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Welcome to the
Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology - CECB

  • Addressing training needs for students in Tropical Ecology
  • Forging cross-disciplinary studies and collaboration
  • Promoting research opportunities for scientists and students

 

 

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Bats

 Kunz Bat Lab
CECB Director Thomas Kunz's Lab Homepage

 

Breaking News

  • Join CECB in Ecuador in February 2009!
    Join us in celebrating Darwin's Bicentennial Birthday! We will be touring Darwin's Galapagos Islands, visiting the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in the Amazonian rainforest, and exploring the capital city of Quito. All are welcome to attend - click here or contact cecb@bu.edu for more details.

 

  • Aeroecology: an Emerging Discipline

    Dr. Kunz organized a symposium introducing the field of Aeroecology, held in January, 2008. Aeroecology is "a discipline that embraces and integrates the domains of atmospheric science, ecology, earth science, geography, computer science, computational biology, and engineering." Papers from the symposium have now been published in the July 2008 issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology.
  • White Nose Syndrome Articles in Boston Globe

    Beth Daley's article "What Are These Bats Telling Us About the Environment We Live In?" (5/4/08) examines the mysterious "White Nose Syndrome" that has been killing an unprecedented number of bats in the Northeast. The disease is named for the white fungus found on the faces of affected bats. Daley speaks with several researchers and biologists, including Dr. Kunz, about the race to determine what is causing the sickness. A follow-up article was published on July 28.

To learn more, see the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website about White Nose Syndrome.

If you would like to help fund WNS research contact cecb@bu.edu.

 

  • "Reproductive mode plasticity: Aquatic and terrestrial oviposition in a treefrog"

    EBE graduate student Justin Touchon and CECB Faculty Associate Karen Warkentin recently published their research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The article, featured on the journal's cover, reveals their startling discovery that the treefrog Dendropsophus ebraccatus can lay both terrestrial and aquatic eggs - something no vertebrate was previously known to do.

 

EBE Seminar Series
Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution

David Winkler
Cornell University
Dispersal and migration in swallows

Monday, September 15, 2008
12pm in BRB 113

Fall 2008 Seminar Series

Fall 2008 EBE Seminar schedule updates to be posted soon

 

Tiputini Sunset

Photo by Lindsey Warren

 

Photo by Scott Appleby