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Urban Biotic Assessment Program (UBAP)

Urban Biotic Assessment Program (UBAP)

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  • PACE Lab
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  • Project Map
    • Elgin O’Hare Western Access – I-390
    • Veterans Memorial Tollway – I-355
      • I-355 Pre-construction
      • I-355 During construction
      • I-355 Post-construction
    • Jane Addams Memorial Tollway – I-90
      • I-90 Pre-construction
      • I-90 Post-construction
      • Trout Park
    • Ronald Reagan Tollway – I-88
    • Tri-State Tollway – I-294, I-94, and I-80
      • Bird Migration Through Forest Preserves
      • 294 Stream Surveys
  • Research
    • Mussels
      • Kishwaukee River Mussels
    • Fish
      • Iowa Darter
    • Aquatic Macroinvertebrates
      • Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly
    • Birds
      • Bird Migration Through Forest Preserves
    • Mammals
    • Reptiles and Amphibians
      • Blanding’s Turtle
      • Eastern Massasauga
      • Carp Barrier
    • Botanical Research
      • White Cedar
    • Mitigation
      • North Chicago Wetland
        • Aquatic Invertebrates at North Chicago Wetland
        • Bats at North Chicago Wetland
        • Birds at North Chicago Wetland
        • Plants at North Chicago Wetland
        • Amphibians and Reptiles at North Chicago Wetland
      • Bioswales

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RSS PACE Lab News

  • Graduate student Alma Schrage wins scholarship
    PACE Lab graduate student Alma Schrage was selected to receive this year’s Mary Jane Neer Scholarship. Alma is a graduate student in the Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences department studying bumblebees including the federally endangered Rusty-patched Bumblebee. Earlier this year, Alma won 2nd place for a student poster at the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference […]
  • eDNA used to detect Alligator Snapping Turtles
    PACE Lab member Ethan Kessler’s paper on using eDNA to detect Alligator Snapping Turtles was covered by the University of Illinois Department of ACES. See complete story at ACES News The paper “Radiotelemetry reveals effects of upstream biomass and UV exposure on environmental DNA occupancy and detection for a large freshwater turtle,” is available in […]
  • INHS PACE Lab well represented at Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference
    With 10 oral presentations, 7 posters, and 2 awards for graduate students, the INHS PACE Lab showed their might at this year’s Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, held in Springfield, Illinois, January 26-29. Alma Schrage won the Illinois Chapter of the Wildlife Society’s 2nd place student award for her poster “Foraging and nesting habitat of […]
  • New Field Herpetology Techniques class being offered for Spring 2020
    NRES 285 FHT CRN 46194 NRES 499 GHT CRN 54944 FIELD HERPETOLOGY TECHNIQUES SPRING 2020 This course is designed for students considering careers or graduate work studying wild amphibian and reptile populations. We will introduce students to techniques used in monitoring and research of amphibians and reptiles including methods for sampling, capturing, measuring, and marking […]
  • Using three decades of data to save turtles
    Champaign, IL – Protecting and restoring habitats are the most important steps that can be undertaken to protect turtle populations into the future according to a pair of recent papers analyzing 3 decades of data. The Spotted Turtle, Clemmys guttata, is a small semi-aquatic turtle that inhabits sedge meadow, cattail marsh, wet-mesic prairie, and dolomite […]
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