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Rob Conley is a staff writer at Biology Insights with a focus on environmental science. Based in Hoboken, New Jersey, he previously taught science at a local public high school, where he organized schoolyard ecology projects and local stream water sampling. He still teaches a weekly science lab for high school students. Conley uses his classroom teaching background to report on freshwater ecosystems and local conservation issues.

How Can Abiotic Factors Affect an Ecosystem?
Technology and Nature: A Symbiotic Relationship
Which Terrestrial Biome Has the Most Net Primary Productivity?
Trees as Carbon Sinks: How They Absorb and Store Carbon
How to Calculate Gross Primary Productivity?
What Is a Global Hectare and How Is It Measured?
Do Solar Farms Create Heat? Effects on Local Environments
How Does Deforestation Affect Soil Erosion?
Why Is DDT Dangerous to the Environment and Humans?
Why the Carbon Cycle Is Important for Life and Earth
How Does the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Affect Humans?
What Makes a Forest Sustainable: From Soil to Carbon
Is Petroleum Sustainable? What the Science Shows
What Are the 5 Steps of the Carbon Cycle?
Is Food Renewable? What the Science Actually Shows
Why Is World Hunger an Environmental Issue?
How Do Energy and Chemicals Move Differently in an Ecosystem?
What Happens After Fossil Fuel Reserves Peak?
What Is an Environmental Indicator?
Is Deforestation Primary or Secondary Succession?
Is Solar Energy an Ecosystem Service?
What Is One Negative Effect of Human Influence on Cycles of Matter?
What Is Altitudinal Zonation in Mountain Ecosystems?
How Poverty Drives Soil Loss and a Vicious Cycle
How Can Societies Reduce the Use of Fossil Fuels?
How Does Open-Pit Mining Affect the Environment?
What Makes a Biome? Climate, Vegetation, and Soil
How Much Energy Is Transferred Between Trophic Levels?
What Happens to Abiotic Factors When Biotic Populations Increase?
What Types of Animals Are Most Affected by Biological Magnification?