Professor Jessica Blois is the newest recipient of the International Biogeography Society’s MacArthur & Wilson Award recognizing early career work and contributions to biogeography.
Blois, a paleoecologist with the School of Natural Sciences, is the only recipient of this year’s award, which the International Biogeography Society (IBS) gives biennially to faculty members who have completed their Ph.D.s within the past 12 years.
Professor Carolin Frank’s research into the nitrogen-fixing properties of bacteria inside the needles of some high-elevation pine trees is the topic of a new paper in the journal New Phytologist.
The basic structure of Earth’s ecosystems lasted for 300 million years but changed about 6,000 years ago, and humans are the most likely reason.
A team of about 25 researchers from around the globe, including UC Merced Professor Jessica Blois, outline that discovery in a paper published today in the journal Nature.
If you want to understand how plant populations will respond as the climate changes, just examine the plants in different locations.
Graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan translated her love of science into four separate college degrees.
Many studies have shown that raising cattle and pigs for food is hard on the environment, and fish ha
Even without all the industrial and technological growth that has accelerated c
Shakespeare might have been right when he wrote “what’s past is prologue,” but not when it comes to modeling climate change.
