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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.

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    Ecorestore: Online Portal And Community of Practice for Ecological Restoration for Southwest Rangelands and Forests

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $75.6K
    Active
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    From the Ground Up: Educating Cooperative Extension and NRCS About Agricultural Technologies to Enhance Soil Health

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $70.7K
    Active
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    Developing a National Program for Providing Extension Resources in Spanish

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $29.0K
    Active
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    Testing the Potential of Seed Pellets to Improve the Soil Health in Rangelands

    undefined (CD)

    2022

    $28.6K
    Active
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    EcoRestore: Creating an Online Portal of State-specific IPM Information for Arizona and Utah

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $26.1K
    Active
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    The Role of Early Successional Plant Species in Hard Rock Mine Revegetation

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2022

    $3.0K
    Active
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    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
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    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

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