Oppenheim Lecture Series
The Oppenheim Lecture Series has been established at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability through a generous gift by Patricia Oppenheim and her family in memory of Rudi Oppenheim.This…
Projects
Preserving an Enigma: The Impact of Habitat Fragmentation on Rockfowl (Picathartes) in Central Africa
One of the most elusive and enigmatic birds of the African rainforests is the rockfowl (Picathartes sp., Fig. 1). The two species that comprise the whole family are listed as…
Rainforest Biodiversity and Speciation
Region:Africa (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast), Australia, South America (Ecuador) These projects seek to understand the mechanisms important in generating rainforest biodiversity. Results from research on birds in Cameroon and…
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…
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 Dr. 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…