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GBEM-Team Leader

   -Jeanne Chambers

 

EPR-Project Leader

   -Robin Tausch

 

 

The Book

   -Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems

 

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THESES AND DISSERTATIONS COMPLETED

 Castelli, Regine M. 1999. Soil plant relations along a soil water gradient in central Nevada riparian meadows.  University of Nevada, Reno.  Master’s Thesis.

Linnerooth, Amy, R. 1999. Restoring sagebrush dominated riparian corridors using seedling establishment to demonstrate alternative stable states. University of Nevada, Reno.  Master’s Thesis.

Martin, David W. 1999. Species interactions and recovery potentials of Nebraska sedge/Kentucky bluegrass meadows in central Nevada. University of Nevada, Reno. PhD. Dissertation.

Davis, Catherine. 2000.  The relationships between hydrologic regime, channel geomorphology, and vegetation successional processes. University of Nevada, Reno. Master’s Thesis.

Henderson, Danielle. 2001.  Relationships between climate, stream incision, and vegetation in central Nevada. University of Nevada, Reno. Master's Thesis.

Korfmacher, John. 2001. Reach scale relationships of vegetation and alluvial fans in central Nevada riparian corridors. University of Nevada, Reno. . Master's Thesis

Michael Wright. 2001. Establishing protocols for restoring basin big sagebrush dominated riparian corridors. University of Nevada, Reno. Master's Thesis.

Mebine, Pam. 2002. The role of the seed bank in restoring basin big sagebrush dominated riparian ecosystems. University of Nevada, Reno. Master's Thesis.

 Lahde, Daniel. 2003. The influence of secondary roads on stream incision in watersheds of the central Great Basin. University of Nevada, Reno. Master’s Thesis.

Reiner, Alicia. 2004. Changing fuel loads and ecosystem response to watershed-scale burns in Great Basin pinyon-juniper woodlands. University of Nevada, Reno. Master's Thesis. 

Rau, Benjamin.  2005. Soil Physical, Chemical and Understory Plant Nutritional Response to Pinyon-juniper Encroachment and Prescribed Fire in a Central Nevada Woodland. University of Nevada, Reno. Master’s Thesis.

Mont Blanc, Eugénie. 2005. The effects of elevation, tree cover and fire on ant populations in a pinyon-juniper dominated watershed. University of Nevada, Reno. Master’s Thesis.

Dhaemers, Jessica. 2006. Vegetation Response to Prescribed Fire in Pinyon and Juniper Dominated Ecosystems of Central Nevada. University of Nevada, Reno.  Master's Thesis.

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS

 

Mazzola, Monica. In progress. Community susceptibility to cheatgrass

(Bromus tectorum) invasion. University of Nevada, Reno.

PhDDissertation.

 

Goergin, Erin, In Progress.  The role of symbiotic nitrogen fixaztion on community composition and plant invasion in sagebrush ecosystems.  University of Nevada Reno.  PhD Dissertation.

 

GRANTS/OUTSIDE FUNDS

  • Robert S. Nowak and Robin J. Tausch. 1994-1997. Environmental, Genetic and Ecophysiological Variation of Western and Utah Juniper and Their Hybrids: A Model System for Vegetation Response to Climate Change. U.S. Department of Energy Special Research Grant Program.

  • Robin J. Tausch.  1996-1997. Population and Community Dynamics of a New Pinyon research Natural Area.  Intermountain Research Station Research natural Area Matching Grant Program.

  • Robert S. Nowak and Robin J. Tausch. 1996-1998. Conceptual and Predictive Models of Paleo-Vegetation Dynamics in the Great Basin.  USDA Cooperative State research Service,  National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program

  • Jeanne C. Chambers. USDA CSREES Rangelands Grant. 6/1996-01/1999.  Basin big sagebrush dominated riparian corridors - Dry meadows as alternative stable states?

  • Jeanne C. Chambers, Jerry R. Miller, and David Jewett. 6/97-6/99.  USDA Forest Service, Stream Systems Technology Center. Instream flow requirements for supporting riparian ecosystems. (Vegetation)

  • Jerry R. Miller and David Jewett. 6/97-6/99. USDA Forest Service, Stream Systems Technology Center. Instream flow requirements for supporting riparian ecosystems. (Geomorphology and Ground Water Hydrology)

  • John Warwick and Jeanne Chambers. 10/98-7/2001. USDA Forest Service, Stream Systems Technology Center. Quantifying the magnitude of stream incision in central Nevada during the last one-hundred years: a requisite for managing and restoring riparian ecosystems.

  • Jerry R. Miller and Eliot Atekwana. 9/99-6/01. USDA Forest Service, Stream Systems Technology Center. Quantifying sources of surface and subsurface flows: significance for sustaining stream flows and riparian vegetation.

  • Jerry R. Miller, Mark Lord, and Jeanne Chambers. 9/99-7/01. USDA Forest Service, Stream Systems Technology Center. Understanding instream flow requirements for low flow stream systems.

  • Scott Tyler, Jeanne Chambers, and Tom Bullard. 9/00-6/02. USDA Forest Service, Stream Systems Technology Center.  Relationships between roads, stream incision processes, and riparian ecosystems.

  • Jeanne C. Chambers, Robin J. Tausch, Michael C. Amacher, Dru Germanoski, Erica Fleishman, and Desiderio Zamudio. 10/00-9/03. Joint Fire Sciences Program. A demonstration area on ecosystem response to watershed-scale burns in Great Basin pinyon-juniper woodlands.

  • Jeanne C. Chambers, E. Durant McArthur, Richard R. Miller, Robin J. Tausch, and 10 other PIs.  10/00-9/03. Joint Fire Sciences Program.  Changing fire regimes, increased fuel loads, and invasive species: effects of sagebrush steppe and pinyon-juniper ecosystems.

  • J. C. Chambers and R. J. Tausch. 10/00-9/02. USDA Forest Service Research. Title IV Fire Research Competition.  Susceptibility of Great Basin Ecosystems to weedy species invasions.

  • R.S. Nowak, P.I.; H.Glimp, P.Doescher, J. Tanaka, E. Schupp, A. Rasmussen, C. Call, J. Chambers, R. Tausch, D. Pyke, R. Blank, T. Jones, & M. Pellant, Co-P.I.'s. 10/01-10/05 Integrated Restoration Strategies Towards Weed Control On Western Rangelands.  USDA IFAFS Program.

  • J. C. Chambers, R. J. Tausch, R. R. Blank, and E. Fleishman. 10/01 -10/04. Joint Fire Sciences Program. Effects of fire and rehabilitation seeding on sage grouse habitat in the pinyon-juniper woodland zone.

  • D. G. Jewett, J. C. Chambers, J. R. Miller, M. Lord and D. Germanoski. 4/01 – 3/06. Geomrophic, hydrologic and vegetation interactions related to alluvial fans and meadow complexes.

  • J. D. McIver, J. Chambers, C. D’Antonio, P. Doescher, S. Karl, R. Miller, M. Pellant, D. Pyke, R. Tausch, M. Wisdom. 7/03 – 8/04.  Designing an experiment to evaluate effects of fire and fire surrogate treatments in the sagebrush biome.  Joint Fires Sciences Program.

  • J. D. MicIver, h. Barrett, M. Brunson, S. Bunting, J chambers, C. D'Antonio, P. Doescher, S. Karl, S. Knick, R. Miller, M. Pellant, F. Pierson, D. Pyke, K. Rollins, B. Roundy, G. Schupp, R. Tausch, D. Turner, and M. Wisdom. 5/05-6/10.  A regional experiment to evaluate effects of fire and fire surrogate treatments in teh sagebrush biome.  Joint Fire Science Program.

  •  E. Fleishman, J. C. Chambers, Dobkin, D., Noon, B., and K. Seto. 6/05 - 6/08. Response of birds, butterflies, and their habitats to management of wildland fuels and fire regimes. Joint Fire Sciences Program

  • J. C. Chambers, J. R. Miller, M. Lord and D. Germanoski. 3/06-3/08.  Environmental Protection Agency, ORD. Geomorphic, hydrologic and vegetation interactions related to alluvial fans and meadow complexes-An extension.

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            Center for Invasive Plant Management

 

   
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