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)
EditorialGerardo Ceballos, an ecologist and conservationist, at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City, on July 22, 2022. (Adrian Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialRobert York, a forest ecologist with U.C. Berkeley, uses a drip torch to initiate a prescribed burn at the university’s Blodgett Forest Research Station in El Dorado County, Calif., on May 14, 2022. (Andri Tambunan/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)
EditorialMichelle Fournet, a marine acoustic ecologist at the University of New Hampshire who has been trying to decipher humpback whale communication, listens after dipping her hydrophone underwater, in Rye, N.H., Aug. 25, 2022. (Tristan Spinski/The New York Times)
EditorialAndrew Sweetman, a marine ecologist who sailed with the Metals Company last year, inspects a device used to measure biological activity on the ocean floor, on the the Maersk Launcher in San Diego, Calif., on June 8, 2021.(Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
EditorialGarrett Dickman, a forest ecologist at Yosemite National Park, points to burn scars in giant sequoia trees at the park in California, July 18, 2022. (Nic Coury/The New York Times)
EditorialEric Sanderson, an ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, left, and Marit Larson, who leads marsh restoration work for the city’s parks department, visit a restoration site in Queens, on Dec. 15, 2021. (Dave Sanders/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, walks around wetlands 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, walks around wetlands in northern New Jersey on Sept. 12, 2021. (Jonno Rattman/The New York Times)