Conservation Science

Leadership Grant Grant

Southern California Conservation Analyst

California Native Plant Society created a new position of Southern California Conservation Analyst for Nick Jensen, after his graduation with his PhD in Botany from Claremont Graduate University in 2018. Nick leads this statewide...
December 20, 2017
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Rubega's work on hummingbird drinking featured in The Atlantic

When Margaret Rubega first read about how hummingbirds drink, she thought to herself: That can’t possibly be right.
December 5, 2017
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Johnson's work chasing the illegal loggers looting the Amazon forest in WIRED

For years, timber barons in Peru have sent lumber to the US by the shipload. But many of the groves they harvested were pure fiction.
November 5, 2017
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Adams takes unorthodox approach to question of how a species of frog disappeared from southern California

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November 5, 2017
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Elizabeth Farnsworth, who conducted research projects in plant ecology worldwide, dies

Dr. ELIZABETH JEAN FARNSWORTH, 54, died unexpectedly on October 27th 2017 at home in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was born in Boston, MA on December 8th, 1962. She was educated at Brown University (B.A. with honors 1984), The University of Vermont (M.S. Botany 1991), and Harvard University (PhD. Ecology 1997). She conducted scientific research on many ecosystems throughout the world, focusing on restoration, conservation, and climate change.
November 5, 2017
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Amanda Subalusky: From mass death, life

When thousands of animals die during mass migrations, ecosystems accommodate the corpses and new cycles are set in motion. Fellow Amanda Subalusky and her colleagues have been studying the mass drownings of wildebeest in Kenya and their impact on the Mara River.
October 22, 2017
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Elbroch discovers pumas aren't such loners after all

Supposedly solitary pumas actually hang out with their fellow big cats quite often, frequently coming together and hissing and snarling before settling down to share a delicious elk carcass. That's the startling discovery made by scientists who recently tracked 13 pumas — also called mountain lions or cougars — and set up cameras at kill sites. They recorded dozens of peaceful social interactions between these elusive felines.
October 18, 2017
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Adams publishes on how dams, drought, and disease affect a declining frog in California

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October 13, 2017
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Field publishes on importance of private property owner attitudes in long-term conservation of tidal marshes

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October 13, 2017
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Carle's work on Año Nuevo Island featured

... “Take a handful of these, we’re gonna make a little path,” Ryan shouts over the wind, handing me some boards. Ryan Carle manages the restoration project with Jessie (Beck). We’re deep in bird territory, so he’s building a path winding through fragile nests and scouting for vulnerable chicks. Western gulls nest on the ground above rhinoceros auklet burrows. They’re literally on top of each other and they don’t get along. Gulls sometimes eat auklets.
October 11, 2017