Video of Center for Tropical Research’s projects in Ecuador
A five-minute streaming video of CTR’s projects in Ecuador. To request a DVD of a longer 20 minute version of the video, please email Jordan Karubian at jordank@ucla.edu.
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Could Preserving Biodiversity Reduce Disease? EPA Funds $2.25 Million to Research Connections
Biodiversity has long been recognized by EPA as critical for environmental well-being. Humans rely on healthy ecosystems to provide food, clean air, and drinking water. But less understood is the…
UCLA goes back to nature at BioBlitz
UCLA Biology Professor Philip Rundel led a team scouring the landscape for as many types of plants as they could find. Graduate student Erin Marnocha and her group looked for…
Santa Monica Mountains bioblitz invites nature lovers 24 hour observation
The event is designed to give people exposure to natural resources in the biologically diverse park and instill a sense of outdoors in children.
Center for Tropical Research April 2008 Newsletter
Integrating Wildlife Conservation into the Management of Cameroon's Cacao Agricultural Landscapeby Thomas Dietsch, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, UCLA Restoration of Lowland Tropical Rainforests…
L’éprouvette Terre
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First Response
When you face an enemy that is both elusive and ubiquitous, information is the best defense. You need early warning. And you need to know not only when trouble’s coming,…
Global warming, other research from UCLA summit featured in journal
The Jan. 3 edition of Molecular Ecology is dedicated to research from the February 2007 “Evolutionary Change in Human-Altered Environments” conference, which was sponsored by the UCLA Institute of the…
Center for Tropical Research October 2007 Newsletter
Alternative Mating Tactics in a Tropical Damselflyby Brenda Larison, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, UCLA Preserving Biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil and…
Center for Tropical Research June 2007 Newsletter
Conserving Evolutionary Process in the Sky Islands of Northern Mexico by John McCormack, Graduate Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, UCLA Host-parasite…
Center for Tropical Research April 2007 Newsletter
Finding Endangered Tropical Dry Forest in the Pacific: A Case Study from Fiji by Dr. Thomas W. Gillespie, Associate Professor of Geography, UCLA The international summit on “Evolutionary Change in…
Humans take control of evolution
New Scientist Print Edition, Peter Aldhous, Los Angeles, February 17, 2007 CALL it unnatural selection: human activities are driving the evolution of other species in dramatic and often unexpected ways.…