Summer 2018

Volume 2, Issue 2

CEC Research [JPG, 417.01 KB]
The summer 2018 California Ecology and Conservation conducted research for their final projects at the UC Nature’s White Mountain Research Center; their vans can be seen parked behind this stand of bristlecone pines. Image credit: course instructor Krikor Andonian.

Formica ant and Cinara aphid mutualisms on limber pines (Pinus flexilis) [PDF]
Charles Chen, Lori Liu, Skai Peterson

An ancient forest on the move: Range shifts in bristlecone pines [PDF]
Angela Delos Santos, Katherine Pratt, Grace Rosburg-Francot, Linnea Schaefer, George Sidarous

Life on the edge: Abiotic stress and competitive exclusion affect plant communities across a subalpine edaphic gradient [PDF]
Ziyi Wang, Willem Schep, Hanan Abels-Sullivan, Casey Kwok

Lupinus breweri is competitive, not facilitative, in a subalpine habitat [PDF]
Zachary M. Devereux, Elyse A. Fitzsimons, Brittney Martinez, Maya Nagaraj

Examining changes in plant communities of alpine fellfield meadows of the White Mountains [PDF]
Sarah Ardell, Karina Arzuyan, Neil Singh, Haleigh Yang, Steven Zhou

Pollinator community structure and interactions on Monardella odoratissima spp. glauca [PDF]
Sami Akiba, Erika Lougee, Ronald Thompson III

Alpine wet meadows: soil properties’ effect on plant diversity [PDF]
Madeline Castro, Fidel Machado-Perez, Rebecca Raven