Projects
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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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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.
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Spatial Inventory and Economic Analysis of Bottomland Hardwood Forest Conservation Reserves: Pilot for the State of Mississippi
CBI is collaborating with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Farm Service Agency to produce an online application depicting ecological and economic features across Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands in Mississippi.
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Terrestrial Flora Program Support: Rare Plant Monitoring on Naval Base Point Loma and Coronado, CA
The Department of Defense, United States Navy recently awarded CBI a rare plant monitoring project and subsequent cooperative agreement to monitor rare plant species located on Naval Base’s Point Loma and Coronado, California in 2019.
Reports
- 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
- Recommendations for Monitoring of Species and Habitats in Sierra Nevada National Forests
Publications
- 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
- Human presence diminishes the importance of climate in driving fire activity across the United States
