by Alexis K. Heinz, 2017 ecology & evolutionary biology, woody plants graduate student instructor; 2019 master of science, conservation ecology & master of landscape architecture The ocean is almost eight miles to the west. To explain the broader context, I have been contributing voluntary time, research, and recommendations to a community in southern Florida. According to the…
Category: Landscape ecology
Reading nature
by Alexis Heinz, former EEB GSI, recent conservation ecology and landscape architecture graduate Hired to work on the vegetation component of a project to inventory the natural communities of Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, I began three weeks before the orientation to start on the wildflowers. Rather than perform an extensive botanical survey,…
Birds and bats
by Alexis Heinz, former EEB GSI studying conservation ecology and landscape architecture In a landscape ecology course this semester, I learned about a new way to consider ecological questions. Beyond examining a single species or landscape element, landscape ecology invites the researcher to employ a broader perspective including a temporal or areal component to…