A5006451324- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant and animal studies
- Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Marine animal studies overview
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Science Education and Pedagogy
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Evolution and Science Education
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Insect and Pesticide Research
San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research
2019-2025
University of California, Los Angeles
2018-2024
Digital Research Alliance of Canada
2021-2022
Zoological Society of San Diego
2022
Clark University
2010
Abstract Ecotourism promises to reconcile wildlife conservation and human development if negative impacts of visitation associated infrastructure can be minimized. Animal behavior studies used identify individual population responses anthropogenic before other fitness consequences are documented. With input from professionals in animal ecotourism, we identified key questions needed better understand the impact ecotourism on wildlife. Activity budgets, foraging, movement, stress, habituation,...
Abstract Solar power is a renewable energy source with great potential to help meet increasing global demands and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. However, research scarce how solar facilities affect wildlife. With input from professionals in ecology, conservation, energy, we conducted research‐prioritization process identified key questions needed better understand impacts of We focused animal behavior, which can be used identify population responses before mortality or other fitness...
Species extinction and loss of biodiversity are major crises in the Anthropocene. Translocations threatened endangered species, movement individuals to augment existing or establish new populations, increasingly important conservation tools, but have historically had limited success. Selection a suitable receiver site is essential translocation success, with poor suitability cited as one most common reasons for relocation failure. We utilized quantitative SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses,...
Coexistence of competing species in the same foraging guild has long puzzled ecologists. In particular, how do small subordinate persist with larger dominant competitors? This question becomes particularly important when conservation interventions, such as reintroduction or translocation, become necessary for smaller species. Exclusion competitors might be to establish populations some endangered Ultimately, however, goal should conserve whole communities. Determining escape competitive...
Recent research in behavioural ecology has revealed the structure of animal personality and connections to ecologically evolutionarily important traits. Personality is hypothesized influence social interactions through individual differences or personality-based dyadic interactions. We describe traits ask if two traits, boldness exploration, play a role strength pattern associations wild population degus, rodent that often lives communally with unrelated conspecifics. Boldness was repeatable...
The San Bernardino kangaroo rat (Dipodomys merriami parvus) is a federally listed endangered species endemic to Southern California and limited three remaining populations. Its native habitat of alluvial fan sage scrub faces many anthropogenic threats, including urban agricultural development, the resulting flood control fire suppression. With loss natural processes such as scouring or burning from floods fires, mosaic seral stages across landscape has shifted dense vegetation, active...
Abstract Mutualistic interactions between species are widespread and important for community structure ecosystem function. In a changing environment, the proximate mechanisms that maintain mutualisms affect their stability susceptibility to perturbation. ant‐plant mutualisms, ants defend host plants against herbivores or competing in exchange housing food. While phenomenon of exchanging services resources is well documented, how such arrangements maintained not. There at least four...
ABSTRACT Reintroduction programs that release endangered species back into areas from which they have been extirpated rarely take competitive interactions between account. The Pacific pocket mouse ( Perognathus longimembris pacificus ) is being reintroduced to parts of its former range where multiple native rodents overlapping diets. granivorous in this foraging guild compete for seeds exploitatively and through direct interference interactions, mice are the smallest least dominant guild....
Charles Darwin would be pleased to know that elementary school children in states have adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are expected demonstrate their understanding of several core evolutionary concepts, including trait variation and inheritance, fossils extinct organisms, common ancestry, natural selection, adaptation. However, he might also wonder how this is accomplished demanding 21st-century science curriculum. In files linked article, we provide four lesson plans –...
Abstract Context Eco-evolutionary dynamics result when interacting biological forces simultaneously produce demographic and genetic population responses. simulators traditionally manage complexity by minimizing the influence of spatial pattern on process. However, this simplification can limit their utility in real-world applications. Objectives We present a novel simulation modeling approach for investigating eco-evolutionary dynamics, centered driving role landscape pattern. Our...