Restorationists often hope and expect that wildlife will increase in abundance and diversity when “native” habitats are restored, but this assumption has not been well-investigated for most wildlife species, particularly in grasslands, and even more so in the Central Valley of California. From 2014 to 2015 I conducted a rather ambitious spatiotemporally replicated natural experiment investigating wildlife…
Tag: invasive species
Rodents, Snakes, and Raptors, oh my!
Wildlife responses to grassland restoration are perhaps more complex and less predictable than previously thought. I gave the most complete presentation of the results of my wildlife-grassland restoration research in an invited talk to the Sacramento-Shasta Chapter of The Wildlife Society (Invited Talk Flyer) at end of August, and the presentation can be found here. While more analyses…
2016 PlantRight Plant List – Suggested Alternatives for Invasive Garden Plants
Sustainable Conservation and PlantRight have partnered to work on reducing invasive plants that are sold or traded in the horticultural industry. As a contractor and partner with these two great organizations, I wanted to share their most recent update for 2016!: We are excited to share the 2016 PlantRight Plant List which you may view or download, here….
Clarifying the presence, invasive status, and weedy attributes of bluegum eucalyptus in California
9/25/2015: Status Update – Final revisions have been submitted and the handling editor says it looks pretty ready to go! As soon as it is In Press, I will post the finalized manuscript. I am quite happy with the reorganization after responding to reviewer suggestions, and I can’t wait to share it! 8/20/2015: Status Update – The…
Alliance to Combat Invasive Plants Grows
I have been working with Sustainable Conservation (www.suscon.org) either directly, or through U.C. Davis Weed Science Program, for the past two years on developing, testing, and promoting a new weed risk assessment tool aimed at nurseries marketing horticultural plants, in an effort to reduce the sale and spread of invasive plants in California and the United States. Luckily,…
Kristina M Wolf 