Collaborative Research Study

A collaborative research project is a study outside of the core SageSTEP study that takes place on or in relation to one or more of the SageSTEP study plots. We welcome proposals for non-invasive research on aspects of sagebrush ecosystems that are not covered in the SageSTEP proposal.

List of Current and Past Projects

The following projects have been approved and are currently taking place or completed. Click on the project title for more information.

Field of Study	Project Title	Researcher(s)
Seed Pools, Vegetation	The Relationships Between the Seed Bank and Above-ground Vegetation in the Context of Restoration	Kristen Pekas and Gene Schupp
Seed Pools, Vegetation	Viable Seedbank Composition Under a Gradient of Western Juniper Cover	Corinne Duncan and others
Seed Pools, Vegetation	Seed Pool Response to Juniper/Pinyon Encroachment and Fire	Kert Young and Bruce Roundy
Seed Pools, Vegetation	Seed longevity of sagebrush subspecies related to burial depth	Upekala Wijayratne and Dave Pyke
Seed Pools, Vegetation, Wildlife	Restoring Cheatgrass-Degraded Sagebrush Steppe Systems: the Interaction of Ant Foraging Behavior, Seed Pools, and Restoration Management Initiatives	Scott Newbold and others
Wildlife	An evaluation of ecological restoration treatments on small mammal communities	Steven Ostoja
Soil Crusts, Vegetation	The effects of fire on biological soil crusts and their subsequent recovery in pinyon-juniper	Steven Warren, Larry St. Clair, Jeff Johansen, Paul Kugrens
Soil Crusts	Biological soil crust association with post-disturbance vegetation response	Mark Brunson, Hilary Whitcomb, Jeff Burnham, Eugene Schupp
Vegetation, Soils	Mechanisms for species success following juniper mastication	Kert Young and Bruce Roundy
Grazing, Vegetation	Drivers of Plant Community Dynamics in Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystems: Cattle Grazing, Heat and Water Stress	Michael Reisner and others
Soils, Hydrology, Vegetation	Soil and hydrologic response to mastication of juniper woodlands	Nathan Cline and others
GIS	Finding the Most Similar Landscape: Automated Control Site Selection Using GIS	Thomas Dilts and Peter Weisberg
GIS	Applying remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) technology to estimate tree density and cover of pinyon-juniper woodlands	April Hulet and others
Fungi, Vegetation	Mycorrhizae in Sagebrush Restoration: Mycorrhizal Dependency of Invasive and Native Grasses with Intraspecific and Interspecific Competition	Dara Scherpenisse and Gene Schupp
Pollination, Vegetation	Reproductive biologies and pollinators of common Great Basin restoration forbs, and consequences of fire for bee and forb reproduction	Jim Cane

Are you interested in conducting a study using one or more of our plots?

We welcome proposals for non-invasive research on aspects of sagebrush ecosystems that are not covered in the SageSTEP proposal (e.g. herpetology, bryology, mycology, etc.).

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please fill out our Collaborative Project Form below. Information that you provide on this form will be used by the SageSTEP research team and our primary land management partners to evaluate your proposal for a collaborative project.

All collaborators should read the SageSTEP Data Sharing and Publication Guidelines for information on processes for acknowledgement and publication.

Contact

Lisa Ellsworth
Project Co-coordinator
Dpt. Fisheries & Wildlife
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97330
Email
(541) 737-0008

Beth Newingham
Project Co-coordinator
GB Rangelands Research
USDA Ag. Res. Service
Reno, NV 89512
Email
(775) 784-6057 ext. 233

Lael Gilbert
Outreach Coordinator
Utah State University
5215 Old Main Hill
Logan, Utah 84322-5215
Email
(435) 797-8455