UCLA to lead $10 million California conservation project
State-funded initiative will provide officials with scientific basis for confronting climate change
La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science
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UCLA La Kretz Center to lead $10 million California conservation project
“This project has the potential to revolutionize how we manage our land,” said Bradley Shaffer, who leads the project and is a UCLA distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of UCLA’s La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science. “We will apply state-of-the-art techniques to California’s most pressing conservation problems and provide government agencies with the best scientific data to make informed decisions as California’s climate continues to undergo rapid change.”
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Invasive annuals respond more negatively to drought than native plant species
In a newly published study, a team of UCLA researchers including La Kretz postdocs Justin Valliere and Gary Bucciarelli explores whether invasives show greater growth and reproductive responses to water…
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La Kretz Postdoc discusses his career in animal studies
John Benson is now an assistant professor with the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Native grasslands restoration study
California grasslands have been severely impacted by the invasion of nonnative annual grasses, which often limit restoration of this important ecosystem. La Kretz Postdoc Justin Valliere is lead author on…
