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Salamander Surveys by WERC Scientists Help Monitor Fungal Threat (US Fish and Wildlife Pacific Southwest Highlights)

Salamander Surveys by WERC Scientists Help Monitor Fungal Threat (US Fish and Wildlife Pacific Southwest Highlights)

SAN DIEGO – WERC scientists find salamanders, test for deadly chytrid disease

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WERC Scientists Combine Bird Calls and Artificial Intelligence to Keep Tabs on the Elusive Ashy-Storm Petrel (Audubon magazine)

WERC Scientists Combine Bird Calls and Artificial Intelligence to Keep Tabs on the Elusive Ashy-Storm Petrel (Audubon magazine)

CALIFORNIA COAST – Artificial intelligence and acoustic sensors help scientists monitor seabirds

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Burrowing Owls and Horned Lizards Thrive in Ecological Hot Spot Next to Los Angeles Airport (Los Angeles Times)

Burrowing Owls and Horned Lizards Thrive in Ecological Hot Spot Next to Los Angeles Airport (Los Angeles Times)

LOS ANGELES -- WERC Researchers study lizards and owls at the LAX Dunes preserve

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Genetics Study Reveals Good News for the Southern California Population of the California Gnatcatcher

Genetics Study Reveals Good News for the Southern California Population of the California Gnatcatcher

Results of a recent study by WERC scientists are providing helpful information to resource managers as they work to protect important habitat.

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It Takes Collaboration!

It Takes Collaboration!

Cloud Forest restoration gallery exhibit on display at the Channel Islands National Park Visitor Center.

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A Unified Research Strategy for Disease Management

A Unified Research Strategy for Disease Management

As wildlife diseases increase globally, an understanding of host-pathogen relationships can elucidate avenues for management and improve conservation...

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Large-scale Review of Amphibian Species and Community Response to Climate Change

Large-scale Review of Amphibian Species and Community Response to Climate Change

Amphibian species and community richness has been declining in North America and climate change may play a role in these declines. Global climate...

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USGS Scientists Find Success in New "Real Estate" for Waterbirds

USGS Scientists Find Success in New "Real Estate" for Waterbirds

There’s hot new real estate for wildlife in south San Francisco Bay, and a report from USGS biologists shows that the waterbirds are flocking in.

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Secrets of Suisun Marsh's Birds of Prey

Secrets of Suisun Marsh's Birds of Prey

Did you know that the USGS is studying raptors in California? Biologists with the USGS Western Ecological Research Center are hard at work in the...

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Toad Crossing Ahead: New Study Tests Elevated Roads as Underpasses for Rare Toad

Toad Crossing Ahead: New Study Tests Elevated Roads as Underpasses for Rare Toad

Many amphibians are either too small or too slow to avoid an oncoming car. For some populations of the Federally threatened Yosemite toad (Anaxyrus...

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Invasive Crayfish Increase Number of Mosquitoes in Southern California Mountains

Invasive Crayfish Increase Number of Mosquitoes in Southern California Mountains

A new study published in Conservation Biology ties the presence of invasive crayfish to higher numbers of mosquito larvae within the Santa Monica...

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Reducing Mercury Loads in The Cosumnes River

Reducing Mercury Loads in The Cosumnes River

The Cosumnes River watershed has seasonal, non-point source hotspots for total mercury and methylmercury production, which discharge to the Sacramento...

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