what's new: project results etc.

selected publications

• Jennifer W. Burt, Adriana A. Muir, Jonah Piovia-Scott, Kari E. Veblen, Andy L. Chang, Judah D. Grossman, and Heidi W. Weiskel. 2007. Preventing horticultural introductions of invasive plants: potential efficacy of voluntary initiatives. Biological Invasions; available here as a .pdf

• Byrnes, Jarrett, Reynolds, P., Stachowicz, John. 2007. Invasions and Extinctions Reshape Coastal Marine Food Webs. PLoS One 2: e95. Available at the PLoS website.

• Jeanine Pfeiffer and Ely Huerta Ortiz. 2007. Invasive plants impact California native plants used in traditional basketry. Fremontia 35:7-13.

• Flag in the Ground Productions 2005. Fear and Fishing in Lake Davis: an environmental documentary on invasive northern pike control and community reaction in Portola, California

  • reviewed by Dan Simberloff in the journal Biological Invasions:
    "Fear and Fishing... superbly captures the complexity of issues surrounding biological invasions, and it clearly demonstrates that science alone will not lead to effective resource management if local stakeholders are not engaged."
  • available on DVD: to order see www.cpb.ucdavis.edu/bioinv/projects/pike

symposia

Educational Mutualism: collaboration between academics and local teachers to address environmental issues

• 29 September 2007, 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences.

In this day-long symposium, we will explore two issues in environmental education:

1. challenges and successes of environmental education, with a particular focus on how academics can collaborate with teachers and contribute accurate and up-to-date scientific content to curricula, and
2. exploring how education may affect the next generation's actions on invasive species issues, because an informed public is an invested public.

For more information, please see the symposium website.

Cattle ranchers and yellow star thistle

• symposium, 21 September 2006, 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences.

Gardens & Guppies: the horticultural and aquarium industries, and invasive species

• presentation at the 14th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species, Key Biscayne, Florida
• for information on the 2005 symposium, see symposium website for details.

miscellany

Read the 2007 issue of our newsletter here in .pdf format

US News and World Report ranked UC Davis as first in the nation for graduate programs in ecology/evolutionary biology! See the US News site for details.

why?

Unprecedented and accelerating rates of biological invasions have created a unique set of environmental, economic, and social challenges. From every perspective, biological invasions epitomize the rapidly growing array of environmental challenges that no single discipline, individual, or constituency can solve individually.

what and who?

The Biological Invasions IGERT is an interdisciplinary, collaborative program to train the next generation of graduate and professional students to be conversant in the ethical, political, legal, economic, and scientific issues pertinent to the analysis and remediation of biological invasions.

• see the description of our program for details
• download a brochure that summarizes our mission, training program, and financial support
• do we really study biological invasions from genes to ecosystems, science to society? See for yourself from the program from our 2004 Fall Conference or see the photos
• read what our students say
• ...or take your time to browse through our pages via the menu above

in the news

• publications by trainees and trainers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
  • Sharon Strauss on invasive grasses
  • Ted Grosholz on "invasional meltdown"
  • Heather Davis, Caz Taylor, and Don Strong on cordgrass
• Trainers Peter Moyle and Susan Williams co-authored a white paper on invasives, title published by the Ecological Society of America
• Bioscience, the journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, profiled us in the "Eye on Education" section in the October 2004 issue: http://www.aibs.org/eye-on-education/eye_on_education_2004_10.html
• we made the cover of UC Davis' magazine

acknowledgments

This program is made possible by the National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program. The IGERT program emphasizes graduate training, but also provides support for undergraduates and postdoctoral fellows. The national IGERT program website at www.igert.org contains general information about IGERT programs and links to all IGERT sites.