Wildlife Branch Chief; Adjunct Associate Professor
U.S. National Parks Service; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
In collaboration with the National Park Service, La Kretz Postdoc Rachel Blakey is investigating how large wildfires, like the Woolsey fire of 2018, influence the movement and behavior of California's top carnivore: the mountain lion.
The UCLA La Kretz Center 10th Annual Public Lecture examined the impacts of wild fire on California conservation. Featuring preeminent ecologists Carla D’Antonio (UC Santa Barbara), Jon Keeley (US Geological Survey), and Seth Riley (National Park Service), the event was moderated by Victoria Sork, UCLA Dean of Life Sciences.
The National Park Service (NPS) manages the most pristine, biologically intact parklands in the country, making it one of the La Kretz Center’s key partners. Surrounded by Los Angeles and its suburbs, the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) is a vast, 160,000 acre open space that is overseen by the NPS and serves...
Bucciarelli, G.M., Clark, M.A., Delaney, K.S., Riley S.P.D.,Shaffer, H.B., Fisher, R.N., Honeycutt, Rodney L., Kats, Lee B.
Published Work | 2020 | Sci Rep 10, 3409 (2020)
J. Benson, J. Sikich, S. Riley
Published Work | 2019 | Biological Conservation
Benson, J. F., P. J. Mahoney, T. W. Vickers, J. A. Sikich, P. Beier, S. P. D. Riley, H. B. Ernest, and W. M. Boyce
Published Work | 2019 | Ecological Applications 00(00):e02029
Riley, S. P.; Pollinger, J. P.; Sauvajot, R. M.; York, E. C.; Bromley, C.; T. L.
Published Work | 2006 | Molecular Ecology 15(7), 1733–1741
