Beavers create habitats for bats and support endangered species

Many species benefit from the habitats that beavers create by building dams—and not just aquatic life. A new study by the WSL ...
University of Wyoming

Habitat Ecology and Effects of Habitat Alteration for Bighorn Sheep Translocated to the Seminoe Mountains, Wyoming

This area was targeted for habitat alteration through prescribed burning. Notice the mosaic created by the burn in the low-elevation areas, as well as burned timber pockets higher on the face to ...
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Placing the Effects of Leaf Litter Diversity on Saprotrophic Microorganisms in the Context of Leaf Type and Habitat

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Because of conflicting results in previous studies, it is unclear whether litter diversity has a predictable impact on microbial communities ...
University of Wyoming

Jeffrey Beck

I joined the rangeland ecology faculty in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management in summer 2007. My research interests lie in wildlife habitat ecology and restoration ecology with a focus ...
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Echolocation Behavior of the Bat Vespertilio murinus Reveals the Border between the Habitat Types "Edge" and "Open Space"

We test the hypothesis that echolocation behavior can be used to find the border between bat habitats. Assuming that bats react to background targets in "edge space" but not in "open space", we ...
The Greeley Tribune

(Opinion) Writers on the Range: Ecologists in the West may have to pick between saving piñon or sagebrush

The long drive between Salt Lake City and Reno on Interstate 80 feels endless, the landscape timeless. But these basins and ranges of the Great Basin Desert are changing dramatically. Wildfire, ...