Trinity College Dublin, Ecology and Evolution
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for…the results of our annual photo competition! We’d like to start by saying a huge thank you to each and every one of you who submitted your photos. It’s been so wonderful to see such diversity between entries and to get a sneak peek into both your field …
Adopting green lab practices and rethinking research can significantly reduce a lab’s carbon footprint, and it’s needed now more than ever- here are some simple steps to take towards sustainable science today!
We can now use acoustic recording equipment to monitor all the sounds produced in an ecosystem. By recording and listening back to sound in this way, we hope to capture useful information about nature. One way to do this is using ‘acoustic indices’, mathematical summaries of the acoustic information contained in audio recordings. But how …
Continue reading “Separating signal from noise in acoustic biodiversity surveys”
Drumroll please! It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for! The votes have been cast, they’ve been counted and recounted, and we can finally showcase the entries and reveal the winner of the 4th EcoEvo blog photo competition!
It’s that time of year when we redecorate the blog and change the wallpaper with the help of our contributors and their photography skills. That’s right, it’s the 4th annual EcoEvo Blog Photo Competition!
If there’s one thing 2020 has taught us, it’s that change is inevitable, and this blog is no exception. With a great deal of pride and gratitude, we say goodbye to Jenny Bortoluzzi and Floriane O’Keeffe – our 2019/2020 editors. They did a fantastic job managing the blog last year, a year that saw the …
Another sunrise brings another day of working from my hotel room. But today there’s a difference; the rain has eased and a smattering of sunshine dances on my balcony. I open my door and am struck by the fresh ocean breeze. It’s that fleeting time of year when Okinawa’s oppressive humidity is kept at bay …
Continue reading “Sustainable redevelopment: visions of a post-lockdown world”
There are >20,000 different species of bee worldwide. They are a diverse group, encompassing the tiny 2mm long Perdita minima and the massive 38mm long Megachile pluto. They all* have one thing in common: their larvae feed on pollen from flowers. The protein in the pollen is necessary for larval growth and development, and thus for producing healthy …
The New Year Plant Hunt is a yearly event held by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) that helps to record how plants are reacting to our changing climate. Over four days during the Christmas holidays, volunteers will simply head out for walks, of no more than 3 hours each, and record all …
What is a Frozen Zoo©? Why do we need them? What species should we keep in them? From January to June this year I was lucky enough to travel on a Fulbright Irish Student Award to the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research to try and answer these questions. To put it simply, a …