Bodega Marine Reserve

A diverse land-and-sea site, the Bodega Marine Reserve straddles a peninsula of coastal granite thought to have been displaced hundreds of miles northward along the San Andreas Fault. Research at Bodega includes: Physical influences on urchin and crab larval settlement and transport, Soil nutrients, herbivores, and coastal grassland community dynamics, Effects of invasive green crabs on shorebird populations and native invertebrates, Effects of pathogens on native and introduced clovers, Magnetic field detection in sharks and rays, and Effects of local adaptation in grasses on ecological restoration.