Events Gretchen Daily is interviewed by Newsweek: Investing in green markets to make conservation work. The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich was listed as the runner-up to the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Paul Ehrlich spoke at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco on January 18, 2005; the lecture was broadcast on the KQED radio station. On January 20, 2005, SU Aurora Forum hosted CCB researchers in a conversation titled Nature’s Economy: Population, Consumption, and Sustainability. Congratulation to our local organizers of the Bay Area Conservation Biology Symposium 2005! Sponsored by Center for Conservation Biology and SU Biological Sciences department. Stanford Report conducted an interview with Paul Ehrlich about his recently published book, One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption and the Human Future. Recent Papers Mayfield, M. M. and G. C. Daily. In Press. Countryside biogeography of Neotropical herbaceous and shrubby plants. Ecological Applications. Mayfield, M. M. In Press. The importance of nearby forest to known and potential pollinators of oil palm (Elaeis guineënsis Jacq.; Areceaceae) in southern Costa Rica, Economic Botany.

Events Awards Transitions Recent papers Awards Congratulations to Gretchen Daily on her election to the US National Academy of Sciences! Transitions Please join us in welcoming Tim Bonebrake and Deborah Rogers as new doctoral students. Congratulations to: Sean Anderson[email], who is now an assistant professor at California State Channel Islands; Kai Chan, a new assistant professor at the University of British Columbia; John Fay[email], who has taken a position at Duke University; and Margaret Mayfield [email], who is now a post-doc at the University of Santa Barbara. The California Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma californiense) has been listed as Threatened under the US Endangered Species Act. The CCB has been working to help restore populations in the Stanford Foothills for several years.

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