Erzsebet Frey

Erzsebet Frey (Eli Frey) is an ecologist and online entrepreneur with a Master of Science in Ecology from the University of Belgrade. Originally from Serbia, she has lived in Sri Lanka since 2017. Eli has worked internationally in countries like Oman, Brazil, Germany, and Sri Lanka. In 2018, she expanded into SEO and blogging, completing courses from UC Davis and Edinburgh. Eli has founded multiple websites focused on biology, ecology, environmental science, sustainable and simple living, and outdoor activities. She enjoys creating nature and simple living videos on YouTube and participates in speleology, diving, and hiking.

Erzsebet Frey, ecologist and founder of Simply Ecologist
A golden jackal standing in a grassland with a river in the background, like the rivers Vasa crossed

Golden Jackal Vasa’s 1,000+ km Journey From Serbia to Germany

Nature never ceases to surprise us. One of the most extraordinary wildlife stories of the year comes from the Balkans, where a golden jackal named Vasa has completed a journey many experts thought a single animal would never attempt. Fitted with a GPS tracking collar by researchers near Donji Tovarnik in Serbia in the spring […]

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massive global underground fungal network

Scientists Just Mapped the Fungal Network Under Your Feet. It’s Bigger Than the Amazon

Scientists just mapped Earth’s arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, thread like organisms living in plant roots. Using over 16,000 soil samples, researchers estimate roughly 110 quadrillion kilometers of hyphae (the fungal threads that absorb nutrients) worldwide, long enough to reach the Sun and back nearly a billion times (ScienceDaily). This network stores about 300 megatons of carbon

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Best AI Tools for Ecology & Biology Research

You’ll find the right AI tools by matching it to your task. ResearchRabbit maps citation networks, showing which labs and papers shape a subfield. Elicit extracts study data, sample sizes, methods, outcomes, from papers in seconds. Scite checks whether studies support or contradict each other. AlphaFold predicts protein structures, while MegaDetector sorts camera-trap images with

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