Rainforest Restoration and Seed Dispersal
Region: South America (Ecuador) Africa (Cameroon) These long-term studies examine the role of birds and primates as seed dispersers in the maintenance of tree diversity in West African and Neotropical…
Projects
Research Program
In collaboration with our partner agencies, the La Kretz Center supports field and laboratory-based research projects that address fundamental problems with direct management implications for conservation science in California. Although…
Resilience Planning
The Resilience Team worked on two components. The first is an assessment of UCLA’s current resilience, which will be measured relative to the Rockefeller Institute’s resilience framework. To produce a…
Rethinking the value of nature from education to health
Dr. Heather Tallis, Global Managing Director and Lead Scientist for Strategy Innovation for The Nature Conservancy
Socially Responsible Investing Case Study Dataset
This dataset is the companion dataset to Socially Responsible Investing: Data-Driven Decision Making. The data presents information on the financial and environmental performance of 13 publicly traded chemical companies from 1997…
Spectral Overlap and Temporal Avoidance among Singing Birds
Awardee: Yi-Ju Wang. Yi-Ju is interested in testing if song birds can use either temporal avoidance or spectral avoidance strategy, or both, to transmit signals.
Stream amphibian connectivity and conservation across the Santa Monica Mountains
La Kretz Center Postdoctoral Fellow Gary Bucciarelli works with the National Park Service to study threatened amphibian populations in southern California.
Temporal and Spatial Niche Partitioning in a Small Mammal Community
Awardee: Rachel Chock. Rachel is researching whether microhabitat use and peak activity times for pocket mice vary within a night and across seasons with competitor abundance.
The Role of Sexual Selection in Speciation in Pacific Island Songbirds
Ever since Darwin’s “The Origin of Species,” biologists have been studying the causes of diversification and speciation. Speciation may be driven by sexual or ecological selection or random drift, and…
Toward a conservation physiology of Californian flora: assessing drought vulnerability and its variation with plant size across species and ecosystems
Awardee: Camila Medeiros. Camila's research aims to quantify the vulnerability of woody plant species to drought in key ecosystem types of California and model species’ relative sensitivities to drought under future climate chance scenarios.
Tracking migration of Cassin’s Vireo: identifying wintering grounds and assessing the impact of brood parasitism on migratory movements
Awardee: Richard Hedley. Richard's research will use cutting-edge technology to track migratory movements, contributing to a rapidly growing understanding of songbird migration.
UCLA Air Quality Management Training Program
Restoring the Blue Sky: 40-Year Lessons from Los Angeles