Watch the fall 2024 highlights from Spasojevic Ecology Lab's camera traps at the San Jacinto Forest Dynamics plot near Idyllwild, California, and the UCR James Reserve.

Title: "Unraveling the processes of plant community assembly in an era of global change: insights from a dryland ecosystem"

Congratulations Lucy Delaney! To be recognized by UCR’s exclusive Academy of Distinguished Teaching as a junior faculty member, one must be more than a cutting-edge researcher. One must also be an outstanding teacher. Four individuals have been recognized this year...

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) — the nation’s largest organization of professional ecologists— held their annual meeting on August 4-9, 2024 where thousands of ecological scientists, educators, students, and practitioners gathered from around the world to share new research...

Have you ever noticed that many hummingbird feeders are bright red? Have you ever wondered why?

Title: "The evolution of mammalian vertebral number”

Rahul Almeida, a biology undergrad expected to graduate from UC Riverside in 2025, has been awarded $15,000 from the Donald A. Strauss Foundation to fund an educational intervention program he organized called, “Food for Thought.”

Title: "A ‘tail’ of two signals: acoustic courtship displays in Anna’s and Costa’s hummingbirds"