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Blue-green algal blooms are common in the Baltic Sea as well as in many lakes, and they are often seen as a nuisance and an indication of environmental degradation. But because something is ugly does not necessarily mean that it's also bad. Can cy...
SGD 14: Life Below Water (Conserve Marine Ecosystems)
EPH 2 presentation on UN SDG 14: Life Below Water
Podcast on Unsustainable Fishing Methods and their negative effects on fish populations, bycatch, endangered aquatic organism and the marine ecosystem ecology. Complications (damaging ecological balance and food webs), along with future resolution...
HDFS 161 Episode 7 Diversities & Ecosystems
Professor Shelton applies develecology to understand the effects of poverty, racism, and residential segregation on children and their development.
Weekly Rites #9 - Zoey November
This week I spent a lot of time in the woods. Interested in the soft holding quiet of newly snowy forest - and the shapes I can make within it that feel so oddly misplaced.
Sugar maple flowers that are fertilized in spring, will develop into mature seeds in late summer. The seeds come in the form of winged samaras (sometimes referred to as helicopters or whirligigs). Sugar maple samaras develop in pairs but generally...
Sugar makers rely on healthy, abundant maple trees to provide sap each spring. Taken together a group of maple trees managed for sap collection is called a sugarbush. Developing a healthy, productive sugarbush takes time and effort. Forests are hi...
All green plants, which includes trees, need sunlight to produce energy for survival. Some trees can satisfy their basic needs with less light than others. Sugar and red maples are two examples of such trees. They are both considered shade-toleran...
As trees form, the size and shape of its stem and crown, will be impacted by living in a low light environment such as the forest's understory. So-called suppressed trees are able to capture just enough sun to survive. Sugar maples growing in the ...