La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science

Urban Nature Gardens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County attract “wildlife spectacle” of insect pollinators

E. Hartop, E. Long, C. Bornstein, L. Gonzalez, B. Brown

Zoosymposia 12: 029–050 (2018), 2018.

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An amphibian chemical defense phenotype is inducible across life history stages

Bucciarelli, G. M., Shaffer, H. B., Green, D. B., & Kats, L. B.

Scientific Reports, 7(1), 8185, 2017.

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Noxious newts and their natural enemies: Experimental effects of tetrodotoxin exposure on trematode parasites and aquatic macroinvertebrates

Calhoun, D.M., Bucciarelli, G.M., Kats, L.B, Zimmer, R.K., & Johnson, P.T.J.

Toxicon. 137: 120-127, 2017.

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Distribution, identification, landscape setting, and conservation of Rana kauffeldi in the northeastern U.S.

Schlesinger, M.D., J.A. Feinberg, N.H. Nazdrowicz, J.D. Kleopfer, J. Beane, J.F. Bunnell, J. Burger, E. Corey, K. Gipe, J.W. Jaycox, E. Kiviat, J. Kubel, D. Quinn, C. Raithel, S. Wenner, E.L. White, B. Zarate, and H.B. Shaffer

2017.

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Phylogenomic analyses of 539 highly informative loci dates a fully resolved time tree for the major clades of living turtles (Testudines)

Shaffer, H.B., McCartney-Melstad, E., Near, T., Mount, G. G., and P.Q. Spinks

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 115: 7-15, 2017.

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Desert tortoises in the genomic age: population genomics and the landscape

Shaffer HB, McCartney-Melstad E, Ralph P, Bradburd G, Lundgren E, Vu J, Hagerty B, Sandmeier F, Weitzman C, Tracy CR.

2017.

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Population genetic and field-ecological analyses return similar estimates of dispersal over space and time in an endangered amphibian

Wang, I.J. and H.B. Shaffer

Evolutionary Applications 10:630-639, 2017.

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Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.)

Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [A. G. J. Rhodin,, J. B. Iverson, R. Bour, U. Fritz, A. Georges, H. B. Shaffer, and P. P. van Dijk]

Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 292 pp., 2017.

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La Kretz Center 2016 Annual Report

2017.

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High N, dry: Experimental nitrogen deposition exacerbates native shrub loss and nonnative plant invasion during extreme drought

Justin M. Valliere, Irina C. Irvine, Louis Santiago, Edith B. Allen

Global Change Biology, 2017.

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