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UCLA’s Brad Shaffer on CBS News Los Angeles
Dr. Bradley Shaffer from UCLA talks $10 million California conservation project.
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Santa Monica Daily Press: Los Angeles-UCLA to lead $10 million California conservation project
UCLA scientists are leading a $10 million project to help California officials make ecologically wise decisions as the state continues to confront the effects of climate change. The California Conservation…
UCLA to lead $10 million California conservation project
State-funded initiative will provide officials with scientific basis for confronting climate change
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UCLA La Kretz Center to lead $10 million California conservation project
“This project has the potential to revolutionize how we manage our land,” said Bradley Shaffer, who leads the project and is a UCLA distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of UCLA’s La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science. “We will apply state-of-the-art techniques to California’s most pressing conservation problems and provide government agencies with the best scientific data to make informed decisions as California’s climate continues to undergo rapid change.”
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Invasive annuals respond more negatively to drought than native plant species
In a newly published study, a team of UCLA researchers including La Kretz postdocs Justin Valliere and Gary Bucciarelli explores whether invasives show greater growth and reproductive responses to water…
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La Kretz Postdoc discusses his career in animal studies
John Benson is now an assistant professor with the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln