Behavioral Ecology Blog

Welcome everybody to the 12th installment of Oekologie- a blog carnival dedicated to the sciences of ecology and the environment. This months edition is loaded with great posts from a diverse set of bloggers.. So here we go!

Jeremy starts us off with a post that describes the latest scare tactic to be implemented in religious circles.. Read it in his post entitled: The Embrace of Environmentalism Will Be the Doom of Traditional Religion over at his blog, The Voltage Gate.

Next Doris Chua presents Environment and Our Health at Doris Chua: Organics & Your Health. It’s a nice reminder that aside from the fact that smog stinks- it’s bad for your health, too (reminder: it’s effects are felt by all animals- i.e. not just humans- see photo at left)

GrrlScientist sent me a couple of posts this month. 1st it’s Birder’s Conservation Handbook which is a book review of the Birder’s Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds At Risk, by Jeffrey Wells. Next, she blogs about The Lovebirds in a post entitled Lovebird Behavior: Nature or Nurture?. Do they live up to their word???

Greg Laden, who has (I think) replaced PZ and Bora in rate of blog posts suggests to us Macaque Mothers Favor Their Sons and Extended Male Growth in Robust Australopithecus. Both are posted over at his excellent ScienceBlog: Greg Laden’s Blog.

Laurent presents When leaves aspire to be flowers (a way cool story about a dioecious palm tree) and Rock pink rocks! A tale of two sexes « Seeds Aside (what the hell is a gynomonoecious-gynodioecious plant?) both posted at Seeds Aside.

Ed Yong gives us a topic that is near to my heart (and home, too) in a post entitled Solving the San Francisco plankton mystery posted at Not Exactly Rocket Science. It’s a nicely written blog about a peer-reviewed paper on recent changes in the Bay.

Dave Bonta presents Two Plummer’s Hollow breeding birds included in Watchlist 2007 posted at Plummer’s Hollow, Pennsylvania.

Can being in nature make us feel better? Pat Doyle thinks so, and tells us why in her post, How We Can Find Healing in Nature posted at Barton Pond Feng Shui.

Ian Welsh must be a policy guy, and presents some thoughts on enviro-policy in his post How To Do Stupid Smart: The Center for American Progress Shows the Way posted at The Agonist.

John presents a pretty depressing story that remind us of the effects we have on birds (we are killing them) in his post: Seabirds Dying in the North Sea over at A DC Birding Blog.

At 10,000 Birds, there is a post about the CBC… (No Hockey Night in Canada here folks) Do you know what the Center for Biological Diversity is? No? Well go find out! Also Over at 10,000 Birds there is a neat post about the “Great Auk”.

Whoops, I almost forgot… Jeremy form the Voltage Gate sent a second, and highly recommended post about the effects of wind power and it’s effects on animals.. You should really see read it!

OK.. last but not least- don’t forget that this is the holiday season…. please people remember the impacts of out materialism. In case you need a reminder… Go visit Treehugger and especially a post entitled: Forest Ethics’ “Naughty and Nice” List of Treekillers
See you next month lucky issue #13 over at The Infinite Sphere