May 1, 2013 | Bay Area, Media Coverage, NPR, Science Magazines
Here’s a great article by Liza Gross in KQED’s Quest. It ties our recent puma work nicely together with other work on predator effects on ecosystem function. … These “top down” trophic cascades, which the ecologists dubbed “trophic downgrading,”...
Apr 30, 2013 | Media Coverage, Science Magazines
Outside Magazine has a nice story on Lyme disease ecology in which they discuss some of the results of our recent PNAS paper. Some species may even be able to control tick numbers and infection prevalence not by killing the ticks but by killing their favorite hosts....
Jan 26, 2013 | Bay Area, Media Coverage
Sometimes I am amazed at how easily mountain lions make it into the news! Here’s a story in the San Jose Merc about a lion caught on camera at UC’s Blue Oak Reserve in the Hamilton range… The lion photographed weighs more than 100 pounds. Wilmers...
Jan 24, 2013 | Bay Area, Media Coverage, Science Magazines
Here’s a great all around article about wolves by Liza Gross, just appearing in QUEST, which draws on some of our research in Yellowstone and Alaska. Though Ecology 101 tells us that healthy ecosystems need top predators, researchers are just beginning to...
Jan 5, 2013 | Media Coverage, NPR, Radio
From KTOO in Juneau Alaska, a public radio piece about our sea otter research with an Alaskan twist. Clink on the play button below to listen....
