Invasive crayfish lead to more mosquitoes and risk of disease in Southern California
Research finds the crayfish disrupt native predators that eat mosquito larvae
La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science
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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.
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Wild parrots fill the soundscape in Los Angeles
"Parrots are not uncommon around Los Angeles. More than a dozen different species have established wild populations in the area, descendants of pet birds that escaped at some point and managed to make a home for themselves in some part of the sprawling metropolis," Ursula Heise writes in Elemental.
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Endangered species and the case for ‘sanctuary cities’
Brad Shaffer, a biology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, notes that cities not only destroy habitat, but also create new living spaces for animals and plants. (Wired)
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La Kretz Center postdoc research: Hybridization meets extinction at the level of the gene
The shallow depths of ponds all across Europe used to be home to amphibians of all shapes and sizes. Now, these amphibians are threatened by human activities such as agricultural…
