Mathias Research Projects

1. Year: 2011-2012
   Reserves Used: Bodega Marine Reserve, Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve, Motte Rimrock Reserve, and Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center
   Research Title: Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition destabilizes symbiosis in legume-rhizobia
   Researcher: John Regus
   UC Campus: UC Riverside
   
   
2. 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
   
   
3. Year: 2008-2009
   Reserves Used: Motte Rimrock Reserve
   Research Title: Restoration of Coastal Sage Scrub -- testing modifications of agricultural solarization
   Researcher: Kristin A. Weathers
   UC Campus: UC Riverside
   
   
4. Year: 2007-2008
   Reserves Used: Box Springs Reserve, Motte Rimrock Reserve
   Research Title: Seed Preferences of the Harvester Ant Pogonomyrmex rugosus
   Researcher: Christopher Briggs
   UC Campus: UC Riverside
   
   
5. Year: 2007-2008
   Reserves Used: Motte Rimrock Reserve
   Research Title: The Intra- and Interspecific Impact of Evolutionary-Feedback in the Wild: A Theoretical and Experimental Assessment
   Researcher: Martin Turcotte
   UC Campus: UC Riverside
   
   
6. Year:  2006-2007
   Reserves Used:  Motte Rimrock Reserve
   Research Title:  Resource investment, storage protein gene expression, and phenotypic plasticity in Pogonomyrmex harvester ants that vary in colony founding strategy
   Researcher:  Brittany Enzmann
   UC Campus:  UC Los Angeles
   
   
7. Year: 2005-2006
   Reserves Used: Motte Rimrock Reserve
   Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
   Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve SNARL
   Research Title: Queen investment and implications for colony founding in harvester ants
   Researcher: Brittany Enzmann
   UC Campus: UC Los Angeles
   
   
8. Year: 2003-2004
   Reserves Used: Motte Rimrock Reserve
   Research Title: The influence of urban land use on edge effects in California coastal sage scrub
   Researcher: Shannon Kirshtner
   UC Campus: UC Riverside
   
   
9. Year: 2001-2002
   Reserves Used: Motte Rimrock Reserve
   Research Title: Effects of different land-use types on coastal sage scrub breeding birds
   Researcher: Thomas Unfried
   UC Campus: UC Riverside
   
   
10. Year: 2000-2001
    Reserves Used: Motte Rimrock Reserve, Box Springs Reserve, and Emerson Oaks Reserve
    Research Title: Effects of Nitrogen Deposition on Nutrient Cycling in Exotic Annual Grasslands and Chaparral Communities in Southern California
    Researcher: Abby Sirulnik
    UC Campus: Riverside
    
    
11. 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
    
    
12. Year: 1999-2000
    Reserves Used: Motte Rimrock Reserve
    Research Title: The Relationship Between Food Availability and Population Abundance of Kangaroo Rats, Diposomys spp.
    Researcher: Yvonne Moore
    UC Campus: UC Riverside
    
    
13. Year: 1997-1998
    Reserves Used: Motte Rimrock Reserve
    Research Title: Linking habitat choice to population dynamics in heterogeneous habitats: Sources, sinks, and ecological traps
    Researcher: William Kristan
    UC Campus: UC Riverside
    
    
14. Year: 1996-1997
    Reserves Used: Motte Rimrock Reserve
    Research Title: The relative effects of nest predation and parasitism on 4 Coast Sage Scrub passerine bird species
    Researcher: Kevin Ellison
    UC Campus: UC Riverside
    
    
15. Year: 1994-1995
    Reserves Used: Motte Rimrock Reserve
    Research Title: The causes of intrapopulation variation in limb morphology and locomotor performance in the western fence lizard.
    Researcher: Kenneth Halama
    UC Campus: UC Riverside
    
    
16. Year: 1991-1992
    Reserves Used: Motte Rimrock Reserve
    Research Title: The influence of Introduced species on a native ephemeral in a coastal sage scrub community
    Researcher: Pamela MacKay
    UC Campus: UC Riverside
    
    
17. Year: 1990-1991
    Reserves Used: Motte Rimrock Reserve
    Research Title: The influence of interspecific interactions on habitat use by two kangaroo rat species (Dipodomys stephensi and D. agilis)
    Researcher: Rhoda Ascanio
    UC Campus: UC Riverside
    
    
18. Year: 1989-1990
    Reserves Used: Motte Rimrock Reserve
    Research Title: Patterns of water stress-induced embolism and recovery in three arid-land vines in the Cucurbitaceae
    Researcher: Gretchen North
    UC Campus: UC Los Angeles