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 […]
Tag Archive for: history
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 […]
Where did Urban Ecology Come From? Zev Naveh and the Total Human Ecosystem
Encountering Zev Naveh – A force of nature One answer to the question of where urban ecology came from has to point to Zev Naveh. When I first heard Zev […]
Shifting Urban Realities and Nature Beyond Parks
Traditionally, cities have been thought of as distinct from nature. In fact, they have often been considered to be the antithesis of nature. Ecological science in the past seemed to […]
The Science of Connection in a Disconnected Place
The news from Baltimore has been sad and disturbing over the past few weeks. Urban ecologists, like all ecologists, I think, love the places where they work. So I must […]
Weeds and the City
Few ideas are as loaded — and as controversial — as that of “weed.” Combine this familiar term with the equally problematic term urban, and surely, confusion is guaranteed to […]
BES Book of the Year — Baltimore: The Building of an American City
We have started a new tradition at BES. A book of the year is a good way to focus on some important publication relevant to everyone in the Baltimore Ecosystem […]
Swamps and the City: Part II
A special guest post by Prof. Grace S. Brush, Johns Hopkins University. My last post discussed how the role of people in shaping the swampy systems of the Everglades had […]
Natural Experiments of History
The title of this essay is the same as a book edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, published in 2010 by Harvard University Press. The book explores the […]
The Baltimore Ecosystem Study has been a National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site since 1998. Visit other LTER sites.
 |
 |