Jul 24, 2017 | Bay Area, Media Coverage, Science Magazines
More on our puma fearing people paper from Peter Fimrite at the SF Chronicle and Paul Rogers at the San Jose Mercury news.“People allude to this idea all the time — that mountain lions are more afraid of us than we are of them. But science has never shown that...
Jul 24, 2017 | Media Coverage
Great article on our recent paper on how puma’s fear people in the Washington Post. Then political commentator Rachel Maddow’s voice fills the clearing: “Last Friday, three days after Bobby Jindal quit …” The lion lifts its head, and its eyes,...
Jan 16, 2014 | Bay Area, Media Coverage
Coverage in the Sentinel about our carnivore paper in Science today. Two UC Santa Cruz ecologists are among the authors of a global review of large carnivore populations published Jan. 10 in the journal Science. The international group of scientists warns that...
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 25, 2010 | Science Magazines
Discover magazine listed our PNAS article as #30 on its list of top 100 science stories of 2009. Humans are powerful agents of evolutionary change: Wild animals and plants that are hunted or harvested evolve three times as quickly as they would naturally, according to...