"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: https://vtecostudies.org/about-us/speaker-request-form/

Videos: 
The Birds, the bees, the flowers and the trees for Connecticut Audubon (youtube video), July 2021
How to Attract Pollinators and Songbirds to your Neighborhood (youtube video, pdf), May 2020
​Greening Greenfield (pdf), June 2019
Bringing back birds and butterflies: seminar for Green Bowie (youtube video), May 2018

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Other Media (Podcasts, etc.)

• 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

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

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 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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Full Comic

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

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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

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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

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