Living Laboratories: The UC Natural Reserve System
UC Natural Reserve System lands are home to dozens of vulnerable animal and plant species. These range from some of the state's rarest amphibians to e...
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University of California Natural Reserve System (NRS) is a system of protected sites that broadly represent California's rich ecological diversity. The NRS is the largest university-operated system of natural reserves in the world. Explore some of the reserves in this system of outdoor classrooms and laboratories.
Jays Reforest Santa Cruz Island
Explore how a species of Scrub Jay, the Island Scrub Jay, is expanding oak forests on Santa Cruz Island, helping to recover natural habitat on Califor...
California Ecology and Conservation
California Ecology and Conservation brings together 27 students from across the UC system for seven weeks of intensive learning at NRS reserves. Guide...
Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems: Drought Fire and Flood
Explore how the the nature of highly seasonal rainfall cycles and periodic fires create conditions that have shaped Mediterranean climate ecosystems a...
Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems: Oceans and Mediterranean Climate
The climate of Mediterranean Climate Ecosystems is largely driven by different processes in nearby coastal oceans. Atmospheric processes over the ocea...
Shaping LIfe: The Geology of Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems
Great weather, abundant harvests, fabulous food, some of the world’s most cosmopolitan, and romantic, cities – as well as the world’s most critical bi...
Lands of Two Seasons: The World's Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems
Great weather, abundant harvests, fabulous food, some of the world’s most cosmopolitan, and romantic, cities – as well as the world’s most critical bi...
A Tale of Two Reserves
Take a journey to two of the UC Natural Reserve Systems’ reserves in southern California, the James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve and Sweeney Granite ...
The Velocity of Climate Change
Modeling climate change and how fast species will have to move to endure changes in climate. Series: "UC Natural Reserve System" [Science] [Show ID: 2...
Ecology of Valley Oaks in California
Studying the reproductive ecology of Valley Oaks in California. Series: "UC Natural Reserve System" [Science] [Show ID: 21297]