Rapid butterfly declines across the United States in the 21st century

C. B. Edwards, E. F. Zipkin, E. H. Henry, N. M. Haddad, M. L. Forister, K. J. Burls, S. P. Campbell, E. E. Crone, J. Diffendorfer, M. R. Douglas, R. G. Drum, C. E. Fallon, J. Glassberg, E. M. Grames, R. Hatfield, S. Hershcovich, S. Hoffman-Black, E. A. Larsen, W. Leuenberger, M. J. Linders, T. Longcore, D. A. Marschalek, J. Michielini, N. Neupane, L. Ries, A. M. Shapiro, A. B. Swengel, S. R. Swengel, D. J. Taron, B. Van Deynze, J. Wiedmann, W. E. Thogmartin, C. B. Schultz

Published Work | 2025 | Science

Climate Change and Coccidioidomycosis

P. S. Lee, D.L. Swain, & R. Johnson

Published Work | 2025 | JAMA

Increasing Hydroclimatic Whiplash Can Amplify Wildfire Risk in a Warming Climate

D.L. Swain, J.T. Abatzoglou, C.M. Albano, M. Brunner, N.S. Diffenbaugh, C. Kolden, A.F. Prein, D. Singh, C.B. Skinner, T.W. Swetnam, and D. Touma

Published Work | 2025 | Global Change Biology

Climate change increased the likelihood of wildfire disaster in highly exposed Los Angeles area

C. Barnes, T Keeping, G. Madakumbura, J. Abatzoglou, P. Williams, A. AghaKhouchak, I. Pinto, V. Thompson, R. Vautard, S. Lampe, W. Thieery, R. Pietroiusti, F. Otto, M. Vahlberg, R. Singh, N. Lambrou, E. Blakely, Y. Zhu, J. Li, T. Benmarhnia, T. Longcore, M. Marlier, E. Raju, N. Baumgart, J. Arrighi

Working Paper | 2025

Climate Change A Factor In Unprecedented LA Fires

By Gavin Madakumbura1, Chad Thackeray2, Alex Hall3, Park Williams1, Jesse Norris2, and Ray Sukhdeo2

Published Work | 2025 |

Space-time dynamics in hazard exposure analysis: smartphone locations show pedestrian routes are inflexible to extreme heat events

S. Derakhshan, J. Dialesandro, V. K. Turner, T. Longcore

Published Work | 2025 | npj Natural Hazards

Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth

D.L. Swain, A. Prein, J.T. Abatzoglou, C. Albano, M. Brunner, N. Diffenbaugh, D. Singh, C.B. Skinner, and D. Touma.

| 2025 | Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

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

Published Work | 2025 | Biological Conservation (Vol. 301)

Gaps and Emerging Technologies in the Application of Solid-State Roadway Lighting

R. Gibbons, R. Bhagavathula Y. Li, A. Kassing, S. Stapleton. M. S. Jalali, T. Longcore, P. Lutkevich, T. Timcho, K. McLaughlin, D. McLean

Published Work | 2024 | The National Academies Press

NewtCap: an efficient target capture approach to boost genomic studies in Salamandridae (True Salamanders and Newts)

M.C., de Visser, J., France, E., McCartney-Melstad, G.M., Bucciarelli, A., Theodoropoulos, H.B., Shaffer, & B., Wielstra

| 2024 | BioRxiv

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

L. G., Thomas & R., Prunier

Published Work | 2024 | American Journal of Botany (Vol. 111:11)

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

Published Work | 2024 | Urban Ecosystems (Vol 28)

A novel genetic strategy to enable rapid detection of rare non-native alleles

R.D., Cooper, T.K., Luckau, E., Toffelmier, D.G., Cook, S. Martinelli, M.H., Fawcett & H.B., Shaffer

Published Work | 2024 | Scientific Report (Vol. 14)

Hazardous wildfire smoke events can alter dawn soundscapes in dry forests of central and eastern Washington, United States

O.V., Sanderfoot, M.W., Tingley, S.B., Bassing, J.K., Vaughan, N.A., June, & B., Gardner

Published Work | 2024 | Global Ecology and Conservation (Vol. 54)

A genome assembly for the Chryxus Arctic (Oeneis chryxus), the highest butterfly in North America

Z.G., MacDonald, S., Schoville, M., Escalona, M.P.A., Marimuthu, O., Nguyen, N., Chumchim, C.W., Fairbairn, W., Seligmann, E., Toffelmier, T., Gillespie, & H.B., Shaffer

Published Work | 2024 | Journal of Heredity

Phenological constancy and management interventions predict population trends in at-risk butterflies in the United States

C. B. Edwards, C. B. Schultz, S. P. Campbell, C. Fallon, E. H. Henry, K. C. King, M. Linders, T. Longcore, D. A. Marschalek, D. Sinclair, A. Swengel, S. Swengel, D. J. Taron, T. Wepprich, E. E. Crone

Published Work | 2024 | Journal of Applied Ecology

Correspondence: Plain talk about artificial light

T. Longcore

Published Work | 2024 | Lighting Research & Technology

Wildfire smoke impacts the body condition and capture rates of birds in California

A., Nihei, O.V.,Sanderfoot, K., LaBarbera, M.W. Tingley

Published Work | 2024 | Ornithology

Assessing the potential for successful translocation and co-management of two endangered aquatic species

S.K., Snowden, D.M., Shier, K.M., Stemp, G.F., Grether

Published Work | 2024 | Animal Conservation

Quantifying the electric service panel capacities of California’s residential buildings

Eric Daniel Fournier, Robert Cudd, Samantha Smithies, Stephanie Pincetl

Published Work | 2024 | Energy Policy

Phylogenomics of the North American Desert Radiation Linanthus (Polemoniaceae) Reveals Mixed Trait Lability and No Single Geographic Mode of Speciation

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

Published Work | 2024 | BioRxiv

Relative importance of intensity and spectrum of artificial light at night in disrupting behavior of a nocturnal rodent

Travis Longcore, Sophia Anne Marie Villanueva, Kyle Nguyen-Ngo, Cristina A. Ghiani, Benjamin Harrison, Christopher S. Colwell

Published Work | 2024 | Journal of Experimental Biology

Toward an evidence-informed, responsible, and inclusive debate on solar geoengineering: A response to the proposed non-use agreement

Edward A. Parson, Holly J. Buck, Sikina Jinnah, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Simon Nicholson

Published Work | 2024 | WIREs Climate Change

How and why do species break a developmental trade-off? Elucidating the association of trichomes and stomata across species

A.S., Baird, C.D., Medeiros, M.A., Caringella, J., Bowers, M., Hii, J., Liang, J., Matsuda, K., Pisipati, C., Pohl, B., Simon, S., Tagaryan, T.N., Buckley, L., Sack

Published Work | 2024 | Botany

Environmental education outcomes of community and citizen science: a systematic review of empirical research

Ballard, H. L., Lindell, A. J., & Jadallah, C. C.

Published Work | 2024 | Environmental Education Research

Advancing a Net Zero Urban Water Future in the United States Southwest: Governance and Policy Challenges and Future Needs

Courtney Crosson*, Stephanie Pincetl, Caroline Scruggs, Neha Gupta, Rashi Bhushan, Sybil Sharvelle, Erik Porse, Andrea Achilli, Adriana Zuniga-Teran, Gregory Pierce, Dominic L. Boccelli, Charles P. Gerba, Melinda Morgan, Tzahi Y. Cath, Bruce Thomson, Steve Baule, Steve Glass, Mark Gold, James MacAdam, Luke Cole, Mead Mier, Catlow Shipek, and Thomas Meixner

Published Work | 2024 | ACS EST Water

Trait variation in patchy landscapes: Morphology of spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) varies more within ponds than between ponds

E.T., Green, A.I., Dell, J.A., Crawford, E.G., Biro, D.R. Daversa

Published Work | 2024 | PLOS ONE

Reconceiving Christianity and the Modern Prison: On Evangelicalism’s Eugenic Logic and Mass Incarceration

Jason S. Sexton

Published Work | 2024 | Journal of Law and Religion

Comparing fear responses of two lizard species across habitats varying in human impact

B.J., Putman, M.A., Rensel, B.A., Schlinger, S., French, D.T., Blumstein, G.B., Pauly

Published Work | 2024 | Journal of Urban Ecology

The world at night : preserving natural darkness for heritage conservation and night sky appreciation

D. Welch, R. Dick, K. Treviño, T. Longcore, C. Rich, J. Hearnshaw, C. Ruggles, A. Dalton, J. Barentine, I. Gyarmathy

Published Work | 2024 |

On the Job: Daniel Swain, Climate Scientist

D.L. Swain

| 2024 | Weatherwise

A Fast, Reproducible, High-throughput Variant Calling Workflow for Population Genomics

C.D., Mirchandani, A.J., Shultz, G.W.C., Thomas, S.J., Smith, M., Baylis, B., Arnold, R., Corbett-Detig, E., Enbody, and T.B. Sackton

Published Work | 2023 | Molecular Biology and Evolution

LADWP LA100 Equity Strategies Chapter 17. Service Panel Upgrade Needs for Future Residential Electrification

Eric Daniel Fournier, Stephanie Pincetl

Working Paper | 2023

Climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators

D. L. Swain

| 2023 | Nature

“Seeing power” between young people and conservation professionals in the design of a community-based watershed monitoring initiative

Jadallah, C., Ballard, H., Meyer, R. M., Ching, C. C., & Patterson Williams, A.

Published Work | 2023 | Journal of the Learning Sciences

LADWP LA100 Equity Strategies Chapter 13. Energy Affordability and Policy Solutions Analysis

Pierce, Gregory; Coffee, Daniel; Sheinberg, Rachel; Patterson, Shona; Trumbull, Kelly ;Dunlap, Lauren; Sundar, Shweta; Pugh, Carolyn; Murillo, Alberto

Working Paper | 2023

Woody Plant–Soil Relationships in Interstitial Spaces Have Implications for Future Forests Within and Beyond Urban Areas

G.A. Mejía, P.M., Groffman, M.L., Avolio, A.R., Bratt, J., Cavender-Bares, N.H., Grijseels, S.J., Hall, J., Heffernan, S.E., Hobbie, S.B., Lerman, J.L., Morse, D.L., Narango, C., Neill, J. Padullés Cubino, T.L.E., Trammell

Published Work | 2023 | Ecosystems

Pollution, Light

T. Longcore

Published Work | 2023 | Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Third Edition)

Nearby night lighting, rather than sky glow, is associated with habitat selection by a top predator in human-dominated landscapes

R. Barrientos, W. Vickers, T. Longcore, E. S. Abelson, J. Dellinger, D. P. Waetjen, G. Fandos, F. M. Shilling

Published Work | 2023 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Do social vulnerability indices correlate with extreme heat health outcomes?

S. Derakhshan, D. P. Eisenman, R. Basu, T. Longcore

Published Work | 2023 | The Journal of Climate Change and Health

Historical racial redlining and contemporary patterns of income inequality negatively affect birds, their habitat, and people in Los Angeles, California

E. M. Wood, S. Esaian, C. Benitez, P. J. Ethington, T. Longcore, L. Y. Pomara

Published Work | 2023 | Ornithological Applications

A compendium of photopigment peak sensitivities and visual spectral response curves of terrestrial wildlife to guide design of outdoor nighttime lighting

T. Longcore

Published Work | 2023 | Basic and Applied Ecology

Mapping Los Angeles Landscape History: The Indigenous Landscape

T. Longcore, P. J. Ethington

Other | 2023 | Report to the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation

Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals distinct fish assemblages supported by seagrass (Zostera marina and Zostera pacifica) beds in different geographic settings in Southern California

T. Waters, Z. Gold, A. Obaza, R.F. Ambrose, R.A. Eagle

Published Work | 2023 | PLoS ONE

Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western United States

D. L. Swain, J. T. Abatzoglou, C. Kolden, K. Shive, D. A. Kalashnikov, D. Singh & E. Smith

Published Work | 2023 | Communications Earth and Environment

Measurement and Analysis of Exposure to Light at Night in Epidemiology

X. Yin, T. Longcore

Published Work | 2023 | Biological Implications of Circadian Disruption: A Modern Health Challenge

Predicting plant species climate niches on the basis of mechanistic traits

C.D. Medeiros, C. Henry, S. Trueba, I. Anghel, S.D.D. de Leon Guerrero, A. Pivovaroff, L.R. Fletcher, G.P. John, J.A. Lutz, R.M. Alonzo, L. Sack

Published Work | 2023 | Functional Ecology, Volume 37, Issue 11

A reference genome assembly for the continentally distributed ring-necked snake, Diadophis punctatus

E.P. Westeen, M. Escalona, E. Beraut, M.P.A. Marimuthu, O. Nguyen, R.N. Fisher, E. Toffelmier, H.B. Shaffer, I.J. Wang

Published Work | 2023 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 6

The animal welfare, environmental impact, pest control functions, and disease effects of free-ranging cats can be generalized and all are grounds for humanely reducing their numbers

M. C. Calver, L. Cherkassky, M. V. Cove, P. A. Fleming, C. A. Lepczyk, T. Longcore, J. Marzluff, C. Rich, G. Sizemore

Published Work | 2023 | Conservation Science and Practice

A genome assembly of the Yuma myotis bat, Myotis yumanensis

J.N. Curti, D. Fraser, M. Escalona, C.W. Fairbairn, S. Sacco, R. Sahasrabudhe, O. Nguyen, W. Seligmann, P.H. Sudmant, E. Toffelmier, , J.M. Vazquez, R. Wayne, H.B. Shaffer, M.R. Buchalski

Published Work | 2023 | Journal of Heredity

Fugitive gypsum dust deposition on a neighboring wildlife refuge, Antioch Dunes, California, USA

N. J. Spada, A. M. McNally, T. E. Gill, H. Q. Best, A. M. Wells, T. Longcore

Published Work | 2023 | Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association

Pathogenic Leptospira are widespread in the urban wildlife of southern California

S.K., Helman, A.F.N., Tokuyama, R.O., Mummah, N.E., Stone, M.W., Gamble, C.E., Snedden, B., Borremans, A.C.R., Gomez, C., Cox, J., Nussbaum, I., Tweedt, D.A., Haake, R.L., Galloway, J., Monzón, S.P.D., Riley, J.A., Sikich, J., Brown, A., Friscia, J.W., Sahl, D.M., Wagner, J.W., Lynch, K.C., Prager, J.O., Lloyd-Smith

Published Work | 2023 | Scientific Reports

Urban birds become less fearful following COVID-19 reopenings

E.S. Diamant, I. MacGregor-Fors, D.T. Blumstein and P.J. Yeh

Published Work | 2023 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Volume 290, Issue 2005

Rethinking local seed sourcing for the restorationof a foundational grass species in California

M.P. Nolan, J.C. Luong, J.M. Valliere, S.J. Mazer, C.M. D'Antonio

Published Work | 2023 | Restoration Ecology, Volume 31, Issue 8

Genome-wide markers show continental structuring and mitonuclear discordance in the forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae)

A.D. Roe, Z.G. MacDonald, K.L. Snape, F.A.H. Sperling

Published Work | 2023 | The Canadian Entomologist

Quantifying uncertainty in inferences of landscape genetic resistance due to choice of individual-based genetic distance metric

J. Beninde, J. Wittische, A.C. Frantz

Published Work | 2023 | Molecular Ecological Resources

Quantifying uncertainty in inferences of landscape genetic resistance due to choice of individual-based genetic distance metric

J., Beninde, J., Wittische, & A.C., Frantz

Published Work | 2023 | Molecular Ecology

A draft reference genome assembly of the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor hirsuta 

S. Chaturvedi, M. Escalona, M.P.A. Marimuthu, O. Nguyen, N. Chumchim, C.W. Fairbairn, W. Seligmann, C. Miller, H.B. Shaffer, N.K. Whiteman

Published Work | 2023 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 6

A genome assembly for the southern Pacific rattlesnake, Crotalus oreganus helleri, in the western rattlesnake species complex

E.P. Westeen, M. Escalona, M.L. Holding, E. Beraut, C. Fairbairn, M.P.A. Marimuthu, O. Nguyen, R. Perri, R.N. Fisher, E. Toffelmier, H.B. Shaffer, I.J. Wang

Published Work | 2023 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 6

Endothermic physiology of extinct megatooth sharks

Michael L. Griffiths, Robert A. Eagle, Sora L. Kim, and Kenshu Shimada

| 2023 | PNAS

Multiplex qPCR assays for detection of 2 imperiled anuran species, Anaxyrus californicus and Spea hammondii, from environmental DNA

T.W. Rodgers, R.E. Lovich, J.A. Walton, D.J. Prince, B.R. Gonzalez, H.B. Shaffer, K.E. Mock

Published Work | 2023 | Freshwater Science, Volume 42

The importance of cryptic diversity in the conservation of wide-ranging species: The red-footed tortoise Chelonoidis carbonarius in Colombia

N. Gallego-Garcia, M. Vargas-Ramírez, H.B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2023 | Molecular Ecology, Volume 32, Issue 16

Assembly of the largest squamate reference genome to date: The western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis

A.P. Bishop, E.P. Westeen, M.L. Yuan, M. Escalona, E. Beraut, C. Fairbairn, M.P.A Marimuthu, O. Nguyen, N. Chumchim, E. Toffelmier, R.N. Fisher, H.B. Shaffer, I.J. Wang

Published Work | 2023 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 5

Harnessing iNaturalist to quantify hotspots of urban biodiversity: the Los Angeles case study

J. Beninde, T.W. Delaney, G. Gonzalez, H.B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2023 | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

A Holistic Assessment of Building Energy System Transition Pathways in Under-resourced Communities – Final Report

Eric Daniel Fournier, Diane Garcia-Gonzales, Danielle Zamora, David Diaz, Marc Costa, Alex Ricklefs, Felicia Federico, Michael Jerrett, Craig Perkins, Stephanie Pincetl

Progress Report | 2023

Phenotypic plasticity in the anthropause: does reduced human activity impact novel nesting behaviour in an urban bird?

S.A. Bressler, E.S. Diamant, C. Cen, P.J. Yeh

Published Work | 2023 | Animal Behaviour, Volume 203

“Seeing power” between young people and conservation professionals in the design of a community-based watershed monitoring initiative

Jadallah, C., Ballard, H., Meyer, R. M., Ching, C. C., & Patterson Williams, A.

Published Work | 2023 | Biological Conservation

Reference genome for the American rubyspot damselfly, Hetaerina americana

G.F. Grether, J. Beninde, E. Beraut, N. Chumchim, M. Escalona, Z.G. MacDonald, C. Miller, R. Sahasrabudhe, A.M. Shedlock, E. Toffelmier, H.B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2023 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 4

Reference genome of an iconic lizard in western North America, Blainville’s horned lizard Phrynosoma blainvillii

J.Q. Richmond, J.A. McGuire, M. Escalona, M.P.A. Marimuthu, O. Nguyen, S. Sacco, E. Beraut, E. Toffelmier, R.N. Fisher, I.J. Wang, H.B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2023 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 4

Historical routes for diversification of domesticated chickpea inferred from landrace genomics

A.A. Igolkina, N.V. Noujdina, M. Vishnyakova, T. Longcore, E. Von Wettberg, S. V. Nuzhdin, M.G. Samsonova

Published Work | 2023 | Molecular Biology and Evolution

Reference genome of the black rail, Laterallus jamaicensis 

L.A. Hall, I.J. Wang, M. Escalona, E. Beraut, S. Sacco, R. Sahasrabudhe, O. Nguyen, E. Toffelmier, H.B. Shaffer, S.R. Beissinger

Published Work | 2023 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 4

Reference genome of the Virginia rail, Rallus limicola 

L.A. Hall, I.J. Wang, M. Escalona, E. Beraut, S. Sacco, R. Sahasrabudhe, O. Nguyen, E. Toffelmier, H.B. Shaffer, S.R. Beissinger

Published Work | 2023 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 4

Two transects reveal remarkable variation in gene flow on opposite ends of a European toad hybrid zone

I. van Riemsdijk, J.W. Arntzen, G.M. Bucciarelli, E. McCartney-Melstad, M. Rafajlovic, P.A. Scott, E. Toffelmier, H.B. Shaffer, B. Wielstra

Published Work | 2023 | Heredity, Volume 131

Biodiversity in a box: three non-native invertebrates preferentially find refugia in green space management infrastructure across urban Los Angeles

J. Beninde, J.E. Vendetti, H.B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2023 | Biological Invasions

Reference genome of the long-jawed orb-weaver, Tetragnatha versicolor (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)

S.A. Adams, N.R. Graham, A.J. Holmquist, M.M. Sheffer, E.C. Steigerwald, R. Sahasrabudhe, O. Nguyen, E. Beraut, C. Fairbairn, S. Sacco, W. Seligmann, M. Escalona, H.B. Shaffer, E. Toffelmier, R.G. Gillespie

Published Work | 2023 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 114, Issue 4

Managing invasive hybrids with pond hydroperiod manipulation in an endangered salamander system

R.D. Cooper, H.B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2023 | Conservation Biology

Archived DNA reveals marine heatwave-associated shifts in fish assemblages

Z. Gold, R.P. Kelly, A.O. Shelton, A.R. Thompson, K.D. Goodwin, R. Gallego, K.M. Parsons, L.R. Thompson, D. Kacev, P.H. Barber

Published Work | 2023 | Environmental DNA

Editorial: Global urban biodiversity and the importance of scale

D.T. Blumstein, M. Alberti, J. Beninde, R.V. Blakey, J.R. Burger, D.S. Cooper, C.A. Niesner, C.J. Schell, M. Soga, K. Uchida

Published Work | 2023 | Frontiers in Conservation Science

Divergent sensory and immune gene evolution in sea turtles with contrasting demographic and life histories

B.P. Bentley, T. Carrasco-Valenzuela, E.K.S. Ramos, H. Pawar, L.S. Arantes, A. Alexander, S.M. Banerjee, P. Masterson, M. Kuhlwilm, M. Pippel, J. Mountcastle, B. Haase, M. Uliano-Silva, G. Formenti, K. Howe, W. Chow, A. Tracey, Y. Sims, S. Pelan, J. Wood, K. Yetsko, J.R. Perrault, K. Stewart, S.R. Benson, Y. Levy, E.V. Todd, H.B. Shaffer, P. Scott, B.T. Henen, R.W. Murphy, D.W. Mohr, A.F. Scott, D.J. Duffy, N.J. Gemmell, A. Suh, S. Winkler, F. Thibaud-Nissen, M.F. Nery, T. Marques-Bonet, A. Antunes, Y. Tikochinski, P.H. Dutton, O. Fedrigo, E.W. Myers, E.D. Jarvis, C.J. Mazzoni, L.M. Komoroske

Published Work | 2023 | PNAS, Volume 120, Issue 7

Building an interactive web mapping tool to support distributed energy resource planning using public participation GIS

Eric D. Fournier, Felicia Federico, Robert Cudd, Stephanie Pincetl

Published Work | 2023 | Applied Geography

Outdoor artificial light at night, air pollution and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

C. Zhong, R. Wang, L. Morimoto, T. Longcore, M. Franklin, T. Rogne, C. Metayer, J. L. Wiemels, X. Ma

Published Work | 2023 | Scientific Reports

Smartphone locations reveal patterns of cooling center use as a heat mitigation strategy

S. Derakhshan, T. N. Bautista, M. Bouwman, L. Huang, L. Lee, J. Tarczynski, I. Wahagheghe, X. Zeng, T. Longcore.

Published Work | 2023 | Applied Geography

Applying stochastic and Bayesian integral projection modeling to amphibian population viability analysis

A.F., Messerman, A.G., Clause, L.N., Gray, M.K., H.B., Rollins, P.C., Trenham, H.B., Shaffer, and C.A., Searcy

Published Work | 2022 | Ecological Applications

A brief history of population genetic research in California and an evaluation of its utility for conservation decision-making

J., Beninde, E., Toffelmier, and H.B., Shaffer

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 113, Issue 6, December 2022, Pages 604–614

Seizing the moment: The opportunity and relevance of the California Conservation Genomics Project to state and federal conservation policy

P.L., Fiedler, B., Erickson, M., Esgro, M., Gold, J.M., Hull, J.M. Norris, B., Shapiro, M., Westphal, E., Toffelmier, and H.B., Shaffer

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 113, Issue 6, Pages 589–596

Reference genome of the rubber boa, Charina bottae (Serpentes: Boidae)

J.L., Grismer, M., Escalona, C., Miller, E., Beraut, C.W., Fairbairn, M.P.A., Marimuthu, O., Nguyen, E., Toffelmier, I.J., Wang, and H.B., Shaffer

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 113, Issue 6, Pages 641–648

The phylogeny of California, and how it informs setting multispecies conservation priorities

E., Toffelmier, J., Beninde, and H.B., Shaffer

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 113, Issue 6, pg. 597–603

Reference Genome Assembly of the Big Berry Manzanita (Arctostaphylos glauca)

Y., Huang, M., Escalona, G., Morrison, M.P.A., Marimuthu, O., Nguyen, E., Toffelmier, H.B. Shaffer, and A., Litt

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 113, Issue 2, Pages 188–196

Feedback loops between 3D vegetation structure and ecological functions of animals

N., Russo, A., Davies, R., Blakey, E., Ordway, and T., Smith.

Published Work | 2022 | Authorea

Vehicular traffic effects on elk and white-tailed deer behavior near wildlife underpasses

M., Nojoumi, A.P., Clevenger, D.T., Blumstein, and E.S., Abelson

Published Work | 2022 | PLOS ONE 17(11)

Seeking Common Ground Between Theology and Sustainability Science for Just Transitions

Jason Sexton, Stephanie Pincetl

Published Work | 2022 | Zygon

Reference genome of the Monkeyface Prickleback, Cebidichthys violaceus

D.B., Wright, M., Escalona, M.P.A., Marimuthu, R., Sahasrabudhe, O., Nguyen, S., Sacco, E., Beraut, E., Toffelmier, C., Miller, H.B., Shaffer, G., Bernardi, and D.P., German

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Heredity

Host association, environment, and geography underlie genomic differentiation in a major forest pest

Zachary G. MacDonald, Kyle L. Snape, Amanda D. Roe, Felix A. H. Sperling

Published Work | 2022 | Evolutionary Applications, 15(11)1749-1765

Misunderstanding the free-ranging cat issue: Response to Debrot et al. 2022

C. Lepczyk, T. Longcore, and C. Rich

Published Work | 2022 | Conservation Science and Practice

Quantifying the Relationship Between Atmospheric River Origin Conditions and Landfall Temperature

K.R. Gonzales, D.L. Swain, H.A. Roop, and N.S. Diffenbaugh

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Mountain lions avoid burned areas and increase risky behavior after wildfire in a fragmented urban landscape

Rachel V. Blakey, Jeff A. Sikich, Daniel T. Blumstein, Seth P.D. Riley

Published Work | 2022 | Current Biology

Geographic patterns of COVID-19 vaccination, infection and mortality in the United States during year two of the pandemic

G. M. MacDonald, T. Longcore

Published Work | 2022

Reference genome of the color polymorphic desert annual plant sandblossoms, Linanthus parryae

I.G., Anghel, S.J., Jacobs, M., Escalona, M.P.A., Marimuthu, C.W., Fairbairn, E., Beraut, O., Nguyen, E., Toffelmier, H.B., Shaffer, and F., Zapata

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 113, Issue 6, December 2022, Pages 712–721

Reference genome of the Woolly Sculpin, Clinocottus analis

D.B., Wright, M., Escalona, M.P.A., Marimuthu, R., Sahasrabudhe, O., Nguyen, S., Sacco, E., Beraut, E., Toffelmier, C., Miller, H.B., Shaffer, and G., Bernardi

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Heredity

Reference genome assembly of the sunburst anemone, Anthopleura sola

B.H., Cornwell, E., Beraut, C., Fairbairn, O., Nguyen, M.P.A., Marimuthu, M., Escalona, and E., Toffelmier.

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 113, Issue 6, Pages 699–705

A tale of urban forest patch governance in four eastern US cities

Anita T. Morzillo, Lindsay K. Campbell, Kristen L. King, Katherine J. Lautar, Lydia Scott, Michelle L. Johnson, Mysha Clarke, Luke Rhodes, Stephanie Pincetl, Nancy F. Sonti, Dexter H. Locke, John Paul Schmit, Robert T. Fahey, Matthew E. Baker, Lindsay Darling, Lea R. Johnson

Published Work | 2022 | Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

Host Identity Matters—Up to a Point: The Community Context of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Transmission

D.R., Daversa, J., Bosch, A., Manica, T.W.J., Garner, and A., Fenton

Published Work | 2022 | The American Naturalist, 200:4, pg 584-597

A science-based policy for managing free-ranging cats

C. A. Lepczyk, D. C. Duffy, D. M. Bird, M. Calver, D. Cherkassky, L. Cherkassky, C. R. Dickman, S. Hess, D. Hunter, D. Jessup, T. Longcore, S. R. Loss, K. A. T. Loyd, P. P. Marra, J. Marzluff, R. Noss, D. Simberloff, G. C. Sizemore, S. A. Temple, Y. van Heezik

Published Work | 2022 | Biological Invasions

Net GHG Emissions and Air Quality Outcomes from Different Residential Building Electrification Pathways within a California Disadvantaged Community

Eric Daniel Fournier, Felicia Federico, Robert Cudd, Stephanie Pincetl, Alex Ricklefs, Marc Costa, Michael Jerrett, Diane Garcia-Gonzales

Published Work | 2022 | Sustainable Cities and Society

Phenological and physiological advantages of invasive annuals are strengthened by nitrogen enrichment

Justin M. Valliere,Rhay G. Flores,Branden J. Cason,Mayra J. Hernández

Published Work | 2022 | Functional Ecology

Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood

X. Huang and D.L. Swain (co-first authorship)

Published Work | 2022 | Science Advances

Cities are not isolates: To reduce their impacts a change in urban-rural interdependencies and the direction of modernity are required

Stephanie Pincetl, Ph.D.

Published Work | 2022 | Advances in Applied Energy

Meteorological and geographical factors associated with dry lightning in central and northern California

D.A. Kalashnikov, J.T. Abatzoglou, N.J. Nauslar, D.L. Swain, D. Touma, & D. Singh

Published Work | 2022 | Environmental Research: Climate

Physicochemical Control of Caribbean Coral Calcification Linked to Host and Symbiont Responses to Varying pCO2 and Temperature

Robert A. Eagle, Maxence Guillermic,Illian De Corte, Blanca Alvarez Caraveo, Colleen B. Bove, Sambuddha Misra, Louise P. Cameron, Karl D. Castillo, and Justin B. Ries

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022, 10(8), 1075

Community Scale Solar & Energy Resilience in California’s Disadvantaged Communities

CCSC Staff

Working Paper | 2022

Soil Microbial Community Composition and Tolerance to Contaminants in an Urban Brownfield Site

Mejia, M.P., Rojas, C.A., Curd, E. et al.

Published Work | 2022 | Microbial Ecology

CaliPopGen: A genetic and life history database for the fauna and flora of California

J., Beninde, E.M., Toffelmier, A., Andreas, C., Nishioka, M., Slay, A., Soto, J.P., Bueno, G., Gonzalez, H.V., Pham, M., Posta, J.P., Pace, and H.B., Shaffer

Published Work | 2022 | Scientific Data volume 9, Article number: 380 (2022)

An Evaluation of the Motivations Regulating the Privacy of Utility Customer Data Through Legal Philosophies and Precedents

Vivian Luk. Sustainable Los Angeles Grand Challenge URSP. Mentors: Dr. Stephanie Pincetl, Sebastian Solarte, Lauren Strug

Presentation | 2022

Reference Genome of the Northwestern Pond Turtle, Actinemys marmorata

B.D., Todd, T.S., Jenkinson, M., Escalona, E., Beraut, O., Nguyen, R., Sahasrabudhe, P.A., Scott, E., Toffelmier, I.J., Wang, and H.B., Shaffer

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 113, Issue 6, pg. 624–631

Zhong et al. Respond to “There’s No Place Like Home”

C. Zhong, T. Longcore, J. Benbow, N. Chung, S. S. Wang, J. V. Lacey Jr., M. Franklin

Published Work | 2022 | American Journal of Epidemiology

SLOSS-based inferences in a fragmented landscape depend on fragment area and species–area slope

J., Liu, Z.G., MacDonald, X., Si, L., Wu, D., Zeng, G., Hu, P., Ding, and M., Yu

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Biogeography, Volume 49, Issue 6, p. 1075-1085

A natural experiment identifies an impending ecological trap for a neotropical amphibian in response to extreme weather events

M.A., Clark, W.M., Ota, S.J., Smith, B.K., Muramoto, S., Ngo, G.E., Chan, M.A., Kenyon, M.C., Sturtevant, M.G., Diamond, G.M., Bucciarelli, and L.B., Kats.

Published Work | 2022 | Ecology and Evolution volume 12, Issue 4

An Overview of Modern Applications of Negative Binomial Modeling in Ecology and Biodiversity

S., Jakub, R.V., Blakey, and F.K.C., Hui

Published Work | 2022 | Diversity 14, no. 5: 320

Are Residential Energy Efficiency Upgrades Effective? An Empirical Analysis in Southern California

Yating Chuang, Magali A. Delmas, Stephanie Pincetl

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Optimizing management of invasions in an uncertain world using dynamic spatial models

K.M., Pepin, A.J., Davis, R.S., Epanchin-Niell, A.M., Gormley, J.L., Moore, T.J., Smyser, H.B., Shaffer, et al.

Published Work | 2022 | Ecological Applications 32( 6)

Landscape Genomics to Enable Conservation Actions: The California Conservation Genomics Project

H.B., Shaffer, E., Toffelmier, R.B., Corbett-Detig, M., Escalona, B., Erickson, P., Fiedler, M., Gold, R.J., Harrigan, S., Hodges, T.K., Luckau, C., Miller, D.R., Oliveira, K.E., Shaffer, B., Shapiro, V.L., Sork, and I.J., Wang.

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Heredity, Volume 113, Issue 6, pg. 577–588

Climate change increases risk of extreme rainfall following wildfire in the western United States

D. Touma, S. Stevenson, D.L. Swain, D. Singh, D. Kalashnikov, X. Huang

Published Work | 2022 | Science Advances

What Will it Take for an Energy Transition to be Just?

Stephanie Pincetl, Ph.D.

Presentation | 2022

Municipal Stormwater Management Spending in California: Data Extraction, Compilation, and Analysis

David Babchanik, Danielle Salt, Maureen Kerner, Brian Currier, Erik Porse

Published Work | 2022 | Environmental Management

Nocturnal lighting in animal research should be replicable and reflect ecological conditions

A. E. Aulsebrook, A. Jechow, A. Krop-Benesch, C. C. M. Kyba, T. Longcore, E. K. Perkin, R. H. A. van Grunsven

Published Work | 2022 | Biology Letters

Sustainable Cities and the Question of the Climate. Comments to the CA State Assembly Transportation Committee March 2022

Stephanie Pincetl, PhD

Presentation | 2022

Large-scale environments of successive atmospheric river events leading to compound precipitation extremes in California

M.A. Fish, J. Done, D.L. Swain, A.M. Wilson, A.C. Michaelis, P.B. Gibson, and F.M. Ralph

Published Work | 2022 | Journal of Climate

Considering light pollution in ecological networks: a plea for a worldwide development of dark infrastructure for biodiversity

R. Sordello, S. Busson. J. H. Cornuau, P. Deverchère, B. Faure; A. Guetté, F. Hölker, C. Kerbiriou, T. Lengagne, I. Le Viol, T. Longcore, P. Moeschler, J. Ranzoni, N. Ray, Y. Reyjol, Y. Roulet, S. Schroer, J. Secondi, N. Valet, S. Vanpeene, S. Vauclair

Published Work | 2022 | Landscape and Urban Planning

Building an Interactive Web Mapping Tool to Support Distributed Energy Resource Planning Using Public Participation GIS

Eric Fournier, PhD

Presentation | 2022

UCLA La Kretz Center 2021 Annual Report

Shaffer, H.B. and G.B. Bucciarelli

Annual Report | 2022

Toxic Relationships and Arms-Race Coevolution Revisited

G.M., Bucciarelli, F., Alsalek, L.B., Kats, D.B., Green, and H.B., Shaffer

Published Work | 2022 | Annual Review of Animal Biosciences Vol. 10:63-80

Atmospheric CO2 estimates for the Miocene to Pleistocene based on foraminiferal δ11B at Ocean Drilling Program Sites 806 and 807 in the Western Equatorial Pacific

Maxence Guillermic, Sambuddha Misra, Robert Eagle, and Aradhna Tripati

Published Work | 2022 | Climate of the Past, Volume 18, Issue 2, p.183–207

The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock

H.A., Lewin et al.

Published Work | 2022 | PNAS. 119 (4)

Niche partitioning in an assemblage of granivorous rodents, and the challenge of community-level conservation

R.Y., Chock, D.M., Shier, and G.F., Grether

Published Work | 2022 | Oecologia volume 198, pages 553–565 (2022)

Increasing co-occurrence of fine particulate matter and ground-level ozone extremes in the western United States

D.A. Kalashnikov, J.L. Schnell, J.T. Abatzoglou, D.L. Swain, and D. Singh

Published Work | 2022 | Science Advances

A generalist nematode destabilizes plant competition: no evidence for direct effects, but strong evidence for indirect effects on rhizobia abundance

Catella, Samantha A., Castilleja Fallon Olmsted, Shaniya H. Markalanda, Connor J. McFadden, Corlett W. Wood, and Sara E. Kuebbing

Published Work | 2021 | New Phytologist(2021)

Climate change risk and adaptation costs for storm water management in California coastal parklands

Erik Porse, Cristina Poindexter, Christian Carelton, Michael Stephens

Published Work | 2021 | Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

Climate change risk and adaptation costs for stormwater management in California coastal parklands

Erik Porse, Cristina Poindexter, Christian Carelton & Michael Stephens

Published Work | 2021 | Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

11 pressing research questions on how light pollution affects biodiversity

F. Hölker, J. Bolliger, T. W. Davies, S. Giavi, A. Jechow, G. Kalinkat, T. Longcore, K. Spoelstra, S. Tidau, M. E. Visser, E. Knop

Published Work | 2021 | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Determining the effects of artificial light at night on the distributions of Western Snowy Plovers (Charadrius nivosus nivosus) and California Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis) in Southern California

A. L. Simons, K. L. M. Martin, and T. Longcore

Published Work | 2021 | Journal of Coastal Research

Effect of gypsum dust on lepidopterous larvae

K. H. Osborne, T. Longcore

Published Work | 2021 | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Wildlife Affordances of Urban Infrastructure: A Framework to Understand Human-Wildlife Space Use

Niesner, C.A., Blakey, R.V., Blumstein, D.T., Abelson, E.S.

Published Work | 2021 | Front. Conserv. Sci.

Bats and Fire: a global review

Loeb, S.C., Blakey, R. V.

Published Work | 2021 | Fire Ecol. 17

Step Back from Scientific Hubris – Dr. Stephanie Pincetl talks with Nature Sustainability

Stephanie Pincetl, Ph.D

Published Work | 2021 | Nature Sustainability

A high-resolution record of coastal clouds and fog and their role in plant distributions over San Clemente Island, California

R. E. S. Clemesha, A. Gershunov, D. M. Lawson, T. Longcore, B. MacDonald, M. Booker, B. Munson, K. O'Connor

Published Work | 2021 | Environmental Research Communications

Climate Change, Extreme Heat, & the Future of LA’s Electric Power System

Eric D. Fournier, PhD., Felicia Federico, D. Env.; Stephanie Pincetl, PhD

Working Paper | 2021

Environmental influences on sleep in the California Teachers Study Cohort

C. Zhong, T. Longcore, J. Benbow, N. Chung, S. S. Wang, J. V. Lacey Jr., M. Franklin

Published Work | 2021 | American Journal of Epidemiology

Constraints on coccolithophores under ocean acidification obtained from boron and carbon geochemical approaches

Yi-Wei Liu a b, Sebastian D Rokitta c, Björn Rost c d, Robert A. Eagle

Published Work | 2021 | Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Conservation of northwestern and southwestern pond turtles: Threats, population size estimates, and population viability analysis

Manzo, S., E. G. Nicholson, Z. Devereux, R. N. Fisher, C. W. Brown, P. A. Scott, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2021 | Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, 12(2):485–501; e1944-687X

An extremeness threshold determines the regional response of floods to changes in rainfall extremes

M.I. Brunner, D.L. Swain, R.R. Wood, F. Willkofer, J.M. Done, E. Gilleland, and R. Ludwig

Published Work | 2021 | Communications Earth and Environment

Limited refugia and high velocity range-shifts predicted for bat communities in drought-risk areas of the Northern Hemisphere

Piccioli Cappelli, M., Blakey, R. V., Taylor, D., Flanders, J., Badeen, T., Butts, S., Frick, W.F., Rebelo, H.

Published Work | 2021 | Glob. Ecol. Conserv. 28, e01608

From poison to promise: the evolution of tetrodotoxin and its potential as a therapeutic

Bucciarelli, G. M., M. Lechner, A. Fontes, L. B. Kats, H. L. Eisthen, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2021 | Toxins 2021, 13, 517

Environmental protection, climate regulation, and the persistence of sprawl in California

Stephanie Pincetl, Sean Kennedy

Published Work | 2021 | GeoJournal

The Critical Study of Religion and Division in the Age of Covid-19

Jason Sexton

Published Work | 2021 | International Journal of Public Theology

Accelerating California’s Transition to Zero Emission Vehicles

| 2021

A case for a new satellite mission for remote sensing of night lights

J. C. Barentine, K. Walczak, G. Gyuk, C. Tarr, and T. Longcore

Published Work | 2021 | Remote Sensing

Genomic and ecological data support the elevation of the El Segundo Blue (Euphilotes bernardino/battoides allyni) to species status

D, Rubinoff, T. Longcore, J. R. Dupuis, and K. Osborne

Published Work | 2021 | The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society

The Case for Gas Bans and Residential Building Electrification: Equity Perspectives on an Emerging Socio-Technical Energy Transition

Robert Cudd, Felicia Federico, Eric Daniel Fournier, Stephanie Pincetl

Published Work | 2021 | The Appeal

Distinguishing effects of area per se and isolation from the sample-area effect for true islands and habitat fragments

MacDonald, Z.G., Deane, D.C., Lamb, C.T., He, F., Acorn, J.H., Nielsen, S.E.

Published Work | 2021 | Ecography. 44(7), 1051-1066

Using Large Ensembles to Identify Regions of Systematic Biases in Moderate‐to‐Heavy Daily Precipitation

N. Goldenson, C.W. Thackeray, A.D. Hall, D.L. Swain, and N. Berg

Published Work | 2021 | Geophysical Research Letters

Genome-Wide Variation in DNA Methylation Predicts Variation in Leaf Traits in an Ecosystem-Foundational Oak Species

Browne L, MacDonald B, Fitz-Gibbon S, Wright JW, Sork VL

Published Work | 2021 | Forests

Bats partition activity in space and time in a large, heterogeneous landscape

Beilke, E.A., Blakey, R. V., O’Keefe, J.M.

Published Work | 2021 | Ecol. Evol. 11, 6513–6526

The Benefits and Limits of Urban Tree Planting for Environmental and Human Health

Diane E. Pataki, Marina Alberti, Mary L. Cadenasso, Alexander J. Felson, Mark J. McDonnell, Stephanie Pincetl, Richard V. Pouyat, Heikki Setälä and Thomas H. Whitlow

Published Work | 2021 | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, section Urban Ecology

SARS-CoV-2: Cross-scale Insights from Ecology and Evolution

Snedden, C.E., Makanani, S.K., Schwartz, S.T., Gamble, A., Blakey, R. V., Borremans, B., Helman, S.K., Espericueta, L., Valencia, A., Endo, A., Alfaro, M.E., Lloyd-Smith, J.O.

Published Work | 2021 | Trends Microbiol. 29, 593–605

Reducing the blue spectrum in artificial light at night minimizes insect attraction in a tropical lowland forest

J. L. Deichmann, C. Ampudia Gatty, J. M. Andia, A. Alonso, R. Linares-Palomino, and T. Longcore

Published Work | 2021 | Insect Conservation & Diversity

A shorter, sharper rainy season amplifies California wildfire risk

D.L. Swain

Published Work | 2021 | Geophysical Research Letters

UCLA La Kretz Center 2020 Annual Report

Shaffer, H.B. and G.B. Bucciarelli

Annual Report | 2021

A global phylogeny of turtles reveals a burst of climate-associated diversification on continental margins

Thomson, R. C., P. Q. Phillip Spinks, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2021 | PNAS February 16, 2021 118 (7) e2012215118

Stay-at-Home Orders during the COVID-19 Pandemic Reduced Urban Water Use

Dongyue Li, Ruth A. Engel, Xiaoyu Ma, Erik Porse, Jonathan D. Kaplan, Steven A. Margulis, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier

Published Work | 2021 | Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Urban biodiversity and the importance of scale

Uchida, K., Blakey, R. V., Burger, J.R., Cooper, D.S., Niesner, C.A., Blumstein, D.T.

Published Work | 2021 | TREE 36, 123–131

Thermal stress reduces pocilloporid coral resilience to ocean acidification by impairing control over calcifying fluid chemistry

Guillermic, M., Cameron, L. P., De Corte, I., Misra, S., Bijma, J., de Beer, D., ... & Eagle, R. A.

Published Work | 2021 | Science Advances, 7(2), eaba9958

Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) Home Ranges, Movements, and Forays Revealed by GPS-Tracking

Blakey, R. V., Siegel, R. B., Webb, E. B., Dillingham, C. P., Johnson, M., & Kesler, D. C.

Published Work | 2020 | Journal of Raptor Research, 54(4):388-401

Net Zero Urban Water from Concept to Applications: Integrating Natural, Built, and Social Systems for Responsive and Adaptive Solutions

Courtney Crosson*, Andrea Achilli, Adriana A. Zuniga-Teran, Elizabeth A. Mack, Tamee Albrecht, Padmendra Shrestha, Dominic L. Boccelli, Tzahi Y. Cath, Glen T. Daigger, Jennifer Duan, Kevin E. Lansey, Thomas Meixner, Stephanie Pincetl, and Christopher A. Scott

Published Work | 2020 | ACS EST Water

Allele specific expression and gene regulation explain transgressive thermal tolerance in non-native hybrids of the endangered California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense)

Cooper, R. D. and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2020 | Molecular Ecology 30:987–1004

Why and How Climate Science Must Change: The Future Horizons in Climate Science: Turco Lectureship 2019

A. Hall

Presentation | 2020

Increasing importance of temperature as a contributor to the spatial extent of streamflow drought

M.I. Brunner, D.L. Swain, E. Gilleland, and A. Wood

Published Work | 2020 | Environmental Research Letters

Moisture‐ Versus Wind‐Dominated Flavors of Atmospheric Rivers

K.R. Gonzales, D.L. Swain, E.A. Barnes, and N.S. Diffenbaugh

Published Work | 2020 | Geophysical Research Letters

Individual heterozygosity predicts translocation success in threatened desert tortoises

Scott, P. A., L. J. Allison, K. J. Field, R. C. Averill-Murray, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2020 | Science 370:1086-1089

Implications of the timing of residential natural gas use for appliance electrification efforts

Eric Daniel Fournier, Robert Cudd, Felicia Federico and Stephanie Pincetl

Published Work | 2020 | Environmental Research Letters

Opinion: Urban Biodiversity and the Importance of Scale

Uchida, K., Blakey, R. V., Burger, J. R., Cooper, D. S., Niesner, C. A., & Blumstein, D. T.

Published Work | 2020 | Trends in Ecology & Evolution Volume 36(2):123-131

Increased flood exposure due to climate change and population growth in the United States

D.L. Swain, O.E.J. Wing, P.D. Bates, J.M. Done, K. Johnson, and D.R. Cameron.

Published Work | 2020 | Earth's Future

Engaging stakeholders across a socio-environmentally diverse network of water research sites in North and South America

L. Smyth Robyn, Uroosa Fatima, Monique Segarra, Lisa Borre, Mariana I. Zilio, Brian Reid, Stephanie Pincetl, et al

Published Work | 2020 | Environmental Development

Guidance on the usability-privacy tradeoff for utility customer data aggregation

Benjamin L. Ruddell, Dan Cheng, Eric Daniel Fournier, Stephanie Pincetl, Caryn Potter, Richard Rushforth

Published Work | 2020 | Utilities Policy

Inter-model agreement on projected shifts in California hydroclimate characteristics critical to water management

G.G. Persad, D.L. Swain, C. Kouba, and J.P.O. Partida

Published Work | 2020 | Climatic Change

Developing a common approach for classifying building stock energy models

J.Langevin, JL.Reyna, S.Ebrahimigharehbaghi, N.Sandberg, P.Fennell, C.Nägeli, J.Laverge, M.Delghust, É.Mata, M.Van Hove, J.Webster, F.Federico, M.Jakob, C.Camarasa

Published Work | 2020 | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Artificial light at night increases risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma among women in the California Teachers Study cohort

C. Zhong, M. Franklin, J. Wiemels, N. Chung, J. Benbow, S. S. Wang, J. V. Lacey Jr., and T. Longcore

Published Work | 2020 | Cancer Epidemiology

Future warming and intensification of precipitation extremes: A ‘double whammy’ leading to increasing flood risk in California

X. Huang, S. Stevenson, and A. Hall

Published Work | 2020 | Geophysical Research Letters

Future precipitation increase from very high resolution ensemble downscaling of extreme atmospheric river storms in California

X. Huang, D.L. Swain, and A.D. Hall

Published Work | 2020 | Science Advances

Conceptualizing social-ecological drivers of change in urban forest patches

Lea R. Johnson....Stephanie Pincetl, et al

Published Work | 2020 | Urban Ecosystems

Population exposure to pre-emptive de-energization aimed at averting wildfires in Northern California

J.T. Abatzoglou, C.M. Smith, D.L. Swain, T. Ptak, and C.A. Kolden

Published Work | 2020 | Environmental Research Letters

Turtles and tortoises are in trouble

Stanford, C. B. (with 51 total coauthors)

Published Work | 2020 | Current Biology 30:R721-735

Attributing Extreme Events to Climate Change: A New Frontier in a Warming World

D.L. Swain, D. Singh, D. Touma, N.S. Diffenbaugh

Published Work | 2020 | One Earth

Spatial Dependence of Floods Shaped by Spatiotemporal Variations in Meteorological and Land‐Surface Processes

M.I. Brunner, E. Gilleland, A. Wood, D.L. Swain, and M. Clark

Published Work | 2020 | Geophysical Research Letters

Historical museum collections and contemporary population studies implicate roads and introduced predatory bullfrogs in the decline of western pond turtles

Nicholson EG, Manzo S, Devereux Z, Morgan TP, Fisher RN, Brown C, Dagit R, Scott PA, Shaffer HB

Published Work | 2020 | PeerJ 8:e9248

Historical museum collections and contemporary population studies implicate roads and introduced predatory bullfrogs in the decline of western pond turtles

Nicholson, E. G., S. Manzo, Z. Devereux, T. P. Morgan, R. N. Fisher, C. Brown, R. Dagit, P. A. Scott, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2020 | PeerJ 8:e9248:1-23

On energy sufficiency and the need for new policies to combat growing inequities in the residential energy sector

Eric Daniel Fournier, Robert Cudd, Felicia Federico and Stephanie Pincetl

Published Work | 2020 | Elementa: Science of the Anthroprocene

Climate change is increasing the risk of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California

M. Goss, D.L. Swain, J.T. Abatzoglou, A. Sarhadi, C. Kolden, A.P. Williams, and N.S. Diffenbaugh

Published Work | 2020 | Environmental Research Letters

Net solar generation potential from urban rooftops in Los Angeles

Erik Porse, Eric Fournier, Dan Cheng, Claire Hirashiki, Hannah Gustafson, Felicia Federico, Stephanie Pincetl

Published Work | 2020 | Energy Policy

La Kretz Center 2019 Annual Report

Annual Report | 2020

Ridging associated with drought in western and southwestern United States: characteristics, trends and predictability

Gibson, P.B., Waliser, D.E., Guan, B., DeFlorio, M.J., and D.L. Swain

Published Work | 2020 | Journal of Climate

Amphibian responses in the aftermath of extreme climate events

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)

Cities treated as things: imagining post-fossil cities

Stephanie Pincetl

Published Work | 2020 | Territory, Politics, Governance

Weather underground: Subsurface hydrologic processes mediate tree vulnerability to extreme climatic drought

McLaughlin, Blair C., Rachel Blakey, Andrew P. Weitz, Xue Feng, Brittni J. Brown, David D. Ackerly, Todd E. Dawson, and Sally E. Thompson

Published Work | 2020 | Global change biology 26(5):3091-3107

Simulating and Evaluating Atmospheric River-Induced Precipitation Extremes along the U.S. Pacific Coast: Case Studies from 1980-2017

X. Huang, D.L. Swain, D.B. Walton, S. Stephenson, A. Hall

Published Work | 2020 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Regulation of calcification site pH is a polyphyletic but not always governing response to ocean acidification

Liu, Y. W., Sutton, J. N., Ries, J. B., & Eagle, R. A.

Published Work | 2020 | Science advances, 6(5), eaax1314

Energy use for urban water management by utilities and households in Los Angeles

Erik Porse, Kathryn B Mika, Alvar Escriva-Bou, Eric D Fournier, Kelly T Sanders, Edward Spang, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Felicia Federico, Mark Gold and Stephanie Pincetl

Published Work | 2020 | Environmental Energy Communications

Spatial variation in introgression along a toad hybrid zone in France

I. Van Riemsdijk, J.W. Arntzen, G.M. Bucciarelli, E. McCartney-Melstad, M. Rafajlovic, P.A. Scott, E. Toffelmier, H.B. Shaffer, B. Wielstra

Published Work | 2020 | Heredity, Volume 131

Multi-scale habitat selection by Northern Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis) in a fire-prone forest

Blakey, Rachel V., Rodney B. Siegel, Elisabeth B. Webb, Colin P. Dillingham, Matthew Johnson, and Dylan C. Kesler

Published Work | 2020 | Biological Conservation 241:108348

Beyond the landscape: Resistance modelling infers physical and behavioural gene flow barriers to a mobile carnivore across a metropolitan area

Kimmig, Sophia E., Joscha Beninde, Miriam Brandt, Anna Schleimer, Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt, Heribert Hofer, Konstantin Börner et al

Published Work | 2019 | Molecular ecology 29(3):466-484

Adaptational lag to temperature in valley oak (Quercus lobata) can be mitigated by genome-informed assisted gene flow

Luke Browne, Jessica W. Wright, Sorel Fitz-Gibbon,Paul F. Gugger, and Victoria L. Sork

Published Work | 2019 | PNAS December 10, 2019 116 (50) 25179-25185

The impact of high ambient temperatures on delivery timing and gestational lengths

A. Barreca, J. Schaller

Published Work | 2019 | Nature Climate Change

Right-Censored Mixed Poisson Count Models with Detection Times

Hwang, Wen-Han, Rachel V. Blakey, and Jakub Stoklosa

Published Work | 2019 | Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics 25(1):112-132

An emergent constraint on future Arctic sea-ice albedo feedback

CW Thackeray, A Hall

Published Work | 2019 | Nature Climate Change

Survival and competing mortality risks of mountain lions in a major metropolitan area

J. Benson, J. Sikich, S. Riley

Published Work | 2019 | Biological Conservation

Conserving ecological roles of top predators in isolated mountains

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

The Effects of Current Energy Consumption Privacy Rules on the Development of Municipal GHG Emissions Inventories and Forecasts

CCSC

Other | 2019

New ECOSTRESS and MODIS Land Surface Temperature Data Reveal Fine-Scale Heat Vulnerability in Cities: A Case Study for Los Angeles County, California

G. Hulley, S. Shivers, E. Wetherley, & R. Cudd

Published Work | 2019 | Remote Sensing

An empirical pipeline for choosing the optimal clustering threshold in RADseq studies

McCartney-Melstad, E., , M. Gidiş, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2019 | Molecular Ecology Resources 19:1195-1204

Experimental removal of introduced slider turtles offers new insight into competition with a native, threatened turtle

Lambert, M. R., J. M. McKenzie, R. M. Screen, A. G. Clause, B. J. Johnson, G. G. Mount, H. B. Shaffer, and G. B. Pauly

Published Work | 2019 | PeerJ 7:e7444

Decadal predictability of late winter precipitation in western Europe through an ocean–jet stream connection

Isla R. Simpson, Stephen G. Yeager, Karen A. McKinnon & Clara Deser

Published Work | 2019 |

Plant functional traits predict the drought response of native California plant species

Pezner, AK, Pivovaroff AL, Sun W, Sharifi MR, Rundel PW, Seibt U.

Published Work | 2019 | International Journal of Plant Science

Cache Pilfering in a Granivore Guild: Implications for Reintroduction Management

R. Chock, G. Grether, D. Shier

Published Work | 2019 | The Journal of Wildlife Management 83(7):1607–1616

Landscape genomic signatures indicate reduced gene flow and forest-associated adaptive divergence in an endangered neotropical turtle

Gallego-Garcia, N., G. Forero-Medina, M. Vargas-Ramirez, S. Caballero, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2019 | Molecular Ecology 28:2757–2771

The Effect of Ecophysiological Traits on Live Fuel Moisture Content

Alexandria L. Pivovaroff, Nathan Emery, M. Rasoul Sharifi, Marti Witter, Jon E. Keeley and Philip W. Rundel

Published Work | 2019 | Fire 2019, 2(2), 28

Recent warming of landfalling atmospheric rivers along the West Coast of the United States

Gonzales, K.R., Swain, D.L., Barnes, E.A., K. Nardi, and N.S. Diffenbaugh

Published Work | 2019 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Invasive annuals respond more negatively to drought than native species

Justin M. Valliere, Evelin B. Escobedo, Gary M. Bucciarelli, M. Rasoul Sharifi and Philip W. Rundel

Published Work | 2019 | New Phytologist

Is society ready for precipitation whiplash?

D.L. Swain

Published Work | 2019 | Earth's Future

Phylogenomics of the adaptive radiation of Triturus newts supports gradual ecological niche expansion towards an incrementally aquatic lifestyle

Wielstra, B., E. McCartney-Melstad, J. W. Arntzen, R. K. Butlin and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2019 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 133:120-127

Rethinking Energy Data Access: Conquering Barriers to Achieve Local Climate Goals

K. Crandall, J. Crowe

Other | 2019

Effects of Building Size Growth on Residential Energy Efficiency and Conservation in California

Eric D. Fournier, Felicia Federico, Erik Porse, Stephanie Pincetl

Published Work | 2019 | Applied Energy

Assessing effects of nonnative crayfish on mosquito survival

Gary M. Bucciarelli, Daniel Suh, Avery Davis Lamb, Dave Roberts, Debra Sharpton, H. Bradley Shaffer, Robert N. Fisher, Lee B. Kats

Published Work | 2019 | Conservation Biology 33:122-131

Global Conservation Status of Turtles and Tortoises (Order Testudines)

Rhodin, A. G. J. and 55 co-authors

Published Work | 2018 | Chelonian Conservation and Biology 17:135-161

Urban biodiversity arks

Shaffer, H. B.

Published Work | 2018 | Nature Sustainability 1: 725-727

Genomewide SNP markers breathe new life into phylogeography and species delimitation for the problematic short-necked turtles (Chelidae: Emydura) of eastern Australia

Georges, A., B. Gruber, G. B. Pauly, D. White, M. J. Young, A. Kilian, X. Zhang, H. B. Shaffer, and P.J. Unmack

Published Work | 2018 | Molecular Ecology 27:5195-5213

Adapting Urban Water Systems to Manage Scarcity in the 21st Century: The Case of Los Angeles

S. Pincetl, E. Porse, K. Mika, E. Litvak, K. Manago, T. Hogue, T. Gillespie, D.Pataki, M.Gold

Published Work | 2018 | Environmental Management

Follow-up ecological studies for cryptic species discoveries: Decrypting the leopard frogs of the eastern U.S.

Schlesinger, M. D., J. A. Feinberg, N. H. Nazdrowicz, J. D. Kleopfer, J. C. Beane, J. F. Bunnell, J. Burger, E. Corey, K. Gipe, J. W. Jaycox, E. Kiviat, J. Kubel, D. P. Quinn, C. Raithel, P. A. Scott, S. M. Wenner, E. L. White, B. Zarate, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2018 | U.S. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0205805

Inspiring Resident Engagement: Identifying Street Tree Stewardship Participation Strategies in Environmental Justice Communities Using a Community-Based Social Marketing Approach

Edith de Guzman, Rachel Malarich, Lori Large, and Sharon Danoff-Burg

Published Work | 2018

Genomic data recover previously undetectable fragmentation effects in an endangered amphibian

McCartney-Melstad, E., J. K. Vu, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2018 | Molecular Ecology 27:4430-4443

Political & Economic Drivers of Wildland-urban Interface (WUI) Development in California

S. Kennedy, S. Pincetl

Presentation | 2018

On the Connection Between Global Hydrologic Sensitivity and Regional Wet Extremes

C.W. Thackeray, A.M. DeAngelis, A. Hall, D.L. Swain, X. Qu

Published Work | 2018 | Geophysical Research Letters

Climate Change in Los Angeles County: Grid Vulnerability to Extreme Heat

D. Burillo, M. Chester, S. Pincetl, E. Fournier, D.B. Walton, F. Sun, M. Schwartz, K. Reich, and A. Hall

Presentation | 2018

Groundwater Exchange Pools and Urban Water Supply Sustainability: Modeling Directed and Undirected Networks

E. Porse, K. Mika, R. Williams, M. Gold. W. Blomquist, S. Pincetl

Published Work | 2018 | Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Repeated mowing to restore remnant native grasslands invaded by nonnative annual grasses: upsides and downsides above and below ground

Justin M. Valliere, Susan Balch, Carole Bell, Carlos Contreras, Bridget E. Hilbig

Published Work | 2018 | Restoration Ecology

Characterizing the spatial scales of extreme daily precipitation in the United States

D. Touma, A.M. Michalak, D.L. Swain, N.S. Diffenbaugh

Published Work | 2018 | Journal of Climate

Modelled and observed multidecadal variability in the North Atlantic jet stream and its connection to Sea Surface Temperatures

Published Work | 2018 |

Internal Variability and Regional Climate Trends in an Observational Large Ensemble

Karen A. McKinnon and Clara Deser

Published Work | 2018 |

Effective Conservation Science: Data Not Dogma

P. Kareiva, M. Marvier, B. Silliman

Published Work | 2018

Anthropogenic Warming Impacts on Today’s Sierra Nevada Snowpack and Flood Risk

X. Huang, A. Hall, and N. Berg

Published Work | 2018 | Geophysical Research Letters

Population genomic data reveal extreme geographic subdivision and novel conservation actions for the declining foothill yellow-legged frog

McCartney-Melstad, E., M. Gidiş, and H.B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2018 | Heredity 121:112-125

Why Do Models Produce Spread in Snow Albedo Feedback?

C.W. Thackeray, X. Qu, and A. Hall

Published Work | 2018 | Geophysical Research Letters

California’s Changing Energy Landscapes: CCSC Comments on the California Public Utilites Commission’s Draft Green Book on Customer Choice

S. Pincetl, S. Kennedy

Other | 2018

Building Energy Use Goals in California

Stephanie Pincetl, PhD

Other | 2018

The economic value of local water supplies in Los Angeles

E. Porse, K. Mika, E. Litvak, K. Manago, T. Hogue, M. Gold, D. Pataki, S. Pincetl

Published Work | 2018 | Nature Sustainability

Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California

D.L. Swain, B. Langenbrunner, J.D. Neelin, and A. Hall

Published Work | 2018 | Nature Climate Change

Genetic structure and environmental niche modeling confirm two evolutionary and conservation units within the western spadefoot (Spea hammondii)

Neal, K. M., B. B. Johnson, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2018 | Conservation Genetics 19:937-946

Climate Change in the Sierra Nevada: California’s Water Future

K.D. Reich, N. Berg, D.B. Walton, M. Schwartz, F. Sun, X. Huang, and A. Hall

Other | 2018

How Sustainable Is Big Data?

Corbett, C.J.

Published Work | 2018 | Production and Operations Management. Vol. 27, No. 9, September 2018, pp. 1685–1695.

Molecular phylogeny and divergence of the Map Turtles (Emydidae: Graptemys)

Thomson, R.C., P. Q. Spinks, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2018 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 121: 61-70

The effect of newt toxin on an invasive snail

Ota, W.M., Olsen, B., Bucciarelli, G.M. et al.

Published Work | 2018 | Hydrobiologia (2018) 817: 341

Molecular toolkit and guidelines for the management of genetic pollution. Reptile, Amphibian and Fish Conservation Netherlands

Wielstra, B., J.W. Arntzen, R.K. Butlin, J.J.C.W. van Delft, K. Vrieling & H.B. Shaffer

Progress Report | 2018

Occurrence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in anurans of the Mediterranean region of Baja California, México

Peralta-García, A., Adams, A.J., Galina-Tessaro, P., Briggs, C.J., Valdez-Villavicencio, J.H., Hollingsworth, B.D., Shaffer, H.B., and R.N. Fisher

Published Work | 2018 | Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 127:193-200

La Kretz Center 2017 Annual Report

Annual Report | 2018

US Pacific coastal wetland resilience and vulnerability to sea-level rise

K. Thorne, G. MacDonald, G. Guntenspergen, R. Ambrose, K. Buffington, B. Dugger, C. Freeman, C. Janousek, L. Brown, J. Rosencranz, J. Holmquist, J. Smol, K. Hargan, J. Takekawa

Published Work | 2018 | Science Advances

Open data and Stormwater Systems in Los Angeles: Applications for Equitable Green Infrastructure

E. Porse

Published Work | 2018 | The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability

Urban Nature Gardens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County attract “wildlife spectacle” of insect pollinators

E. Hartop, E. Long, C. Bornstein, L. Gonzalez, B. Brown

Published Work | 2018 | Zoosymposia 12: 029–050 (2018)

An amphibian chemical defense phenotype is inducible across life history stages

Bucciarelli, G. M., Shaffer, H. B., Green, D. B., & Kats, L. B.

Published Work | 2017 | Scientific Reports, 7(1), 8185

Noxious newts and their natural enemies: Experimental effects of tetrodotoxin exposure on trematode parasites and aquatic macroinvertebrates

Calhoun, D.M., Bucciarelli, G.M., Kats, L.B, Zimmer, R.K., & Johnson, P.T.J.

Published Work | 2017 | Toxicon. 137: 120-127

Distribution, identification, landscape setting, and conservation of Rana kauffeldi in the northeastern U.S.

Schlesinger, M.D., J.A. Feinberg, N.H. Nazdrowicz, J.D. Kleopfer, J. Beane, J.F. Bunnell, J. Burger, E. Corey, K. Gipe, J.W. Jaycox, E. Kiviat, J. Kubel, D. Quinn, C. Raithel, S. Wenner, E.L. White, B. Zarate, and H.B. Shaffer

Progress Report | 2017

Phylogenomic analyses of 539 highly informative loci dates a fully resolved time tree for the major clades of living turtles (Testudines)

Shaffer, H.B., McCartney-Melstad, E., Near, T., Mount, G. G., and P.Q. Spinks

Published Work | 2017 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 115: 7-15

Desert tortoises in the genomic age: population genomics and the landscape

Shaffer HB, McCartney-Melstad E, Ralph P, Bradburd G, Lundgren E, Vu J, Hagerty B, Sandmeier F, Weitzman C, Tracy CR.

Published Work | 2017 |

Population genetic and field-ecological analyses return similar estimates of dispersal over space and time in an endangered amphibian

Wang, I.J. and H.B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2017 | Evolutionary Applications 10:630-639

Significant and inevitable end-of-21st-century advances in surface runoff timing in California’s Sierra Nevada

M. Schwartz, A. Hall, F. Sun, D.B. Walton, and N. Berg

Published Work | 2017 | Journal of Hydrometeorology

Breaking In: Artists and the Changing Lineup in Surfing

Jon Christensen, KCET Artbound

Other | 2017

Wily Ecologies: Comic Futures for American Environmentalism

Allison Carruth

Published Work | 2017 | American Literary History

Managing Cities as Urban Ecosystems: Fundamentals and a Framework for Los Angeles, California

I. Brown

Published Work | 2017

Remote linkages to anomalous winter atmospheric ridging over the northeastern Pacific

D.L. Swain, D. Singh, D.E. Horton, J.S. Mankin, T.C. Ballard, N.S. Diffenbaugh

Published Work | 2017 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Transferring Water and Climate Resilience Lessons from Australia’s Millennium Drought to Southern California

Weinstein Bloome, Deborah and de Guzman, Edith

Published Work | 2017 | Cities and the Environment (CATE): Vol. 10: Iss. 2, Article 5.

Systems Analysis and Optimization of Local Water Supplies in Los Angeles

E. Porse, K. Mika, E. Litvak, K. Manago, K. Naik, M. Glickfeld, T. Hogue, M. Asce, M. Gold, D. Pataki, S. Pincetl

Other | 2017 | Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Roadside trees trap asthma-inducing pollutants

Barbra Rodriguez

Other | 2017

‘Sea Sick in Paradise’ Tells a Complex Message of Access and Environmentalism

Spencer Robins

Published Work | 2017

‘Sea Sick’ Investigates the Right to be Represented On the Beach

Jon Christensen

Published Work | 2017

Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.)

Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [A. G. J. Rhodin,, J. B. Iverson, R. Bour, U. Fritz, A. Georges, H. B. Shaffer, and P. P. van Dijk]

Published Work | 2017 | Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 292 pp.

Evaluating the Effects of Turf-Replacement Programs in Los Angeles County

Stephanie Pincetl, Thomas W. Gillespie, Diane Pataki, Erik Porse, Shenyue Jia, Erika Kidera, Nick Nobles, Janet Rodriguez, Dong-ha Choi

Progress Report | 2017

A synthesis of unilateral approaches to mitigating emissions leakage under incomplete policies

D. Rajagopal

Published Work | 2017 | Climate Policy

The changing character of 21st century precipitation over the western United States in the variable-resolution CESM

X. Huang and P. Ullrich

Published Work | 2017 | Journal of Climate

Distributions of salt-marsh foraminifera along the coast of SW California, USA: Implications for sea-level reconstructions.

S. Avnaim-Katav, W.R. Gehrels, L.N. Brown, E. Fard, and G.M. MacDonald

Published Work | 2017 | Marine Micropaleontology

Evidence for coseismic subsidence events in a southern California coastal saltmarsh.

R. Leeper, B. Rhodes, M. Kirby, K. Scharer, J. Carlin, E. Hemphill-Haley, S. Avnaim-Katav, G. MacDonald, S. Starratt, and A. Aranda

Published Work | 2017 | Scientific reports

Energy Sprawl Solutions: Balancing Global Development and Conservation

P. Kareiva

Published Work | 2017

CCSC’s Dr. Stephanie Pincetl Presenting the Energy Atlas at the #LGSEC Quarterly Meeting in San Diego, on June 2, 2017

Stephanie Pincetl, Hannah Gustafson

Presentation | 2017

Dr. Felicia Federico gives AEC project presentation to LA County Supervisor, Hilda Solis’, district.

Presentation | 2017

A step towards a general mathematical framework for Consequential Life Cycle Assessment

D. Rajagopal

Published Work | 2017 | Journal of Industrial Ecology

The Private and Social Consequences of Purchasing an Electric Vehicle and Solar Panels: Evidence from California

M. Delmas, M. Kahn, S. Locke

Published Work | 2017 | Research in Economics

Real-time direct detection of silica scaling on RO membranes

J Thompson, A Rahardianto, S Kim, M Bilal, R Breckenridge, Y Cohen

Published Work | 2017 | Journal of Membrane Science

Dinámica de los resultados medioambientales y financieros: El caso de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero

M. Delmas, N. Nairn-Birch, J. Lim

Published Work | 2017 | Economía industrial

Quantifying the influence of global warming on unprecedented extreme climate events

N. S. Diffenbaugh, D. Singh, J. S. Mankin, A. Charland, D. E. Horton, M. Haugen, D .L. Swain, B. Rajaratnam, D. Touma

Published Work | 2017 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The effectiveness of US energy efficiency building labels

Omar Isaac Asensio, Magali A. Delmas

Published Work | 2017 | Nature Energy

Achieving California’s 2030 Renewable Portfolio Standard and Electricity Sector Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Target

A. Fero

Other | 2017

Whither Urban Water Policy in California: Regional Implications

S. Pincetl, E. Porse

Presentation | 2017

The Role of Sediment Dynamics for Inorganic Accretion Patterns in Southern California’s Mediterranean-Climate Salt Marshes.

J.A. Rosencranz, L.N. Brown, J.R. Holmquist, Y. Sanchez, G.M. MacDonald, and R.F. Ambrose

Published Work | 2017 | Estuaries and Coasts

Anthropogenic Warming Impacts on California Snowpack During Drought

N. Berg and A. Hall

Published Work | 2017 | Geophysical Research Letters

Incorporating Snow Albedo Feedback Into Downscaled Temperature and Snow Cover Projections for California’s Sierra Nevada

D.B. Walton, A. Hall, N. Berg, M. Schwartz, F. Sun

Published Work | 2017 | Journal of Climate

La Kretz Center 2016 Annual Report

Annual Report | 2017

Using DNA barcoding to track seafood mislabeling in Los Angeles restaurants

D. Willette, S. Simmonds, S. Cheng, S. Estevez, T. Kane, H. Neutzel, M. Pilaud, R. Rachmawati, P. Barber

Published Work | 2017 | Conservation Biology

High N, dry: Experimental nitrogen deposition exacerbates native shrub loss and nonnative plant invasion during extreme drought

Justin M. Valliere, Irina C. Irvine, Louis Santiago, Edith B. Allen

Published Work | 2017 | Global Change Biology

Self-adaptive cycle-to-cycle control of in-line coagulant dosing in ultrafiltration for pre-treatment of reverse osmosis feed water

LX Gao, H Gu, A Rahardianto, PD Christofides, Y Cohen

Published Work | 2017 | Desalination

An eco-label for the airline industry?

Stefan Baumeister

Published Work | 2017 | Journal of Cleaner Production

Testing the ‘microbubble effect’ using the Cavitron technique to measure xylem water extraction curves

Pivovaroff AL, Burlett R, Lavigne B, Cochard H, Santiago LS, Delzon S.

Published Work | 2016 | AoB PLANTS 8: plw011

2016 LA Energy Atlas Annual Report

Annual Report | 2016

Ultrafiltration with self-generated RO concentrate pulse backwash in a novel integrated seawater desalination UF-RO system

H Gu, A Rahardianto, LX Gao, PD Christofides, Y Cohen

Published Work | 2016 | Journal of Membrane Science

21st-century snowfall and snowpack changes in the Southern California mountains

F. Sun, A. Hall, M. Schwartz, D.B. Walton, and N. Berg

Published Work | 2016 | Journal of Climate

Abrupt reorganization of North Pacific and western North American climate during the last deglaciation

J. Lora, J. Mitchell, A. Tripati

Published Work | 2016 | Geophysical Research Letters

Recent Amplification of the North American Winter Temperature Dipole

D. Singh, D. L. Swain, J. S. Mankin, D. E. Horton, L. N. Thomas, B. Rajaratnam, N. S. Diffenbaugh

Published Work | 2016 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Trends in Atmospheric Patterns Conducive to Seasonal Precipitation and Temperature Extremes in California

D. L. Swain, D.E. Horton, D. Singh, N. S. Diffenbaugh

Published Work | 2016 | Science Advances

Field Experiments in Corporate Sustainability Research Testing Strategies for Behavior Change in Markets and Organizations

M. Delmas, J. Aragon-Correa

Published Work | 2016 | Organization and Environment

Quantifying the Uncertainty in Historical and Future Simulations of Northern Hemisphere Spring Snow Cover

C.W. Thackeray and C.G. Fletcher

Published Work | 2016 | Journal of Climate

Pilot-testing of electrolysis for bromide removal from drinking water

Kimbrough, David Eugene, Lina Boulos, Sirikarn Surawanvijit, Adam Zacheis, Yoram Cohen

Published Work | 2016 | American Water Works Association

Evaluation of chemically-enhanced seeded precipitation of RO concentrate for high recovery desalting of high salinity brackish water

Brian McCool, Anditya Rahardianto, Jose Faria, Yoram Cohen

Published Work | 2016 | Desalination

Critical Review: Regulatory Incentives and Impediments for onsite Graywater Reuse in the United States

Zita Yu, Anditya Rahardianto, J.R. DeShazo, Michael Stenstrom, and Yoram Cohen

Published Work | 2016 |

A review of water treatment membrane nanotechnologies

MaryTheresa Pendergast, Eric M. V. Hoek

Published Work | 2016 | Energy and Environemntal Science

A Tale of Two Spills: Novel Science and Policy Implications of an Emerging New Oil Spill Model

Charles H. Peterson, Sean S. Anderson, Gary N. Cherr, Richard Ambrose, Shelly Anghera, Steven Bay, Michael Blum, Robert Condon, Thomas A. Dean, Monty Graham

Published Work | 2016 | Bioscience

Los Angeles needs more parks. Measure A is the smartest way to pay for them we could have asked for

J. Christensen, S. Ong

Published Work | 2016

Interactions between demography, genetics, and landscape connectivity increase extinction probability for a small population of large carnivores in a major metropolitan area

JF Benson, PJ Mahoney, JA Sikich, LEK Serieys, JP Pollinge , HB Ernest, SPD Riley

Published Work | 2016 | Proc. R. Soc. B 283 : 20160957

Irrigation impacts on California’s climate with the variable-resolution CESM

X. Huang and P.A. Ullrich

Published Work | 2016 |

Effects of climate change on tidal marshes along a latitudinal gradient in California.

K.M. Thorne, G.M. MacDonald, R.F. Ambrose, K.J. Buffington, C.M. Freeman, C.N. Janousek, L.N. Brown, J.R. Holmquist, G.R. Guntenspergen, K.W. Powelson, P.L. Barnard, and J.Y. Takekawa

Published Work | 2016 | US Geological Survey

Fact Sheet: Climate Change in Los Angeles County – Grid Vulnerability to Extreme Heat

Fact Sheet | 2016

Does Organic Wine Taste Better? An Analysis of Experts’ Ratings

M. Delmas, O. Gergaud, J. Lim

Published Work | 2016 | Journal of Wine Economics

Efficient screening for ‘genetic pollution’ in an anthropogenic crested newt hybrid zone

B. Wielstra, T. Burke, R.K. Butlin, O. Schaap, H.B. Shaffer, K. Vrieling, and J. W. Arntzen

Published Work | 2016 | Conservation Genetics Resources 8:553-560

The changing shape of Northern Hemisphere summer temperature distributions

Karen A. McKinnon Andrew Rhines Martin P. Tingley Peter Huybers

Published Work | 2016 |

An Integrated approach for characterization of polyamide reverse osmosis membrane degradation due to exposure to free chlorine

S Surawanvijit, A Rahardianto, Y Cohen

Published Work | 2016 | Journal of Membrane Science

Performance and Economic Evaluation of a Modular Vertical-Flow Wetland for Onsite Residential Bathroom Graywater Treatment

ZLT Yu, A Rahardianto, MK Stenstrom, Y Cohen

Published Work | 2016 | Journal - American Water Works Association

Individual and Population Level Resource Selection Patterns of Mountain Lions Preying on Mule Deer along an Urban-Wildland Gradient

J. Benson, J. Sikich, S. Riley

Published Work | 2016 | PLOS ONE

Grid Vulnerability Due to High Heat

Presentation | 2016

Phylogeny and temporal diversification of the New World pond turtles (Emydidae)

P.Q. Spinks, R.C. Thomson, E. McCartney-Melstad, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2016 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103:85-97

Structural, geographic, and social factors in urban building energy use: Analysis of aggregated account-level consumption data in a megacity

E. Porse, J. Derenski, H.Gustafson, Z.Elizabeth, S.Pincetl

Published Work | 2016 | Energy Policy

Corporate environmental performance and lobbying

M. Delmas, J. Lim, N. Nairn-Birch

Published Work | 2016 | Academy of Management Discoveries

Improving park funding measures to achieve smarter equitable investments

Jon Christensen

Published Work | 2016

Natural Gas Use in L.A. County: Analysis from the L.A. Energy Atlas

Other | 2016

Natural Gas Use in LA County: An Analysis from the UCLA Energy Atlas

Other | 2016

California has new tools to ensure park funds go where promised

Jon Christensen

Published Work | 2016

Fact Sheet: LA County Groundwater Management

Fact Sheet | 2016

Fact Sheet: LA County Water Supply Management

Fact Sheet | 2016

A smarter way to pay for parks

Jon Christensen

Published Work | 2016

Fragmented Flows: Water Supply in Los Angeles County

Pincetl, S., Porse, E. & Cheng, D.

Published Work | 2016 | Environmental Management

Pumping for the masses: evolution of groundwater management in metropolitan Los Angeles

Porse, E., Glickfeld, M., Mertan, K. et al.

Published Work | 2016

Corporate Sustainable Innovation and Employee Behavior

M. Delmas, S. Pekovic

Published Work | 2016 | Journal of Business Ethics

Fact Sheet: The California Center for Sustainable Communities (CCSC)

Fact Sheet | 2016

Individual fluctuations in toxin levels affect breeding site fidelity in a chemically defended amphibian

GM Bucciarelli, DB Green, HB Shaffer, LB Kats

Published Work | 2016 | Proc. R. Soc. B 283 : 20160468

Do ecological niche models accurately identify climatic determinants of species ranges?

C.A. Searcy and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2016 | American Naturalist 187:423-435

Energy Atlas Overview and Presentation

Presentation | 2016

Long-lead predictions of eastern United States hot days from Pacific sea surface temperatures

K. A. McKinnon, A. Rhines, M. P. Tingley and P. Huybers

Published Work | 2016 |

An evaluation of the variable-resolution CESM for modeling California’s climate

X. Huang, A.M. Rhoades, P.A. Ullrich, and C.M. Zarzycki

Published Work | 2016 | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Novel design and operational control of integrated ultrafiltration — Reverse osmosis system with RO concentrate backwash

LX Gao, A Rahardianto, H Gu, PD Christofides, Y Cohen

Published Work | 2016 | Desalination

On mitigating emissions leakage under biofuel policies

D. Rajagopal

Published Work | 2016 | Gcb Bioenergy

Ecological Media Studies and the Matter of Digital Technologies

Allison Carruth

Published Work | 2016 | PMLA

Adapting to climate change: The remarkable decline in the US temperature-mortality relationship over the twentieth century

A. Barreca, K. Clay, O. Deschenes, M. Greenstone, J. Shapiro

Published Work | 2016 | Journal of Political Enconomy

Open Source Foodways: Agricultural Commons and Participatory Art

Allison Carruth

Published Work | 2016 | ASAP Journal

Snow Albedo Feedback: Current Knowledge, Importance, Outstanding Issues and Future Directions

C.W. Thackeray and C.G. Fletcher

Published Work | 2016 | Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

The dynamics of behavior change: evidence from energy conservation

O. Asensio, M. Delmas

Published Work | 2016 | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Exon capture optimization in amphibians with large genomes

E. McCartney-Melstad, G. G. Mount, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2016 | Molecular Ecology Resources 16:1084-1094

Hybridization and endangered species protection in the molecular era

R.K. Wayne and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2016 | Molecular Ecology 25:280-289

Advances in climate models from CMIP3 to CMIP5 do not change predictions of future habitat suitability for California reptiles and amphibians

A. N. Wright, M. W. Schwartz, R. J. Hijmans, and H. Bradley Shaffer

Published Work | 2016 | Climatic Change 134:579-591

Ecological equivalency as a tool for endangered species management

C. A. Searcy, H. B. Rollins and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2016 | Ecological Applications 26:94-103

La Kretz Center 2015 Annual Report

Annual Report | 2015

Cities as Novel Biomes: Recognizing Urban Ecosystem Services as Anthropogenic

Pincetl S.

Published Work | 2015 | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Mid 21st-century precipitation changes over the Los Angeles region

N. Berg, A. Hall, F. Sun, S.C. Capps, D.B. Walton, B, Langenbrunner, and J.D. Neelin

Published Work | 2015 | Journal of Climate

Balanced sediment fluxes in southern California’s Mediterranean-climate zone salt marshes.

J.A. Rosencranz, N.K. Ganju, R.F. Ambrose, S.M. Brosnahan, P.J. Dickhudt, G.R. Guntenspergen, G.M. MacDonald, J.Y. Takekawa, and K.M. Thorne

Published Work | 2015 | Estuaries and Coasts

Evaluation of Non-hydrostatic Simulations of Northeast Pacific Atmospheric Rivers and Comparison to In-situ Observations

D.L. Swain, B. Lebassi-Habtezion, N.S. Diffenbaugh

Published Work | 2015 | Monthly Weather Review

Anthropogenic Warming has Increased Drought Risk in California

N.S. Diffenbaugh, D.L. Swain, D. Touma

Published Work | 2015 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Contribution of Changes in Atmospheric Circulation Patterns to Extreme Temperature Trends

D.E. Horton, N.C. Johnson, D. Singh, D.L. Swain, B. Rajaratnam, N.S. Diffenbaugh

Published Work | 2015 | Nature

A tale of two California Droughts: Lessons Amidst Record Warmth and Dryness in a Region of Complex Physical and Human Geography

D. L. Swain

Published Work | 2015 | Geophysical Research Letters

Water Management in Los Angeles County: a Research Report

S. Pincetl, M. Glickfeld, D. Cheng, M. Cope, K. Naik, E. Porse, P. Cleland, C. Hirashiki, E. Merton, K. Holdsworth, C. Kuklowski

Working Paper | 2015

Fact Sheet: LA County Water Data Infrastructure

Fact Sheet | 2015

Increased interannual precipitation extremes over California under climate change

N. Berg, A. Hall

Published Work | 2015 | Journal of Climate

2015 Environmental Report Card for Los Angeles County

Mark Gold, Felicia Federico, Stephanie Pincetl

Report Card | 2015

Nonprice incentives and energy conservation

Asensio, O. I., Delmas, M. A.

Published Work | 2015 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

US state policies for renewable energy: context and effectiveness

M. Delmas, M. Montes-Sancho

Working Paper | 2015

Science–policy processes for transboundary water governance

Derek Armitage, Rob C. de Loë, Michelle Morris, Tom W. D. Edwards, Andrea K. Gerlak, Roland I. Hall, Dave Huitema, Ray Ison, David Livingstone, Glen MacDonald, Naho Mirumachi, Ryan Plummer, Brent B. Wolfe

Published Work | 2015 | Kungl Vetenskaps-Akademien

Persistent impacts of West Nile virus on North American bird populations

George, T. L.; Harrigan, R. J.; LaManna, J. A.; DeSante, D. F.; Saracco, J. F.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2015 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(46), 14290–14294

Amphibian molecular ecology and how it has informed conservation

E. McCartney-Melstad and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2015 | Molecular Ecology 24:5084-5109

Pulsed marker method for real-time detection of reverse osmosis membrane integrity loss

S Surawanvijit, J Thompson, A Rahardianto, V Frenkel, Y Cohen

Published Work | 2015 | Desalination

Phylogenetic uncertainty and taxonomic re-revisions: an example from the Australian short-necked turtles (Testudines: Chelidae)

P.Q. Spinks, A. Georges and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2015 | Copeia 103:536-540

Averting a North American biodiversity crisis

T. Yap, M. Koo, R. Ambrose, D. Wake, V. Vrendenburg

Published Work | 2015 | Science

Water Distribution System Efficiency: An Essential or Neglected Part of the Water Conservation Strategy for Los Angeles County Water Retailers?

K. S. Naik, M. Glickfeld

Published Work | 2015 |

When a national cap-and-trade policy with a carve-out provision may be preferable to a national CO2 tax

M. Accordino, D. Rajagopal

Published Work | 2015 | The Energy Journal

Multi-criteria comparison of alternative fuel policies: Renewable fuel standards, clean fuel standards and fuel GHG tax

D. Rajagopal, R. Plevin, G. Hochman, and D. Zilberman

Published Work | 2015 | Energy Economics, Vol.49, 359–369

Conservation science: Balancing the needs of people and nature

M. Marvier, P. Kareiva

Published Work | 2015

Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Values in Southern California Estuaries: Interspecies, Latitudinal, and Interannual Variability.

J.R. Holmquist, L. Reynolds, L.N. Brown, J.R. Southon, A.R. Simms, and G.M. MacDonald

Published Work | 2015 | Radiocarbon

An Urban Reintroduction of Western Pond Turtles in Southern California

A. Whitaker, A. Lee, H. Fuong, D. Matthews, J. Cañas, N. Shahbol, R. Lou

Progress Report | 2015

Quantifying the Skill of CMIP5 Models in Simulating Seasonal Albedo and Snow Cover Evolution

C.W. Thackeray, C.G. Fletcher, C. Derksen

Published Work | 2015 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Developmental plasticity affects sexual size dimorphism in a anole lizard

Bonneaud, C.; Marnocha, E.; Herrel, A.; Vanhooydonck, B.; Irschick, D. J.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2015 | Functional Ecology 30, 235–243

Dynamics of Environmental and Financial Performance: The Case of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

M. Delmas, N. Nairn-Birch, J. Lim

Published Work | 2015 | Organization & Environment

Data assimilation in atmospheric chemistry models: current status and future prospects for coupled chemistry meteorology models

M. Bocquet, H. Elbern, H. Eskes

Published Work | 2015 | Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Turtles and tortoises of the world during the rise and global spread of humanity: first checklist and review of extinct Pleistocene and Holocene chelonians. In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Pritchard, P.C.H., van Dijk, P.P., Sau- mure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Iverson, J.B., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group

Turtle Extinctions Working Group [Rhodin, A.G.J., Thomson, S., Georgalis, G., Karl, H.-V., Danilov, I.G., Takahashi, A., De La Fuente, M.S., Bourque, J.R., Delfino M., Bour, R., Iverson, J.B, Shaffer, H. B., and Van Dijk, P.P.].

Published Work | 2015 | Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(8):000e.1–66

Eco-Premium or Eco-Penalty? Eco-labels and Quality in the Organic Wine Market

M. Delmas, N. Lessem

Published Work | 2015 | Business and Society

Resource Efficiency Strategies and Market Conditions

M. Delmas, S. Pekovic

Published Work | 2015 | Long Range Planning

Health impacts and economic losses assessment of the 2013 severe haze event in Beijing area

M. Gao, S. Guttikunda, G. Carmichael, et al.

Published Work | 2015 | Science of the Total Environment

Nanomaterial categorization for assessing risk potential to facilitate regulatory decision-making

H. Godwin, C. Nameth, D. Avery

Published Work | 2015 | American Chemical Society Publications

Comment on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, ELAPIDAE): request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published

Rhodin, A. G. J. (and 69 coauthors)

Published Work | 2015 | Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72:65-78

Desert Tortoises in the Genomic Age: Population Genetics and the Landscape

H. B. Shaffer, E. McCartney-Melstad, P. Ralph, G. Bradburd, E. Lundgren, J. Vu, B. Hagerty, F. Sandmeier, C. Weitzman, R. Tracy

Progress Report | 2015

Loss of sexual dimporhism is associated with loss of lekking behavior in the green manakin (Xenopipo holochora)

Ribeiro, R. D.; McCormack, J. E.; Álvarez, H. G.; Carrasco, L.; Grether, G. F.; Mena-Olmedo, P.; Sedano, R.; Smith, T. B.; Karubian, J.

Published Work | 2015 | Journal of Avian Biology 46(3), 307–314

Convergent evolution of sunbird pollination systems of Impatiens species in tropical Africa and hummingbird systems of the New World

Janeček, S.; Bartoš, M.; Njabo, K. Y.

Published Work | 2015 | Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 115(1), 127–133

How the zebra got its stripes: a problem with too many solutions

Larison, B.; Harrigan, R. J.; Thomassen, H.; Rubenstein, D. I.; Chan-Golston, A. M.; Li, E.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2015 | Royal Society Open Science 2

Conservation genetics and genomics of amphibians and reptiles

H. B. Shaffer, M, Gidiş E. McCartney-Melstad, K. M. Neal, H. M. Oyamaguchi, M. Tellez, and E. M. Toffelmier

Published Work | 2015 | Annual Reviews of Animal Biosciences 3:113-138

A test of fundamental questions in mimicry theory using long-term datasets

EC Long, KF Edwards, AM Shapiro

Published Work | 2015 | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 116(3)

Determinants of size at metamorphosis in an endangered amphibian and their projected effects on population stability

C.A. Searcy, H. Snass, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2015 | Oikos 124:724-731.

Multiple sources of uncertainty affect metrics for ranking conservation risk under climate change

A. N. Wright, R. J. Hijmans, M. W. Schwartz, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2015 | Diversity and Distributions 21:111-122

Enabling energy conservation through effective decision aids

S. Z. Attari and D. Rajagopal

Published Work | 2015 | Journal of Sustainability Education

La Kretz Center 2014 Annual Report

Annual Report | 2014

Avian influenza surveillance in Central and West Africa, 2010-2014

Fuller, T. L.; Ducatez, M. F.; Njabo, K. Y.; Couancy-Hymann, E.; Chasar, T.; Aplogan, G. L.; Lao, S.; Awoume, F.; Tehou, A.; Langeois, Q.; Krauss, S.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2014 | Epidemiology and Infection 143(10), 2205-2212

Safeguarding biodiversity: what is perceived as working according to the conservation community?

Chapman, C. A.; DeLuycker, A.; Reyna-Hurtado, R. A.; Serio-Silva, J. C.; Smith, T. B.; Strier, K. B.; Goldberg, T. L.

Published Work | 2014 | Oryx 50(2), 302-307

Evolution and conservation of Central African biodiversity: priorities for future research and education in the Congo Basin and Gulf of Guinea

Anthony, N. M.; Atteke, C.; Bruford, M. W.; Dallmeier, F.; Freedman, A.; Hardy, O.; Ibrahim, B.; Jeffery, K. J.; Johnson, M.; Lahm, S. A.; Lepengue, N.; Lowenstein, J. H.; Maisels, F.; Mboumba, J.; Mickala, P.; Morgan, K.; Ntie, S.; Smith, T. B.; Sullivan, J. P.; Verheyen, E.; Gonder, M. K.

Published Work | 2014 | Biotropica 47(1), 6–17

Confronting Standards and Nomenclature in Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Case Study of Urban Los Angeles County Geospatial Water Management Data

M. Cope, S. Pincetl

Published Work | 2014 | International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research

Mapping migration in a songbird using high-resolution genetic markers

Ruegg, K. C.; Anderson, E. C.; Paxton, K. L.; Apkenas, V.; Lao, S.; Siegel, R. B.; DeSante, D. F.; Moore, F.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2014 | Molecular Ecology 23(23), 5726–5739

The Extraordinary California Drought of 2013-2014: Character, Context, and the Role of Climate Change

D.L. Swain, M. Tsiang, M. Haugen, D. Singh, A. Charland, B. Rajaratnam, N.S. Diffenbaugh

Published Work | 2014 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

What can we learn from high-frequency appliance-level energy metering? Results from a field experiment

V. Chen, M. Delmas, W. Kaiser, S. Locke

Published Work | 2014 | Energy Title

Prescriptive evolution to conserve and manage biodiversity

Smith, T.B; Kinnison, M.; Strauss, S.; Fuller, T.; Scott, P.

Published Work | 2014 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 45, 1.1–1.22

Coevolutionary patterns and diversification of avian malaria parasites in African Sunbirds (Family Nectariniidae)

Lauron, E. J.; Loiseau, C.; Bowie, R. C.; Spicer, G. S.; Smith, T. B.; Melo, M.; Sehgal, R. N.

Published Work | 2014 | Parasitology 142(5), 635-647

Cryptic diversity in metropolis: Confirmation of a new leopard frog species (Anura: Ranidae) from New York City and surrounding Atlantic Coast regions

J. A. Feinberg, C. E. Newman, G. J. Watkins-Colwell, M. D. Schlesinger, B. Zarate, B. R. Curry, H. B. Shaffer, and J. Burger.

Published Work | 2014 | PLoS ONE 9(10): e108213.

Spatial and temporal patterns of frugivorous hornbill movements in Central Africa and their implications for rain forest conservation

Chasar, A.; Harrigan, R. J.; Holbrook, K. M.; Dietsch, T. V.; Fuller, T. L.; Wikelski, M.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2014 | Biotropica 46(6), 763–770

Applying evolutionary biology to address global challenges

Carroll, S. P.; Jørgensen, P. S.; Kinnison, M. T.; Bergstrom, C. T.; Denison, R. F.; Gluckman, P.; Smith, T. B.; Strauss, S. Y.; Tabashnik, B. E.

Published Work | 2014 | Science 346(6207)

Evaluating collaborative institutions in context: the case of regional water management in Southern California

Sara Hughes, Stephanie Pincetl

Published Work | 2014 | Journal of Environment and Planning, Government and Policy

Real-time, appliance-level electricity use feedback system: How to engage users?

Chen, V.L., Delmas, M.A, Kaiser, W.J.

Published Work | 2014 | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 70. p. 455-462.

What Can We Learn From High Frequency Appliance Level Energy Metering? Results From A Field Experiment

Chen, V., Delmas, M. A., Kaiser, W., & Locke, S.

Published Work | 2014 | Energy Policy

Field of genes

H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2014 | BOOM: The journal of California 4:133-138

Spatial conservation planning framework for assessing conservation opportunities in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil

Giorgi, A. P.; Rovzar, C.; Davis, K. S.; Fuller, T.; Buermann, W.; Saatchi, S.; Smith, T. B.; Silveira, L. F.; Gillespie, S. W.

Published Work | 2014 | Applied Geography 53, 369–376

Quantifying the causes of the global food commodity price crisis

G. Hochman, D. Rajagopal, G. Timilsina and D. Zilberman

Published Work | 2014 | Biomass and Bioenergy

Integrative tracking methods elucidate the evolutionary dynamics of a migratory divide

Alvarado, A. H.; Fuller, T. L.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2014 | Ecology and Evolution 4(17), 3456–3469

The Influence of Canopy Snow Parameterizations on Snow Albedo Feedback in Boreal Forest Regions

C.W. Thackeray, C.G. Fletcher, and C. Derksen

Published Work | 2014 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Identifying areas with a high risk of human infection with the avian influenza (H7N9) virus in East Asia

Fuller, T. L.; Havers, F.; Xui, C.; Fang, L.; Cao, W.; Shu, Y.; Widdowson, M.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2014 | Journal of Infection 69(2), 174–181

A role for migration-linked genes in genomic islands in divergence of a songbird

Ruegg, K. C.; Anderson, E. C.; Boone, J.; Pouls, J.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2014 | Molecular Ecology 23(19), 4757–4769

Diet selection is related to breeding status in two frugivorous hornbill species of Central Africa

Lamperti, A. M.; French, A. R.; Dierenfeld, E. S.; Fogiel, M. K.; Whitney, K. D.; Stauffer, D. J.; Stouffer, K. M.; Hardesty, B. D.; Clark, C. J.; Poulsen, J. R.; Wang, B.; Smith, T. B.; Parker, V. T.

Published Work | 2014 | Journal of Tropical Ecology 30(4), 273–290

New host and lineage diversity of avian haemosporidia in the Northern Andes

Harrigan, R. J.; Sedan, R.; Chasar, A. C.; Chaves, J.; Nguyen, J. T.; Whitaker, A.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2014 | Evolutionary Applications 7(7), 799–811

Sustainable Certification for Future Generations: the Case of Family Business

M. Delmas, O. Gergaud

Published Work | 2014 | Family Business Review

Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status

Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [P. P. van Dijk, J. B. Iverson, A. G. J. Rhodin, H. B. Shaffer, and R. Bour]

Published Work | 2014 | Chelonian Research Monographs 5(7):000.329–479

Consequential life cycle assessment of policy vulnerability to price effects

D. Rajagopal

Published Work | 2014 | Journal of Industrial Ecology

Multilocus phylogeny of the New-World mud turtles (Kinosternidae) supports the traditional classification of the group

P. Q. Spinks, R. C. Thomson, M. Gidis, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2014 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 76:254-260

Field validation supports novel niche modeling strategies in a cryptic endangered amphibian

C. A. Searcy and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2014 | Ecography 37:983-992

A Brief History of Public Art and the L.A. River

Allison Carruth

Published Work | 2014

The advantages of going large: genome-wide SNPs clarify the complex population history and systematics of the threatened western pond turtle

P.Q. Spinks, R. C. Thomson, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2014 | Molecular Ecology 23:2228-2241

Organizational Responses to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box

M. Delmas, M. Toffel

Published Work | 2014 | Strategic Management Journal

Spillover of pH1N1 to swine in Cameroon: an investigation of risk factors

Larison, B.; Njabo, K. Y.; Chasar, A. C.; Fuller, T.; Harrigan, R.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2014 | BMC Veterinary Research 10(55)

Seed dispersal and movement patterns in two species of Ceratogymna hornbills in a West African tropical lowland forest

Holbrook, K. M.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2014 | Oecologia 125, 249–257

A continental risk assessment of West Nile virus under climate change

Harrigan, R. J.; Thomassen, H.; Buermann, W.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2014 | Global Change Biology 2014, 20 (8), 2417–2425

The Digital Cloud

Allison Carruth

Published Work | 2014 | Public Culture

Putative human and avian risk factors for avian influenza virus infections in backyard poultry in Egypt

Sheta, B. M.; Fuller, T.; Larison, B.; Njabo, K. Y.; Ahmed, A. S.; Chasar, A.; Aziz, S. A.; Khidr, A. A.; Elbokl, M. M.; Habbak, L. Z.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2014 | Veterinary Microbiology 168(1), 208–213

Metapopulation dynamics enable persistence of Influenza A, including A/H5N1, in poultry

Hosseini, P. R.; Fuller, T.; Harrigan, R.; Zhao, D.; Arriola, C. S.; Gonzales, A.; Miller, M. J.; Xiao, X.; Smith, T. B.; Holland Jones, J.; Daszak, P.

Published Work | 2014 | PLoS ONE 8(12)

Saving power to conserve your reputation? The effectiveness of private versus public information

M. Delmas, N. Lessem

Published Work | 2014 | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Incorporating model complexity and spatial sampling bias into ecological niche models of climate change risks faced by 90 California vertebrate species of concern

D. L. Warren, A. N. Wright, S. N. Seifert, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2014 | Diversity and Distributions 20:334-343

Delayed life history effects, multilevel selection, and evolutionary trade-offs in the California tiger salamander

C. A. Searcy, L. N. Gray, P. C. Trenham and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2014 | Ecology 95:68-77

California winter precipitation change under global warming in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 ensemble

J.D. Neelin, B. Langenbrunner, J.E. Meyerson, A. Hall, and N. Berg

Published Work | 2013 | Journal of Climate

Production Frontier Methodologies and Efficiency as a Performance Measure in Strategic Management Research

C. Chen, M. Delmas, M. Lieberman

Published Work | 2013 | Strategic Management Journal

Top management and the adoption of energy efficiency practices: Evidence from small and medium-sized manufacturing firms in the US

V. Blassa, C. Corbettb, M. Delmasc, S. Muthulingam

Published Work | 2013 | Energy

El Niño–Southern Oscillation impacts on winter winds over Southern California

N. Berg, A. Hall, S.B. Capps, and M. Hughes

Published Work | 2013 | Climate Dynamics

Real-time, appliance-level electricity use feedback system: How to engage users?

V. Chen, M. Delmas, W. Kaiser

Published Work | 2013 | Energy and Buildings

California Winter Precipitation Change under Global Warming in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 Ensemble

David Neelin, Baird Langenbrunner, Joyce Meyerson, Alex Hall, Neil Berg

Published Work | 2013 | American Meteorological Society

Genomics in ecology, evolution and systematics

H. B. Shaffer and M. D. Purugganan

Published Work | 2013 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 44:1-4

Effects of forest disturbance and habitat loss on avian communities in a Neotropical biodiversity hotspot

Duraes, R.; Carrasco, L.; Smith, T. B.; Karubian, J.

Published Work | 2013 | Biological Conservation 166, 203–211

Information strategies and energy conservation behavior: A meta-analysis of experimental studies from 1975 to 2012

Delmas, M. A., Fischlein, M., & Asensio, O. I.

Published Work | 2013 | Energy Policy, Volume 61, Pages 729-739.

Effects of tail-clipping on survivorship and growth of larval salamanders

R.L. Polich, C. A. Searcy and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2013 | J. Wildlife Management 77:1420-1425

Pathogen-host associations and predicted range shifts of human Monkeypox in response to climate change in Central Africa

Thomassen, H. A.; Fuller, T. L.; Asefi-Najafabady, S.; Shiplacoff, J. A.; Mulembakani, P. M.; Blumberg, S.; Johnston, S. C.; Kisalu, N. K.; Kinkela, T. L.; Fair, J. N.; Wolfe, N. D.; Shongo, R. L.; LeBreton, M.; Meyer, H.; Wright, L. L.; Muyembe, J.; Buermann, W.; Okitolonda, E.; Hensley, L. E.; Lloyd-Smith, J. O.; Smith, T. B.; Rimoin, A. W.

Published Work | 2013 | PLoS ONE 8(7)

Novel statistical methods for integrating genetic and stable isotope data to infer individual-level migratory connectivity

Rundel, C. W.; Wunder, M. B.; Alvarado, A. H.; Ruegg, K. C.; Harrigan, R.; Schuh, A.; Kelly, J. F.; Siegal, R. B.; DeSante, D. F.; Smith, T. B.; Novembre, J.

Published Work | 2013 | Molecular Ecology 22(16), 4163–4176

Choosing the Right Eco-Label for Your Product

M. Delmas, N. Nairn-Birch, M. Balzarova

Published Work | 2013 | Sloan Management Review

Intraspecific morphological and genetic variation of common species predicts ranges of threatened ones

Fuller, T. L.; Thomassen, H. A.; Peralvo, M.; Wolfgang, B.; Mila, B.; Kieswetter, C. M.; Jarrin-V, P.; Cameron Devitt, S. E.; Mason, E.; Schweizer, R. M.; Schluneggar, J.; Chan, J.; Wang, O.; Schneider, C. J.; Pollinger, J. P.; Saatchi, S.; Graham, C. H.; Wayne, R. K.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2013 | Proceedings of the Royal Society Biology 280(1763)

Speciation on oceanic islands: rapid adaptive divergence vs. cryptic speciation in a Guadalupe Island songbird

Aleixandre, P.; Montoha, J. H.; Borja, M.

Published Work | 2013 | PLoS ONE 8(5)

Predicting bird song from space

Smith, T. B.; Harrigan, R. J.; Kirschel, A. N.; Buermann, W.; Saatchi, S.; Blumstein, D. T.; de Kort, S. R.; Slabbekoorn, H.

Published Work | 2013 | Evolutionary Applications 6(6), 865–874

Misleading phylogenetic inferences based on single-exemplar sampling in the turtle genus Pseudemys

P. Q. Spinks, R, C. Thomson, G. B. Pauly, C. E. Newman, G. Mount and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2013 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68:269-281

Triangulating Environmental Performance: What do Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Really Capture?

M. Delmas, D. Etzion, N. Nairn-Birch

Published Work | 2013 | The Academy of Management Perspectives

Predicting hotspots for influenza virus reassortment

Fuller, T. L.; Gilbert, M.; Martin, V.; Cappelle, J.; Hosseini, P.; Njabo, K. Y.; Aziz, S. A.; Xiao, X.; Peter, D.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2013 | Emerging Infectious Diseases 19(4), 581–588

Can Smart Cities Exacerbate Inequality?

Presentation | 2013

The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage

H. B. Shaffer (and 58 coauthors)

Published Work | 2013 | Genome Biology 2013, 14:R28

A preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor for protecting potential Baird’s tapir (Tapirus bairdii Gill, 1865) habitat in Southern Mexico

Mendoza, E.; Fuller, T. L.; Thomassen, H. A.; Buermann, W.; Ramirez-Mejia, D.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2013 | Integrative Zoology 8(1), 35–47

Los Angeles County and Orange County Beach Water Quality: A Re-Evaluation of the 3-Day Rule

M. Alvarado, K. Alvarez, M. Anderson, A. Arnold, S. Lomonico, J. Slater, L. Tsukayama

Progress Report | 2013

Short hydroperiod decreases fitness of nonnative salamanders in California

J. R. Johnson, M. E. Ryan, S. J. Micheletti, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2013 | Animal Conservation 16:556-565

Feeding habits of culicine mosquitos in the Cameroon lowland forests based on stable isotopes and blood meal analyses

Njabo, K. Y.; Smith, T. B.; Yohannes, E.

Published Work | 2013 | Journal of Parasitology and Vector Biology 5, 6–12

Evolution and Conservation

H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2013 | pp. 766-773 in The Princeton Guide to Evolution, J. Losos, Editor In Chief. Princeton University Press

Habitat features determine the basking distribution of introduced red-eared sliders and native western pond turtles

M. R. Lambert, S. N. Nielsen, A. N. Wright, R. C. Thomson, and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2013 | Chelonian Conservation and Biology 12:192-199

Lethal effects of water quality on threatened California salamanders but not on co-occurring hybrid salamanders

M. E. Ryan, J. R. Johnson, B. M. Fitzpatrick, L. J. Lowenstine, A. M. Picco and H. B. Shaffer

Published Work | 2013 | Conservation Biology 27:95-102

Microhabitat use and migration distance of an endangered grassland amphibian

C. A. Searcy, Gabbai-Saldate, E., and H. B Shaffer

Published Work | 2013 | Biological Conservation 158:80-87

Turtles of the world, 2012 update: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status

Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [P. P. van Dijk, J. B. Iverson, H. B. Shaffer, R. Bour and A. G. J. Rhodin]

Published Work | 2012 | In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Pritchard, P.C.H., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Iverson, J.B., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 5, pp. 000.243–000.328

Vision 2021 LA: A Model Environmental Sustainability Agenda for Los Angeles’ Next Mayor and City Council

M. Gold, S. Hecht, M. Herzog, C. Horowitz, K. Mika, S. Pincetl, X. Zhang

Published Work | 2012

Measuring Eco-Inefficiency: A New Frontier Approach

C. Chen, M. Delmas

Published Work | 2012 | Operations Research

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

Laurance, W. F.; Useche, D. C.; Rendeiro, J.; Kalka, M.; Bradshaw, C. J.; Smith, T. B.; et al.

Published Work | 2012 | Nature 489, 290–294

Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

M. Delmas, S. Pekovic

Published Work | 2012 | Journal of Organizational Behavior

Parallel tagged amplicon sequencing reveals major lineages and phylogenetic structure in the North American tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) species complex

E. M. O’Neil, R. Schwartz, C. T. Bullock, J. S. Williams, H. B. Shaffer, X. Aguilar-Miguel, G. Parra-Olea, and D. W. Weisrock

Published Work | 2012 | Molecular Ecology 22:111-129

Taking the “waste” out of “wastewater” for human water security and ecosystem sustainability

B. Grant, J. Saphores, D. Feldman, et al.

Published Work | 2012 | Science

A national study of individuals who handle migratory birds for evidence of avian and swine influenza virus infections

Shafir, S. C.; Fuller, T.; Smith, T. B.; Rimoin, A. W.

Published Work | 2012 | Journal of Clinical Virology 54(4), 364–367

A trans-Amazonian screening of mtDNA reveals deep intraspecific divergence in forest birds and suggests a vast underestimation of species diversity

Milá, B.; Tavares, E. S.; Saldana, A. M.; Karubian, J.; Smith, T. B.; Baker, A. J.

Published Work | 2012 | PLoS ONE 7(7)

A dynamic history of climate change and human impact on the environment from Keālia Pond, Maui, Hawaiian Islands.

S. Pau, G.M. MacDonald, and T.W. Gillespie

Published Work | 2012 | Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Pandemic A/H1N1/2009 influenza virus in Swine, Cameroon, 2010

Njabo, K. Y.; Fuller, T. L.; Chasar, A.; Pollinger, J. P.; Cattoli, G.; Terregino, C.; Monne, I.; Reynes, J.; Njouom, R.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2012 | Veterinary Microbiology 156, 189–192

Linking hydrogen (δ^2 H) isotopes in feathers and precipitation: Sources of variance and consequences for assignments to isoscapes

Hobson, K. A.; Van Wilgenburg, S. L.; Wassenaar, L. I.; Larson, K.

Published Work | 2012 | PLoS ONE 7(4)

Feather growth rate and mass in nearctic passerines with variable migratory behavior and molt pattern

Hera, I. D.; DeSante, D. F.; Milá, B.

Published Work | 2012 | The Auk 129(2), 222–230

The ecology of emerging infectious diseases in migratory birds: an assessment of the role of climate change and priorities for future research

Fuller, T.; Bensch, S.; Muller, I.; Novembre, J.; Perez-Tris, J.; Ricklefs, R. E.; Smith, T. B.; Waldenstrom, J.

Published Work | 2012 | EcoHealth 9, 80–88

Mating behavior drives seed dispersal by the Long-wattled Umbrellabird Cephalopterus penduliger

Karubian, J.; Duraes, R.; Storey, J. L.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2012 | Biotropica 44(5), 689–698

Origins and population history of a recent colonizer, the yellow warbler in Galapagos and Cocos Islands.

Chaves, J. A.; Parker, P. G.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2012 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25(3), 509–521

La Kretz Center 2011 Annual Report

Annual Report | 2011

Host and habitat specialization of avian malaria in Africa

Loiseau, C.; Harrigan, R. J.; Robert, A.; Bowie, R. C.; Thomassen, H. A.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2011 | Molecular Ecology 21(2), 431–441

Genetic evidence for recent range fragmentation and severely restricted dispersal in the critically endangered Sierra Madre Sparrow, Xenospiza baileyi

Oliveras de Ita, A.; Oyama, K.; Smith, T. B.; Wayne, R. K.; Milá, B.

Published Work | 2011 | Conservation Genetics 13, 283–291

UCLA: A Living Laboratory for Sustainability

Nurit Katz, J. Cully Nordby

Report Card | 2011

Biodiesel Fuel

Report Card | 2011

The Drivers of Greenwashing

M. Delmas, V. Burbano

Published Work | 2011 | California Management Review

Diversification in Adelomyia hummingbirds follows Andean uplift

Chaves, J. A.; Weir, J. T.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2011 | Molecular Ecology 20(18), 4564–4576

Testing alternative hypotheses for evolutionary diversification in an African songbird: Rainforest refugia versus ecological gradients

Kirschel, A. N.; Slabbekoorn, H.; Blumstein, D. T.; Cohen, R. E.; de Kort, S. R.; Buermann, W.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2011 | Evolution 65(11), 3162–3174

Rapid influenza A detection and quantitation in birds using a one-step real-time reverse transcriptase PCR and high resolution melting

Curd, E.; Pollinger, J.; Toffelmier, E.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2011 | Journal of Virological Methods 176, 125–130

Climate change, humidity, and mortality in the United States

A. Barreca

Published Work | 2011 | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

New avian Haemoproteus species (Haemosporida: Haemoproteidae) from African birds, with a critique of the use of host taxonomic information in hemoproteid classification

Iezhova, T. A.; Dodge, M.; Sehgal, R. N.; Smith, T. B.; Valkiūnas, G.

Published Work | 2011 | Journal of Parasitology 97(4), 682–694

Evolutionary patterns of diversification in the Andean hummingbird genus Adelomyia

Freedman, A. H.; Buermann, W.; Mitchard, E. T.; DeFries, R. S.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2011 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 60(2), 207–218

Patterns of divergence in the olive sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea (Aves: Nectariniidae) across the African rainforest–savanna ecotone

Smith, T. B.; Thomassen, H. A.; Freedman, A. H.; Sehgal, R. N.; Buermann, W.; Saatchi, S.; Pollinger, J.; Milá, B.; Pires, D.; Valkiūnas, G.; Wayne, R. K.

Published Work | 2011 | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 103(4), 821–835

Health and the Built Environment

R. Jackson

Report Card | 2011

Ten polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Atlantic silverside, Menidia menidia

M. Sbrocco, P. Barber

Published Work | 2011 | Conservation Genetics Resources

Natural Capital: Theory & Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services

G. Daily, P. Kareiva, S. Polasky, T. Ricketts, H. Tallis

Published Work | 2011

Genetic variation and seasonal migratory connectivity in Wilson’s warblers (Wilsonia pusilla): species-level differences in nuclear DNA between western and eastern populations

Irwin, D. E.; Irwin, J. H.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2011 | Molecular Ecology 20(15), 3102–3115

A cryptic contact zone between divergent mitochondrial DNA lineages in southwestern North America supports past introgressive hybridization in the yellow-rumped warbler complex (Aves: Dendroica coronata)

Milá, B.; Toews, D. P.; Smith, T. B.; Wayne, R. K.

Published Work | 2011 | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 103(3), 696–706

Forecasting urban PM10 and PM2. 5 pollution episodes in very stable nocturnal conditions and complex terrain using WRF–Chem CO tracer model

P. Saide, G. Carmichael, S. Spak

Published Work | 2011 | Atmospheric Environment

Under the Tip of the Iceberg: Absorptive Capacity, Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage

M. Delmas, V. Hoffmann, M. Kuss

Published Work | 2011 | Business and Society

Mapping evolutionary process: a multi-taxa approach to conservation prioritization

Thomassen, H. A.; Fuller, T.; Buermann, W.; Milá, B.; Kieswetter, C.; Jarrín-V, P.; Cameron, S. E.; Mason, E.; Schweizer, R.; Schlunegger, J.; Chan, J.; Wang, O.; Peralvo, M.; Schneider, C. J.; Graham, C. H.; Pollinger, J. P.; Saatchi, S.; Wayne, R. K.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2011 | Evolutionary Applications 4(2), 397–413

Human-induced morphological shifts in an island lizard.

Marnocha, E.; Pollinger, J.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2011 | Evolutionary Applications 4(2), 388–396

Evolutionary principles and their practical application

Hendry, A. P.; Kinnison, M. T.; Heino, M.; Day, T.; Smith, T. B.; Fitt, G.; Bergstrom, C.; Oakeshott, J.; Jørgensen, P. S.; Zalucki, M.; Southerton, S.; Sih, A.; Denison, R. F.; Carroll, S. P.

Published Work | 2011 | Evolutionary Application 4(2), 159–183

An Institutional Perspective on the Diffusion of International Management System Standards: The Case of the Environmental Management Standard ISO 14001

M. Delmas, M. Montes-Sanch

Published Work | 2011 | Business Ethics Quarterly

U.S. state policies for renewable energy: Context and effectiveness

M. Delmas, M. Montes-Sancho

Published Work | 2011 | Energy Policy

Nonspecific patterns of vector, host and avian malaria parasite associations in a Central African rainforest

Njabo, K. Y.; Cornel, A. J.; Bonneaud, C.; Toffelmier, E.; Sehgal, R. N.; Valkiunas, G.; Russell, A. F.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2010 | Molecular Ecology 20(5), 1049–1061

Economic conditions predict prevalence of West Nile virus

Harrigan, R. J.; Thomassen, H. A.; Buermann, W.; Cummings, R. F.; Kahn, M. E.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2010 | PLoS ONE 5(11)

Using remote sensing to map the risk of human monkeypox virus in the Congo Basin

Fuller, T. H.; Thomassen, H. A.; Mulembakani, P. M.; Johnston, S. S.; Lloyd-Smith, J. O.; Kisalu, N. K.; Lutete, T. K.; Blumberg, S.; Fair, J. N.; Wolfe, N. D.; Shongo, R. L.; Formenty, P.; Meyer, H.; Wright, L. L.; Muhembe, J.; Buermann, W.; Saatchi, S. S.; Okitolonda, E.; Hensley, L.; Smith, T. B.; Rimoin, A. W.

Published Work | 2010 | EcoHealth 8(1), 14-25

A study of park use and park facilities in two contrasting geographical areas in Los Angeles

Published Work | 2010

Comparative avian biodiversity of five mountains in northern Cameroon and Bioko

Larison, B.; Smith, T. B.; Fotso, R.; McNiven, D.

Published Work | 2010 | Ostrich 71, 269–276

California’s New Rigs-to-Reef Law

Sean B. Hecht

Report Card | 2010

Projected changes in elevational distribution and flight performance of montane neotropical hummingbirds in response to climate change

Buermann, W.; Chaves, J. A.; Dudley, R.; Mcguire, J. A.; Smith, T. B.; Altshuler, D. L.

Published Work | 2010 | Global Change Biology 17(4), 1671–1680

The long-term economic impact of in utero and postnatal exposure to malaria

A. Barreca

Published Work | 2010 | Journal of Human Resources

Mandatory Information Disclosure Policy: Evidence from the electric utility industry

M. Delmas, J. Shimshack, M. Montes

Working Paper | 2010

Human impacts flatten rainforest-savanna gradient and reduce adaptive diversity in a rainforest bird

Freedman, A. H.; Buermann, W.; Mitchard, E. T.; DeFries, R. S.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2010 | PLoS ONE 5(9)

Spatially explicit predictions of blood parasites in a widely distributed African rainforest bird

Sehgal, R. N.; Buermann, W.; Harrigan, R. J.; Bonneaud, C.; Loiseau, C.; Chasar, A.; Sepil, I.; Valkiunas, G.; Iezhova, T.; Saatchi, S.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2010 | Procedings of the Royal Society B 278, 1025–1033

Spatial modelling and landscape-level approaches for visualizing intra-specific variation

Thomassen, H. A.; Cheviron, Z. A.; Freedman, A. H.; Harrigan, R. J.; Wayne, R. K.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2010 | Molecular Ecology 19(17), 3532–3548

Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility: An Efficiency Perspective

C. Chen, M. Delmas

Published Work | 2010 | Production and Operations Management

Socially Responsible Investing: The Need for Transparency

M. Delmas, V. Blass

Published Work | 2010 | Business Strategy & the Environment. 19: 245-260

Greening the Supply Chain: When are customer pressures effective?

M. Delmas, I. Montiel

Published Work | 2010 | Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. 18(1): 171-201.

Genomic signals of diversification along ecological gradients in a tropical lizard

Freedman, A. H.; Thomassen, H. A.; Buermann, W.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2010 | Molecular Ecology 19(17), 3773–3788

High gene flow due to pelagic larval dispersal among South Pacific archipelagos in two amphidromous gastropods (Neritomorpha: Neritidae)

E. Crandall, J. Taffel, P. Barber

Published Work | 2010 | Heredity

Destination-based seed dispersal homogenizes genetic structure of a tropical palm

Karubian, J.; Sork, V.; Roorda, T.; Duraes, R.; Smith, T.B.

Published Work | 2010 | Molecular Ecology 19(8), 1745–1753

The recovery of coral genetic diversity in the Sunda Strait following the 1883 eruption of Krakatau

Starger, C. J.; Barber, P. H.; Barker, A. C.; Ambariyanto, A.

Published Work | 2010 | Coral Reefs 29(3), 547–565

Mapping the risk of avian influenza in wild birds in the U.S.

Fuller, T.; Saatchi, S.; Curd, E. E.; Toffelmier, E.; Thomassen, H.; Buermann, W.; DeSante, D. F.; Nott, M. P.; Saracco, J. F.; Ralph, C. J.; Alexander, J. D.; Pollinger, J. P.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2010 | BMC Infectious Diseases 10(187)

Haemoproteus cyanomitrae sp. nov. (Haemosporida: Haemoproteidae) from a Widespread African Songbird, the Olive Sunbird, Cyanomitra olivacea

Iezhova, T. A.; Valkiūnas, G.; Loiseau, C.; Smith, T. B.; Sehgal, R. N.

Published Work | 2010 | Journal of Parasitology 96(1), 136–143

Spatial variation of haemosporidian parasite infection in African rainforest bird species

Loiseau, C.; Iezhova, T. A.; Balkiunas, G.; Chasar, A.; Hutchinson, A.; Buermann, W.; Smith, T. B.; Sehgal, R. N.

Published Work | 2010 | Journal of Parasitology 96, 21–29

Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance: the Trade-Offs of Sustainability Ratings

M. Delmas, V. Blass

Published Work | 2010 | Business Strategy and the Environment

Modeling environmentally associated morphological and genetic variation in a rainforest bird, and its application to conservation prioritization

Thomassen, H. A.; Buermann, W.; Mila, B.; Graham, C. H.; Cameron, S. E.; Schneider, C. J.; Pollinger, J. P.; Saatchi, S.; Wayne, R. K.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2010 | Evolutionary Applications 3(1), 1–16

Coupling of CO2 and ice sheet stability over major climate transitions of the last 20 million years

A. Tripati, C. Roberts, R. Eagle

Published Work | 2009 | Science

Breeding and nest site characteristics of the Black-casqued Ceratogymna atrata and White-thighed Ceratogymna cylindricus Hornbill in south-central Cameroon

Stauffer, D.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2009 | Ostrich 2004, 75(3), 79–88

Characterization of novel microsatellite loci for Myzomela cardinalis and M. rubrata honeyeaters, and cross-amplification in other species

Thomassen, H. A.; Jones, K. C.; Pollinger, J. P.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2009 | Conservation Genetic Resources 2, 205–208

Development of beak polymorphism in the African seedcracker, Pyrenestes ostrinus

Clabaut, C.; Herrel, A.; Sanger, T.; Smith, T. B.; Calsbeek, A.

Published Work | 2009 | Evolution and Development 11(6), 636–646

Voluntary Agreements to Improve Environmental Quality: Symbolic and Substantive Cooperation

M. Delmas, M. Montes-Sancho

Published Work | 2009

High gene flow due to pelagic larval dispersal among South Pacific archipelagos in two amphidromous gastropods (Neritomorpha: Neritidae)

Crandall, E. D.; Taffel, J.; Barber, P. H.

Published Work | 2009 | Heredity 104(6), 563–572

Graywater – A Potential Source of Water

Yoran Cohen

Report Card | 2009

Sequential cladogenesis of the reef fish Pomacentrus moluccesnsis (Pomacentridae) supports the peripheral origin of marine biodiversity in the Indo-Australian archipelago

Drew, J. A.; Barber, P. H.

Published Work | 2009 | Molecular Phyologenetics and Evolution 53(1), 335–339

Prevalence and diversity patterns of avian blood parasites in degraded African rainforest habitats

Chasar, A.; Loiseau, C.; Valkiūnas, G.; Iezhova, T.; Smith, T. B.; Sehgal, R. N.

Published Work | 2009 | Molecular Ecology 18(19), 4121–4133

The challenge of understanding the Coral Triangle biodiversity hotspot

Barber, P. H.

Published Work | 2009 | Biogeography 36(10), 1845–1846

Coquillettidia (Culicidae, Diptera) mosquitoes as new natural vectors of avian malaria in Africa

Njabo, K. Y.; Cornel, A. J.; Sehgal, R. N.; Loiseau, C.; Buermann, W.; Harrigan, R. J.; Pollinger, J.; Valkiūnas, G.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2009 | Malaria Journal 8

Birdsong tuned to the environment: green hylia song varies with elevation, tree cover, and noise

Kirschel, A. N.; Blumstein, D. T.; Cohen, R. E.; Buermann, W.; Smith, T. B.; Slabbekoorn, H.

Published Work | 2009 | Behavioral Ecology 29, 1089–1095

The prevalence of avian Plasmodium is higher in undisturbed tropical forests of Cameroon

Bonneaud, C.; Sepil, I.; Milá, B.; Buermann, W.; Pollinger, J.; Sehgal, R. N.; Valkiūnas, G.; Iezhova, T. A.; Saatchi, S.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2009 | Journal of Tropical Ecology 25, 439–447

Divergence with gene flow and fine-scale phylogeographical structure in the wedge-billed woodcreeper, Glyphorynchus spirurus, a Neotropical rainforest bird

Milá, B.; Wayne, R. K.; Fitze, P.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2009 | Molecular Ecology 18(14), 2979–2995

Character displacement of song and morphology in African tinkerbirds

Kirschel, A. N.; Blumstein, D. T.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2009 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, 8256–8261

Equating forest conservation with hornbill conservation

Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2009 | Conservation Biology 23(3), 782–783

Test of an adaptive hypothesis for egg speckling along an elevational gradient in a population of Mexican jays (Aphelocoma ultramarina)

Berg, E. C.; McCormack, J. E.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2009 | Journal of Avian Biology 40(4), 448–452

Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales

E. Nelson, G. Mendoza, J. Regetz

Published Work | 2009 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver

G. Daily, S. Polasky, J. Goldstein, et al.

Published Work | 2009 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Parallel shifts in ecology and natural selection in an island lizard

Calsbeek, R.; Buermann, W.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2009 | BMC Evolutionary Biology 9(3)

Adaptive diversification and anthropogenic impacts on African rainforest biodiversity

Freedman, A.

Thesis | 2009

Effects of deforestation on the prevalence and diversity of blood parasites in the two African rainforest birds

Chasar, A.

Thesis | 2009

New malaria parasites of the subgenus Novyella in African rainforest birds, with remarks on their high prevalence, classification and diagnostics

Valkiūnas, G.; Iezhova, T. A.; Loiseau, C.; Chasar, A.; Smith, T. B.; Sehgal, R. N.

Published Work | 2008 | Parasitology Research 104, 1061–1077

A threat to coral reefs multiplied? Four species of crown of thorns starfish

Vogler, C.; Benzie, J.; Lessios, H.; Barber, P. H.; Worheide, G.

Published Work | 2008 | Biology Letters 4(6), 696–699

Comparative phylogeography of two seastars and their ectosymbionts within the Indo-Malay-Philippines Archipelago

Crandall, E. D.; Jones, M. E.; Munoz, M. M.; Akinrobe, B.; Erdmann, M. V.; Barber, P. H.

Published Work | 2008 | Molecular Ecology 17(24), 5276–5290

Air Pollution Impacts on Infants and Children

Beate Ritz, Michelle Wilhelm

Report Card | 2008

Eco-Labeling Strategies: The Eco-Premium Puzzle in the Wine Industry

M. Delmas, L. Grant

Published Work | 2008 | Business & Society

Characterizing the Range of Childrens Air Pollutant Exposure During School

Lisa D. Sabin, Eduardo Behrentz, Arthur M. Winer, Seong Jeong, Dennis R. Fitz, David V. Pankratz, Steven D. Colome And Scott A. Fruin

Published Work | 2008

Land and Residential Property Markets in a Booming Economy: New Evidence from Beijing

Mattew E. Kahn, Siqi Q. Zheng

Published Work | 2008

Proximity of Licensed Child Care Facilities

Douglas Houston, Paul Ong, Jun Wu, Arthur Winer

Published Work | 2008

Down to the Meter: Localized Vehicle Pollution Matters

Douglas Houston, Jun Wu, Paul Ong and Arthur Winer

Published Work | 2008

Is There a Quiet Revolution in Womens Travel? Revisiting the Gender Gap in Commuting

Randall Crane

Published Work | 2008

Sense of place and sense of planet: The environmental imagination of the global

U. Heise

Published Work | 2008

Niche expansion leads to small-scale adaptive differentiation along an elevation gradient in a medium-sized passerine bird

McCormack, J. E.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2008 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275(1647), 2155–2164

Modeling the effects of anthropogenic habitat change on savanna snake invasions into African rainforest

Freedman, A. H.; Buermann, W.; LeBreton, M.; Chirio, L.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2008 | Conservation Biology 23(1), 81-92

Phylogeography, morphological variation and taxonomy of the toxic dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus (Dinophyceae)

Richlen, M.; Morton, S.; Barber, P. H.

Published Work | 2008 | Harmful Algae 7(5), 614–629

New species of haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporidia) from African rainforest birds, with remarks on their classification

Valkiūnas, G.; Iezhova, T. A.; Loiseau, C.; Chasar, A.; Smith, T. B.; Sehgal, R. N.

Published Work | 2008 | Parasitology Research 103, 1213–1228

Phylogeography and limited genetic connectivity in the endangered giant boring clam, Tridacna crocea, across the Coral Triangle

DeBoer, T.; Subia, M.; Kovitvonga, K.; Ambariyanto, A.; Erdmann, M.; Barber, P. H.

Published Work | 2008 | Conservation Biology 22(5), 1255–1266.

Limited variation and genetic structure in softshell clams (Mya arenaria) across their native and introduced range

Strasser, C. A.; Barber, P. H.

Published Work | 2008 | Conservation Genetics 10, 803–814

Structural Disparities of Urban Traffic in Southern CaliforniaImplications for Vehicle-related Air Pollution Exposure in Minority and High-poverty Neighborhoods

Douglas Houston, Jun Wu, Paul Ong, Arthur Winer

Published Work | 2008

Cirhilabrus beauperryi, a new wrasse (Pisces: Labridae) from Melanesia

Allen, G. R.; Drew, J.; Barber, P. H.

Published Work | 2008 | nternational Journal of Ichthyology 14(3), 129–140

Cirrhilabrus beauperryi, a new wrasse (Pisces: Labridae) from Melanesia”, International Journal of Ichthyology

G. Allen, J. Drew, P. Barber

Published Work | 2008 | International Journal of Ichthyology

Air Quality in Southern California – Time for a Paradigm Shift

Arthur Winer

Published Work | 2008

Urban Air Pollution Progress Despite Sprawl: The Greening of the Vehicle Fleet

Matthew E. Kahn & Joel Schwartz

Published Work | 2008

Integrating paleoecology and genetics of bird populations in two sky island archipelagos

McCormack, J. E.; Bowen, B. S.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2008 | BMC Biology 6(28)

Ecomorphology of migratory and sedentary populations of the yellow-rumped warbler (Dendroica coronata)

Milá, B.; Wayne, R. K.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2008 | Condor 110(2), 335–344

The Diffusion of Voluntary International Management Standards: Responsible Care, ISO 9000, and ISO 14001 in the Chemical Industry

M. Delmas, I. Montiel

Published Work | 2008 | The Policy Studies Journal

Measuring and modeling biodiversity from space

Gillespie, T. W.; Foody, G. M.; Rocchini, D.; Giorgi, A. P.; Saatchi, S.

Published Work | 2008 | Progress in Physical Geography 32, 203–221

Identification and Conservation of Endemic Fishes of Tropical Pacific Archipelagoes

Drew, J. A.; Kaufmann, L.; Allen, G.; Barber, P. H.

Published Work | 2008 | Conservation Biology 22, 965–975

Home range and habitat preferences of the banded ground-cuckoo (Neomorphus radiolosus)

Karubian, J.; Carrasco, L.

Published Work | 2008 | Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120(1), 205–209

Postcopulatory fertilization bias as a form of cryptic sexual selection

Calsbeek, R.; Bonneaud, C.

Published Work | 2008 | Evolution 62(5), 1137–1148

Contrasting demographic history and phylogeographical patterns in two Indo-Pacific gastropods

Crandall, E. D.; Frey, M.; Grossberg, R. K.; Barber, P. H.

Published Work | 2008 | Molecular Ecology 17(2), 611–626

The effects of delayed plumage maturation on aggression and survival in male red-backed fairy-wrens

Karubian, J.; Sillett, T. S.; Webster, M. S.

Published Work | 2008 | Behavioral Ecology 19(3), 508–516

Health and Safety Practices in the Nanomaterials Workplace: Results from an International Survey

J. Conti, K. Killpack, G. Gerritzen, L. Huang, M. Mircheva, M. Delmas, B. Harthorn, R. Appelbaum, P. Holden

Published Work | 2008 | Environmental Science and Technology

Changes in breeding status are associated with rapid bill darkening in male red-backed fairy-wrens Malurus melanocephalus

Karubian, J.

Published Work | 2008 | Journal of Avian Biology 39, 81–86

The importance of conserving evolutionary processes

Smith, T. B.; Grether, G.

Published Work | 2008

Advances in sexual selection theory: insights from tropical avifauna.

Tori, W. P.; Duraes, R.; Ryder, T. B.; Anciaes, M.; Karubian, J.; Macedo, R. H.; Uy, J. A.; Parker, P. G.; Smith, T. B.; Stein, A. C.; Webster, M. S.; Blake, J. G.; Loiselle, B. A.

Published Work | 2008 | Neotropical Ornithology 19, 151–163

Impacts of hunting on seed dispersal in a Central African tropical forest

Wang, B. C.

Thesis | 2008

Temperate marine reserves enhance targeted but not untargeted fishes in multiple no-take MPA

I. Tetreault, R. Ambrose

Published Work | 2007 | Ecological Applications

Preface to the special issue: Evolutionary change in human-altered environments

Smith, T. B.; Bernatchez, L.

Published Work | 2007 | Molecular Ecology 17(1), 1–8

Regulatory commitment to negotiated agreements: Evidence from the United states, Germany, the Netherlands, and France

M. Delmas, A. Terlaak

Published Work | 2007 | Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis

Recent postglacial range expansion drives the rapid diversification of a songbird lineage in the genus Junco

Milá, B.; McCormack, J. E.; Castenada, G.; Wayne, R. K.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2007 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274(1626), 2653–2660

A Report on the Results and Recommendations of the International Summit on Evolutionary Change in Human-altered Environments

Glickfeld, M.; Smith, T.B.; Bernatchez, L.; Nichols, M.

Progress Report | 2007

Evolutionary Change in Human-altered Environments Summit-Report 2

M. Glickfield, T.B. Smith, L Bernatchez, M. Nichols

Other | 2007

Adoption of Voluntary Environmental Standards: The Role of Signaling and Intrinsic Benefits in the Diffusion of the LEED Green Building Standards

Charles J. Corbett and Suresh Muthulingam

Working Paper | 2007

Sustainability in the Motion Picture Industry

C. Corbett, R. Turco

Working Paper | 2007

Evolutionary consequences of human disturbance in a rainforest bird species from Central Africa

Smith, T. B.; Mila, B.; Grether, G. F.; Slabbekoorn, H.; Sepil, I.; Buermann, W.; Saatchi, S.; Pollinger, J. P.

Published Work | 2007 | Molecular Ecology 17(1), 58–71

A remotely operated motorized burrow probe to investigate carnivore neonates

P. White, L. Frank, P. Barber

Published Work | 2007 | The Journal of Wildlife Management

Domesticated nature: shaping landscapes and ecosystems for human welfare

P. Kareiva, S. Watts, R. McDonald, T. Boucher

Published Work | 2007 | Science

The role of geography and ecology in shaping the phylogeography of the speckled hummingbird (Adelomyia melanogenys) in Ecuador

Chaves, J. A.; Pollinger, J. P.; Smith, T. B.; LeBuhn, G.

Published Work | 2007 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43(3), 795–807

Nesting biology of the banded ground-cuckoo (Neomorphus radiolosus)

Karubian, J.; Carrasco, L.; Cabrera, D.; Cook, A.; Olivo, J.

Published Work | 2007 | Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119(2), 222–228

Genetic identity determines risk of post-settlement mortality of a marine fish

Vigliola, L.; Doherty, P. J.; Meekan, M. G.; Drown, D. M.; Jones, M. E.; Barber, P. H.

Published Work | 2007 | Ecology 88(5), 1263–1277

Genetic identity determines risk of post-settlement mortality of a marine fish

L. Vigliola, P. Doherty, M. Meekan

Published Work | 2007 | Ecology

Hunting of mammals reduced seed removal and dispersal of the Afrotropical tree, Antrocaryon klaineanum (Anacardiaceae).

Wang, B. C.; Sork, V. L.; Leong, M. T.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2007 | Biotropica 39(3), 340–347

Probing the adaptive landscape using experimental islands: density dependent natural selection on lizard body size

Calsbeek, R.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2007 | Evolution 61(5), 1052–1061

Intraspecific variation in Anolis sagrei mirrors the adaptive radiation of Greater Antillean anoles

Calsbeek, R.; Smith, T. B.; Knouft, J. H.; Bardeleben, C.

Published Work | 2007 | Biological Journal of the Linnean Socity 90(2), 189–199

Deregulation and Environmental Differentiation in the Electric Utility Industry

M. Delmas, M. Russo, M. Montes-Sancho

Published Work | 2007 | Strategic Management Journal

Inbreeding is reduced by female-biased dispersal and mating behavior in Ethiopian wolves

Randall, D. A.; Pollinger, J. P.; Wayne, R. K.; Tallents, L. A.; Johnson, P. J.; Macdonald, D. W.

Published Work | 2007 | Behavioral Ecology 18(3), 579–589

Genetic approaches to measuring connectivity

Hedgecock, D.; Barber, P. H.; Edmands, S.

Published Work | 2007 | Oceanography 20(3), 22–31

Multiple paternity and sperm storage lead to increased genetic diversity in Anolis lizards

Calsbeek, R.; Bonneaud, C.; Prabhu, S.; Manoukis, N.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2007 | Evolutionary Ecology Research 9, 495–503

An evaluation of fruit availability theory and measurement in an afrotropical rainforest

Fogiel, M.

Thesis | 2007

The heartbeat of the Oligocene climate system

P. Heiko, R. Norris, J. Herrle, et al.

Published Work | 2006 | Science

Mitochondrial DNA and population size

Wares, J. P.; Barber, P. H.; Ross-Ibarra, J.; Sotka, E. K.; Toonen, R. J.

Published Work | 2006 | Science 314(5804), 1388–1389

Genomics and conservation genetics

Kohn, M. H.; Murphy, W. J.; Ostrander, E. A.; Wayne, R. K.

Published Work | 2006 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21(11), 629–637

Postglacial population expansion drives the evolution of long-distance migration in a songbird

Milá, B.; Smith, T. B.; Wayne, R. K.

Published Work | 2006 | Evolution 60(11), 2403–2409

Speciation and rapid phenotypic differentiation in the yellow-rumped warbler (Dendroica coronata) complex

Milá, B.; Smith, T. B.; Wayne, R. K.

Published Work | 2006 | Molecular Ecology 16(1), 159–173

Atmospheric Deposition

Keith Stolzenbach

Report Card | 2006

Southern Californian Environmental Report Card 2006

Charles J. Corbett, Richard P. Turco, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris,Keith D. Stolzenbach, Philip W. Rundel, Deborah Estrin, William Kaiser,

Report Card | 2006

Do Greens Drive Hummers or Hybrids? Environmental Ideology as a Determinant of Consumer Choice

M. Kahn

Working Paper | 2006

Comparative phylogeography of three co-distributed stomatopods: origins and timing of regional lineage diversification in the coral triangle

Barber, P. H.; Palumbi, S. R.; Erdmann, M. V.

Published Work | 2006 | Evolution 60(9), 1825–1839

Divergence in mating signals correlates with ecological variation in the migratory songbird, Swainson’s thrush (Catharus ustulatus)

Ruegg, K.; Slabbekorn, H.; Clegg, S.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2006 | Molecular Ecology 15(11), 1487–1494

Estimating diversity of Indo-Pacific coral reef stomatopods through DNA barcoding of stomatopod larvae

Barber, P. H.; Boyce, S. L.

Published Work | 2006 | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 273(1597), 2053–2061

Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia

ter Steege, H.; Pitman, N. C.; Phillips, O. L.; Chave, J.; Sabatier, D.; Duque, A.; Molino, J.; Prevost, M.; Spichiger, R.; Castellanos, H.; Hildebrand, P.; Vasquez, R.

Published Work | 2006 | Nature 443, 444–447

Evolutionary variation in the expression of phenotypically plastic color vision in Caribbean mantis shrimps, genus Neogonodactylus

Cheroske, A. G.; Barber, P. H.; Cronin, T. W.

Published Work | 2006 | Marine Biology 150, 213–220

A southern California freeway is a physical and social barrier to gene flow in carnivores

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

Context dependent territory defense: the importance of habitat structure in Anolis sagrei

Calsbeek, R.; Marnocha, E.

Published Work | 2006 | Ethology 112(6), 537–543

The hitchhiker’s guide to ecocriticism

U. Heise

Published Work | 2006 | PMLA

Elevational zonation and the phylogenetic relationships of the Henicorhina wood-wrens

Dingle, C.; Lovette, I. J.; Canaday, C.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2006 | The Auk 123(1), 119–134

Patterns of variation in MHC class II B loci of the little greenbul (Andropadus virens) with comments on MHC evolution in birds

Aguilar, A.; Edwards, S. V.; Smith, T. B.; Wayne, R. K.

Published Work | 2005 | Journal of Heredity 97(2), 133–142

Molecular evidence for host specificity of parasitic nematode microfilariae in some African rainforest birds

Sehgal, R. N.; Jones, H. I.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2005 | Molecular Ecology 14(13), 3977–3988

Southern Californian Environmental Report Card 2005

Mary D. Nichols

Report Card | 2005

Comparative seed shadows of bird-, monkey-, and wind-dispersed trees in a central African tropical rain forest

Clark, C. J.; Poulsen, J. R.; Connor, E. F.; Bolker, B.; Parker, V. T.

Published Work | 2005 | Ecology 86(10), 2684–2694

Extending the Horizons: Environmental Excellence as Key to Improving Operations

Charles J. Corbett and Robert D. Klassen

Working Paper | 2005

The Financial Impact Of ISO 9000 Certification in the US: An Empirical Analysis

C. Corbett, M. Montes-Sancho, D. Kirsch

Working Paper | 2005

Combining isotopic and genetic markers to identify breeding origins of migrant birds

Kelly, J.; Ruegg, K.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2005 | Ecological Applications 15(5), 1487–1494

A comparison of variation between a MHC pseudogene and microsatellite loci of the little greenbul (Androparus virens)

Aguilar, A.; Smith, T. B.; Wayne, R. K.

Published Work | 2005 | BMC Evolutionary Biology 5 (47)

Isolation of polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite markers for the masked flowerpiercer Diglossia cyanea

Bardeleben, C.; Gray, M. M.

Published Work | 2005 | Molecular Ecology Notes 5(4), 849–850

Current and historical factors influencing patterns of species richness and turnover of birds in the Gulf of Guinea highlands.

Smith, C. H.; Smith, T. B.; Languy, M.

Published Work | 2005 | Journal of Biogeography 32, 1371–1384

Temporal and spatial patterns of macaw abundance in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Karubian, J.; Fabara, J.; Yunes, D.; Jorgenson, J. P.; Romo, D.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2005 | Condor 107(3), 617–626

Eocene bipolar glaciation associated with global carbon cycle changes

A. Tripati, J. Backman, H. Elderfield, P. Ferretti

Published Work | 2005 | Nature

Isolation of polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite markers for the wedge-billed woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus

Mila, B.; Bardeleben, C.

Published Work | 2005 | Biology Notes 2005, 5, 844–845

Characterization of microsatellite loci for the detection of temporal genetic shifts within a single cohort of the brown demoiselle, Neopomacentrus filamentosus

Jones, M. E.; Barber, P. H.

Published Work | 2005 | Molecular Ecology Notes 5(4), 834–836

Isolation of polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite markers for the black-bellied seedcracker (Pyresnestes ostrinus)

Delaney, K. S.; Pires, D.; Holder, K.; Bardeleben, C.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2005 | Molecular Ecology Notes 5(4), 774–776

Isolation of polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite markers for the streak-necked flycatcher Mionectes striaticollis

Bardeleben, C.; Gray, M. M.

Published Work | 2005 | Molecular Ecology Notes 5(4), 755–756

Further observations on the blood parasites of birds in Uganda

Valkiunas, G.; Sehgal, R. N.; Iezhova, T. A.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2005 | Journal of Wildlife Diseases 41(3), 580–587

Epibiotic microbes as food and defense formarine isopods: unique symbioses in a hostile environment

Lindquist, N.; Barber, P. H.; Weisz, J.

Published Work | 2005 | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 272(1569), 1209–1216

A technique for the rapid extraction of microalgal DNA from single live and preserved cells

Richlen, M. L.; Barber, P. H.

Published Work | 2005 | Molecular Ecology Notes 5(3), 688–691

Variation in scale numbers is consistent with ecologically based natural selection acting within and between lizard species

Calsbeek, R.; Knouft, J. H.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2005 | Evolutionary Ecology 20, 377–392

Free Riding in Voluntary Programs: the case of the US EPA Wastewise Program

M. Delmas, A. Keller

Published Work | 2005 | Policy Sciences

Blood parasites of some West African rainforest birds

Sehgal, R. N.; Jones, H. I.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2005 | Journal of Veterinary Medical Science 67(3), 295–301

Biodiversity hotspots: Evolutionary origins of biodiversity in wrasses (Halichoeres) in the Indo-Pacific and New World Tropics

Barber, P. H.; Bellwood, D. R.

Published Work | 2005 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35(1), 235–253

Leucocytozoon (Apicomplexa: Leucocytozoide) from West African birds, with descriptions of two species

Jones, H. I.; Sehgal, R. N.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2005 | Journal of Parasitology 91(2), 397–401

Adaptive units for conservation: Population distinction and historic extinctions in the island scrub-jay

Delaney, K. S.; Wayne, R. K.

Published Work | 2005 | Conservation Biology 19(2), 523–533.

Deregulation, Efficiency and Governance Structures: The U.S. Electric Utility Sector

M. Delmas, Y. Tokat

Published Work | 2005

Molecular genetic approaches to linking breeding and overwintering areas in five neotropical migrant passerines

Smith, T. B.; Clegg, S. M.; Kimura, M.; Ruegg, K.; Milá, B.; Lovette, I.

Published Work | 2005 | Birds of Two Worlds: The Ecology and Evolution of Migration 223-231

Importance of body size in determining dominance hierarchies among diverse tropical frugivores

French, A.; Smith, T. B.

Published Work | 2005 | Biotropic 37(1), 95–100

Evaluating the divergence-with-gene-flow model in natural population: the importance of ecotones in rainforest speciation

Smith, T. B.; Wayne, R. K.; Girman, D.; Bruford, M. W.

Published Work | 2005 | University of Chicago Press: Chicago, Chicago, USA, 148–165

Putting process on the map: Why ecotones are important for preserving biodiversity

Smith, T. B.; Saatchi, S.; Graham, C.; Slabbekoorn, H.; Spicer, G.

Published Work | 2005 | Phylogeny and Conservation

Legacy lost: genetic variability and population size of extirpated US grey wolves (Canis lupus)

Leonard, J. A.; Vila, C.; Wayne, R. K.

Published Work | 2004 | Molecular Ecology 14(1), 9–17

Testing alternative mechanisms of evolutionary divergence in an African rainforest passerine bird

Smith, T. B.; Calsbeek, R.; Wayne, R. K.; Holder, K. H.; Pires, D.; Bardeleben, C.

Published Work | 2004 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18(2), 257–268

Air Pollutant Exposure

Arthur M. Winer

Report Card | 2004

Stakeholders and Environmental Management Practices: An Institutional Framework

M. Delmas, M. Toffel

Published Work | 2004 | Business Strategy and the Environment

SNPs in ecology, evolution and conservation

Morin, P. A.; Luikart, G.; Wayne, R. K.

Published Work | 2004 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19(4), 208–216

Business and Environmental Protection: An Introduction

J. Rivera, M. Delmas

Published Work | 2004 | Research in Human Ecology