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Dr. Morgan Tingley
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UCLA LiveWell
82: Impacts on our Environment and Ecology from Wildfires with Morgan Tingley
Morgan Tingley, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and faculty in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, is an expert on how climate change and other environmental changes impact biodiversity, primarily birds. His research, which largely focuses on birds in temperate mountain environments, including California’s Sierra Nevada, examines how species shift their ranges and the timing of their activities in response to rising temperatures and other effects of climate change. Tingley is a leading authority on the effects of wildfire on biodiversity, specifically in the western United States. For over a decade, he has studied how bi...
2025-02-27
50 min
Science Friday
Starliner Crewed Test Flight Rescheduled | Slugs And Snails Like Cities
The much-delayed crewed test flight is back on the calendar, despite a helium leak. Also, researchers used data from the crowd-sourcing nature observation app iNaturalist to rank animals’ tolerance of urban environments. Starliner Crewed Test Flight Rescheduled For This Weekend A long-delayed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is back on the calendar for Saturday, June 1, carrying astronauts to the International Space Station. It’s a demonstration flight as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew program, intended to show that the new spacecraft design can be a practical and safe way to get people into spa...
2024-05-31
23 min
KCBS Radio In Depth
The effects of climate change on the lives of migrating birds
It’s a part of the passing of wintertime and moving into spring: you open up the windows or you step outside, and you hear them - birds singing. And perhaps you hear the sounds of the male western tanager, a songbird that migrates thousands of miles once the seasons begin to change, heading to the Mountain West for springtime. But maybe you’ve noticed, over the past few years, that spring seems to be arriving earlier than normal - flowers blooming, insects coming to life, sometimes months ahead of time. Birds are noti...
2024-04-08
27 min
Lagrange Point
Episode 519 - Evolving beaks and wild chickens
How did birds end up with their trademark beaks? You can broadly group birds into two categories, ancient and modern jaws or beaks. We thought mobile beaks were a modern invention but new fossils overturn this idea. Just when did birds first develop their modern mobile beaks? Wild jungle fowl were domesticated to become the chickens we love today. But wild chickens are not isolated completely from modern ones. Gene transfers between wild and domesticated chickens are eroding the genetic diversity of the species. Benjamin A. Tonelli, Casey Youngflesh, Morgan W. Tingley. Geomagnetic disturbance associated with increased vagrancy...
2023-01-30
17 min
Big Bang
¿Por qué las aves están reduciendo su tamaño?
La investigación fue realizada por la Universidad de California y publicada en la revista científica Nature Ecology and Evolution.Se analizó la masa corporal de 105 especies de aves habitantes de diferentes zonas y climas de América del Norte, con una amplia diversidad natural.Se tomaron como base de estudio datos relevados desde 1989 por parte del Programa de Monitoreo de la Productividad y Supervivencia de las Aves, llevado a cabo por la organización "Población de aves".Se confirmó que la masa corporal de las 105 especies relevadas disminuyó alrededor de 0,6% en prome...
2022-11-01
11 min