Building environmental stewardship and engagement with public lands is a central challenge for youth education in southern Arizona. The Tucson area is home to almost a million people, of which 20% live below the poverty line. While the city is surrounded by a national park and a national forest, there is no public transit to…
Month: July 2017
New publication on predicting functional diversity from environmental heterogeneity
Look around on any landscape and you will quickly notice that some areas appear more diverse than others. Not necessarily in species, but in function – compare the bare meadow in the foreground of this photograph to the more diverse wetland area, or to the even more diverse forest and understorey community in the distance….