Weighted Usable Habitat Area in the Past and Today

Posted by Sebastian Schwindt on Mar 05, 2025 in habitat | 0 comments

This blog post is going to be a bit less waggish than my previous one on slugs, but I hope you will still find it an interesting read. Weighted Usable habitat Area (WUA) was introduced in Bovee (1986) and further elaborated in Stalnaker et al. (1995) to assess the availability and quality of aquatic habitats. […]

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Posted by Sebastian Schwindt on Feb 05, 2025 in story | 1 comment

October 2017, Davis, California. Forests are burning not far away, and it is still hot outside, almost 90 degrees. Wait a minute, ninety degrees? No wonder forests are burning. True, this is just another anecdote about vintage unit systems, also known as the “U.S. customary system”, but there is a lot more to discover. Did […]