Outreach

"Maybe the single most important thing we can do for conservation in general is to give people an appreciation of nature.”
~ Dr. Anurag Agrawal

Public Talks

To request an in-person or virtual talk, please submit a request here.

Other Media (Podcasts, etc.)

Native Plants Feed Ecosystems -- In Defense of Plants
On Biodiversity: Six Questions with Desiree Narango -- Smith Botanical Gardens
How Can Native Plants help Birds? - Bird Note Podcast
Biodiversity should start in Biden's Backyard - Scientific American
Pritzker Award Candidate Page
Garden Tips with Dr. Desiree Narango -- Smith Botanical Gardens
46 Questions with Desiree Narango
How Plants support Birds and other Wildlife -- Friends of Dyke Marsh
"Soft Landings" -- a companion to trees and Nature
Native plants are better 'food hubs' for birds then nonnative plants -- Michigan NPS
"Those pretty roadsides may be bad for bugs” SciShow YouTube
"Want To See More Wildlife In Your Yard? Researchers Have A Suggestion: Plant Native" -- NPR
May #BLTrees - WNYC, The Brian Lehrer Show

Selected Popular Articles

Insect - Bird Interactions

Scientists Are Tracking Worrying Declines in Insects—and the Birds That Feast on Them. Here’s What’s Being Done to Save Them Both - Smithsonian Magazine

Trees for Migratory Birds

Look up and around at our friends in the trees - New York Daily News
Following a Swainson's Thrush from Connecticut to Costa Rica -- The Audubon Society

Residential Yard Biodiversity

Taking the sting out of bee conservation -- The Wildlife Society
Cultivating Change -- National Wildlife Federation
Your Yard could be a Wildlife Sancturary - Reasons to be Cheerful
Amid the Sprawl, a Long Island Prairie Makes a Quiet Comeback - Yale 360

Plant-Animal Interactions

Power Plants - National Wildlife Federation

Native plants and Birds

Native Plants Boost Backyard Bird Biodiversity -- Birding Wire
Native plants offer more bugs for birds - Audubon Society
Gardens with too many nonnative plants threaten populations of insect-eating birds -- Mongabay
Ecologists Have this Simple Request to Homeowners—Plant Native -- Smithsonian Magazine
Exotic Trees May Be Pretty, But They’re Bad News for Birds - Sierra Magazine
A Yard Full Of Native Plants Is A Yard Full Of Well-Fed Birds - Cornell University's Living Bird Magazine
Yards With Non-Native Plants Create ‘Food Deserts’ for Bugs and Birds -- Audubon Society
These plants bring all the birds to your yard -- Popular Science
Is your yard a ‘food desert’ of non-native plants? -- Examiner
Want To Encourage Native Bees and Wildlife? Plant Local --DCist
Birds, bugs and native plants -- Planning Magazine
A native plant guru’s radical vision for the American yard -- The Washington Post

Insect Conservation

How Nonnative plants are contributing to a global insect decline -- Yale 360

Sensory Pollution

It's not just noise that makes city birds sing a different tune -- Conservation Magazine

Shade Coffee Biodiversity

Made in the Shade: Bird-friendly Coffee -- National Zoo News
Shade grown doesn't necessarily mean bird friendly -- Daily Coffee News

Infographics and Graphical Abstracts

Comic commissioned for Narango, D.L., Tallamy, D.W., and Shropshire, K.J. (2020) Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species. Nature Communications, 11, 5751

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Consultant for the Soft Landings for insect full life cycles comic. Art by Elsa Cousins.

Graphical abstract designed for Tallamy, D.W., Narango, D.L. and Mitchell, A.B., 2020. Do non‐native plants contribute to insect declines?. Ecological Entomology.

Inforgraphic designed for Narango, D.L., Tallamy, D.W., Snyder, K.J. and Rice, R.A. (2019) Canopy tree preference by insectivorous birds in shade‐coffee farms: Implications for migratory bird conservation. Biotropica, 51(3): 387-398

Infographic designed for Narango, D.L., Tallamy, D.W. and Marra P.P. (2018) Nonnative plants reduce population growth of an insectivorous bird. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(45):11549-11554