Awardee |
Reserve Used |
Research Title |
| UC Berkeley |
| Erin Elaine Nuccio |
Sedgwick Reserve |
Rhizosphere bacterial and archaeal biogeography in a California annual grassland |
| Elizabeth Wommack |
Blue Oak Ranch Reserve |
Examination of Sexually Dimorphic Fitness Signals in the Plumage of the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) |
| UC Davis |
ChristyBowles &
Heidi Weiskel |
Bodega Marine Laboratory / Reserve |
Demographics and eradication of a new invasive population of Batillaria attramentaria in Bodega Harbor |
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| Sarah Dalrymple |
VESR – Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL) |
A newly-described ant behavior and its effect on tree fitness and fire severity in the eastern Sierra Nevada |
| Stephanie Porter |
McLaughlin Natural Reserve |
Local adaptation of cryptic seed coloration: a novel defense mechanism? |
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| UC Irvine |
| Irina Catherine Irvine |
Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve |
The influence of nitrogen enrichment on the composition and functioning of microbial communities in California salt marshes |
| UC Los Angeles |
| Rachel Clausing |
Bodega Marine Laboratory / Reserve |
Anthropogenic nutrient loading on rocky intertidal biodiversity: context-dependent effects? |
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| UC Riverside |
| Adrienne B. Mora |
Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve
Santa Cruz Island Reserve Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve |
Can parasites enhance components of host fitness? Host manipulation of a sexual signal in the California fiddler crab, Uca crenulata |
| Kristin A. Weathers |
Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve Motte Rimrock Reserve |
Restoration of Coastal Sage Scrub -- testing modifications of agricultural solarization |
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| UC Santa Barbara |
| Sara A. Baguskas |
Santa Cruz Island Reserve |
Ecological interactions between epiphytic macrolichen (Ramalina menziesii) and fog on Santa Cruz Island, California |
| Tal Ben-Horin |
Santa Cruz Island Reserve |
Developing translocation as a species conservation tool with an empirical understanding of the way organisms perceive their environment |
| Nicole Molinari |
Sedgwick Reserve |
Dominant Species Replacement and the effect on Resource Heterogeneity and Biodiversity |
| Erin Mordecai |
Sedgwick Reserve |
Do exotic grasses mediate plant-pathogen dynamics in California grasslands? |
| Emily Rivest |
Bodega Marine Laboratory / Reserve |
The effect of pH stress during upwelling events on Strongylocentrotus purpuratus gene expression |
| Elizabeth A. Sutton |
Santa Cruz Island Reserve |
Household and Community Organization at Nimatlala, a Historic Period Chumash Village on Santa Cruz Island |
| UC Santa Cruz |
| Amy Concilio |
VESR – Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL) |
Effects of changing climatic and edaphic conditions on Bromus tectorum invasion in the eastern Sierra Nevada |
| Melinda Fowler |
Año Nuevo Island Reserve |
Lipid mobilization in simultaneously fasting and lactating northern elephant seals |
| Joseph Sapp |
Sagehen Creek Field Station |
The behavioral ecology of slavemaking ants |
