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Restoration and Ecology of Arid Lands (REAL) Laboratory
 
(We put the R in FRESC)

CURRENT STUDENTS

Nicole DeCrappeo (Ph.D.)

Upekala Wijayratne (Ph.D.)

Jessi Brunson (M.S.)

Lora Perkins (M.S.)

 

STUDENT ALUMNI

Kevin C. Knutson (M.S. 2006) - "Climate Growth Relationships of Western Juniper and Ponderosa Pine at the Pine-Woodland Ecotone in Southern Oregon" http://fresc.usgs.gov/products/papers/1518_Knutson.pdf

Dana Witwicki (M.S. 2005) - "Sugar Application and Nitrogen Pools in Wyoming Big Sagebrush Communities and Exotic Grasslands"

Steven Bekedam (M.S. 2004) - "Establishment Tolerance of Six Native Sagebrush Steppe Species to Imazapic (Plateau®) Herbicide - Implications for Restoration and Recovery"  http://fresc.usgs.gov/products/thesis/Bekedam_thesis.pdf

Kara Hempy Mayer (M.S. 2004) - "The Effects of Defoliation on Bromus tectorum seed production and growth"  http://fresc.usgs.gov/products/thesis/Hempy_thesis.pdf

Kristen Harrison (M.S. 2003) - "Litter Decay Processes and Soil Nitrogen Availability in Native and Cheatgrass Dominated Arid Rangelands"  http://fresc.usgs.gov/products/thesis/harrison/litterdecay_soiln.pdf

Ted O. McArthur (M.S. 2002) - "Emergency Fire Rehabilitation of BLM Lands in the Great Basin: Revegetation & Rehabilitation"  http://fresc.usgs.gov/products/papers/1509_McArthur.pdf

Tom N. Kaye (PhD 2001) - "Population Viability Analysis of Endangered Plant Species: An Evaluation of Stochastic Methods and an Application to a Rare Prairie Plant"  USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center: Thesis-Kaye

Troy Wirth (M.S. 2000) - "Emergence, Survival and Reproduction of Forbs Important to Sage Grouse Nutrition in Response to Fire Microsite and Method of Establishment"  http://fresc.usgs.gov/products/thesis/wirth/wirththesis.pdf

Michelle Stubbs (M.S. 2000) - "Time Based Nitrogen Availability and Risk of Taeniatherum caput-medusae (L.) Nevski Invasion in Central Oregon"

Margaret S. Law (M.S. 2000) - "Control of Lepidium Latifolium and Restoration of Native Grasses"  http://fresc.usgs.gov/products/thesis/laws/megthesis.pdf

Heather C. Miller (M.S. 1996) - Demography of Medusahead on Two Soil Types: Potential for Invasion into Intact Communities"

M. Melinda Trask (M.S. 1996) - Breaking Seed Dormancy in Three Western Oregon Grasses"

 

 

 

 


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