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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Nov 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 Okt 201729min
The Benefits and Pitfalls of Urban Green Spaces
With the rapid expansion of the urban landscape, successfully managing ecosystems in built areas has never been more important. However, our understanding of urban ecology is far from complete, and th...
13 Sep 201726min
Damming and Its Effects on Fish
Fish that migrate between freshwater and sea ecosystems play a multitude of ecological roles. In the centuries since Europeans first colonized the Americas, damming and other disruptions to river conn...
9 Aug 201735min
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2017 Annual Meeting
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), an American Institute of Biological Sciences member society, fosters research, education, public awareness, and understanding of living orga...
26 Jul 201731min
Low Oxygen in Chesapeake Bay
Each year, low oxygen levels, known as hypoxia, strike the deep waters of Chesapeake Bay. Arising from a combination of human-induced and natural factors, low oxygen levels have profound effects on fi...
12 Jul 201728min
