Adapt, Migrate, Die, Hybridize

| April 10, 2009

Tweet Well after a week of battling a hosting issue, I am finally back online and able to access my account.  However, I think the headache will be worth it as the updates made to JournOwl.com will increase site usability , especially enabling visitor comments that I hope will spur discussion and continue to link [...]

Ghost crab busters

| January 10, 2009

Tweet Who you gonna call? Raccoons! Well, that’s what a new study in Biological Conservation is suggesting in regards to threatened loggerhead turtles. Conservation plans typically call for raccoon management tactics as they are notorious sea turtle egg harvesters. At face value it makes sense to control sea turtle egg predation by keeping such nest [...]

The decade of the frog

| November 25, 2008

TweetI guess I was not paying that much attention as it was only within the last two weeks that I discovered 2008 had been designated the Year of the Frog.  Well, with a little more than a month to go I thought I would make a contribution to the plight of our amphibian cohabitants.  In [...]

Global biodiversity change

| November 3, 2008

TweetMore than 60% of Americans believe global warming is already wielding change with its hot hand (Gallup, April 21, 2008), and things get a little bit stickier when one tries to nail down whether the green house effect is manmade, a natural climate cycle, or a combination of the two. My personal take is that [...]

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