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Current research foci include addressing restoration & weed management strategies that mitigate effects of climate change (particularly warming & decreasing precipitation), & designing financially & logistically feasible restoration strategies.VOSviewer
Grants
- Uniting Western Restoration Strategies and Indigenous Knowledges to Build Capacity and Climate Resilience on the Navajo Nation
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$223.7K
Active - Ecorestore: Online Portal And Community of Practice for Ecological Restoration for Southwest Rangelands and Forests
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$75.6K
Active - From the Ground Up: Educating Cooperative Extension and NRCS About Agricultural Technologies to Enhance Soil Health
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$70.7K
Active - Developing a National Program for Providing Extension Resources in Spanish
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$29.0K
Active - Testing the Potential of Seed Pellets to Improve the Soil Health in Rangelands
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2022
$28.6K
Active - EcoRestore: Creating an Online Portal of State-specific IPM Information for Arizona and Utah
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$26.1K
Active - Providing Targeted Outreach on Navajo Nation Lands of the Colorado Plateau to Wind Erosion Risk
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$14.5K
Active - The Role of Early Successional Plant Species in Hard Rock Mine Revegetation
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$3.0K
Active - CNH2-L: Solving Grand Challenges in Coupled Natural Human Systems: Predicting Effective Governance Strategies for Manning Invasive Species
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$1.6M
Active - Engaging Students in Support for Grasslands Conservation and Restoration in the Southwest
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$321.9K
Active
Books
- Restoration Manual for Annual Grassland Systems in California
2017
News
- Bringing Policy and Law Into Fight Against Buffelgrass
2019
Publications (93)
Recent
- Functional traits are used in restoration practice: a response to Merchant et al. (2022)
2023
- Soil surface treatments and precipitation timing determine seedling development across southwestern US restoration sites
2023
- span style= font-size:11pt;color:#222222; Pre-fire grazing and herbicide treatments can affect post-fire vegetation in a Great Basin rangeland /span
2023
- span style= font-size:11pt;color:#222222; Warming tends to decrease ecosystem carbon and water use efficiency in dissimilar ways in an alpine meadow and a cultivated grassland in the Tibetan Plateau /span
2022
- span style= font-size:11pt;color:#222222; Granivorous ants prefer small and unprotected seeds – Implications for restoration in arid ecosystems /span
2022
- span style= font-size:medium; Functional traits are used in restoration practice /span
2022
- span style= font-size:11pt;color:#222222; Warming diminished the sustainability of primary productivity in global grass- and forb-dominated ecosystems /span
2022
- Efficacy of labile carbon addition to reduce fast‐growing, invasive non‐native plants: A review and meta‐analysis
2022
- span style= font-size:11pt;color:#222222; Does restoration of plant diversity trigger concomitant soil microbiome changes in dryland ecosystems? /span
2022
- Restoring Palmer s agave in a Lehmann lovegrass dominated grassland in Southeastern Arizona
2022
- span style= font-size:11pt;color:#222222; Efficacy of strip seeding to restore native grassland plant communities /span
2022
- span style= font-size:11pt;color:#222222; Decade on ecosystem restoration: key considerations for Africa /span
2022
- span style= font-size:11pt; Using native plants to control buffelgrass /span
2022
- Biotic and Abiotic Factors Important for Palmer rsquo;s Agave Restoration in Lehmann Lovegrass Dominated Areas
2022
- span style= font-size:11pt; Identifying restoration opportunities under mesquite canopies /span
2022
- Rock structures improve seedling establishment, litter catchment, fungal richness, and soil moisture in the first year after installation
2022
- span style= font-size:11pt;color:#222222; Russian thistle control in California rangelands over five years /span
2022
- Impacts of drought and native grass competition on Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare)
2021
- Plant functional groups mediate the effects of climate and soil actors on species richness and community biomass on the Mongolian Plateau grasslands
2021
- Sharing knowledge to improve ecological restoration outcomes
2021
- Restoring Palmer’s agave in a Lehmann lovegrass dominated grassland in Southeastern Arizona
2021
- Plant functional groups mediate the effects of climate and soil factors on species richness and community biomass in grasslands on the Mongolian Plateau
2021
- Integration of grazing and herbicide application improves management of barb goatgrass and medusahead in pasture and rangelands
2021
- Biotic and abiotic factors important for Palmer's agave restoration in Lehmann lovegrass dominated areas
2021
- The divergent impact of phenology changing on productivity of alpine grassland to different timing of drought on Tibetan Plateau
2021
- Does restoration of plant diversity trigger concomitant soil microbiome changes in dryland ecosystems?
2021
- Effects of buffelgrass removal and nitrogen addition on soil microbial communities during an extreme drought in the Sonoran Desert
2021
- The effects of site preparation equal to those of seeding at a dryland restoration site: 6 years of plant community development
2021
- Restoration, soil microbes and soil processes: emerging approaches
2020
- Buffelgrass invasion and glyphosate effects on desert soil microbiome communities
2020
- Restoration at the landscape scale as a means of mitigation and adaptation to climate change
2020
- Practitioner Insights into Weed Management on California's Rangelands and Natural Areas
2020
- Phenological changes offset the warming effects on biomass production in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
2020
- Rainfall pulses mediate long-term plant community dynamics in a semi-arid rangeland
2020
- Shifts in plant composition mediate grazing effects on carbon cycling in grasslands
2020
- Warming and precipitation addition interact to affect plant spring phenology in alpine meadows on the central Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
2020
- Rainfall pulses mediate long‐term plant community compositional dynamics in a semi‐arid rangeland
2020
- Bridging the research-implementation gap in weed management on California rangelands
2020
- Disturbance is more important than seeding or grazing in determining soil microbial communities in a semi-arid grassland
2020
- Integration of grazing and herbicide application to manage Barb Goatgrass (Aegilops triuncialis L.) and Medusahead (Elymus caput-medusae L.) in pasture and rangelands
2020
- The use of spatially-patterned methods for vegetation restoration and management across systems
2020
- General attributes and practice of ecological restoration in Arizona and California, USA revealed by restoration stakeholder surveys
2020
- Identifying restoration opportunities beneath native mesquite canopies
2020
- Pennisetum ciliaris: a review of treatment efficacy, competitive traits, and restoration opportunities
2019
- Increased soil temperature and decreased precipitation during early life stages constrain grass seedling recruitment in cold desert restoration
2019
- Review of seed pelletizing strategies for arid land restoration
2019
- The use of strip-seeding for management of two late-season invasive plants
2019
- Rainfall regulation of grazed grasslands
2019
- Contribution of subseasonal and multi-year climate variation to seedling recruitment in dryland restoration
2019
- Using strip seeding to test how restoration design affects randomness of community assembly
2019
- Foliar Nutrient Content Mediates Grazing Effects on Species Dominance and Plant Community Biomass
2019
- Differential resistance and resilience of dunctional groups to livestock grazing maintain ecosystem stability in an alpine steppe on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
2019
- Restoration Assessment and Monitoring Program for the Southwest
2018
- Foliar nutrient content mediates the effects of grazing on the relative abundance of dominant and subordinate species
2018
- A systematic review of management efforts on goatgrass (Aegilops spp) dominance
2018
- The value of Cooperative Extension for involving society in restoration and conservation
2018
- Livestock grazing effects on grassland plant communities after long-term grazing cessation
2018
- Grazing effect on grasslands escalated by abnormal precipitations in Inner Mongolia
2018
- Seeding for Multiple Ecosystem Service Goals
2018
- Temperature leads to changes of plant community composition and species diversity in alpine meadow and steppe on the central Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
2018
- Careers in Cooperative Extension
2018
- Restoration islands: a tool for efficiently restoring dryland ecosystems?
2017
- Emerging approaches to successful ecological restoration: five imperatives to guide innovation
2017
- Seeded forages in California annual rangeland
2017
- Cooperative Extension holds the key to unlocking public engagement within science
2017
- Comparison of herbaceous plant response to active and passive riparian restoration in a Mediterranean climate
2017
- Forage seeding in rangelands increases production and prevents weed invasion
2017
- A toolbox for initiating long-term data collections with students and citizen scientists
2017
- New Ecological Restoration Section at ESA
2016
- Invasive species cover, soil type, and grazing interact to predict long-term grassland restoration success
2016
- The effects of habitat and demography on management outcomes for an invasive annual grass
2016
- Associations between an Invasive Plant (Taeniatherum caput-medusae, Medusahead) and Soil Microbial Communities
2016
- Differential response of alpine steppe and alpine meadow to climate warming in the central Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
2016
- Practitioner perspectives on using nonnative plants for revegetation
2016
- Climate-driven diversity loss in a grassland community
2015
- Mechanisms of facilitation on a barrier island
2015
- The value of oak woodland habitats as control for Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae)
2015
- Plant Community Responses to Simultaneous Changes in Temperature, Nitrogen Availability, and Invasion
2015
- Introduction to the Special Issue: Across the horizon: scale effects in global change research
2015
- Altered snowfall influences early life stage transitions and recruitment of a native and invasive grass in a cold desert
2015
- Managing Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) on Rangeland: A Meta-Analysis of Control Effects and Assessment of Stakeholder Needs
2015
- Do foliar traits predict how plants respond to warming? A meta analysis
2014
- Testing mechanisms of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis in saxicolous lichen communities
2014
- Demographic effects of warming, elevated soil nitrogen, and native community reduction on the colonization of a perennial plant
2014
- Interactive effects of global change and invasion across levels of organization in an old field plant community
2014
- Using long-term census data to inform restoration methods of coastal dune vegetation
2013
- Plant community response to global climate change at different scales: A review
2013
- Effects of density and fire on the vital rates and population growth of a perennial goldenaster
2013
- Interdisciplinary climate change collaborations are essential for early-career scientists
2013
- Moving forward in global-change ecology: capitalizing on natural variability
2013
- Moving forward in global-change ecology: capitalizing on natural variability.
2012
- Effects of storm frequency on dune vegetation
2010
- Climate and coastal dune vegetation: disturbance, recovery, and succession
2010