Northeast NaturalHistory Conference
In April 2025, members of the Applied Farmscape Ecology Research Collaborative (AFERC) presented at the Northeast Natural History Conference in Springfield, MA. The session, titled “The Habitat Ecology of a Farm: Learning from a Multiorganismal View of the Ecology of a Single Hudson Valley Farm,” included presentations throughout the day from eleven researchers. Topics included meadow establishment, above ground invertebrates, soil life, water quality, turtles, and birds. See the presentation recordings below.
On-Farm Native Wildflower Meadows: Eight Years of Vegetation Monitoring
Presented by Claudia Knab-Vispo
Soil-dwelling Invertebrate Communities in a System Transitioning from Tilled Fields to Perennial Meadows
Presented by Carmen Greenwood
Microbial Diversity and Habitat Ecology at a Hudson Valley Farm
Presented by Lizbeth Dávila Santiago
Agroecological Services and Insect Conservation: Eight Years of Observations from Native Meadow Trials
Presented by Conrad Vispo
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Remarkable Wasp Fauna of a Hudson Valley Farm
Presented by Kendrick Fowler
Agroecological Services and Insect Conservation: Eight Years of Observations from Native Meadow Trials
Presented by Conrad Vispo
Assessing the Impact of Land Use on Water Quality in Lower Esopus Creek: Eight Years of Monitoring
Presented by Shafiul Chowdhury
Wood Turtle Habitat Use and Agricultural Mortality at a Farm Landscape in Eastern New York
Presented by Jason Tesauro
Year-round habitat use by birds on a Hudson Valley Farm
Presented by Anne Bloomfield
How Geographic Isolation Affects the Movement and Breeding Ecology of The Bobolink
Presented by Zishi (Violet) Wu
Can Plantings of Warm Season Cover Crops Dominated by Sorghum-Sudangrass Provide Quality Winter Habitat?
Presented by Will Yandik
Learning from a Multi-organismal View of the Ecology of a single Hudson Valley Farm
Presented by Conrad Vispo