Rangelands

I sat (virtually) through a local irrigation district board meeting this morning. As you might imagine in a year like this, drought was on everybody's mind, from elected board members to staff to customers.

UC Davis undergraduate student Juan Amado Ado Sales, a member of the Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology and a laboratory assistant for nematologist Shahid Siddique, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, has just been awarded a coveted summer fellowship from the UC Davis Innovati...

Seen any Pipevine Swallowtails lately? The UC Davis Ecological Garden is teeming with eggs, larvae, pupa and adults. The butterflies there seem particularly fond of nectaring on Jupiter's beard, Centranthus ruber.

Humans have been stripping mother earth of her verdant, life supporting cloak for a long time, but the damage has shot up to a critical stage during recent years. To extend the metaphor further, earth has been stripped so bare that ecological systems are out of balance.

Chemical engineer Javier Ceja-Navarro, a research scientist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Biological Systems and Engineering, will present the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology virtual seminar on "The Complex Microbial Life and Interactions in Lilliputian Lands...

Botanists Beverly Rathcke (1945-2011) and Jeanne Baret would have been proud. In their lifetimes, they didn't receive nearly enough credit for their work, but now they are memorialized in the names of newly described species of bacteria from the genus Acinetobacter that are specialized to flowers.

Last month, the Thelma Hansen Fund hosted a three-day series to inform about climate change and the science behind it.

It's World Bee Day, as declared by the United Nations. "The fourth observance of World Bee Day will be celebrated--in the midst of a still ongoing pandemic--with a virtual event organized by the FAO on 20 May 2021 under the theme Bee engaged Build Back Better for Bees.

Well-managed grazing can control non-native plants and maintain habitat and ecosystems to support a variety of species Research recently published in the journal Sustainability documents a role for livestock grazing to support the conservation of imperiled plant and animal species in California.

English click here Conocemos el mes de mayo por el Da de la Madres (espero que no lo hayan olvidado!), sin embargo, despus de la extensa temporada de incendios del ao pasado, muchos californianos han llegado a identificar mayo como el mes de la preparacin contra los incendios forestales.