Tag: models

July 20, 2021

In ash borer-infested forests, focus on climate change

While forest management strategies in the U.S. East and Midwest often focus on stopping damage from the invasive emerald ash borer, researchers say forest conservation efforts shouldn’t neglect mitigating for...

March 31, 2020

Researchers craft roadmap for studying wildlife communities

As technology like camera traps, drones, and acoustic monitoring becomes more prevalent and citizen science creates bigger datasets of wildlife on the landscape, researchers are taking more opportunities to study...

August 23, 2017

To gauge climate change threats, researchers try time travel

To test how accurately biologists can predict a species’ risk of extinction under climate change, a team of researchers traveled back in time. They took current methods used to assess...

October 16, 2016

What would Aldo Leopold think of our profession?

If Aldo Leopold were alive today, what would he think of the wildlife profession? This was the topic the 2017 Aldo Leopold winner and keynote speaker Jim Nichols addressed Sunday...