Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Move over, murder hornets. There’s a new bee killer in town. ̽����Ƶ researchers have found there is growing evidence that another “pandemic,” as they call it, has been infecting bees around the world for the past two decades and is spreading: a fungal pathogen known as Nosema.

Researchers at ̽����Ƶ think local parasites are influencing why barn swallows in Europe, the Middle East and Colorado are choosing their mates differently.

‘I fell in love with space that day. I didn’t even know I liked space,’ student Maureen McNamara notes

A ̽����Ƶ researcher has received a $1.75 million NSF grant to study chickadee hybrids

Two ̽����Ƶ projects are this year’s winners of the Signals in the Soil grants.

From the caliche soils of southeastern Colorado to crevices in bare sandstone on the Colorado Plateau, stemless four-nerved daisies show remarkable variation in growth form

Smooth sumac and fragrant sumac have been shown to be sources of food, medicines, weaving materials and dyesA thicket of smooth sumac retained some of its berries in January, though most of them were gone. Smooth sumac is well known

The Chautauqua Meadow put on a memorable display of wildflowers in late June and early July of this year, so I walked there several times just to enjoy the flowers, as did many others. Lupines were the most prominent and could be seen from Baseline

Is that good or bad? Depends on your perspective, but there is a cost to native plant and animal communities.

A new large-scale study from ̽����Ƶ and colleagues provides first evidence that a gargantuan, inhospitable plateau in Asia maintains the species barriers of some birds