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Chris Catano
@chriscatano.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside | Ecology | Community Assembly | Biodiversity | Global Change Biology

Working towards a predictive ecology to advance fundamental theory & applications

https://chcatano.wixsite.com/ecology
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Our lab's first trip together to the field in SoCal! So fun to explore and talk remote sensing, plants, pollinators, and ecosystem restoration with my new grad students.
Three people standing in southern california grassland with snow-capped mountains in the background.
October 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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It was great to be back at my Alma Matter, Washington Univ. in St. Louis and the Tyson Research Center, to catch up with good friends and present at the Tyson Environment Research Conference. Tyson is an amazing community supporting great research and people. Thanks @jamyersecology.bsky.social
Chris and Jonathan standing in front of a wood sign marking a forest dynamics research site in the foothills of Missouri Ozarks.
July 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Start of a new landscape scale experiment in SoCal to understand how conservation grazing, seed arrival, and environmental heterogeneity interact to alter the distribution of biodiversity across scales.
Researchers installing vegetation sampling plots in non-native dominated annual grasslands.
June 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Sunny forgot how to use his crate...
White lab sitting on top of his crate with stuffed animal in his mouth.
April 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Inaugural Southern California Conference on Ecological Change hosted at @ucriverside.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM