La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science

Haemosporidian Infection Risk Variation Across an Urban Gradient in a Songbird

W.S. Amaya-Mejia, L. Ma, S. Freimuth, R.N.M. Sehgal, P. Yeh

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 7, 2025.

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A near chromosome-level assembly of the serpentine endemic columbine, Aquilegia eximia

J. Johns, M. Escalona, C. Miller, N. Chumchim, O. Nguyen, M.P.A. Marimuthu, S. Sacco, C. Fairbairn, E. Beraut, E. Toffelmier, H.B. Shaffer, S. Hodges

Journal of Heredity, 2025.

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Genomic and ecological divergence support recognitionof a new species of endangered Satyrium butterfly (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)

Z.G. MacDonald, J.R. Dupuis, J.R.N. Glasier, R. Sissons, A. Moehrenschlager, H.B. Shaffer, F.A.H. Sperling

Zookeys, 2025.

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Simplification of woody plant trait networks among communities along a climatic aridity gradient

C.D. Medeiros, S. Trueba, C. Henry, L.R. Fletcher, J.A. Lutz, R.M.Alonzo, N.J.B. Kraft, L. Sack

Journal of Ecology, 2025.

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When the sand blossoms: Phylogeny, trait evolution, and geography of speciation in Linanthus

I.G. Anghel, L.L. Smith, I.H. Lichter-Marck, F. Zapata

American Journal of Botany, 2025.

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Non-­lethal effects of climate change and infectious disease:An energetics approach to understanding population impacts

D.R. Daversa, J.O. Lloyd-­Smith, G.M. Bucciarelli, H.B. Shaffer, D.T. Blumstein

Functional Ecology, 2025.

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Human recreation influences activity of a large carnivore in an urban landscape, Biological Conservation

E.C., Bolas, A.D., Pingatore, M., Mathur, D.T., Blumstein, J.A., Sikich, J.A., Smith, J.F., Benson, S.P.D., Riley, & R.V., Blakey

Biological Conservation (Vol. 301), 2025.

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The nitrogen‐fixing fern Azolla has a complex microbiome

M.J. Song, F. Freund, C.M. Tribble, E. Toffelmier, C. Miller, H.B. Shaffer, F. Li, C.J. Rothfels

American Journal of Botany, 2024.

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Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity drive leaf trait variation in the California endemic toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia).

L. G., Thomas & R., Prunier

American Journal of Botany (Vol. 111:11), 2024.

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Patterns of a sexually selected trait are not predictable across urban and non-urban populations of a songbird, the dark-eyed junco

E.S., Diamant, M., Kang, & P.J.,Yeh

Urban Ecosystems (Vol 28), 2024.

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