top of page
Dave's Research Website
Dave Daversa
Apr 9
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
May 14, 2023
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
Jan 23, 2023
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
Sep 6, 2022
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
Aug 2, 2022
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
May 16, 2022
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...
bottom of page