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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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IUWC 2019: Successes and failures in white-tailed deer management in urban and rural upstate New York
Upstate New York has a deer overabundance problem. The subject of conservation efforts after hunters nearly wiped them out in the 1800s and released…
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IUWC 2019: Urban Bats
If you live in a city you may not realize that urban populations of bats are all around you. But Liza Lehrer and Shannon…
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IUWC 2019: Opening Plenary – Collaboration & Conservation, Applications to Urban Wildlife
The International Urban Wildlife Conference kicked off Monday morning in Portland, OR with a Plenary Session titled “Collaboration and Conservation: Applications to Urban Wildlife”…