Articles: ecology

• Catching fish without hooking sharks

  New England Aquarium scientists search for ways to reduce the accidental capture of sharks... Boston news article.

  • 16 June 2008
  • Jennifer Weeks
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• How now, brown-headed cowbird?

  With help from hundreds of volunteers, Mass Audubon is tracking the health of dozens of the Commonwealth’s breeding bird species... Boston news article.

  • 09 May 2008
  • Jennifer Weeks
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• Will you fund my honeymoon?

  When young, newlywed field biologists take their spouses on expeditions, some senior scientists applaud them, while others frown. .. Boston news article.

  • 27 November 2007
  • Amy Maxmen
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• Coyotes in the ‘hood

  Boston College’s environmental studies program tracks the spread of this feared species in Massachusetts suburbs... Boston news article.

  • 17 October 2007
  • Jennifer Weeks
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• Bringing back the bees

  Honeybees are important crop pollinators, but they are disappearing. A U. Mass. researcher says other native bees can be nurtured to pick up the slack... Boston news article.

  • 14 August 2007
  • Jennifer Cutraro
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• Studying forests through a social lens

  Social science becomes a major component of ecological research at Harvard Forest... Boston news article.

  • 21 June 2007
  • Jennifer Weeks
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• Mark Dion: Systema Metropolis

  A new exhibition at the Natural History Museum examines London’s biodiversity through art and science... London news article.

  • 15 June 2007
  • Matt Brown
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• To save salamanders, biologists get their feet wet

  Every spring, a Wheaton College biologist and hundreds of “citizen scientists” wade through woodland waters to study amphibians and protect their breeding grounds... Boston news article.

  • 27 April 2007
  • Adrianne Appel
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• Marine institute ramps up research

  Northeastern’s Marine Science Center is taking advantage of its coastal location near Boston and major fisheries to rebuild its ecology program... Boston news article.

  • 03 April 2007
  • Jennifer Cutraro
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• Research Roundup: This week’s papers from Boston labs

  Doing chemistry on paper, how one reef smells differently than another, and discovering a new regulator of the immune system .. Boston news article.

  • 12 January 2007
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