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Since 2001, an acoustical monitoring station at the edge of Searsville Lake has recorded over ten million bat calls. These are calls emitted by bats during foraging to aid them in locating and capturing prey, and also emitted during other kinds of activity.
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This project aims to test whether and how herbivory by slugs and snails controls yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis)populations. It consists of pairs of self-contained starthistle gardens in 20 locations around JRBP.
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The photosynthetic machinery that enables plants to convert sunlight to chemical energy has two means of dissipating light energy that exceeds a leaf's needs: fluorescence, which is the instantaneous re-emission of light of another wavelength, and heat.
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The Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment (JRGCE) studies the response of California grassland to 4 environmental factors changing globally--warming, nitrogen deposition, elevated carbon dioxide, and increased precipitation--applied in a full-factorial design.
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The Bay checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas editha bayensis) was federally listed as threatened in 1987 and deemed extinct at Jasper Ridge in 1998. Decades of intensive study by Prof.
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The Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment (JRGCE) began an experiment located near its main field plots to test a new hypothesis concerning responses of ecosystems to environmental change.
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Remotely triggered cameras (camera-traps) have long been used by wildlife biologists to gain insight into wildlife ecology. From establishing species presence/absence to studying feeding ecology, camera traps are a powerful field-biology tool.
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This monitoring program tests whether electromagnetic anomalies precede earthquakes and may be useful for earthquake prediction.
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Searsville Reservoir and its upstream wetlands are dynamic environments with respect to sediment transport and deposition.
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The Remote Winds art installation translates wind into light. This project connects visitors to the new McMurtry Building on the Stanford campus with the daily rhythm of air currents flowing off the Pacific, over the northern reaches of the Santa Cruz Mountains and San Francisco Bay.
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Featured Publication
Ingersoll R, Lentink D (2018) How the hummingbird wingbeat is tuned for efficient hovering. The Journal of Experimental Biology 221(20)
