Dave Brenner is an award-winning artist with over 25 years of experience in his field. His photography and work with informational graphic design has been published in numerous books and magazines and featured in such publications as the Detroit Free Press, USA Today, and Italia Vogue.
Brad Cardinale, School of Natural Resources and Environment's associate professor and director of the school's conservation ecology program recently had an opinion piece about biodiversity and its impact on humanity published in the professional magazine, The Scientist.
Cardinale focuses on increasing evidence that suggests that loss of the Earth's biological diversity will compromise our planet's ability to provide the goods and services societies need to prosper.
An Azteca ant grabs an adult lady beetle on a coffee plant in Chiapas, Mexico. Lady beetles attempt to eat the green coffee scale insects guarded by the ants. But patrolling ants will attack and kill adult beetles and will remove beetle eggs laid on ant-tended coffee plants. the dynamics are discussed in Ecology and Evolution journal article, co-authored by SNRE Professor Ivette Perfecto.