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  Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Georgios Arseniou

  Published on May 5, 2021
  Georgios Arseniou, Ph.D. candidate, focuses on understanding the structure and function of urban forests which provide various socioeconomic and ecological services to human societies.

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  Citizen science bioblitz events evolve during novel coronavirus pandemic

  Published on November 30, 2020
  A bioblitz pairs community members with researchers in an effort to identify as many species as possible at a given location during a specific timeframe. During the pandemic, researchers have had to adapt the event structure.

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  Doug Landis named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

  Published on November 24, 2020
  Landis was nominated for distinguished contributions to the field of ecology, particularly for uncovering the role of landscape structure in regulating insect biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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  Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Leo Pham

  Published on September 2, 2020
  Leo Pham brings together the fields of ecology and hydrology.

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  The wisdom of crowds: What researchers can learn from local communities of natural resources stakeholders

  Published on June 30, 2020
  Can natural resource stakeholders accurately estimate fish populations and human pressures on the environment?

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  Fishing communities can model ecosystems as accurately as scientific experts

  Published on January 16, 2020
  Department of Community Sustainability researchers have demonstrated that fisheries stakeholders can accurately predict how pike interact with humans and other wildlife species in freshwater lakes.

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  New director to join Kellogg Biological Station in June 2020

  Published on November 14, 2019
  Fredric Janzen has been named director at the Michigan State University Kellogg Biological Station, effective June 1, 2020.

• The past, present and future distribution of a deep-sea shrimp in the Southern Ocean

  Published on November 9, 2017
  We use species distribution models to predict changes in the geographic range of the deep-sea Antarctic shrimp Nematocarcinus lanceopes under changing climatic conditions from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present and to the year 2100.

• Spatiotemporal patterns of non-genetically modified crops in the era of expansion of genetically modified food

  Published on September 23, 2015
  Despite heated debates over the safety of genetically modified (GM) food, GM crops have been expanding rapidly.

• Historical Ecology in the Mesa Verde Region: Results From The Village Ecodynamics Project

  Published on January 16, 2007
  Using the occupation histories of 3,176 habitation sites, new estimates of maize-agriculture productivity, and an analysis of over 1,700 construction timbers, we examine the historical ecology of Pueblo peoples during their seven-century occupation (...

• Integrating ecology with human demography, behavior, and socioeconomics: Needs and approaches

  Published on February 23, 2001
  This paper discusses an urgent need to integrate ecology with human demography, behavior, and socioeconomics in order to understand and manage ecological patterns and processes.