Turkeys got help for 75 years from conservation agencies. Coyotes spread across half the country all on their own. Why have these animals succeeded? How have they changed the environment?

The number of Canada geese in Wisconsin is very much on the rise, increasing exponentially since standardized bird counts began in 1966, according to Stan Temple, professor of wildlife ecology at UW-Madison.
“If you go to any park or golf course in Madison, you have to watch where you step for all the goose poop,” Temple [...]

Specialization may work in factories, but it does not make ant colonies more efficient. As the conventional wisdom about social insects goes topsy-turvy, what’s an ecologist to think?

Along the coast of Baja, California, a new study finds that parasites outweigh top predators. What does this mean for ecology, and what is the story with “castrating parasites”?

The ivory-billed woodpecker is back — after 60 years. What does that say about extinctions, and about other rare forms of life? Seen any Tasmanian tigers lately? Does habitat preservation work?

Salvage logging of forests after natural disturbances is a bad idea, ecologists warn. Evidence from a forest whacked by a 1938 hurricane show how salvage logging changes the landscape.

How does dam removal restore rivers to health, and how long does it take?

If we put up a giant umbrella to shield the Earth from global warming, what will happen to plant productivity?

Brown future: New study finds large increase in number of threatened plants, calculates that 22 to 62 percent of plant species are threatened.

To an increasing number of homeowners, wildfires are a threat to life and limb. But scientists and land managers call fires a part of nature. What is the role of fire in natural systems?