EditorialForest ecologist Andrew Reinmann walks his dog amidst maple trees in Harlem’s St. Nicholas Park, in New York on Jan. 9, 2023. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialRobert York, a forest ecologist with U.C. Berkeley, at Blodgett Forest Research Station in Georgetown, Calif., May 14, 2022. (Andri Tambunan/The New York Times)
EditorialA groundhog at the 65-acre Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, where Christine Maher, a behavioral ecologist, has tagged no fewer than 513 of them and is one of the few scientists to study their behavior, in Falmouth, Maine, Sept. 21, 2021. (Greta Rybus/The New York Times)
EditorialMax McCarthy, an ecologist and Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, marks a rare species of bee, Andrena parnassiae, in northern New Jersey on Sept. 12, 2021. (Jonno Rattman/The New York Times)
EditorialMax McCarthy, an ecologist and Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, marks a rare species of bee, Andrena parnassiae, in northern New Jersey on Sept. 12, 2021. (Jonno Rattman/The New York Times)