La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science

Bats and Fire: a global review

Loeb, S.C., Blakey, R. V.

Fire Ecol. 17, 2021.

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Conservation of northwestern and southwestern pond turtles: Threats, population size estimates, and population viability analysis

Manzo, S., E. G. Nicholson, Z. Devereux, R. N. Fisher, C. W. Brown, P. A. Scott, and H. B. Shaffer

Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, 12(2):485–501; e1944-687X, 2021.

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Limited refugia and high velocity range-shifts predicted for bat communities in drought-risk areas of the Northern Hemisphere

Piccioli Cappelli, M., Blakey, R. V., Taylor, D., Flanders, J., Badeen, T., Butts, S., Frick, W.F., Rebelo, H.

Glob. Ecol. Conserv. 28, e01608, 2021.

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From poison to promise: the evolution of tetrodotoxin and its potential as a therapeutic

Bucciarelli, G. M., M. Lechner, A. Fontes, L. B. Kats, H. L. Eisthen, and H. B. Shaffer

Toxins 2021, 13, 517, 2021.

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Distinguishing effects of area per se and isolation from the sample-area effect for true islands and habitat fragments

MacDonald, Z.G., Deane, D.C., Lamb, C.T., He, F., Acorn, J.H., Nielsen, S.E.

Ecography. 44(7), 1051-1066, 2021.

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Genome-Wide Variation in DNA Methylation Predicts Variation in Leaf Traits in an Ecosystem-Foundational Oak Species

Browne L, MacDonald B, Fitz-Gibbon S, Wright JW, Sork VL

Forests, 2021.

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Bats partition activity in space and time in a large, heterogeneous landscape

Beilke, E.A., Blakey, R. V., O’Keefe, J.M.

Ecol. Evol. 11, 6513–6526, 2021.

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SARS-CoV-2: Cross-scale Insights from Ecology and Evolution

Snedden, C.E., Makanani, S.K., Schwartz, S.T., Gamble, A., Blakey, R. V., Borremans, B., Helman, S.K., Espericueta, L., Valencia, A., Endo, A., Alfaro, M.E., Lloyd-Smith, J.O.

Trends Microbiol. 29, 593–605, 2021.

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UCLA La Kretz Center 2020 Annual Report

Shaffer, H.B. and G.B. Bucciarelli

2021.

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A global phylogeny of turtles reveals a burst of climate-associated diversification on continental margins

Thomson, R. C., P. Q. Phillip Spinks, and H. B. Shaffer

PNAS February 16, 2021 118 (7) e2012215118, 2021.

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