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It has long been thought that as organisms dispersed, the difference between local communities decreased. Not so, according to work at Jasper Ridge in a recent publication by former Stanford postdoctoral researcher Rachel Vannette, now an assistant professor at UC more

César award-winning documentary Tomorrow tells the story of its co-producers/co-directors, Cyril Dion and Melanie Laurent. Dion, a French activist, author and journalist, discovered a 2012 study co-authored by Stanford scientists Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly, " Approaching a state shift more

The field of conservation is undergoing a paradigm shift. In the face of accelerating human impacts, there is a growing consensus that for many, perhaps most terrestrial ecosystems, the goal of maintaining a historical state is no longer possible. In more

Our annual report recaps the year at JRBP in words, pictures, maps, and figures, and is available to view or download . With essays and quotes from more than a dozen contributors, three dozen new photographs, a list of the more

For his yearlong series called “Vanishing,” CNN Opinion columnist John D. Sutter turned to JRBP executive director Tony Barnosky for the long view of extinction. Barnosky is a paleontologist who has applied his research on fossil communities to determine how more

The Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment reports in a new publication that net primary production (NPP) of California grassland is highest when annual rainfall and temperature are near long-term averages, and falls off under more extreme conditions such as those more

Doctoral student Rivers Ingersoll and engineering professor David Lentink describe their experiments on hummingbird hovering in a short new video by bioGraphic. Ingersoll and Lentink are providing the first direct measurements of how hummingbirds generate the lift necessary to keep more

“Demain (Tomorrow)” ( Demain trailer ), an award-winning, uplifting documentary about solutions to the world’s environmental problems, was shown in Palo Alto on Sept 30, one of its first screenings in the US. The film was inspired by a scientific more

Chris Field, JRBP’s faculty director since 2005, will become director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, effective September 1. Chris’s contributions at Jasper Ridge span four decades. His research began a year after the preserve’s formal designation, and more

Three new publications illustrate the breadth of JRBP research on microbes and their roles in ecosystem processes, disease ecology, and ecological interactions. Reporting on studies from the Jasper Ridge global change experiment, LeRoux et al. report on a diverse guild more