ecology

Researchers now link the death of thousands of birds migrating across New Mexico in 2020 to extreme temperature and climate conditions. The event inspired a partnership between Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico State University to study "disaster ecology."

A group of University of Wyoming researchers are the first to use NASA technology to get a bigger picture of wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

An ecology Ph.D. student is in Jackson Hole this fall studying winter ticks and their effect on the local moose population, and he's getting some help from a furry sidekick.

A recent University of Wyoming undergraduate is already making a name for herself. Megan Anderson published an article in the peer-reviewed journal Ecology and Evolution. It shed light on the value of badger burrows, among other findings. Wyoming Public Radio's Cooper McKim talks with Anderson about the project.

Scientists still aren't sure what maintains the Great Plains Grasslands and keeps them separate from forests. A very common hypothesis is that there are climatic differences between the areas where each type of ecosystem forms. But the boundaries between the two ecosystems have been slowly disintegrating since around 1850, which caused a U.S. Forest Service research ecologist to wonder if something else was responsible for keeping them separate.

Areas with high energy development near streams can reduce the quality of the water habitat, and that can have a negative effect on the ability of fish to persist over time.

The 2021 Microbial Ecology Collaborative Startup Launchpad (MECSL) announced FrostyFlake and LifeGlass as their two winners and awarded the start-ups a share of a $25,000 seed fund.

After noting that certain regions appear to be responding to climate change differently than others, Amato Evan, an associate professor of climate science…

Researchers have found that it’s not just forests on the landscape that can help mitigate climate change. Meadows also provide an efficient way to keep...

When University of Wyoming Department of Botany Associate Professor Daniel Laughlin realized he would have to teach ecology online for the fall semester,…