Projects
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Open Knowledge Network
Conservation Biology Institute wins award from National Science Foundation to help prototype an "open knowledge network" for spatial decision support technologies
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The Fire Resilience Project: Piloting ways for citizen scientists and professionals to work together effectively in helping our fire-ravaged landscapes
Santa Barbara Botanical Garden and CBI partner to assess fire-damaged watersheds and prioritize management actions.
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West Coast Estuaries Explorer
We recently updated the West Coast Estuaries Explorer - a tool designed to engage a broad range of users with detailed information about U.S. West Coast estuaries.
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Early warning systems for biodiversity and ecosystem health
CBI is developing biodiversity early warning systems at different spatial scales as a collaboration between agencies, universities, nonprofits, tribal authorities and citizen science groups.
Reports
- Habitat Connectivity for Fishers & Martens in the Klamath Basin Region of CA & OR
- Mapping Habitat Connectivity Priority Areas that are Climate-wise and Multi-scale, for Three Regions of California
- San Joaquin Land and Water Strategy
- Enhancing the Resilience of Edaphic Endemic Plants, Final Report
- Brachypodium Control, Phase II Project Report
Publications
- The relative influence of climate and housing development on current and projected future fire patterns and structure loss across three California landscapes
- Fire, CO2, and climate effects on modeled vegetation and carbon dynamics in western Oregon and Washington
- Chaparral Landscape Conversion in Southern California
- Mapping future fire probability under climate change: Does vegetation matter?
- The iCASS Platform: Nine principles for landscape conservation design
