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,…
