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Susan Cerulean’s New Book: I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird

A couple of years ago, I produced a couple of segments on snowy plovers. They have a specific set of needs for a nesting site, needs … See more

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The WFSU Ecology Blog

WEBThe brown-headed nuthatch– a twenty year study of bird choices. by Rob Diaz de Villegas September 20, 2023. Tall Timbers Research Station studies the family choices of a …

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Building Soil in the Red Hills and Sandhills

WEBLeft- Crown conch in the darkened earth of a midden from the middle Woodland period (200-500 AD). Right- An oyster shell in a compost pile, Turkey Hill …

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The Oyster "Plan": what happens when Apalachicola Bay reopens

WEBDuring oral arguments, one justice referred to a report that the floor of the bay looked like a “gravel parking lot.”. You can see this in a January 2013 Ecology Blog …

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Apalachicola Lowlands Preserve: A Family’s Labor of Love

WEBThe Apalachicola Lowlands is a flatter landscape. Ryan points out, though, a drop in elevation of just a couple of inches can create changes in plant communities …

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Apalachicola Slough Restoration: Getting More Water to Swamps, …

WEBKen’s team will share their data with the Apalachicola Bay System Initiative (ABSI). ABSI is based at the FSU Coastal and Marine Lab, and hopes to revive the …

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History, Age, and Exceptional Trees

WEBThis driving trail started at Los Robles (Spanish for “the oaks”), and led to some of the more well known live oaks in town. It was a yearly event rather than a self …

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New Ecology Blogger a Researcher, Artist, and Communicator

WEBI’m a native Floridian, which offers a unique childhood, especially to kids who are easily excited by bugs, reptiles, and other crawling things. Growing up, I built …

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Monarch Predators Revisited: A Beneficial Insect is a Beneficial Insect

WEBCaterpillars are plant consumers, like aphids and stinkbugs. And a big thing keeping plant consumers from destroying all plant life on earth is predators. For this …

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Does Diversity Matter in the Salt Marsh

WEBA Look Back. by Randall August 19, 2014. Dr. Randall Hughes has collaborated with WFSU on this blog since 2010. We have spent years visiting her …

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Researchers discover new technology to help clean up Florida's …

WEB228. A thick layer of blue-green gunk is sitting on the surface of a shallow lake off Highway 27 in North Tallahassee. Scientists call this gooey substance, …

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Tile 2.0- Perfecting the Oyster Spat Tile Experiment

WEBThis year, we added another twist on this theme (Tile 2.0) by collecting adult oysters from different areas in FL, GA, SC, and NC, and then spawning and raising them …

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Flies of North Florida are More Diverse than You’d Think

WEBThis is the order of insects (Diptera) that includes mosquitos, gnats, yellow flies, fruit flies- all our favorite pestilence.Like all animals, they evolved by finding a niche …

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Native Soils of Tallahassee: Red Hills, Sandhills, and Ancient Oceans

WEBFurther down, we see lighter and darker shades of brown. This is a sandy soil, with those larger, odd shaped soil particles. There’s a lot of space between the …

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Lake Report 2021: Leon County’s Cleanest and Dirtiest Lakes

WEBLake Iamonia covers around 5,554 acres, and drains a basin of 66,727 acres. A prairie lake with a sinkhole, subject to periodic dry down events. Lake Iamonia …

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Bluffs of St. Teresa – Ochlockonee Vista Joins Landscapes

WEBA wildflower, possibly cottony goldenaster, grows in sand. Cottony goldenaster is a common sandhill understory plant. While there are many components to restoring a …

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Lower Lake Lafayette: Kayak Tallahassee’s Hidden Swamp

WEBLower Lake Lafayette, though, is easily the least open of our large Red Hills lakes. It feels much more like a swamp than a lake. Leon County says as much in its water quality …

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The brown-headed nuthatch– a twenty year study of bird choices

WEBFive thousand nuthatches and counting. Jim Cox estimates that Tall Timbers has banded about 5,000 brown-headed nuthatches over the course of the study, …

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Torreya State Park After Hurricane Michael One Year Later

WEBTorreya trees in front of the Gregory House, post Hurricane Michael (October 2019). According to the Florida Park service, there are between 200-300 wild growing …

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Frosted Flatwoods Salamanders: Recovery, Redundancy, and Fire

WEBThe view looking out of the wetland is a lush savanna filled with native, fire-maintained grasses and herbs. Fire is absolutely critical. Their decline follows the …

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