This station is about a species that you probably won’t see from the Waldbauer trail, and yet you see its effects everywhere you look in the Adirondacks. The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) ...

I joined the rangeland ecology faculty in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management in summer 2007. My research interests lie in wildlife habitat ecology and restoration ecology with a focus ...

Beavers are among the most prominent ecosystem engineers. Their dam-building activities divert and stagnate streamflows, flooding adjacent areas, and forming new wetlands that provide habitat for ...

Scientists are looking to rewrite the textbook on microbial ecology. When it comes to microbe species, they argue, niche is much more important than names. In microbial systems, hundreds of species ...

Stacker compiled a list of 10 animals from diverse environments, outlining how each helps sustain its ecosystem. - Wildan Al Gifari // Shutterstock Stacker compiled a list of 10 animals from diverse ...

It’s easy to look at a single species and forget the rippling impact that specific group of animals has on everything around it. Plants, animals, rocks, minerals and water make up the ecosystems that ...

“Excuse me. I’ve got a fly in my mouth.” Kent McFarland, conservation biologist at the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, politely pauses to expectorate one of the countless black flies that besiege him ...