UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science

These projects, which range DNA to Assess the Community Composition of Eelgrass Meadows in Santa Monica from measuring the chemical composition Bay and Catalina Island of floral scents of desert annual plants, to Maddie Zuercher, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Investigating ringtail ecology the efficacy of artificial reefs installed off and behavior in the Santa Monica Mountains the Palos Verde. [...] The La Kretz rebuild at Stunt R anch will result in greater synergy between the two programs, and provide more opportunities for conservation research in the Santa Monicas Featured project: Assessing barriers to La Kretz Center hosts California quail gene flow in the Santa Monica California quail Mountains researcher at Rocky Oaks -6- Imbedded within the urban matrix of LA, the The La Kretz Center. [...] deal of empirical research has been done to Chavarria is collaborating with UCLA grad understand the impact of roadways on student Joey Curti (pictured at right) on a animal movement and gene flow of large project to assess the impacts of roadways mammals such as mountain lions, no and urbanization on the genetic health of research exists to evaluate the impact of California quail (Callipepla cali. [...] “These turtles will also be part of a range-wide genomic analysis of variation across the species that we are conducting with our state and federal partners to better understand and conserve this critical population, which is the last known for the species in the San Gabriel River watershed.” -8- Read the story in the Times of San Diego . [...] Trends in Ecology & Evolution Volume 36(2):123-131 the UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability, UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, the Madelyn and Bruce Glickfeld Award, and the UCLA Center for the Advancement of Teaching.