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 Juli 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 Juli 201728min
Understanding River Thermal Landscapes
River temperatures have long been an area of study, but until recently, the field has been hampered by technological constraints. However, a suite of new technologies and methods, driven by inexpensiv...
14 Juni 201722min
Conservation Endocrinology in a Changing World
As species rapidly adapt to altered landscapes and a warming climate, scientists and stakeholders need new techniques to monitor ecological responses and plan future conservation efforts. Writing in B...
10 Maj 201725min
