Trip Report: White Mountains or Bust! (California /Nevada, USA) Setting up
We drove both vehicles to the Trail Canyon trailhead and camped near there in a lovely spot in a Pinyon-Juniper woodland. Very intimidating thunderstorms were looming all along the White Mountains and ranges to the east. We decided to delay for a day in Trail Canyon, and stay in Cottonwood Basin the following day.
Trip Report: White Mountains or Bust! (California /Nevada, USA) Intro
The White Mountains of California / Nevada are the little known younger sister of the High Sierras.
What’s in an Ecotone? Lichens living on the edge…
An ecotone is a transition zone between two ecological systems. Ecotones can range in size: in some places ecotones are wide (e.g. forest – grassland ecotones), in other places they are quite narrow (e.g. riparian – arid shrub steppe). In the ecotone, habitats from each ecosystem form a mixed patchy mosaic, often with species assemblages […]
Open Source GIS software and Remote Sensing for Ecologists
Why remote sensing? Sure there’s something odd about satellites looking down on us everyday, a bit unsettling from a socio-political perspective. But from an ecological perspective, its a game changer, in a very good way. Since the 1970s, NASA has been recording the earths surface at a resolution of about 1km. Thats large enough to […]
