Ecologists create a new model to predict extinction risk
A new population viability model with an accompanying web app from the UGA River Basin Center is helping scientists to better forecast population changes and extinction risk for imperiled species.
Focus on Faculty: Elizabeth King
Elizabeth King, an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Odum School of Ecology and Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, helps students appreciate the connectedness and complexity
Meet our faculty: Pejman Rohani
Pejman Rohani spends his time breaking complex ideas down to the basics, building mathematical models in order to track the transmission, evolution, and population dynamics of infectious diseases.
Migrating monarch butterflies that mix with year-round residents have higher rates of parasite infection
A study led by ecologists at the University of Georgia has found evidence that migrating monarch butterflies may be risking exposure to high levels of disease at sites where some monarchs no longer migrate but instead breed year-round on patches of an exotic garden plant.
The Honors Interdisciplinary Summer Field Program in Geology, Anthropology and Ecology (UGA-IFP)
Overview of UGA IFP The UGA Interdisciplinary Field Program (IFP) is an eight-week course in introductory Geology, Anthropology, and Ecology that travels throughout the Western U.S. during summer semester. It
Feeding wildlife can influence migration, spread of disease
Animal migration patterns are changing as humans alter the landscape, according to new research from the University of Georgia. Those changes can affect wildlife interactions with parasites—with potential impacts on public health and on the phenomenon of migration itself.
Restoring the floodplain: Odum students use science to fight invasive species along the Middle Oconee River
Using their background as invasion biologists, doctoral candidates Rachel Smith and Linsey Haram are working to on a project at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia to improve restoration in the floodplain of the Middle Oconee River .
Butterfly gardens offer some hope for pollinators
Butterflies will use gardens planted to attract them, according to a new study from the University of Georgia. But the researchers cautioned that butterfly gardens can sometimes have a downside
EcoVoice
Ecovoice 2024 Scroll down for earlier editions. Download PDF Welcome to EcoVoice 2024, the Odum School of Ecology magazine. IN THIS ISSUE: Features Research and News Briefs Students Outreach Faculty
Doug Parsons, MS CESD ’00
Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development alumni have gone on to careers in academia, NGOs, government agencies, and the private sector. In honor of the CESD program’s twentieth anniversary, we’re checking