Former graduate students

1982

Dale Hopkins

A study of the seed bank of a salt marsh in northern San Francisco Bay and its relationship to the existing vegetation

1985

Christine Bern

Distribution and ecology of an endemic serpentine grass, Calamagrostis ophitidis.

Eric Angress

The decline of Quercus kelloggii in Yosemite Valley: an evaluation of fire and moisture regimes.

1986

Vicky Kelly

Seed banks and reproductive life histories in sprouting and nonsprouting Arctostaphylos species.

1987

Tina Billow

Nitrogen dynamics beneath a deciduous (Quercus lobata Neé) and an evergreen (Q. agrifolia Neé) oak in California.

1989

John C.Hunter

The pattern of canopy gaps in an old growth forested landscape.

Michael Wood

Factors affecting the distribution of Arctostaphylos myrtifolia and A. viscida: the role of plant-plant and soil-plant interactions.

1991

Gale Rankin

The peripheral halophyte community in a San Francisco Bay salt marsh.

1992

Tom Horton

Pseudotsuga menziesii invasion into stands of chaparral: assessment of mycorrhizal and other mechanisms.

James Baxter

The role of canopy gaps in a coastal bluff community in California.

1994

Staci Markos

Molecular phylogeny of Arctostaphylos hookeri complex, Ericaceae.

Jennifer Dunne

Seasonal soil moisture patterns and Douglas-fir establishment in chaparral.

Patty Sparling

Invasion of Pseudotsuga menziesii into chaparral.

1995

Lisa Wayne

Recruitment response to salinity in Grindelia stricta var. angustifolia: a potential indicator species.

Daniel Kelly

Seedling recruitment patterns of Quercus wislizenii in unburned chaparral in northern California.

1998

Kendra Bradford

Mycorrhizal fungal species composition and abundance in mature Arctostaphylos glandulosa stands.

William Stoll

Diversity and composition of mycorrhizal fungal community following fire in lodgepole pine.

Kristin Byrd

The impact of clear-cutting on ectomycorrhizal fungus diversity in lodgepole pine forests.

Yolanda Molette

Seed bank and dispersal dynamics in disturbed sand dune coastal scrub, Presidio, San Francisco, California.

1999

Danielle Le Fer

Effect of seasonality of burn, soil moisture and temperature on chaparral regeneration.

Britta Denise Hardesty

Patterns of seed rain in a tropical forest in the Dja Reserve, southern Cameroon, Africa.

Katie Bode

Patterns of association among shrubs and conifers, a test of mycorrhizal association.

Sekou Heath

Optimization of a PCR assay for genetic diversity in Piscicorickettsea salmonis and its application to the distribution of the pathogen.

2000

Lena Hileman

Molecular phylogeny of Arbutus, Arbutoideae, Ericaceae.

Alicia Torregrosa

Vegetation Dynamics of the Sierra Buttes, CA: Integrating CANOCO with GIS.


2001

Connie Clark

Seed shadows among bird, monkey, and wind-dispersed species: a test of theory and comparison of vector mode.

Kirsten Upson

Arctostaphylos glandulosa mycorrhizal fungal community following different types of disturbance.

2002

Terrel Brand

Forest seedling dynamics in a mixed evergreen forest, northern California.

Autumn Garrett

Influence of moisture and duration during prescribed burning on seed bank dynamics of a rare shrub, Ceanothus purpureus.

Susan O’Neill

Seed bank turnover of a rare serpentine shrub, Ceanothus jepsonii var. albiflorus, and the influence of seed predators.

2003

Robert Douglas

Mycorrhizal fungal communities in old growth lodgepole forest in Yellowstone National Park.

Aaron Lamperti

Pattern of tree species associations and the seasonality of frugivore dispersal.


2004

Michael Faden

Seed dispersal of Umbellularia calfornica, the role of the western grey squirrel.

Leslie Lazarotti

Invasion of coastal scrub by Pinus radiatii and its influence on seed rain due to bird dispersal and the differential recruitment of shrub species.

Agata Kamler

Coastal cliff and strand vegetation: the role of disturbance and the success of a C4 plant, Distichlis spicata.

2005

Anthony Macharia

Morphometric analysis of Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae).

Diana Benner

The influence of a parasitic plant, Cuscuta subinclusa, on Lepidium latifolium, an invasive of wetlands of the northern San Francisco Bay.

Greg Wahlert

Phylogenic inference of the genus Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae) using a nuclear and chloroplast gene.

2007

Mark Fogiel

An evaluation of fruit availability theory and measurement in an afrotropical rainforest

Janelle Hilman

Population dynamics of a serpentine seep endemic, the Mt. Hamilton Thistle Circium hydrophylum

Zooey Diggory

Seed supply and revegetation dynamics at restored tidal marshes, Napa River, CA

Current

Laura Cochrane Seed banks of Sacramento River oxbow lakes and the influence of an invasive species, Ludwigia peploides ssp. montevidensis

Stephen Ingalls Influence of seed size on the density of seed in the seed banks of Arctostaphylos species

Eric Wrubel Biodiversity patterns of central California coastal scrub vegetation and their implications for conservation and management

Jennifer Chapman Ecology and management of a maritime chaparral species, Arctostaphylos virgata, the Marin Manzanita

Bianca Dailey Influence of salinity on the dynamics of seed banks in a freshwater/brackish tidal marsh

April Robinson Tidal wetlands and climate change

 

Dale White (1982) collecting wetland seed banks at China Camp salt marsh.

Vicky Kelly (1986) at the Pine Mountain serpentine chaparral burn site.

Tom Horton (1992) planting seeds on Mt. Tamalpais.

Jennifer Dunne (1994) measuring seedling survival on Mt. Tamalpais.

Patty Sparling coring Douglas-fir in a manzanita graveyard.

Kendra Bradford (1998) collecting mycorrhizal cores in Arctostaphylos.

Bill Stoll working on mycorrhizae in Yellowstone National Park.

Connie Clark (2001) collecting dispersed seeds in the
Dja Reserve, Cameroon.

Diane Benner in a brackish tidal marsh with Cuscuta subinclusa.

Zooey Diggory retrieving a seed trap at a brackish tidalmarsh.