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Climate Change Presents a Mismatch for Songbirds’ Breeding Season

Katherine E Kerlin — January 17, 2023 - 6:59am

Climate change presents a mismatch for some breeding songbirds, finds 51�ԹϺ�� Davis study drawing from a decade of data from our Nestbox Highway project.

Half the Earth Relatively Intact From Global Human Influence

Katherine E Kerlin — June 11, 2020 - 12:00pm

Roughly half of Earth’s ice-free land remains without significant human influence, according to a study from a team of international researchers led by the National Geographic Society and the University of California, Davis.

The study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, compared four recent global maps of the conversion of natural lands to anthropogenic land uses to reach its conclusions. The more impacted half of Earth’s lands includes cities, croplands, and places intensively ranched or mined.

Dozens of New Wildlife Corridors Identified for African Mammals

Katherine E Kerlin — November 07, 2017 - 12:44pm

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have identified 52 potential wildlife corridors linking protected areas across Tanzania. Using a cost-effective combination of interviews with local residents and a land conversion dataset for East Africa, they found an additional 23 corridors over those previously identified by Tanzanian government reports.