Archive: Scholarship

81 Articles

All
Scholarship

Spatiotemporal variation in hunting in a riverine indigenous community in the Amazon.

ECo faculty Dr. Brian Griffiths' latest paper uses participatory mapping data from Maijuna hunters to model spatiotemporal variation in hunting patterns through the seasons. Dr.…

February 1, 2023

All
Scholarship

The Washington, D.C., Area Ecosystem 2023

book covers many topics including biodiversity, conservation, climate change, endangered species, forests, gardens, geology, global change, history, meteorology, pollution,…

January 1, 2023

All
Scholarship

Physical, landscape, and chemical properties of Amazonian interior forest mineral licks

A new paper co-authored by ECo faculty Brian Griffiths undertakes the largest survey of Amazonian mineral licks to date to determine the landscape, physical, and chemical…

October 21, 2022

All
Scholarship

Differential Use of Game Species in an Amazonian Indigenous Community: Navigating Economics, Subsistence, and Social Norms

ECo Faculty Dr. Brian Griffiths has collaborated with the Indigenous Maijuna people in the Peruvian Amazon for several years. In his latest paper, "Differential Use of Game…

October 5, 2022

All
In the Press
Scholarship

Multiple crises halt progress as 9 out of 10 countries fall backwards in human development, UNDP report warns

The world must jolt itself out of its global paralysis to secure the future of people and planet by re-booting its development…

September 8, 2022

All
In the Press
Scholarship

Trickle-down climate risk regulation

In the US, the primary regulators of national and community banks are narrowly zeroing in on risks posed to the largest banks—those with over $100 billion in total consolidated…

September 1, 2022

All
Scholarship

Structure of propagating high-stress fronts in a shear-thickening suspension

These results elucidate the complex structures associated with shear thickening and show that nonaffine flow, concentration fluctuations, and fluid migration are integral to the…

August 1, 2022

All
Scholarship

Mitigating climate disruption in time: A self-consistent approach for avoiding both near-term and long-term global warming

This study clarifies the need for comprehensive CO2 and non-CO2 mitigation approaches to address both near-term and long-term warming. Pairing decarbonization with mitigation…

May 23, 2022

All
Scholarship

Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk

Climate and land use change will produce novel opportunities for viral sharing among previously geographically-isolated species of wildlife. In some cases, this will facilitate…

April 28, 2022

All
Scholarship

A novel model to accurately predict continental-scale timing of forest green-up

The yearly cycles in vegetation greenness are among the most important drivers of ecosystem processes. Predictive models for the timing of vegetation greenup and senescence are…

April 2, 2022