Collaborative Projects List

The following projects have been approved and are currently taking place or completed. Click on the project title for more information about the researchers, study sites, and a project summary.

Seed Pool Studies

How Important Are Local Collections for Establishing Native Grasses in the Intermountain West?

The Relationships Between the Seed Bank and Above-ground Vegetation in the Context of Restoration

Viable Seedbank Composition Under a Gradient of Western Juniper Cover.

Seed Pool Response to Juniper/Pinyon Encroachment and Fire

Restoring Cheatgrass-Degraded Sagebrush Steppe Systems: the Interaction of Ant Foraging Behavior, Seed Pools, and Restoration Management Initiatives

Wildlife Studies

An evaluation of ecological restoration treatments on small mammal communities

Restoring Cheatgrass-Degraded Sagebrush Steppe Systems: the Interaction of Ant Foraging Behavior, Seed Pools, and Restoration Management Initiatives

Vegetation, Hydrology and Soils Studies

The effects of fire on biological soil crusts and their subsequent recovery in pinyon-juniper

Mechanisms for species success following juniper mastication

Impacts of defoliation on the competitive abilities of resident bunchgrasses with cheatgrass

Soil and hydrologic response to mastication of juniper woodlands

Social, Political, and Economic Studies

Factors Influencing the Social Acceptability of Conifer Removal for Rangeland Restoration

Other

Finding the Most Similar Landscape: Automated Control Site Selection Using GIS

Mycorrhizae in Sagebrush Restoration: Mycorrhizal Dependency of Invasive and Native Grasses with Intraspecific and Interspecific Competition