"Where do I even start?" Recommendations for faculty diversifying syllabi in ecology, evolution, and the life sciences.

Diversifying curricula is of increasing interest in higher education, including in ecology and evolution and allied fields. Yet, many educators may not know where to start. Here we provide a framework for meeting standard curriculum goals while enacting anti-racist and anti-colonial syllabi that is grounded in the development of a sustainable network of educators.

What drives private landowner decisions? Exploring non-native grass management in the eastern Great Plains.

Non-native grasses used as forage for domestic livestock can negatively impact ecosystem services provided by grasslands. In the U.S.

Do habitat preferences improve fitness? Context-specific adaptive habitat selection by a grassland songbird.

Animals are predicted to prefer high-quality over low-quality habitats, but adaptive habitat selection is less straightforward than often assumed. Preferences may improve only specific fitness metrics at particular spatial scales, with variation across time or between sexes. Preferences sometimes even reduce fitness.