Wildlife ecology

The Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society's annual conference brings together wildlife and conservation researchers, students and natural resource professionals from across Texas to hear from leading experts and share new research. The 2027 meeting invites oral and poster presentations on all aspects of wildlife ecology, management, policy, human dimensions and conservation; oral talks are 12-minute presentations with 3 minutes of questions, given live and in person, and should report completed field investigations, analyses or reviews of interest to Texas wildlife students and professionals,

UC Santa Barbara seeks a postdoctoral scholar to lead a new research programme on how wildlife communities respond to the expanding wildland-urban interface, in the Santa Barbara foothills where the mountain wildlands of Los Padres National Forest abut developed coastal landscapes. Questions include how vertebrate species richness, community composition and activity change across gradients of development, which species are sensitive to or benefit from edges, whether wildlife becomes more nocturnal near residences, whether protected lands next to development act as refuges, foraging habitat or

Rae Wynn-Grant discusses wildlife ecology, conservation storytelling and making science accessible to communities underrepresented in research. She reflects on her path into the field, her work on Wild Kingdom and the role that nature programmes can play in public understanding and future scientific careers.