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Pollination involves plants, pollinators, and microorganisms, challenging the traditional bipartite understanding. Floral nectar is the primary medium where tripartite plant–pollinator–microbe interac...

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Earth System Science (https://earthsystemscience.stanford.edu). Ea...

Podcast by the students who took the course Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Land Stewardship at Stanford University in Winter 2026

This conference gathers Indigenous scholars, culture practitioners, and allies to address the impacts, challenges, and opportunities of land stewardship and land return to local Indigenous communities...

In January of 2025, at the ICTP ICTS winter school at NCBS, Priyanga Amarasekare offered to take me and a few other students out for my birthday. She didn't have to do that.

The longtime Stanford professor, a giant in his field of evolutionary and population biology, also led the effort to establish Jasper Ridge Biological Pres

The decision to discontinue land acknowledgements has sparked debate about the University’s commitment to its Indigenous community and raised broader questions about institutional support for Native s...

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Muwekma Ohlone Tribal members conducted a cultural burn at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, providing a learning opportunity for a Stanford course on environmental stewardship.

The UC Board of Regents approved the dismissal of a tenured UCLA professor Wednesday. Priyanga Amarasekare, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor who began at UCLA in 2005, was initially suspe...

The Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) Community Lecture Series opened the academic year 2025-2026 with two inspiring women from the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. These speakers provided p...

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Bacteria in the honeybee gut are a well-recognized factor affecting bee health. However, the primary focus of this research has been the hindgut, while the crop, or honey stomach, is assumed to be dom...

An emerging focus of research at the intersection of botany, zoology, and microbiology is the study of floral nectar as a microbial habitat, referred to as the nectar microbiome, which can alter plan...

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Mother Earth is calling on us to act—the collective wisdom of thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge can guide us. Indigenuity, or Indigenous ingenuity, stems from an ancient idea and practice tha...

The western bewildering bushmallow is endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area. It returned for the first time in over 100 years thanks a Stanford controlled burn.

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Priority effects, where the order and timing of species arrival influence the assembly of ecological communities, have been observed in a variety of taxa and habitats. However, the genetic and molecu....

The faculty director of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) reflects on a locally endemic plant growing vigorously in the area where intentional burning was applied to chaparral ear...