Estuary Content

Endangered-Mouse Study Shares No-Contact Sampling Method

Katherine E Kerlin — September 19, 2022 - 10:00am

Collecting genetic samples for small mammals can be tricky, but UC Davis scientists found a noninvasive way to do it for San Francisco's endangered salt marsh harvest mouse.

Invasive Species and Climate Change Impact Coastal Estuaries

Katherine E Kerlin — May 05, 2022 - 11:38am

Native species in California鈥檚 estuaries are expected to experience greater declines as invasive species interact with climate change.

Against the Tide: A Fish Adapts Quickly to Lethal Levels of Pollution

Katherine E Kerlin — December 08, 2016 - 9:46am

Evolution is working hard to rescue some urban fish from a lethal, human-altered environment, according to a study led by the University of California, Davis, and published Dec. 9 in the journal Science. Atlantic killifish living in four polluted East Coast estuaries have adapted to levels of highly toxic industrial pollutants that would normally kill them.