Beauvais wins climate photography contest
Nov 2019
ICON and Ecology PhD student Jeffrey Beauvais won the 2019 Georgia Climate Conference student photography contest. His entry, “Watching,” shows the impact of rising sea levels.
New book explores ecological consequences of warming soils
Apr 2019
A new textbook edited by UGA ecologist Jacqueline Mohan provides a comprehensive look at how plants, animals, microbes and their physical environment respond to warming soils.
Ecosystem ecologist studies how forests respond to disturbances
Apr 2019
Ecosystem ecologist Nina Wurzburger studies how forests respond to disturbances like fire, disease and land use change.
Role of streams in carbon dioxide emission becoming hot topic as global temperatures rise
May 2018
As global temperatures rise, streams are becoming less capable of storing carbon and are instead releasing greater amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to new research led by University of Georgia ecologist Chao Song.
Parasites and hosts may respond differently to a warmer world
Jan 2018
Organisms infected by parasites may respond differently to changes in temperature than their uninfected counterparts, according to new research from the Odum School. The study of a host-parasite system in coastal waters of the southeastern U.S. found that a rise of just 2 degrees Celsius could be enough to cause the parasite to die out locally, as infected hosts are not able to survive at the higher temperature.