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...
Jun 26, 2013 | Science Magazines
This press release from Ecology nicely summarizes our recent Ecology paper in a forum discussing the fate of Yellowstone’s migratory elk. “I think Middleton has an intriguing idea, and it might be what’s happening. We offer another hypothesis that also fits the...
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,”...
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...
Sep 28, 2012 | Media Coverage, New York Times
From the NY Times, a great op-ed piece connecting our work on sea otters with wolves and elk in Yellowstone! Couldn’t be more perfect. Notice the little Sea Otter poking his head out of the reads below the elk. Scientists call this sequence of impacts down the...