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Opening new doors for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
New Malibu facility to improve wildlife researchers’ efforts
La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science
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La Kretz Center scientists apply new genomic tools to the conservation of understudied organisms
Brad Shaffer and Evan McCartney-Melstad are featured in the August 2018 podcast from the journal Heredity, which broadcasts interviews with the people behind the journal, the science and a digest of…
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Invasive crayfish lead to more mosquitoes and risk of disease in Southern California
Research by La Kretz Postdoc Gary Bucciarelli and others finds that the crayfish disrupt native predators that eat mosquito larvae
Invasive crayfish lead to more mosquitoes and risk of disease in Southern California
Research finds the crayfish disrupt native predators that eat mosquito larvae
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Palm forest habitat loss and fragmentation
La Kretz Postdoc Luke Browne is lead author on a new study on the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on pollen and seed dispersal published in Molecular Ecology. In…
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The Case for ‘Sanctuary Cities’ for Endangered Species
"[W]hat if we deliberately offered sanctuary to endangered species in our cities—those that are native, of course, but also those that are not?" - Ursula Heise, in CityLab.