A new explanation for zebra stripes
Science Magazine feature about the different theories associated with zebra striping, including a new one proposed by CTR researchers.
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Protecting Biodiversity
Watch the video on NSF Video from the National Science Foundation website about the Central African Biodiversity Alliance (CABA), an international partnership of scientists, students, and policy makers working to…
Guiding African Wildlife Through Global Warming
LiveScience feature on the Central African Biodiversity Alliance (CABA).
Center for Tropical Research November 2014 Newsletter
This edition of the Center for Tropical Research Newsletter includes the following feature articles as well as center updates and workshop reports: Senior Research Fellow Tim Bonebrake recounts a personal…
Slowing the Brain Drain in Central Africa to Protect the Environment and Public Health
Feature on the Congo Basin Institute, created through a collaboration between the Center for Tropical Research and the International Institute for Tropical Resaerch, which will be dedicated to finding solutions…
Congo Basin Institute (English Version)
Video about the Congo Basin Institute, dedicated to finding solutions to the interconnected issues of climate change, human disease, food and water security, and loss of biodiversity.
UCLA faculty voice: ‘Assisted migration’ may save some species from climate change doom
Humans can help threatened species survive
Man-made evolution is happening, and it’s time to control it
Collaboration among disciplines needed to solve sustainability challenges in agriculture, medicine and other fields
Q&A: Biologist Tom Smith on taking evolution into our own hands
By Karla Renschler Also published on The Huffington Post. As founding director of the Center for Tropical Research at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) and a professor of…
How evolutionary principles could help save our world
Press Release on the work of CTR Research Fellow Scott P. Carroll, Peter Sogard Jorgensen, Michael T. Kinnison, Carl T. Bergstrom, R. Ford Denison, Peter Gluckman, CTR Director Thomas B.…
West Nile Virus: Mosquitoes and Other “Pests”
Interview with CTR Postdoctoral Research Fellow Ryan Harrigan on the record outbreak of West Nile virus in Orange County.
Challenges to Conserving the Congo Basin Rainforest, 2014
An Oppenheim Lecture presented by CTR Director Thomas B. Smith, describing the Center is leveraging the best available science to identify new protected areas in the face of resource extraction…