Texas A&M Ecosystem Science & Management

The Texas A&M Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management is raffling off THREE Yeti Tumblers for those who follow the RWFM page in the next 24 hours!

Read below for more details!

Howdy!

We are so glad you follow along with departments in the Texas A&M University - College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

As of January 2020, the former departments of Ecosystem Science & Management and Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences have restructured.

Our college now supports the Texas A&M Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management and the Texas A&M Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology.

We hope that you will take the time to interact with our new departments here on Facebook! We regularly update those pages with news, student features and exciting research projects.

We will be deleting this page on Friday, October 22. To stay in touch, please like and follow our RWFM and ECCB pages.

Thanks and gig 'em!

A Big Congratulations to our following graduates!!!
Quinn Hiers, MS
Shannon Skaalure, MS
Zachary Hurst, PhD
Xiangmin ‘Sam’ Sun, PhD

So Proud of you All!

Rachel Short was invited to give a presentation "What can we learn from a rhino in Tennessee?" to the Rotary Club of Aggieland on Thursday, October 3. She spoke about her recently published new species of rhinoceros and how it relates to her current work on community responses in ESSM. To view the article about the rhino species.

The Texas A&M Society for Ecological Restoration Student Guild has been doing stream cleans every other Friday to help beautify the Texas A&M campus. More Aggies are welcome to join.

Our print shop is now live! Support research, teaching, and outreach at the Tracy Herbarium by taking home a print of one of our beautiful specimens!

https://tracyherbarium.tamu.edu/shop/

Texas is the home to incredible biodiversity, with thousands of plant species distributed across the state. Documenting this biodiversity is crucial to enact effective conservation strategies and to understand how species distributions change through time.

However, we have estimated that MOST species from MOST Texas counties have never been collected! This is why we are establishing the Texas Voucher Initiative to fill in these gaps in our knowledge. Check it out! https://tracyherbarium.tamu.edu/p…/texas-voucher-initiative/

Find our wishlist for your county! Simply select your county from the map in the link above to download a list of species that we expect to occur in your backyard but for which we have no record in herbarium collections. Get in touch to find other ways that you can help us progress scientific research at Texas A&M!

Texas Voucher Initiative Texas Voucher Initiative Texas has incredible biodiversity – in fact, with over 6000 species of vascular species and hundreds of nonvascular species, it is the third most biodiverse state in the country! Documenting this biodiversity throughout the state is critical for preserving our species and ...

"How Trees Talk to Each Other"

Check out this Ted Talk video and learn how forest trees can talk to one another! Trees are able to communicate through underground "webs" or "highways" thanks to mycorrhizae fungi connecting neighboring root systems. This symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizae and the plant allows feedback signals and nutrients to be transferred from tree to tree making forests very complex and resilient systems.

https://www.ted.com/…/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each

How trees talk to each other "A forest is much more than what you see," says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding discovery -- trees talk, often and over vast distances. Learn more about the harmonious yet complicated social lives of trees and prepare to see the natura...

Congratulations Cynthia on successfully defending your dissertation!

Congratulations, Quinn on successfully defending your thesis!