“Agricultural Land-Use” by Amah Akodéwou and Michel Godron
Amah Akodéwou and Michel Godron have some interesting, beautiful diagrams and mathematics in “Agricultural Land-Use Increases Floral Species Richness in Tropical Dry Forest and Savannah Ecosystems in West Africa.” I have not dug into the strengths and weaknesses of the paper, whatever there may be there, but I love the math! In the abstract, they …
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Eugene Odum, Author of Fundamentals of Ecology
In “Eugene Odum: The father of modern ecology” (UGA Today, 9 January 2018), James Hataway writes (: Eugene Odum was not given to fits of anger, but this time he was furious. It was the fall of 1946. Odum, then a young associate professor in the University of Georgia’s biology department, had taught a course …
“Ecology Stories” by Mike and Debby Kaspari
In “Ecology Stories Episode One: What is Biodiversity?“, Mike and Debby Kaspari write: Each person’s pursuit of biophilia leads to a discovery: some places are richer in animals and plants and microbes, others less so. This discovery is captured in the word “biodiversity”. In biodiversity, we count and compare the kinds of living things in …
CCERP Podcast Episode 10: Water Quality
An Ecological Approach to Farming, 2
CCERP Podcast Episode 9: The Texas Master Naturalist Program
“The Ten Principles of Ecology” by Mike Kaspari
In “The Ten Principles of Ecology” (17 July 2012), Mike Kaspari (see also Google Scholar. the University of Oklahoma, and his Curriculum Vitae) writes: The Ten Principles of Ecology 1. Evolution organizes ecological systems into hierarchies. Individual organisms combine into populations, populations combine into species, species combine into higher taxa like genera and phyla. Each …
John Tester, Author of Minnesota’s Natural Heritage
On the University of Minnesota’s website, in the College of Natural Sciences, they write: John Tester was a pioneering ecologist who helped found the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior in the College of Biological Sciences. He was known as an early advocate of using controlled burns to maintain prairies and forest and was early …
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Upcoming Fitness Workshop!
I’m doing a fitness workshop on 12 March, if you want to improve your outdoor fitness: hiking, biking, camping, gardening, walking, running, exploring, stewarding. And for the few who do wildfire firefighting, military work, naturalist work, park ranger work, etc. Learn more on Total Human Fitness’ MovNat Workshops page. Sign up on MovNat’s Website.