Studying plants at the Indiana Dunes, former UChicago professor Henry Chandler Cowles pioneered the concept of ecological succession.

Grasslands, which constitute almost 40% of the terrestrial biosphere, provide habitat for a great diversity of animals and plants and contribute to the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people worldwide. Whereas the destruction and degradation of ...

For millennia, native people have used small burns to protect the land. The US government outlawed the process for a century before recognizing its value

We have upended the systems that we are trying to preserve. It is time for us to acknowledge the reality of the systems we are in. We have to adapt. It is within our ability as a species to rediscover our place within this dynamic system and work with those dynamics instead of against them.

The native/alien dichotomy has survived unchanged since the 1830s. We use specific cases to exemplify the weaknesses of this pre-Darwinian, pre-Ecology, nearly pre-Biology conception, which was originally formulated to demarcate a boundary between

photo credit: Whitney Jamgochian

Episode #59 of the Ground Shots Podcast is a conversation with Professor Matt Chew, and is hosted by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, Nikki Hill and Gabe Crawford. Dubbed a ‘gadfly of invasion biology’ by Scientific American, Matt Chew is known for critiquing ecology’s overreliance on societal metaphor

The influential essay that prompted a lively public conversation about the meaning of wilderness in American culture.

The aquatic rodents have rebounded, and they're reshaping watersheds for the better

THE RAIN HAD JUST STOPPED in the little eastern Kansas town of Osawatomie when thirty thousand people, gathered in an atmosphere not unlike that of a

The influential essay that prompted a lively public conversation about the meaning of wilderness in American culture.