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Dave Daversa

Salamander morphology and undergraduate research

Green, E.T., Dell, A.I., Crawford, J.A., Biro, E.G. and Daversa, D.R., 2024. Trait variation in patchy landscapes: Morphology of spotted...

Dave Daversa

After visiting an intertidal zone in Palos Verdes

Tide pools give me hope. They give me hope because they are full of life. The nooks and crannies harbor many living things, and a wide...

Dave Daversa

Welfare and the (re)opening of doors to wonder

The aquatic ecologist at Yosemite National Park is a bonafide herpetologist and accepted world expert on Yosemite toads (Anaxyrus...

Dave Daversa

Taking a community perspective

A paper I led was published last week. Most of my research looks at parasites in the context of organismal biology, especially...

Dave Daversa

Are animals stressing over climate change?

Humans increasingly stress over climate change. Sometimes the stress is acute, for example, when a flood or wildfire is approaching one’s...

Dave Daversa

Confronting the issue of climate

I moved to California to study threats of disease in wildlife, but the wildlife threat I confronted was climate. In other regions I have...

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