>
> Those with an interest in the "Natural History" problem might also want to
> take a look as the article that Bob Pohlad and I wrote in the latest issue
> of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. In "Ecoliteracy for ecology
> and ecologists: eroded underpinnings" we discuss the importance of
> natural history courses for all of biology, the unfortunate demise of
> "-ology" courses over the past few decades, and offer some suggestions to
> rectify the situation.
>
> Middendorf, G, BR Pohlad 2014. Ecoliteracy for ecology and ecologists:
> eroded underpinnings. *Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment* *12*:
> 194-195. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/1540-9295-12.3.194
>
>
> George Middendorf
>
> Department of Biology
>
> Howard University
>
> Washington, DC 20059
>
> 202.806.7289
>
> [email protected]
>
>
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>
> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:37:00 -0400
> From: David Inouye <[email protected]>
> Subject: Editorial about the decline in natural history, in Nature
>
> Few biology degrees still feature natural history. Is the naturalist
> a species in decline?
>
> http://www.nature.com/news/natural-decline-1.14966
>
> Prompted by the recent article in BioScience by Tewksbury et al.
>
> At my university the biology department has none of the traditional
> "-ology" field courses any more. At least we can tell students to
> take summer courses at field stations.
>
> David Inouye
>
> Dr. David W. Inouye, Professor
> Associate Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies
> Dept. of Biology
> University of Maryland
> College Park, MD 20742-4415
>
>
