Awardee |
Reserve Used |
Research Title |
| UC Berkeley |
| Lauryn Benedict |
Hastings Natural History Reservation |
Partner communication via duets in California Towhees |
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| Theresa Chuang |
Sagehen Creek Field Station |
Understanding shifts of species ranges in response to climate change: A case study in the Sierra Nevada mountains |
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| Christopher James Clark |
Santa Cruz Island Reserve |
Display dives of the Santa Cruz Island hummingbirds |
| Thomas J. Devitt |
James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve |
The Ensatina eschscholtzii Complex Revisited: Understanding the Origin, Development, and Maintenance of Isolating Barriers in a Ring Species |
| Emily Limm |
Angelo Coast Range Reserve |
An Investigation of the Foliar Fungal Community in the Canopies of Sequoia sempervirens |
| Michael Limm |
Angelo Coast Range Reserve |
Role of Pacific Lamprey (Lampetra tridentata) in a River Ecosystem |
| Shannon M. Peters |
McLaughlin Natural Reserve |
Examining the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in plant adaptation to serpentine soil |
| Kevin Simonin |
Angelo Coast Range Reserve |
The influence of tree size and atmospheric drought on the water use of Sequoia sempervirens |
| Adam B. Smith |
McLaughlin Natural Reserve |
Developing a Mechanistic Understanding of the Species-Area Relationship from Serpentine Habitats |
| Nicole Vaillant |
Sagehen Creek Field Station |
Fire History of Sagehen Creek Basin, Truckee, California |
| Nicole VanderSal |
Hastings Natural History Reservation |
Effects of substrate heterogeneity on jumping spider learning of multimodal prey cues |
| UC Davis |
| Jennifer Zipser Adjemian |
Sagehen Creek Field Station |
The maintenance and ecology of enzootic plague, Yersinia pestis, in California |
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| Julie Baker |
Santa Cruz Island Reserve |
Fog contributions of pedogenesis and hydrology in Pinus muricata ecosystems of Santa Cruz Island |
| Karthik Ram |
Bodega Marine Laboratory/Reserve |
How does rhizosphere type, seasonal moisture and site variation affect survival of Heterohabditis marelatus |
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| Jenna Shinen |
Bodega Marine Laboratory / Reserve |
Exotic species invasion and parasitism: quantifying the community level effects of multiple stressors on foundation species in the rocky intertidal. |
| Hilary M. Swarts |
Santa Cruz Island Reserve |
Circadian temporal activity of the Santa Cruz Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis): A possible newfound anti-predator defense for a naive, endangered species |
| UC Irvine |
| Leah Goldstein |
San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh Reserve |
Invasion into coastal sage scrub: the role of resource use traits of the invader and the invaded community |
| David LeBauer |
Sedgwick Reserve |
Decomposition responses to nitrogen in a California grassland |
| UC Los Angeles
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| Sarah Bryson |
Bodega Marine Laboratory/Reserve |
The effect of an epiphytic bryozoan on kelp herbivores |
| Brittany Enzmann |
Motte Rimrock Reserve
Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve SNARL |
Queen investment and implications for colony founding in harvester ants |
| Melissa M. Gray |
Santa Cruz Island Reserve |
Dwarfism in the Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis) |
| Thomas R. Huggins |
Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center |
Gall morphology and distribution in the Asphondylia auripila group (Cecidomiidae) on creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) |
| Kimberly Pollard |
Sedgwick Reserve
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The coevolution of group size and individual distinctiveness in sciurid alarm calls |
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| UC Riverside |
| Rodrigo Vargas |
James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve |
Estimation of root turnover using minirhizotrons, 14C and soil sensor arrays. |
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| UC San Diego |
| Timothy Paape |
Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve
Hastings Natural History Reservation
Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve
Santa Cruz Island Reserve
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Population genetics and molecular evolution of self-incompatibility in the Papaveraceae family |
| UC Santa Barbara |
| Heather Coleman |
Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve
Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve
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Development of diagnostic indicators for organic enrichment and toxic contamination in temperate estuaries |
| Lee Harrison |
Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve SNARL |
Three-dimensional hydraulics and sediment transport patterns along pool-riffle sequences |
| Elizabeth A. Sutton |
Santa Cruz Island Reserve |
Shifting interior settlement strategies and the evolution of sociopolitical complexity on Santa Cruz Island, California |
| George P. Thomson |
Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve
Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve
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A description of seed bed and seed rain in two coastal California grasslands and implications for native grassland restoration and removal of the invasive, exotic Harding grass (Phalaris aquatica L.) |
| Mackenzie Zippay |
Bodega Marine Laboratory/Reserve
Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve
Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve
Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve
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A latitudinal comparison of thermal tolerance and gene expression patterns in Nucella larvae. |
| UC Santa Cruz |
| Holly Alpert |
Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve SNARL |
Shifting ecotones and implications for natural areas and water use in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California |
| Melissa M. Foley |
Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve |
Effects of terrestrial inputs on nearshore Macrocystis communities |
| Alden Griffith |
Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve SNARL |
Impacts of snow depth and microhabitat on Bromus tectorum growth and demography |
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| Chad Hanson |
Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve |
Steelhead Life History Strategies and Early Habitat Use |
| Kendra Karr |
Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve
Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve
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Determining the importance of the kelp forest canopy for nursery habitats and marine biodiversity |
