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-Mar. 1st 2021

A widespread survey of maple syrup producers reveals political view and geography play important roles in climate change perceptions.

-Feb. 23rd 2021

Researchers uncover the extent to which rapidly-spreading non-native plants are impacting national parks in the Eastern U.S.

-Jan. 6th 2021

Vermont study finds pandemic pushes people to seek refuge outdoors for the first time in years.

-Dec. 22nd 2020

Community scientists collect twenty years of data for interactive tool displaying prevalence of Northeastern mountain birds.

Views of U.S. and Canadian Maple Syrup Producers on Climate Change
A widespread survey of maple syrup producers reveals political view and geography play important roles in climate change perceptions.
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Invasive Plants Threaten National Parks; Vermont Manages to Decrease Invasive Population
Researchers uncover the extent to which rapidly-spreading non-native plants are impacting national parks in the Eastern U.S.
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COVID-19 Increases Visitors to Urban Natural Areas
Vermont study finds pandemic pushes people to seek refuge outdoors for the first time in years.
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Explore Vermont’s Mountain Bird Species
Community scientists collect twenty years of data for interactive tool displaying prevalence of Northeastern mountain birds.
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Combining Protection of Biodiversity with Conservation of Ecosystem Services Reduces Costs
Conserving biodiverse lands and protecing ecosystem services is more efficient and less expensive when done together.
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Suds & Science With Angela Laws - At 7pm on March 2nd, join VCE biologist Jason Hill in an interactive event with Dr. Angela Laws in a conversation about insect conservation in a warming world. 2021-03-02

The Clean Water Series: Vermont Pay for Phosphorous Program with Sonia Howlett - On March 4, 12-1pm EST, join Sonia Howlett, Water Quality Specialist for Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, to learn about the new Vermont Payment for Phosphorous Program. 2021-03-04

Grasslands as Carbon Sinks - On Weds March 10 3-4:30pm EST, hear about how functional ecosystems use the sun's energy and interact with the water cycle to sequester atmospheric carbon. Modern agriculture destroys the inherent functionality of ecosystems making the food we eat a barrier to reversing human caused climate change and restoring the carbon cycle. Fortunately we can design a food system that restores ecologies. 2021-03-10

Religion & Ecology Summit: Indigenous Lifeways, Cosmologies & Ecology - This 5-day summit that begins on March 15th will focus on Indigenous approaches to biocultural stewardship and sacred sites offer insights to the inquiry of Religion and Ecology, which explores how spiritual beliefs and practices affect the natural world. 2021-03-15

Demographic traits improve predictions of spatiotemporal changes in community resilience to drought - Communities are increasingly threatened by extreme weather events. This study aims to bring a mechanistic understanding of the processes underlying community resilience to link various measures of resilience to demographic responses within natural communities. 2021-02-15

Potentially toxic plankton algae may play a crucial role in the future Arctic - New research shows that a potentially toxic species of plankton algae that lives both by doing photosynthesis and absorbing food may become an important player in the Arctic Ocean as the future sea ice becomes thinner and thinner. 2021-02-03

How Climate Caprices can Trigger Plants - Climate change may challenge organismal responses through not only extreme cues. An uncommon combination of benign cues – warm and short days – can also trigger reactions such as misregulations of leaves. 2021-01-27

New management approach can help avoid species vulnerability or extinction - A new paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, "Management implications of long transients in ecological systems," focuses on the transient nature of species' and ecosystem stability and illustrates how management practices can be adjusted to better prepare for possible system flips. Some helpful modeling approaches are also offered, including one tool. 2021-01-20