Stunt Ranch Research Projects

Project #	Project title	Researcher	Institution	Dates	Funding Source
1	Comparative studies of Mediterranean-climate ecosystems	Philip W. Rundel	UCLA	1993 – on-going
2	Bush poppy demography and productivity	Philip W. Rundel and Rasoul Sharifi	UCLA	1993 – on-going
3	Post-fire successional dynamics	Philip W. Rundel, Qinfeng Guo, Jon Keeley	UCLA, USGS	1993 – on-going	National Science Foundation
4	Salamander response to chaparral fire	Lee Katz	Pepperdine University	1993-1997
5	Chaparral soil seed pools	Karen Esler	University of Steelenbosch, South Africa	1994
6	Impact of chaparral fires on riparian ecosystems in the Santa Monica Mountains	Philip W. Rundel	UCLA	1995- on-going
7	Ant colony and productivity	Peter Nonacs	UCLA	1996 – 1998
8	Multi-spectral remote sensing of plant productivity	John Gamon	Cal State Los Angeles	1996 -2001
9	Lower Malibu Creek and Malibu Lagoon resource enhancement and management project	Richard F. Ambrose, Antony R. Orme, and others Other Investigators: - Johannes Feddema, Geography - Charles Gerba (University of Arizona) - Philip Rundel, OBEE - Mel Suffet, Environmental Science & Engineering Program - M.I. Venkatesan, IGPP	UCLA	1997 – 2000	California State Coastal Conservancy
10	Calibration of molecular techniques for the genetic analysis of coyote faeces in the Santa Monica Mountains	Robert Wayne and Michael Kohn	UCLA	1997 – 1998
11	Monitoring changing ecosystem productivity and functional diversity in evergreen-dominated ecosystems using multi-scale remote sensing.	Brian Zutta and John Gamon	Cal State University, Los Angeles	1998 – 2002	$1,069,961 (5 years) from NSF CREST, Part of a larger $5 million dollar grant to form CEA-CREST at Cal State LA. (HRD-9805529)
12	Long term gas exchange and water relations study of a chaparral plant community	Philip W. Rundel and Rasoul Sharifi	UCLA	1998-on-going
13	Comparative ecophysiology of heat shock protein expression in plants	Charles A. Knight (Advisor – David Ackerly	Stanford University	1998- 2000	Stanford University Grant
14	Signal variation and categorization by wrentits (chamaea fasciata)	Jeff Thomas (Advisor – Peter Nonacs	UCLA	1998 –2000	Grant, 2000-2001 UCLA Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution Research Grant
15	Division of labor and reproductive skew among paper wasp foundresses	Aviva Liebert (Advisor – Peter Nonacs)	UCLA	1998 – 2002	1998-1999, 1999-2000 Mildred E. Mathias Graduate Student Grant, 2000-2001 UCLA Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution Research Grant
16	Social behavior and learning in the California scrub jay	Maria Diuk (Advisor – Peter Nonacs)	UCLA	1998
17	The effects of resource density on territorial behavior in wintering wrentits (chamaea fasciata)	M. Fiehler (Advisor – Peter Nonacs)	UCLA	1998- 1999
18	Diversity of winter-active leiodid beetles in southern California	Stewart B. Peck	Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	1999

19	Small mammal and bird survey at Stunt Ranch	Fritz Hertel	UCLA	1999, 2000
20	Erosion and sediment transfers in the Topanga Creek watershed	Antony Orme	UCLA	2000-2001	Santa Monica Bay Restoration Project (ultimately from the EPA) via the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains
21	Ecosystem processes and dynamics in the urban/wildland interface of Southern California	Philip W. Rundel and Judith King	UCLA	2000 – 2001
22	Changes in insect faunal populations in conjunction with a change in season at the California chaparral	Michael LaPlante (Advisor – Martin Cody)	UCLA	2000
23	Modeling and prediction of wildfire hazard in Southern California, integration of models with imaging spectrometry	D. Riaño, E. Chuvieco, S. Ustin, R. Zomer, P. Dennison, and D. Roberts	UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, Univ. of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain	2000
24	A preliminary phylogeny of galling aphids and their congeneric parasites on Arctostaphylos shrubs	Don Miller	Trinity University	2001
25	Effects of quaternary climate change on the genetic structure of Hyla cadaverina, the California tree frog	Nicholas Manoukis	UCLA	2001
26	The evolutionary-ecology of fear: comparative studies of disturbance in birds. Do birds habituate to human disturbance?	Daniel T. Blumstein and Rina Fernandez	UCLA	2001	Lida Scott Brown
27	Environmental monitoring and bioassessment of Ventura and Los Angeles County watersheds	Richard F. Ambrose	UCLA	2001 –2003	Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board
28	Ecophysiology of ferns in chaparral and oak woodland habitats of the Santa Monica Mountains	Philip W. Rundel	UCLA	2001 – on-going
29	Influence of nutrient loading on the invasion of an alien plant species, giant cane (Arundo donax) in Southern California riparian communities.	Gretchen C. Coffman, Philip W. Rundel, Richard F. Ambrose	UCLA	2002 – 2003	California Water Resources Center
30	The stability of frequency dependent dynamics in the side-blotched lizard	Ammon Corl	University of California, Santa Cruz	2002	Mathias grant, 2002
31	Pollinator preference among two species of penstemon flowers and their hybrids	Paul Wilson, Elizabeth Jordon	California State University, Northridge	2002 – on-going
32	The impacts of exotic grass invaders on the growth, species composition and richness of sparse native forbs in Southern California	Jonathan Levine and Heather Coleman	University of California, Los Angeles	2002 - 2003	UCLA
33	Acoustic communication and phonotactic predation in crickets	David Gray	California State University, Northridge	2002 – 2003
34	Floristics and Phytochemical Survey Project	Daphne Christopher and Hannah Stevens	The New York Botanical Garden Institute of Economic Botany	2002
35	Flora of the Santa Monica Mountains, California	Arthur C. Gibson and Barry Prigge	University of California, Los Angeles	2003 – on-going