Michigan State University scientists plan to build a first-of-its-kind outdoor lab to study how solar panels placed alongside crops could save water, improve soil health and support ecosystems, all while boosting farmers’ bottom line and ... Read More
Thursday, Nov. 6 | Dessert with Discussion: A Day in the Life of a Seed
Join the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station community at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, for a talk, titled, “A Day in the Life of a Seed.” The basics About The presenter for the fall 2025 Dessert with Discussion talk is Dr. ... Read More
Recent paper from KBS graduate students, undergrads, faculty, examines the lives of wild radish-visiting pollinators in slow-mo
A paper that used slow-motion videos of pollinators to study why wild radish flowers have four long plus two short pollen-producing stamens, was published in September 2025 in the journal Royal Society Open Science. The paper, titled ... Read More
Habitat loss causing inbreeding problems in Michigan Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake populations
Roads, buildings and farms are preventing Michigan’s only rattlesnake from finding mates outside of their population. A 15-year study shows that fragmentation into smaller, more isolated patches is likely reducing the threatened snake’s ... Read More
MSU, KBS team develops scalable climate solutions for agricultural carbon markets
Recent research from Michigan State University, led by W.K. Kellogg Biological Station faculty member and agricultural systems scientist Bruno Basso, addresses a major problem in agricultural carbon markets: how to set an accurate starting ... Read More
MSU colleges of Natural Science and Agriculture and Natural Resources, KBS students present at ESA’s annual meeting
Numerous students from Michigan State University’s colleges of Natural Science and Agriculture and Natural Resources were selected to present their research at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, or ESA. Several ... Read More
A lack of attention to warming winters can paint an incomplete picture of how plants respond to climate change
Scientists may be underestimating how plants will respond to rising global temperatures when they study hot summers but not warming winters, Michigan State University ecologists found. An MSU team synthesized data from 126 simulated ... Read More
On a Florida bombing range, endangered woodpeckers get a second chance
Conservation biologists from Michigan State University are looking back through time to determine the success of a 30-year intervention and monitoring project designed to rescue the red-cockaded woodpecker, a long-imperiled bird living ... Read More
The best field trip since elementary school
Earlier this summer I went to a farmers market in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where I bought some ancient grains from Shady Side Farms. Little did I know that my summer job would bring me back to that farm. Initially, when I knew I would be ... Read More
Shining a light on moths
When I first arrived at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, I was greeted by thousands of mayflies. This may be your nightmare, but to me, it was thrilling. Some would say my study species for the summer, the monarch ... Read More
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