Biogenic reefs are naturally occurring structures formed by the collaborative activity of living organisms. These assemblages – often constructed by invertebrates such as polychaete worms – establish ...

An engineering marvel is being constructed right now in a creek in Southwest Virginia. It begins when a male bluehead chub minnow picks up a small piece of gravel in his mouth and drops it on the ...

Aside from humans, perhaps no other species can modify its surroundings for its own purposes as much as beaver. Throughout much of North America, these busy critters take down trees and dam streams to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract AbstractAn impressive array of animals function as ecosystem engineers in streams through a variety of activities, ranging from nest digging ...

As fearsome apex predators at the top of the food chain, wolves linger in the cultural imagination as a symbol of true, dangerous wilderness. But aside from playing on our imagination, scientists have ...

Without maintenance from nature’s “ecosystem engineers,” many of the nation’s once multi-threaded streams also became single-channeled and incised — disconnected from their floodplains. When this ...

The two years Princeton senior Joe Kawalec spent studying the natural camouflage of the ubiquitous downy woodpecker oddly enough began and ended the same way — tracing the outlines of birds. In ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Manufacturing is ubiquitous in modern life. Our computers, our cars, and many of the products we use daily are created using advanced manufacturing systems. To meet the future needs of manufacturing ...