RESEARCH

1995 - 2007

PROJECT # 1
Research User(s): Philip W. Rundel
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Comparative studies of Mediterranean-climate ecosystems
Project Duration: 1993 on-going
PROJECT # 2
Research User(s): Philip W. Rundel and Rasoul Sharifi
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Bush poppy demography and productivity
Project Duration: 1993 on-going
PROJECT # 3
Research User (s): Philip W. Rundel, Qinfeng Guo, Jon Keeley
User Affiliation(s): UCLA, USGS
Project Title: Post-fire successional dynamics
Project Duration: 1993 on-going
PROJECT # 4
Research User (s): Lee Katz
User Affiliation: Pepperdine University
Project Title: Salamander response to chaparral fire
Project Duration : 1993-1997
PROJECT # 5
Research User(s): Karen Esler
User Affiliation: University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Project Title: Chaparral soil seed pools
Project Duration: 1994
PROJECT # 6
Research User(s): Philip W. Rundel
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title : Impact of chaparral fires on riparian ecosystems in the Santa Monica
Mountains
Project Duration: 1995- 2000
PROJECT # 7
Research User(s): Steve Davis
User Affiliation: Pepperdine University
Project Title: Physiological ecology of evergreen sclerophyll shrubs in chaparral.
Project Duration: 1995-on-going
PROJECT # 8
Research User(s): Rasoul Sharifi, Philip W. Rundel, and Judith King
User Affiliation: UCLA and California State University Dominguez Hills
Project Title: Long term monitoring of gas exchange and water relations of a sage scrub
plant community.
Project Duration: 1995-on-going
PROJECT # 9
Research User(s): Peter Nonacs
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Ant colony and productivity
Project Duration: 1996 1998
PROJECT # 10
Research User(s): John Gamon
User Affiliation: California State University Los Angeles
Project Title: Multi-spectral remote sensing of plant productivity
Project Duration: 1996 - 2001
PROJECT # 11
Research User(s): Rasoul Sharifi and Philip W. Rundel
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Long term monitoring of gas exchange and water relations of a chaparral
plant community: The effect of Santa Ana wind.
Project Duration: 1998-on-going
PROJECT # 12
Research User(s): Charles A. Knight (Advisor David Ackerly)
User Affiliation: Stanford University
Project Title: Comparative ecophysiology of heat shock protein expression in plants
Project Duration: 1998- 2000
PROJECT # 13
Research User(s): Jeff Thomas (Advisor Peter Nonacs)
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Signal variation and categorization by wrentits (Chamaea fasciata)
Project Duration: 1998 2000
PROJECT # 14
Research User(s): Aviva Liebert (Advisor Peter Nonacs)
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Division of labor and reproductive skew among paper wasp foundresses
Project Duration: 1998 2002
PROJECT # 15
Research User(s): Maria Diuk (Advisor Peter Nonacs)
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Social behavior and learning in the California scrub jay
Project Duration: 1998
PROJECT # 16
Research User(s): Craig M. Fiehler (Advisor Peter Nonacs)
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: The effects of resource density on territorial behavior in wintering
wrentits (Chamaea fasciata)
Project Duration: 1998- 1999
PROJECT # 17
Research User(s): Stewart B. Peck
User Affiliation: Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Project Title: Diversity of winter-active leiodid beetles in southern California
Project Duration: 1999
PROJECT # 18
Research User(s): Fritz Hertel
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Small mammal and bird survey at Stunt Ranch
Project Duration: 1999 - 2000
PROJECT # 19
Research User(s): Antony Orme
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Erosion and sediment transfers in the Topanga Creek watershed
Project Duration: 2000-2001
PROJECT # 20
Research User(s): Philip W. Rundel and Judith King-Rundel
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Ecosystem processes and dynamics in the urban/wildland interface of
Southern California
Project Duration: 2000 2001
PROJECT # 21
Research User(s): Michael LaPlante (Advisor Martin Cody)
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Changes in insect faunal populations in conjunction with a change in
season at the California chaparral
Project Duration: 2000
PROJECT # 22
Research User(s): D. Riaño, E. Chuvieco, S. Ustin, R. Zomer, P. Dennison and D. Roberts
User Affiliation: UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, Univ. of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
Project Title: Modeling and prediction of wildfire hazard in Southern California,
integration of models with imaging spectrometry
Project Duration: 2000
PROJECT # 23
Research User(s): Don Miller
User Affiliation: Trinity University
Project Title: A preliminary phylogeny of galling aphids and their congeneric parasites
on Arctostaphylos shrubs
Project Duration: 2001
PROJECT # 24
Research User(s): Nicholas Manoukis
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Effects of quaternary climate change on the genetic structure of Hyla
cadaverina, the California tree frog
Project Duration: 2001
PROJECT # 25
Research User(s): Daniel T. Blumstein and Rina Fernandez
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: The evolutionary-ecology of fear: comparative studies of disturbance in
birds. Do birds habituate to human disturbance?
Project Duration: 2001
PROJECT # 26
Research User (s): Richard F. Ambrose
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Environmental monitoring and bioassessment of Ventura and Los Angeles
County watersheds
Project Duration: 2001 2003
Funding Source: Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board
PROJECT # 27
Research User(s): Philip W. Rundel
User Affiliation(s): UCLA
Project Title: Ecophysiology of ferns in chaparral and oak woodland habitats of the
Santa Monica Mountains
Project Duration: 2001 2002
PROJECT # 28
Research User(s): Gretchen C. Coffman, Philip W. Rundel, Richard F. Ambrose
User Affiliation(s): UCLA
Project Title: Influence of nutrient loading on the invasion of an alien plant species,
giant cane (Arundo donax) in Southern California riparian communities.
Project Duration: 2002 2003
PROJECT # 29
Research User (s): Ammon Corl
User Affiliation: University of California, Santa Cruz
Project Title: The stability of frequency dependent dynamics in the side-blotched lizard.
Project Duration: 2002 and on-going
PROJECT # 30
Research User(s): Paul Wilson, Elizabeth Jordon
User Affiliation: California State University, Northridge
Project Title: Pollinator preference among two species of Penstemon flowers and their
hybrids
Project Duration: 2002 on-going
PROJECT # 31
Research User (s): Jonathan Levine, Heather Coleman
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: The impacts of exotic grass invaders on the growth, species composition
and richness of sparse native forbs in Southern California
Project Duration: 2002 - 2003
PROJECT # 32
Research User(s): David Gray
User Affiliation: California State University, Northridge
Project Title: Acoustic communication and phonotactic predation in crickets.
Project Duration: 2002 2003
PROJECT # 33
Research User(s): Daphne Christopher and Hannah Stevens
User Affiliation: The New York Botanical Garden Institute of Economic Botany
Project Title: Floristics and Phytochemical Survey Project
Project Duration: 2002
PROJECT # 34
Research User(s): Arthur C. Gibson and Barry Prigge
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Flora of the Santa Monica Mountains, California
Project Duration: 2003 on-going
PROJECT # 35
Research User(s): Gary Griggs (UCSC) and Antony Orme (UCLA), Principal Investigators
User Affiliations: UCSC and UCLA
Project Title: Coastal Environmental Quality Initiative, State of California: Evaluation
and prediction of coastal changes along the southern California coast
Project Duration: 2004-2006
PROJECT # 36
Research User(s): Richard Ambrose
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Assessing daily and seasonal fluctuations in nutrients and implications for
eutrophication in southern California streams
Project Duration: 2004 - 2005
PROJECT # 37
Research User(s): Judi Tamasi
User Affiliation: Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA)
Project Title: Native grassland restoration project
Project Duration: 2003 2007
PROJECT # 38
Research User(s): James Tomcavage
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: Photographic survey of the Santa Monica Mountains
Project Duration: 2003
PROJECT # 39
Research User(s): Renate Gebauer, John Tiszler and Phil Rundel
User Affiliation: Keene State College, National Park Service (SMMNRA), UCLA
Project Title: Urban runoff and invasive species establishment in the Santa Monica
Mountains.
Project Duration: 2004-on-going
PROJECT # 40
Research User(s): Jamie Rinehart
User Affiliation: City of Calabasas Public Works
Project Title: Malibu Creek Watershed Monitoring Program
Project Duration: 2004-2006
PROJECT # 41
Research User(s): Amon S. Gill
User Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Project Title: Surveying and collection of Southern California carabids
Project Duration: 2005.
PROJECT # 42
Research User(s): Mark E. Angelos
User Affiliation: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Project Title: California freshwater ostracod survey
Project Duration: 2005-2006
PROJECT # 43
Research user(s): Rasoul Sharifi, Philip W. Rundel, Judith King-Rundel, and
Ann Dalkey
User affiliation(s): UCLA, California State University Dominguez Hills, Palos
Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
Project title: Comparison of long-term environmental effects on plant
species with different life forms
Project duration: 2005 on-going
PROJECT # 44
Research user: Margaret Mayfield and Jonathan Levine
User Affiliation: UCSB
Project Title: Germination Strategies of native California forbs
Project Duration : 2006 - 2007

PROJECT # 45
Research user: Ann M. Ray (Lawrence M. Hanks advisor )
User affiliation: University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Project title: Evolution of chemical communication in long horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Project duration: June 2007 to July 2007

PROJECT # 46
Research user: Kathleen Semple Delaney (Seth Riley and Robert Wayne advisors)
User affiliation: UCLA
Project title : Use of genetic techniques to evaluate the impacts of urbanization and
fragmentation on wildlife.
Project duration: April 2007 through May 2007
PROJECT # 47
Research user: Katherine M. Pease (Robert Wayne advisor)
User affiliation: UCLA
Project title: Evolution of anti-predator defenses in a native frog in response to an
invasive crayfish
Project duration: May 2007 on-going
PROJECT # 48
Research user: Edward G. Bobich
User affiliation: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Project title: Phenology and water relations of California black walnut
Project duration: 2006
PROJECT # 49
Research User(s) : Phil Rundel
User Affiliation : UCLA
Project Title: Bibliography of scientific studies related to the NPS Mediterranean
Network.
Project Duration: 2006-2007
PROJECT # 50
Research User(s): Phil Rundel, Eric Graham, Fabio Silva, and Wei Ye
User Affiliation: UCLA
Project Title: A satellite-based communication system for collecting and accessing data
from microclimate sensor arrays
Project Duration: 2007-continuing