Fish & Feathers: Salmon Promote Songbird Diversity
Watersheds that support salmon benefit from an annual influx of nutrients delivered by this migrating fishy convoy. When salmon return to their natal streams to spawn and Read More…
ecology
Missing Megafauna: Worldwide Decline of Large Aquatic Animals
For many people, the term “megafauna” evokes images of terrestrial or marine behemoths of bygone eras, like the mastodon or the megalodon. But contemporary Earth is home Read More…
Food Flight: Fish Hitch a Ride in Bird Guts
Fish can show up in remarkable places, like ponds disconnected from any other body of water or remote alpine lakes. Sure, sometimes they get a first-class flight Read More…
Fish in Space: Where the fish are, and why we need to know
Fish have to swim – and as a result, most fish are constantly on the move, some displaying very complex migration patterns over the course of their Read More…
Big-Picture Stream Science
Studying stream ecology is often an involved process. Freshwater ecologists have to travel to their study sites, take a series of complicated measurements (such as gathering water Read More…
Caching in
Birds use trees for everything from shelter to food, but the acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) shows a particular knack for tree storage and a flair for display. Read More…
The legacy of fire
As the Rim Fire in California’s Stanislaus National Forest grows to over 250,000 acres and firefighting efforts are getting closer to containment, the Tuolumne River Trust is Read More…