonus Episode: Disease-Carrying Ticks and How to Avoid Them
Ticks pose numerous threats to human health and well-being, ranging from the familiar Lyme threat to spotted fever rickettsiosis and even mammalian meat allergies. For this special bonus episode of Bi...
13 Kesä 201830min
Bridging the Gaps in Global Conservation
To date, the conservation of global biodiversity has relied on a patchwork of international goals and national- and regional-level plans. Hampered by poor planning, competing interests, and an incompl...
9 Touko 201827min
ASGSR Annual Meeting
In October 2017, through the collaboration of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR), BioScience Talks hit the road. We att...
14 Maalis 201849min
Urban Mind: Measuring the Benefits of Nature in Real Time
The positive mental health effects of nature exposure in urban environments are well known, and the literature on the subject is growing fast. However, many previous studies have relied only on cross-...
14 Helmi 201819min
Specimen Collection, Populations, and Biodiversity Science
The benefits of specimen collection are well known. Natural-history archives are increasingly used by researchers to investigate evolutionary processes, examine the effects of climate and environmenta...
10 Tammi 201820min
A Waterway Bounces Back following the Passage of the Clean Water Act
Although the aims of environmental legislation are well known, measuring the effects of regulation is often a difficult task. Inadequate data for baseline conditions and the recovery period can hamper...
8 Marras 201721min
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Wildlife Trade Management
The illicit wildlife trade is a multi-billion-dollar business that spans the globe. Unfortunately, efforts to control it have often fallen short, and massive numbers of organisms are regularly removed...
11 Loka 201729min
