Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Join the Boulder Apple Tree Project this weekend to help preserve a unique local legacy, taste test apples and learn about the history of apple trees in the Front Range.

Amanita species can be described as edible, inedible, poisonous, deadly poisonous, and psychoactive.

̽»¨ÊÓƵ and University of Nevada Reno professors win $2.7 million grant from the NSF to study spatial cognition in chickadees.

Monarch butterflies gained access to milkweeds after they evolved the metabolic trick of absorbing the cardiac glycosides by sequestering them in fat bodies.

The Side by Side project teaches high school students about local birds’ ecosystems through performative arts and scientific observation.

Mountain cicadas, Okanagana bella, are also found locally, and it is the only cicada common in the mountains.

A mating wheel allows a precise comparison of the colors and patterns of males and femalesThe little marsh swarmed with insects. Tiny moths popped up from the grass, darted a short distance and then disappeared back into the grass. Small wood nymph

Mountains both help create new species and subspecies of the rosy finch and keep them distinct, according to new research from ̽»¨ÊÓƵ

New research from ̽»¨ÊÓƵ sheds light on the cognitive functions of male ‘green parakeets’ or budgerigars

Warming temperatures are causing plants across alpine and arctic environments to stay green longer and reproduce earlier, scientists find.