May 27, 2013 | Science Magazines
High Country News article about our lab’s work in Alaska. … By late morning, eagles are all around us. “Look at that eagle party across the way,” says Taal Levi, a wildlife ecologist with the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, whose tales of...
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 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...
Apr 10, 2012 | Media Coverage, Science Magazines
From Conservation Magazine, a short article on our recent PLoS Biology article: Letting more salmon escape fisheries along the coast could boost both grizzly bear populations and fishery yields, according to a new study in PLoS Biology. Fishery managers already let a...
Dec 17, 2010 | Media Coverage, Science Magazines
From Conservation Magazine, a nice little article on our recent paper in Conservation Letters calling for a small number of fully protected salmon runs. Ask not what a park can do for spawning salmon. Ask what robust salmon runs could do for the park – and for coastal...
