Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate globally, with the primary driver being habitat loss and fragmentation. As natural habitats contract, species are forced into small often fragmented populations at increased ...

Grassland bird populations have experienced steep declines across North America, with especially precipitous declines in the Midwest. The primary cause of these declines is thought to be loss and fragmentation of grassland ...

Denitrifying biofilters are a promising and low-maintenance technology for removing nitrate from agricultural drainage, capable of removing 50-80% of annual nitrate loads. Because increased riverine nitrate concentrations ...

Freshwater fungi are important agents decomposing submerged dead plant material. Roughly ten percent of the known teleomorphic (sexually reproducing) freshwater ascomycetes have been referred to or included in the family ...

Acercaria, which includes Psocodea, Thysanoptera and Hemiptera, is a group that encompasses substantial diversity and has generated equally substantial debate about its higher-level phylogeny. The advent of molecular ...

Fundamental to understanding species ecology, is the evaluation of predator-prey interaction strengths and their spatial heterogeneity. Traditional dietary assessment methods of examining individual’s stomach contents ...

Recent, dramatic shifts have occurred within zooplankton community structure in Lake Michigan. Such changes could alter the ability of invasive species, such as Asian carp, to establish self-sustaining populations. Without ...

Yellow-breasted Chats (Icteria virens) are a Neotropical migratory bird species that breeds in shrubland habitat in Illinois. Chats are a diurnally active species but males are known to sing often at night. This behavior ...

Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causal agent of bat white-nose syndrome, has caused nearly six million deaths in North American bats since its introduction into the United States in 2006. Current research has shown that ...

The distribution of Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi has continued expanding in Illinois over the past twenty years. However, the extent to which this tick vector and etiologic agent of Lyme disease has spread ...