Category Archives: Ecology

Ecology

A new UGA study found smaller alligators and hatchlings could inherit high levels of mercury from their mothers. (Photo by Chamberlain Smith/UGA)

 Ecology June 13, 2025

New study shows alligators aren’t all that’s lurking in Georgia’s swamps

Drummond's rockcress (Boechera stricta) in flower in a meadow in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

 Ecology May 01, 2025

Study reveals even common plants are threatened by climate change

 Ecology January 30, 2025

Q&A with Jeb Byers: Mapping invasive species along global coastlines

In 2023, Steffney Thompson became the first full-time director of UGA's Land Conservation Clinic, which works at the nexus of law, science and policy to support and enhance land conservation. (Photo of Steffney Thompson: Peter Frey; photo illustration: Dan Humphrey)

 Ecology January 07, 2025

Clinic combines law and science to protect land

Research Trainee: Dianne Klement holding a red and green bird

 Ecology November 13, 2024

Songbird research could help protect threatened maritime grasslands

Researcher using binoculars to survey a river.

 Ecology July 17, 2024

The ever-shifting river

Ecology professor Scott Carver holds a wombat poo that he preserved in acrylic. Wombat poo is square, and no one knew why until Carver and a team of scientists investigated. Their efforts won a 2019 Ig Nobel Prize, which honors achievements that “first make people laugh and then make them think.” (Photo: Allyson Mann)

 Ecology June 26, 2024

Carver augments UGA’s network in disease ecology

The researchers collected field data from 550 rivers across the globe, collaborating with more than 150 researchers in 40 countries, for the new study. (Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski)

 Ecology June 05, 2024

People are altering decomposition rates in waterways

Wolves roam a flat deserted landscape in the Chernobyl Nuclear Exclusion Zone

 Ecology April 25, 2024

From disaster zone to living laboratory: Chernobyl provides test bed for UGA researchers

The Missouri River, Hollister, Missouri. Photo by Devon Schreiner, via Pexels.

 Ecology November 08, 2023

UGA researchers to leverage AI, remote sensing for NASA-funded conservation project