Mathias Research Projects

1. Year: 2010-2011
   Reserves Used: Dawson Los Monos Reserve
   Research Title: Homogenizing a mutualism: Does the invasive Argentine ant reduce species diversity in ant-aphid mutualism?
   Researcher: Katherine LeVan
   UC Campus: UC San Diego
   
   
2. Year: 2009-2010
   Reserves Used: Dawson Los Monos Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, McLaughlin Natural History Reservation, Quail Ridge Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve
   Research Title: Ecological adaptations and the evolution of reproductive barriers in the Lasthenia californica complex
   Researcher: Jennifer Yost
   UC Campus: UC Santa Cruz
   
   
3. Year: 2009-2010
   Reserves Used: All Reserves in the System
   Research Title: A Visual Survey; photographic study of the University of California Natural Reserve System
   Researcher: Christopher Woodcock
   UC Campus: UC Davis
   
   
4. Year: 2005-2006
   Reserves Used: Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve
   Hastings Natural History Reservation
   Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve
   Santa Cruz Island Reserve
   Research Title: Population genetics and molecular evolution of self-incompatibility in the Papaveraceae family
   Researcher: Timothy Paape
   UC Campus: UC San Diego
   
   
5. Year: 1999-2000
   Reserves Used: Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve, Elliott Chaparral Reserve, Hastings Natural History Reservation, Bodega Marine Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve, James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, Motte Rimrock Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, and Santa Cruz Island Reserve
   Research Title: Maintenance of floral variation in the Mimulus aurantiacus species complex
   Researcher: Matthew Streisfeld
   UC Campus: UC San Diego
   
   
6. Year: 1996-1997
   Reserves Used: Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve
   Research Title: Functional ecology of the sensitive stigma in bush monkeyflower
   Researcher: Anne Fetscher
   UC Campus: UC San Diego
   
   
7. Year: 1995-1996
   Reserves Used: Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve
   Research Title: Functional ecology of the touch-sensitive stigma in the bush monkeyflower, Mimulus aurantiacus (Scrophulariaceae)
   Researcher: Anne Fetscher
   UC Campus: UC San Diego
   
   
8. Year: 1993-1994
   Reserves Used: Scripps Coastal Reserve, Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve, and Elliot Chaparral Reserve
   Research Title: Phylogenetic analysis of the Nearctic species of the ant genus Messor and its application to various aspects of their biology
   Researcher: Melissa Bennett
   UC Campus: UC Davis