Daniel Karp
@dskarp.bsky.social
Professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at UC Davis. Studying conservation in working landscapes. https://karp.ucdavis.edu/
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“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.”
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors.
— @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors.
— @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair
January 8, 2026 at 6:13 PM
“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.”
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors.
— @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors.
— @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair
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Tired of lumping all insectivores together? Now we can appreciate a quantitative breakdown of foraging ecology across all birds!
New paper out! 🐦📊
We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources.
Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....
We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources.
Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....
January 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Tired of lumping all insectivores together? Now we can appreciate a quantitative breakdown of foraging ecology across all birds!
New job alert!
We're hiring a short-term technician from mid May to late August to survey birds and pests in lettuce fields across the California Central Coast. Housing provided, pay is $20-23.
Check out the job ad to apply: karp.ucdavis.edu/join-the-lab/
We're hiring a short-term technician from mid May to late August to survey birds and pests in lettuce fields across the California Central Coast. Housing provided, pay is $20-23.
Check out the job ad to apply: karp.ucdavis.edu/join-the-lab/
December 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
New job alert!
We're hiring a short-term technician from mid May to late August to survey birds and pests in lettuce fields across the California Central Coast. Housing provided, pay is $20-23.
Check out the job ad to apply: karp.ucdavis.edu/join-the-lab/
We're hiring a short-term technician from mid May to late August to survey birds and pests in lettuce fields across the California Central Coast. Housing provided, pay is $20-23.
Check out the job ad to apply: karp.ucdavis.edu/join-the-lab/
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🍒🪶Excited for our new article to come out in
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
We show that falcons attracted to orchards using nestboxes reduce food safety risks and crop damage from wild birds.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
We show that falcons attracted to orchards using nestboxes reduce food safety risks and crop damage from wild birds.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Falcons reduce pre‐harvest food safety risks and crop damage from wild birds
In the absence of American kestrels, there are more birds in orchards. This leads to increased crop damage and more bird faecal contamination.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🍒🪶Excited for our new article to come out in
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
We show that falcons attracted to orchards using nestboxes reduce food safety risks and crop damage from wild birds.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
We show that falcons attracted to orchards using nestboxes reduce food safety risks and crop damage from wild birds.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Excited to hype up this excellent paper led by Mia Lippey, finishing up her PhD at @ucdavis.bsky.social, and in collaboration with @beckyck.bsky.social, @dskarp.bsky.social + others, finding that once again in (agro)ecology "it depends". 👩🔬 🐞🪲🌍🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Excited to hype up this excellent paper led by Mia Lippey, finishing up her PhD at @ucdavis.bsky.social, and in collaboration with @beckyck.bsky.social, @dskarp.bsky.social + others, finding that once again in (agro)ecology "it depends". 👩🔬 🐞🪲🌍🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
Amazing morning tagging along for the salmon research on Putah Creek!
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Amazing morning tagging along for the salmon research on Putah Creek!
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You may have heard that the UC decided to cancel the Presidential Postdoc program, a decision which lots of folks found incredibly short-sighted. But we just got an email from UC Pres Milliken that the fellowship program is back, baby! (at least for the time being, but hey, it's something)
November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
You may have heard that the UC decided to cancel the Presidential Postdoc program, a decision which lots of folks found incredibly short-sighted. But we just got an email from UC Pres Milliken that the fellowship program is back, baby! (at least for the time being, but hey, it's something)
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If you're an undergrad looking for a great biodiversity/conservation field course, please check this out. Run by my buddy Jordan Karubian through Tulane U.
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If you're an undergrad looking for a great biodiversity/conservation field course, please check this out. Run by my buddy Jordan Karubian through Tulane U.
First time chasing a rare bird with the kiddo... a total success!
(after a mild scare when a Sharp-shinned Hawk flew off with a bird in its talons that we thought was our Sagebrush Sparrow.)
(after a mild scare when a Sharp-shinned Hawk flew off with a bird in its talons that we thought was our Sagebrush Sparrow.)
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
First time chasing a rare bird with the kiddo... a total success!
(after a mild scare when a Sharp-shinned Hawk flew off with a bird in its talons that we thought was our Sagebrush Sparrow.)
(after a mild scare when a Sharp-shinned Hawk flew off with a bird in its talons that we thought was our Sagebrush Sparrow.)
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The Bodega Marine Lab and @ucdavis.bsky.social were on @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social last night! 🎉
We’ll take "Ways to Make a Marine Scientist’s Day” for $1,000, please, and give a big shoutout to our @whiteabalone.bsky.social team!
📺: Season 42, E9434 - Week 10, Episode 49
We’ll take "Ways to Make a Marine Scientist’s Day” for $1,000, please, and give a big shoutout to our @whiteabalone.bsky.social team!
📺: Season 42, E9434 - Week 10, Episode 49
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The Bodega Marine Lab and @ucdavis.bsky.social were on @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social last night! 🎉
We’ll take "Ways to Make a Marine Scientist’s Day” for $1,000, please, and give a big shoutout to our @whiteabalone.bsky.social team!
📺: Season 42, E9434 - Week 10, Episode 49
We’ll take "Ways to Make a Marine Scientist’s Day” for $1,000, please, and give a big shoutout to our @whiteabalone.bsky.social team!
📺: Season 42, E9434 - Week 10, Episode 49
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New agroecology research in "Ecological Applications"👇
Another really cool pest paper just came out in @esajournals.bsky.social! Led by Mia Lippey, we show how variable pest responses are to landscape context... even in the same cropping system!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
One landscape does not fit all: Diverse arthropod responses to land use
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November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
New agroecology research in "Ecological Applications"👇
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We showed that they vary even within the same genus doi.org/10.1111/1365... (shameless plug 😅)
Spatiotemporal isolation of oilseed rape fields reduces insect pest pressure and crop damage
We find that there is no one fits all approach in designing landscapes for flea beetle regulation as habitat use and scales of effect are species-specific for these pests. However, increasing the spa....
doi.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
We showed that they vary even within the same genus doi.org/10.1111/1365... (shameless plug 😅)
Another really cool pest paper just came out in @esajournals.bsky.social! Led by Mia Lippey, we show how variable pest responses are to landscape context... even in the same cropping system!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
One landscape does not fit all: Diverse arthropod responses to land use
You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Another really cool pest paper just came out in @esajournals.bsky.social! Led by Mia Lippey, we show how variable pest responses are to landscape context... even in the same cropping system!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Kiddo went all out on my birthday cake this year... With a little help from @rachaelabay.bsky.social :)
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Kiddo went all out on my birthday cake this year... With a little help from @rachaelabay.bsky.social :)
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For 4 days I followed @ucdavis.bsky.social scientists into the High Sierra to learn secrets from a tree, a bird and a changing world. I came back with this story, a new @unfoldpodcast.bsky.social episode, tons of pics and even watercolors.🌲🪺 🎨 Enjoy! www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
For 4 days I followed @ucdavis.bsky.social scientists into the High Sierra to learn secrets from a tree, a bird and a changing world. I came back with this story, a new @unfoldpodcast.bsky.social episode, tons of pics and even watercolors.🌲🪺 🎨 Enjoy! www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
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The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
Join Us!
brown-ecology.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
Excited about this paper led by Katja Poveda & Heather Grab!
We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality.
Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality.
Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Importance of Landscape Composition for Pest Control and Crop Yield: A Global Quantitative Synthesis
In a global analysis of 116 studies, we show that landscape composition affects crop yield both directly and indirectly via traits of crops, herbivores and natural enemies. Our results suggest that w...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Excited about this paper led by Katja Poveda & Heather Grab!
We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality.
Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality.
Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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I heard rumors about this but devastating to see it happening.. “the PPFP faculty hiring incentive is sunsetting as of fall 2025” 💔 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I heard rumors about this but devastating to see it happening.. “the PPFP faculty hiring incentive is sunsetting as of fall 2025” 💔 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Ok #bird people- can anyone ID my daughter's Halloween costume? Hint the key is the feet and the tail...
(Also this costume was 100 percent kid driven)
(Also this costume was 100 percent kid driven)
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Ok #bird people- can anyone ID my daughter's Halloween costume? Hint the key is the feet and the tail...
(Also this costume was 100 percent kid driven)
(Also this costume was 100 percent kid driven)
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Time for an intro! Hi everyone, my name is Mike, and I recently started grad school in the Safford Lab at UC Davis where I’ll be working towards a PhD in the Grad Group in Ecology researching avian ecology for improved conservation efforts and ecosystem management, primarily in forested systems.
October 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Time for an intro! Hi everyone, my name is Mike, and I recently started grad school in the Safford Lab at UC Davis where I’ll be working towards a PhD in the Grad Group in Ecology researching avian ecology for improved conservation efforts and ecosystem management, primarily in forested systems.
Congrats to the absolutely incredible @rachaelabay.bsky.social !!!
October 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Congrats to the absolutely incredible @rachaelabay.bsky.social !!!
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Eclipses fool birds into thinking it's morning!
Congrats to @rosvall-lab.bsky.social for this amazing work!
Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Congrats to @rosvall-lab.bsky.social for this amazing work!
Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science
On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...
www.science.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Eclipses fool birds into thinking it's morning!
Congrats to @rosvall-lab.bsky.social for this amazing work!
Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Congrats to @rosvall-lab.bsky.social for this amazing work!
Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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New paper out today led by Prof. @dskarp.bsky.social
Marketing birds: The traits birdwatching tourism companies highlight in Costa Rican tour itineraries
Marketing birds: The traits birdwatching tourism companies highlight in Costa Rican tour itineraries
Stoked to share our new paper, just out in @amornith.bsky.social, that explores the traits that predict which species that appear in Costa Rican bird itineraries!
(open access link below, thread to follow)
academic.oup.com/condor/advan...
(open access link below, thread to follow)
academic.oup.com/condor/advan...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
New paper out today led by Prof. @dskarp.bsky.social
Marketing birds: The traits birdwatching tourism companies highlight in Costa Rican tour itineraries
Marketing birds: The traits birdwatching tourism companies highlight in Costa Rican tour itineraries
Stoked to share our new paper, just out in @amornith.bsky.social, that explores the traits that predict which species that appear in Costa Rican bird itineraries!
(open access link below, thread to follow)
academic.oup.com/condor/advan...
(open access link below, thread to follow)
academic.oup.com/condor/advan...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Stoked to share our new paper, just out in @amornith.bsky.social, that explores the traits that predict which species that appear in Costa Rican bird itineraries!
(open access link below, thread to follow)
academic.oup.com/condor/advan...
(open access link below, thread to follow)
academic.oup.com/condor/advan...
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE