Landscape Ecology of Insects
The snow is slowly but surely melting and we are starting to think about the upcoming field season. Here in the Gratton Lab, we do most of our field work in agricultural settings. One crop we work in is corn. For those of you who didn’t grow up on a farm, you might not have …
Join us on Friday, October 26th to hear Claudio’s talk “Sustainable bio-energy landscapes: can we balance our needs for biodiversity and production?” 2 – 3pm, 184 Russell Labs (1630 Linden Drive), as part of the Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology seminar series.
Here is a nice article from Grow magazine describing our work on sustainable bioenergy.
Read a Columbus Dispatch article featuring Tim’s and Claudio’s forecasts for how bird diversity might be affected by bioenergy production in the Midwest.
Demand for fossil fuels is increasing globally. The United States is pursuing an energy policy that aims to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels by expanding renewable energy sources. One important part of this effort is the use of bioenergy crops to produce heat, electricity, and transportation fuel. Meeting energy demands could have big implications …