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The purpose of this project is to improve the science underpinning conservation and restoration practices in oak savannas of California and other areas with a similar Mediterranean climate. California’s oak savannas and open woodlands are diverse ecosystems and valuable cultural landscapes. How
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In 2023, Jasper Ridge joined a global network of research sites examining grassland responses to disturbance. The Jasper Ridge site is being studied by Laureano Gherardi and Jorge Ramos, who chose a location especially suited to outreach and training—annual grassland near the visitors’ parking a
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This study is a field test of instruments being developed at Stanford to monitor atmospheric methane over distances of 100 meters to several kilometers. The Jasper Ridge test site is the main lake of Searsville Reservoir.
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SOAR: San Francisco Bay Research Coordination Network for Student Opportunities in Avian Research to enhance STEM education and assess human impacts on avian biodiversity
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San Francisquito Creek and its tributary creeks are habitat for the threatened, local form of migratory steelhead trout, Central California Coast steelhead. Prior to 2017, fish passage in the uppermost portion of San Francisquito Creek within Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve was constrained by a
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Anoxic microsites are small zones in soil where oxygen is depleted. Within these microsites, soil carbon is protected from microbial respiration, but the contribution to overall soil carbon protection (anoxic protection) remains poorly understood.
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The Oakmead Herbarium, located in the Leslie Shao-ming Sun Field Station at Jasper Ridge, contains more than 6000 mounted specimens representing almost 900 vascular plant taxa found at the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, together with collections of bryophytes and lichens. The 850,000-specimen
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Long-term studies of organisms and the environment may help detect threats to both individual species and ecosystems as a whole. Monitoring bats can provide early warning of potentially negative changes in our local ecosystem such as habitat fragmentation and loss of habitat.
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The purpose of this project is to document the avifauna of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve with a searchable database of high quality photographs of birds in their natural habitats within the preserve.
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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)
