I am very excited to say that my first first-author paper was published! Here it is!
The paper is about my favorite component of Chicago's urban forest, its cemeteries. Because cemeteries have more dead or dying trees than one might find in other parts of the city, they offer important foraging and nesting resources to cavity-nesting birds such as eastern bluebirds, white-breasted nuthatches, and multiple species of woodpeckers.
While I do not talk about this in the paper, Chicago's cemeteries were also extremely valuable to me, an anxious person living in a big city. When I lived in Chicago, the cemeteries offered me quiet places to experience nature and hear my own thoughts. The ecology of these spaces is not their only interesting facet. I invite you to fall down a rabbit-hole of cemetery history, geography, and architecture!
The paper is about my favorite component of Chicago's urban forest, its cemeteries. Because cemeteries have more dead or dying trees than one might find in other parts of the city, they offer important foraging and nesting resources to cavity-nesting birds such as eastern bluebirds, white-breasted nuthatches, and multiple species of woodpeckers.
While I do not talk about this in the paper, Chicago's cemeteries were also extremely valuable to me, an anxious person living in a big city. When I lived in Chicago, the cemeteries offered me quiet places to experience nature and hear my own thoughts. The ecology of these spaces is not their only interesting facet. I invite you to fall down a rabbit-hole of cemetery history, geography, and architecture!