Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- New research finds genetic link for spatial memory in Mountain Chickadees
- New research led by CU Boulder researcher finds that the coral holobiont, or the coral and its microbiome, can determine who lives and who dies when the oceans warm
- Just as we have learned that the cost of freedom is constant vigilance, we must accept the notion that the lands set aside for forever must continually be guarded.
- Biologists initially thought the distribution of Fremont’s buckwheat was determined by a requirement for gypsum in the surface soils.
- Through a survey and ‘living document,’ a trailblazing STEM lab group hopes to make all members feel that they belong and are valued.
- 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.
- CU Boulder 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.