Category: Healthy Ecosystems
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Posted on February 21, 2012
Early spring: Good for us, mixed bag for insects, plants
Madison’s warm weather may have made the outdoors more comfortable for people, but does it spell trouble for overwintering plants and bugs? Research says woody […]
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Posted on February 17, 2012
Arboretum director Kevin McSweeney to return to teaching
Kevin McSweeney, a University of Wisconsin-Madison soil scientist who has directed the university’s internationally famous Arboretum since 2004, announced this week that he is relinquishing […]
- Posted on January 25, 2012
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Posted on January 20, 2012
Researchers outline food security, climate change road map
While last month’s meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa, made incremental progress toward helping farmers adapt […]
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Posted on December 19, 2011
Where are we now? Research highlights from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
Tim Donohue has spent the last four years building a pipeline—but not the kind that springs to mind when we think of fuel. The professor […]
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Posted on November 14, 2011
Michael Bell named director of UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
Environmental sociologist Michael Bell has been named director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS), a multi-disciplinary research and outreach program that focuses on […]
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Posted on November 10, 2011
Satellite technology enables rapid, accurate mapping of forest harvest in upper Midwest
Using satellite images, Mutlu Ozdogan, an assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is automatically generating maps showing where trees have […]
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Posted on November 7, 2011
Sustainable by design: The search for sustainable ways to harvest biomass
How do we get biomass from the land while preserving–or even benefiting–its living communities?
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Posted on October 31, 2011
For land conservation, formal and informal relationships influence success
During the past decade, voluntary contracts called conservation easements have become a popular method for conserving land. Embodied in an agreement between landowners and a […]