History of the Reno Herbarium
The herbarium of the University of Nevada, Reno is two herbaria combined under one roof: The herbarium of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station (acronym NESH) from the College of Agriculture…
UNR Insect Ecologist Examines Why Butterflies Are Vanishing in the Western U.S.
Art Shapiro and Matthew Forister, an insect ecologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, gathered data from the North American Butterfly Association, which has coordinated community scientist butterfly counts across…
Quantifying Early Seedling Traits In Threatened High-Elevation Conifer Species To Support Ecological Restoration
High-elevation forests provide essential services to ecological and anthropogenic communities. Because they occupy environments near or beyond the physiological tolerances of other tree species, they provide irreplaceable wildlife habitat and…
Economic impacts of potential sage grouse habitat designation in Elko County Nevada
The Elko County Range Livestock Sector may be impacted changes in public land management policies such as the designation of sage grouse habitat. Public land management policy issues such as…
Characterizing The Shifting Role Of Wildfire In Dryland Ecosystem And Watershed Processes
Climate change and human actions, such as fire suppression, have altered fuel characteristics and fire regimes in dryland systems like the Great Basin. Wildfire activity has also increased in response…
Identification Of Climate-Resilient Traits And Lineages For Singleleaf Pinyon Pine
Pinyon-juniper woodlands occupy over 100 million acres of the western United States and are among the most important vegetation types occurring in the dryland ecosystems of the Intermountain West. (full…