Summer 2025

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Waves crash against the rocky intertidal zone at Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve in Cambria, California. Students in the Summer 2025 California Ecology and Conservation course conducted three separate projects in this dynamic ecosystem, investigating the distributions and preferences of red algae, seagrass, snails, and other intertidal organisms. Image: David Anaya.

Sticky monkeyflower (Diplacus aurantiacus) vegetative traits differ between coastal sage scrub habitat and Monterey pine forest [PDF, 3.55 MB]
Juliana Loaiza, Handy Ranarivelo, Dylan Schmidt, Daniel Wong-Moon

Changing tides: The effects of climate change on intertidal communities through time [PDF, 1.03 MB]
Daniel Aguilera, Andrea Braaksma, Andreana Killingsworth, Juno Vo

Red algae (Rhodophyta) calcification may not be a deterrent for intertidal algae grazers Tegula funebralis and Pagurus samuelis [PDF, 872.00 KB]
Christine Brennan, Kristi Ko, Emily McKay, Anna Nelles

Human disturbance reduces mammal scat abundance across forest and coastal prairie habitats in two coastal California reserves [PDF, 6.44 MB]
David Anaya, Liliana Matthews, Nick Parker, Casey Welch

Impacts of seagrass coverage and removal on grazers in the rocky mid-intertidal [PDF, 1.64 MB]
Annika Burmester, Stella Cardenas, Ollie Nakamura, Colin Sutter