What Do People Value About BES?
The 2018 twentieth annual meeting of BES participants, institutional partners, and interested citizens, provided an opportunity to ask people what they thought the most important finding or contribution of BES […]
What’s Hidden in the New York Times Maps of All the Buildings in America?
Much well deserved amazement and attention has been heaped on the recent map of “every building in America,” by Tim Wallace, Derek Watkins, and John Schwartz, published on 12 October […]
Why is Urban Sustainability so Hard? The Trap of the Sanitary City
A few months ago, I was having a lively discussion with some serious and dedicated undergraduates at a university I was visiting. The fact that they were disappointed with their […]
Evolution of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study
Since 1997, the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) has enjoyed the support of the Long-Term Ecological Research Program of the Division of Environmental Biology of the US National Science Foundation. That […]
Why Do Urban Ecology?
The ecological science of understanding the structure, workings, and change of urban places has three main reasons to be (raisons d’être, if you prefer the French). One is the fact […]
How Does a Long-Term Study Adjust Its Framework while Preserving Data Integrity?
Long-term ecological research is faced with seemingly contradictory constraints: It must maintain a consistent stream of rigorously comparable data over time while at the same time responding to conceptual and […]
Seeking Applicants to Join a Research Project Focused on Green Infrastructure
Our research team has four positions available: Three Postdocs and a Research Support Specialist(“RA”) for social-ecological assessment of green infrastructure. Our interdisciplinary, social-ecological research team is pleased to announce the […]
Two Ways to Discover Disturbance
Ecological disturbance is often defined as an event that disrupts the structure of a specific system (Pickett & White, 1985). This kind of material or physical disruption is important because […]
Ecology Of the City is Twenty Years Old
The phrase “ecology ofthe city” was introduced in 1997 as a simple rhetorical device to highlight the novelty of the approach to urban ecology adopted in the initial proposal for […]
Outcomes of an Urban Sustainability Research Network
From 2011 through 2017, the National Science Foundation (NSF) supported a collaborative research project on “Urban Sustainability: Research Coordination and Synthesis for a Transformative Future.” This project was jointly organized […]
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