A5063201660- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
- Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments
University of California, Berkeley
2021-2025
University of California System
2024
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
2023
Public Health Ontario
2023
University of Toronto
2023
University of Washington Tacoma
2018-2021
CSIRO Land and Water
2020
Colorado State University
2016-2019
University of Chicago
2013-2018
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
2016
Data that influence policy and major investment decisions risk entrenching social political inequities.
Historical policies have been shown to underpin environmental quality. In the 1930s, federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) developed most comprehensive archive of neighborhoods that would redlined by local lenders and Federal Housing Administration, often applying racist criteria. Our study explored how redlining is associated with quality across eight California cities. We integrated HOLC’s graded maps [grades A (i.e., “best” “greenlined”), B, C, D “hazardous” “redlined”)] 10 hazards...
Abstract Contributory science—including citizen and community science—allows scientists to leverage participant‐generated data while providing an opportunity for engaging with local members. Data yielded by biodiversity platforms allow professional answer ecological evolutionary questions across both geographic temporal scales, which is incredibly valuable conservation efforts. The reported contributory platforms, such as eBird iNaturalist, can be driven social variables, leading biased...
Abstract Cities are uniquely complex systems regulated by interactions and feedbacks between nature human society. Characteristics of society—including culture, economics, technology politics—underlie social patterns activity, creating a heterogeneous environment that can influence be influenced both ecological evolutionary processes. Increasing research on urban ecology biology has coincided with growing interest in eco‐evolutionary dynamics, which encompasses the reciprocal evolution...
Human-wildlife interactions, including human-wildlife conflict, are increasingly common as expanding urbanization worldwide creates more opportunities for people to encounter wildlife. Wildlife-vehicle collisions, zoonotic disease transmission, property damage, and physical attacks or their pets have negative consequences both wildlife, underscoring the need comprehensive strategies that mitigate prevent conflict altogether. Management techniques often aim deter, relocate, remove individual...
Abstract Urbanization is changing Earth's ecosystems by altering the interactions and feedbacks between fundamental ecological evolutionary processes that maintain life. Humans in cities alter eco-evolutionary play simultaneously both actors stage on which takes place. modifies land surfaces, microclimates, habitat connectivity, networks, food webs, species diversity, composition. These environmental changes can lead to phenotypic, genetic, cultural makeup of wild populations have important...
Abstract Understanding how biodiversity responds to urbanization is challenging, due in part the single‐city focus of most urban ecological research. Here, we delineate continent‐scale patterns species assemblages by leveraging data from a multi‐city camera trap survey and quantify differences greenspace availability average housing density among 10 North American cities relate distribution eight widespread mammals. To do so, deployed traps at 569 sites across these ten between 18 June 14...
Urban biodiversity provides critical ecosystem services and is a key component to environmentally socially sustainable cities. However, varies greatly within among cities, leading human communities with changing unequal experiences nature. The "luxury effect," hypothesis that predicts positive correlation between wealth, typically measured by per capita income, species richness may be one indication of these inequities. While the luxury effect well studied for some taxa, it has rarely been...
Abstract A fundamental tenet of maternal effects assumes that variance over time should have discordant consequences for offspring traits across litters. Yet, seldom are parents observed multiple reproductive bouts, with few studies considering anthropogenic disturbances as an ecological driver effects. We captive coyote ( Canis latrans ) pairs two successive litters to determine whether among‐litter differences in behavior (i.e., risk‐taking) and hormones cortisol testosterone) corresponded...
Legacy effects describe the persistent, long-term impacts on an ecosystem following removal of abiotic or biotic feature. Redlining, a policy that codified racial segregation and disinvestment in minoritized neighborhoods, has produced legacy with profound urban structure health. These legacies have detrimentally impacted public health outcomes, socioeconomic stability, environmental However, collateral redlining wildlife communities are uncertain. Here, we investigated whether faunal...
We are facing interwoven global threats to public health and ecosystem function that reveal the intrinsic connections between human wildlife health. These challenges especially pressing in cities, where social-ecological interactions pronounced. The One Health concept provides an organizing framework promotes well-being of urban communities ecosystems. However, for be successful, it must incorporate societal inequities environmental disamenities, exposures, policy. Such affect all...
Aldo Leopold's essay The Land Ethic is a cornerstone of North American conservation science. It celebrated for its emphasis on the interconnectedness ecosystems and moral imperative to respect this interdependence. Yet, at core, call change, asserting that societal values—and thus our relationship land—evolve over time. Here, we revisit in light contemporary challenges growing recognition importance equity social justice environmental stewardship. We highlight limitations static...
Abstract In the past decade, studies have demonstrated that urban and nonurban wildlife populations exhibit differences in foraging behavior diet. However, little is known about how environmental heterogeneity shapes dietary variation of organisms within cities. We examined vertebrate prey components diets coyotes ( Canis latrans ) San Francisco to quantify territory‐ individual‐level determine within‐city land cover use affects coyote genotyped fecal samples for individual identification...
<title>Abstract</title> Comparative studies show that urban coyotes behave differently from their rural counterparts. However, these often treat cities as homogeneous. Cities feature diverse pressures for wildlife, such variable human densities and environmental hazards, two factors are known to drive increased risk-taking. Thus, this heterogeneity creates a shifting landscape of risk, which may locally adapted behavioral strategies within cities. Yet, the influence on coyote behavior is not...