- Howard Cornell was elected an Ecological Society of America Fellow in 2016 in recognition of outstanding contributions to ecology in the areas of herbivore/ natural enemy interactions, local regional relationships of species richness, and macroecology.
- A microbiome board game designed by David Coil in Jonathan Eisen's lab has been released.
- Long-term data from Art Shapiro's butterfly transect demonstrate a strong statistical association between regional neonicotinoid insecticide use and the broad regional butterfly declinesobserved in the Sacramento Valley beginning in the late 1990s.
- A study in Nature by several current and former CPB members explain why insect pests love monocultures, and how plant diversity could change that. The lead author of this study, former UC Davis graduate student Will Wetzel, is a new assistant professor at Michigan State University. Heather Kharouba has started her lab at the University of Ottawa, while Moria Robinson continues her graduate work at UC Davis.
- Jonathan Eisen has a new bacterial phylum named after him!
- Sharon Strauss has been award the ADVANCE Scholar Award for her outstanding research and mentorship.
- Outreach work of Johnathan Eisen on the topic of microbimes featured in Wired UK January.
- Four of the nine young scientists in the 2015-19 cohort of Early Career Fellows (ESA) carried out research at Kenya Long-term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE)
- Monique Borgerhoff Mulder has been invited to teach evolutionary anthropology and human behavioural ecology at a immersion workshop at SESYNC (NSF-funded center on Sustainablity Science).
- A new paper in Oecologia by Art Shapiro and colleagues (first author Anne Espeset, U. of Nevada-Reno) is based on an analysis of 40 years of California population trends in the Monarch Butterfly. The Monarch is perhaps the most iconic insect in the world for conservationists, and the Fish and Wildlife Service is currently reviewing a petition to list it as "Threatened." The California Monarchs show a long decline even sharper than the Eastern, but climate change does not appear to be the main driver of Western declines.
- Collaboration between Jonathan Eisen and Andres Ruzo on the "Boiling River of the Amazon" featured on BBC
- Graduate student Micah Freedman receives a Rosemary Grant award from the Society for the Study of Evolution for his work on monarch butterflies. His previous work on these butterflies is featured here.
- Tim Caro and colleagues looked at zebras through the eyes of their predators and found that the zebra stripes are NOT for camouflage. Details here.