Tropical Ecology

Early humans implicated in Africa's deforestation

9 Feb 2012

Climate change alone cannot explain abrupt loss of rainforest 3,000 years ago, study suggests.

Audubon hosts banquet and auction

9 Feb 2012

ARCATA -- On Feb. 18, Redwood Region Audubon Society is holding its annual “Banquet and Auction� at the Six Rivers Masonic Lodge, 251 Bayside Road in Arcata.

Studying Nature's Rhythms: Soundscape Ecologists Spawn New Field

8 Feb 2012

Listen to biophony, geophony, anthrophony: the 'music' of Planet Earth Geophony. Biophony. Anthrophony. Unfamiliar words. But they shouldn't be. We're surrounded by them morning, noon and night, say ecologist Bryan Pijanowski of Purdue University and colleagues. The evening "singing" of frogs. Burbling brooks, breaking waves and the whistling wind. Planes, trains and automobiles. Biophony is the ...