by Elsa Cleland | Oct 5, 2023 | news
We’ve recently received funding through the California Climate Action program for work with the newly established Wildland-Urban Interface Climate Action Network. WUICAN (“we can”) is a multidisciplinary team of researchers with the shared goal of...
by Elsa Cleland | Sep 5, 2023 | news
José Waterton recently published one of his thesis chapters in Evolution, showing while early germinating individuals often have higher fitness than later germinating individuals, the magnitude and even direction of selection can vary depending on the taxonomic...
by Elsa Cleland | Apr 5, 2023 | news
With the accelerating pace of both climate change and habitat loss, conservation efforts will need to understand adaptive mechanisms that maximize the chances for species’ persistence. Species distribution models are a critical tool in the conservation “tool...
by Elsa Cleland | Dec 21, 2021 | news
One of Liz Ryan’s thesis chapters was published, titled “Clinal variation in phenological traits and fitness responses to drought across the native range of California poppy.” She found that California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) varies tremendously across it’s...
by Elsa Cleland | Sep 4, 2021 | news
Karagan Smith has joined the lab as a new PhD student! Karagan received her BS with Honors from Pepperdine University where for four years she pursued research on plant recovery from wildfire. She also completed research in Spain on drought responses of Aleppo Pine,...
by Elsa Cleland | Jan 5, 2021 | news
The lab received funding from the California Conservation Genomics Project (https://www.ccgproject.org/) to sequence full genomes from 100 California poppy individuals collected from across the state. Some of the sampled individuals were grown from seed collected by...
