What is an indicator species? What can their presence or absence tell us about our environment? Can coral health help us understand and prevent the warming of our oceans? Are the loss of trees causing Ugandan butterfly populations to dwindle? What can frog populations tell us about the the health o…
A transcript of the Foothill Yellow-legged Frog Podcast
How is a tadpole like a short-sleeved white tee shirt? The answer lies in the Alameda Creek outside San Francisco, California, USA. Ari Daniel Shapiro wades into the issue of dams and biodiversity with two biologists sampling the DNA of this threatened frog in order to save it. The One Species at a Time podcast series is supported by the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Licensed under Creative Commons 3.0.
A transcript of the Ugandan Butterfly podcast.
Ugandan lepidopterist Perpetra Akite studies at a university in the capital city, far from the farm where she grew up. Since she began studying butterflies as a girl, the landscape of her homeland has changed radically, for butterflies as well as people. It’s change that can be measured in many ways—in the inches of rainfall, acres of forest cleared—or the span of a tiny butterfly’s wings. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from Kigale. The One Species at a Time podcast series is supported by the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Licensed under Creative Commons 3.0.
Coral reefs are bustling cities of marine life, until rising ocean temperatures turn them into ghost towns. Can reefs spring back from devastating bleaching events? Ari Daniel Shapiro and researcher Dr. Randi Rotjan of the New England Aquarium, journey to the remote Phoenix Islands to find out. The One Species at a Time podcast series is supported by the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Licensed under Creative Commons 3.0.
An introductory article about indicator species.
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