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IUWC 2019: Recap
Although I wasn’t able to attend the meeting, the International Urban Wildlife Conference looks like it was a great success and I have enjoyed following along thanks to our great contributors and the hard work of co-editor Elizabeth Carlen. Here…
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IUWC 2019: Linking Student Conservation Knowledge to Attitude and Behavior
For most of us, our interest in urban ecology is rooted in the desire to better understand and conserve biodiversity. Once researchers better understand the science behind issues facing our urban species, the next step is engaging the wider public…
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IUWC 2019: Inclusive Urban Ecosystems
Following the plenary at IUWC 2019, this session focused on integrating urban ecology research with community engagement. The speakers here built on some of the ideas expressed by Chris Schell previously on this site. Pigeons & Passers-by Elizabeth Carlen, an…
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IUWC 2019: Urban Wildlife & Corridors
Suboptimal movement across the urban landscape can lead to injury or death and, thus, has a high fitness cost. Many cities have developed wildlife corridors that allow animals to move through the urban matrix while reducing their chances of being…
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IUWC 2019: Community Science
This session included three very different community science projects–from otters in Singapore to cats around the world! Otters! Philip Johns, of Yale-NUS College, studies the foraging behaviors in urban smooth-coated otters in Singapore. Singapore is very urban, and all of…
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IUWC 2019: Attractiveness of Native Plants to Bees and to Gardeners
Aaron Anderson is a Ph.D. student in Horticulture at Oregon State University, where he works in the Garden Ecology Lab. Aaron’s project was inspired by the Garbuzov and Ratnieks paper entitled ‘Listmania: the strengths and weaknesses of lists of garden…
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IUWC 2019: Investigating Avian Species Diversity in Urban Habitat Patches
A critical issue when managing for habitat in urban areas is habitat size. What is the minimum viable patch size for a species of concern? Can multiple smaller patches, such as yards and parks, collectively “scale up” to provide connected,…
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IUWC 2019: Drivers of Bird and Arthropod Diversity in Portland Yards
Urban yards have a large potential for providing habitat, and important considerations when studying these spaces are the tritrophic interactions between plant species, herbivores, and predators. Dr. Marion Dresner, Professor at Portland State University, has spent years studying these interactions…
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