Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- A defenseless insect can gain protection from predators if it evolves to resemble a well-defended species.
- A CU Boulder researcher is being recognized by the Denver Zoo for her extensive work studying the pika across the Colorado alpine
- As humans evolved and expanded, so too did barn swallows, new research from CU Boulder suggests
- When I arrived at the campground at Deep Lake, I was stunned and disappointed. Instead of meadows bright with flowers, I saw one healthy aster and a paltry, diffuse population of spent flowers.
- These are large plants with towers, or racemes, of deep blue to purple flowers that reach heights of 6 feet. They are most spectacular when they grow intermixed with cow parsnip and loveroot.
- there we were, three Americans standing near South Africa’s Drakensberg Mountains, where Barton, I learned, was studying how it was that a flower pollinated by a fly that looks like a hummingbird evolved — and may still be evolving.
- Elephant's heads are found in subalpine and alpine habitats in western mountains from New Mexico to Alaska and throughout Canada, except for Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.
- As plant communities become more diverse and complex in the high alpine, so to do soil microorganisms, according to a new CU Boulder study.
- Scientists are bringing the "science" to "science communication" at "Cheers to Science," a new monthly event beginning this week.
- A wildfire's heat and rising plumes of air cause it to create its own weather, and now we appreciate that the big wildfires send aerosols — both particulates and gases — all the way around the world.