BioScience 113

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Ryan Terrill: Evolutionary Interactions of Feather Molt in Birds

The ability of feathers to serve many functions such as flight, thermoregulations, crypsis, and sexual signaling simultaneously or serially has allowed for the evolution of many unique life-history strategies in birds; which has in turn allowed for colonization of all of earth’s habitats outside the deep ocean. Combining these functions of feathers provides birds with many novel niches not used by any other vertebrates, especially related to their ability to track ephemeral resources over large areas.

Dr. Marisa Tellez: Sinking Your Teeth into Crocodile Conservation Through Community Stewardship

Conservation is not just about wildlife, it is about people and communities. The success of any wildlife conservation program relatively parallels the involvement and support from local communities, thus working alongside communities and partner organizations is imperative to empower people with the knowledge of co-existence and sustainability to ensure long-term conservation efforts.

Joan Dudney ’06 - Tracking a tree killer: blister rust and the future of white pines in the southern Sierra Nevada

White pine forests in the Sierra Nevada, a primary source of water and carbon cycling services for California, are under threat by increasing temperatures, bark beetles, and disease. Combining long-term surveys with isotope analyses, I assessed the current status of white pines in the southern Sierra. These results are being used to help list whitebark pine as an endangered species and provides the first comprehensive evidence for sugar pine decline.
 

Case Prager ’08 - Impacts of climate and multiple dimensions of biodiversity on arctic and alpine ecosystem carbon dynamics

As human-altered landscapes now dominate our earth, greater emphasis has been placed on understanding which species decline, persist, or increase in these altered or newly created habitats, and the consequences of changing biological diversity for ecosystem and Earth-system functioning.  This body of work has grown exponentially since its emergence just two decades ago, and a great amount of effort has been placed on developing theory and empirical methods to describe the nature of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function (BEF) and the mechanisms (e.g., select

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