Mathias Research Projects

1. Year: 2012-2013
   Reserves Used: Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, and Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
   Research Title: Phenotypic variation through space and time of tetrodotoxin levels in Taricha torosa within and between watersheds throughout California.
   Researcher: Gary Bucciarelli
   UC Campus: UC Los Angeles
   
   
2. Year: 2009-2010
   Reserves Used: Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
   Research Title: Causes and consequences of mate choice in house wrens
   Researcher: Jonathan Drury
   UC Campus: UC Los Angeles
   
   
3. Year: 2009-2010
   Reserves Used: Box Springs Reserve, Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Emerson Oaks Reserve, James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, Motte Rimrock Reserve, San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh Reserve, Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
   Research Title: How well can fungi migrate under a changing climate?
   Researcher: Stephanie Kivlin
   UC Campus: UC Irvine
   
   
4. 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
   
   
5. Year:  2006-2007
   Reserves Used:  Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
   Research Title:  Evolution of anti-predator defenses in a native frog in response to an invasive crayfish
   Researcher:  Katherine Pease
   UC Campus:  UC Los Angeles
   
   
6. 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
   
   
7. Year: 2002-2003
   Reserves Used: Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve, Scripps Coastal Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
   Research Title: Gender dimorphism on the background of self-incompatibility in Lycium californicum (Solanaceae)
   Researcher: Boris Igic
   UC Campus: UC San Diego
   
   
8. Year: 2001-2002
   Reserves Used: Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, and Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
   Research Title: The Evolution of Uta stansburiana's Behavioral Diversity; a Phylogeographic Study
   Researcher: Ammon Corl
   UC Campus: UC Santa Cruz
   
   
9. Year: 2000-2001
   Reserves Used: Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
   Research Title: Reproductive Flexibility in the paper wasp Polistes aurifer
   Researcher: Aviva Liebert
   UC Campus: UCLA
   
   
10. 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
    
    
11. Year: 1999-2000
    Reserves Used: Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
    Research Title: Division of labor and reproduction in Polistes wasps
    Researcher: Aviva Liebert
    UC Campus: UC Los Angeles
    
    
12. Year: 1998-1999
    Reserves Used: Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
    Research Title: Division of labor and reproduction in Polistes wasps
    Researcher: Aviva Liebert
    UC Campus: UC Los Angeles
    
    
13. Year: 1996-1997
    Reserves Used: Stunt Ranch Reserve
    Research Title: Genetic Analysis of Bobcat and Coyote Feces in the SMMNRA - Noninvasive Assessment of Population Size, Demography, Territory size and corridor use
    Researcher: Michael Kohn
    UC Campus: UC Los Angeles