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
Rocky Mtn. Biological Laboratory
PO Box 519
Crested Butte, CO 81224
ino...@umd.edu
301-405-6946
2013-14 President-elect, Ecological Society of America
