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Botany

Botany is a branch of biology dealing with the properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group. Some of the research being conducted by RMRS botanists includes invasive species research: fire effects, soil carbon manipulation and control of annual weeds, biology and control of cheatgrass; native species: commercial availability of native forb seeds, seed germination and sources. Other studies involve effect of fire on grassland vegetation and soil properties; fire regimes and restoration etc.

Stanley Kitchen
Research Botanist

See Also: Biology, Fire/Fuel

Provo Shrub Sciences Lab

Interests:

• Shrub botany

• Restoration

• Shrubland biology

• Grass

• Forb

• Fecundity

• Germination

• Drought and fire

Geographical Areas: Desert Experimental Range; Millard County, Utah; Great Basin; Southern Utah; Eastern Nevada.

Nancy Shaw
Research Botanist

See Also: Ecology, Fire/Fuel

Boise Aquatic Sciences Lab

Interests:

• Botany (Shrub)

• Invasive species

• Changing fire regimes

• Sagebrush

• Ecology

• Population dynamics

• Genetics

• Skeletonweed

• Fuels

• Exotic weeds

Geographical Areas: Great Basin; Idaho Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area; Australia; Western United States.

James Fowler
Ecologist

See Also: Ecology

SW Forest Sciences Lab, Flagstaff

Interests:

• Climate Change Effects on a Single Mountain Endemic Alpine Plant, Packera franciscana
• Climate Change Effects on Rocky Mountain Alpine Plant Distributions and Their Habitats

• Alpine RNAs to detect climate change effects on vascular plants

• Effectiveness of litter removal in preventing mortality of yellow barked ponderosa pine in northern Arizona

Geographical Areas: Rocky Mountains; Arizona.

Rosemary Pendleton
Research Ecologist

See Also: Biology, Ecology, Fire/Fuel

Albuquerque Forestry Sciences Lab

Interests:

• Shrubland Fire Ecology

• Plant reproductive biology

• Zuckia, Linum, Purshia

• Soil crusts

• Grassland vegetation

• Biodiversity

• Pollination

• Microtophography

• Cheatgrass

• Gene flow

Geographical Areas: Southwest; Northern ecotone; Central New Mexico; Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge.

Fagaceae Trees

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Ecology, biodiversity, management, and restoration of aspen in the Sierra Nevada

Rocky Mountain Research Station Albequerque Lab

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Clean Water: Insect Outbreaks and Watersheds