Wildlife Research

While it is well known that expanding conifer canopies result in substantial decreases in local plant species richness and abundance and that removing or thinning pinyon and juniper often results in reversing those decreases, less is known about the broader regional effects of PJ removal on wildlife communities.

Providing beneficial information on demographic parameters that determine population growth or decline as well as providing detailed information on high quality habitats that are selected by ewes to enhance lamb survival.

Quantifing how PJ woodland removal alters vegetation community structure and how such shifts potentially cascade through insect and small vertebrate communities at small to large spatial scales.