Angry Birds? Or the Baltimore Oriole.
Some of my young friends play an online game called “Angry Birds.” The logo features what I would call an irate cardinal. This seems incongruous to me, since my youthful memories include Cardinals being the signature bird of…
Dr. Emma Rosi-Marshall Named Director Designate of BES
Dr. Rosi-Marshall will be the next Director of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, Long-Term Ecological Research project, a role that is targeted to begin in 2016. At this time, we hope that BES would be entering its next phase of support as…
A Successful 2012 BES Annual Meeting
BES has just concluded a very successful Annual Meeting. This was the 14th annual meeting and it had two components. First was a Steering Committee meeting on Tuesday 23 October. This meeting, as is our tradition, was open…
Introducing the BES Urban Lexicon
The members of BES represent a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds. Some are educators, some are experts in community engagement, and some are researchers whose interests span from physical to social sciences. It is no surprise…
A New Book on Urban Ecology
A new book on urban ecology is about to appear. Three urban ecologists from the University of Quebec in Montreal, Beatrix Beisner, Christian Messier, and Luc-Alain Giraldeau, have compiled an engaging series of essays to share with general…
A Disturbance Primer for Urban Systems
BasicsThe fundamental definition of disturbance is a physical disruption of the structure of a specified system. The term may also be applied to the specific event that causes that disruption (Pickett et al. 1989, Peters et al. 2011). …
