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IUWC 2019: Community Science
This session included three very different community science projects–from otters in Singapore to cats around the world! Otters! Philip Johns, of Yale-NUS College, studies the foraging behaviors in urban smooth-coated otters in Singapore. Singapore is very urban, and all of…
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IUWC 2019: Attractiveness of Native Plants to Bees and to Gardeners
Aaron Anderson is a Ph.D. student in Horticulture at Oregon State University, where he works in the Garden Ecology Lab. Aaron’s project was inspired by the Garbuzov and Ratnieks paper entitled ‘Listmania: the strengths and weaknesses of lists of garden…
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IUWC 2019: Investigating Avian Species Diversity in Urban Habitat Patches
A critical issue when managing for habitat in urban areas is habitat size. What is the minimum viable patch size for a species of concern? Can multiple smaller patches, such as yards and parks, collectively “scale up” to provide connected,…
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IUWC 2019: Drivers of Bird and Arthropod Diversity in Portland Yards
Urban yards have a large potential for providing habitat, and important considerations when studying these spaces are the tritrophic interactions between plant species, herbivores, and predators. Dr. Marion Dresner, Professor at Portland State University, has spent years studying these interactions…
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IUWC 2019: Successes and failures in white-tailed deer management in urban and rural upstate New York
Upstate New York has a deer overabundance problem. The subject of conservation efforts after hunters nearly wiped them out in the 1800s and released from predation pressure, deer population numbers have exploded creating conflict with humans and putting important plant…
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IUWC 2019: Urban Bats
If you live in a city you may not realize that urban populations of bats are all around you. But Liza Lehrer and Shannon Pederson, who work on urban bats, know that bats are common in cities, even if you…
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IUWC 2019: Opening Plenary – Collaboration & Conservation, Applications to Urban Wildlife
The International Urban Wildlife Conference kicked off Monday morning in Portland, OR with a Plenary Session titled “Collaboration and Conservation: Applications to Urban Wildlife” featuring talks by Dr. Chris Schell, Deeohn Ferris, and Bob Sallaniger followed by a panel discussion.…
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Claws in the City
I’m excited to share an update on my foray into urban ecology and evolution research as an undergraduate! I’ve been working in the Revell Lab at the University of Massachusetts Boston since my freshman year. I’ve reported here before about…
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