| Awardee |
Reserve Used |
Research Title |
| UC Berkeley |
| Kenwyn Blakeslee Suttle |
Angelo Coast Range Reserve |
Consequences of altered hydrologic
regimes for a North Coast California Grassland Community |
| Lisa Grubisha |
Santa Cruz Island Reserve |
Analysis of gene flow in mainland and
island populations of the ectomycorrhizal fungus Rhizopogon rubescens
|
| Maria M. Soares |
Hastings Natural History Reservation
|
Social organization of California voles
(Microtus californicus): its implications for the evolution of mammalian
sociality |
| UC Davis |
| Collin A. Eagles-Smith |
Eagle Lake Biological Field Station
|
Effects of Food Web Complexity on the
Biomagnification of Mercury in Aquatic Ecosystems |
| Amy L. Freestone |
McLaughlin Natural Reserve |
Serpentine seep plant communities:
A definition, delineation, and use in testing local, regional, and
differential diversity patterns |
| Michael A. Kennedy |
Bodega Marine Reserve |
Invertebrate Remains from Bodega Bay,
California: Implications for the Evolution of Marine Subsistence
Intesification |
| Mary Brooke McEachern |
Eagle Lake Biological Field Station
|
The Genetic Consequences of Mating
System Variation in the Dusky-footed Woodrat (Neotoma fuscipes)
|
| Evan Preisser |
Bodega Marine Reserve |
Moisture-mediated interactions in a
two-predator trophic cascade |
| UC Los Angeles |
| Teresa Jolene Brennan |
James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve
|
Post-Fire Succession and Persistence
of Chaparral Forest Ecotone in the San Jacinto Mountains of California
|
| Aviva Liebert |
Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains
Reserve |
Reproductive Flexibility in the paper
wasp Polistes aurifer |
| Kristina D. Louie |
Santa Cruz Island Reserve & Kendall-Frost
Mission Bay Marsh Reserve |
The effect of different reproductive
strategies on the gentic variation of eastern Pacific eelgrass taxa:
a focus on the bay pipefish (Syngnathus leptorhynchus) |
| UC Riverside |
| Sharon J. Coe |
Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research
Center |
How does water availability affect
reproductive success in desert birds? A test using water supplementation
in the Black-throated Sparrow (Amphispiza billineata deserticola)
|
| Amy E. Lindahl |
Emerson Oaks Reserve |
Seasonal and spatial shifts in patterns
of ecto- and arbuscular mycorrhizae associated with coast live oak
(Quercus agrifolia) and grasslands in a southern California ecosystem
|
| Abby Glenn Sirulnik |
Motte Rimrock Reserve, Box Springs
Reserve, and Emerson Oaks Reserve |
Effects of Nitrogen Deposition on Nutrient
Cycling in Exotic Annual Grasslands and Chaparral Communities in
Southern California |
| UC Santa Barbara |
| John P. LaBonte |
Sedgwick Reserve |
Ontogeny of Foraging Behavior in the
Southern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis helleri) |
| Stephanie Romanach |
Sedgwick Reserve |
The influence of body size, resource
abundance, and social interactions on movement patterns |
| Sean Mark Watts |
Santa Cruz Island Reserve |
The evolutionary response of plants
to root herbivory |
| UC Santa Cruz |
| Lisa A. DiGirolamo |
Fort Ord Natural Reserve |
Effects of the invasive Argentine ant
(Linepithema humile) on grassland community structure |
| Joy Anna Hagen |
Younger Lagoon Reserve |
The role of insects in regulating invasive
weeds: Populations of Brassica weeds on the Central Coast |
| Brooke Weaver |
Fort Ord Natural Reserve |
Demographic change s of Coast horned
lizards, Phrynosoma coronatum, in response to a biological invader,
the Argentine ant, Linepitherma humile |