**Abstract** Dual upflow reactive filtration using hydrous ferric oxide coated sand is used to meet the ultralow 0.05 mg/L total phosphorus discharge limits at a 1.2 million liters per day (0.32 million gallons per day) water resource recovery...
Despite decades of restoration efforts in the Columbia River Basin in the United States, recovery of anadromous fish remains elusive. Regional stakeholder conflicts about objectives for fish restoration complicate efforts to collaboratively...
Around the world, landscape architects establish linkages between social needs and natural systems through innovative designs that save lives and protect native landscapes. Population growth has exerted increased pressures on habitat and wildlife...
Tree demography is foundational to ecology and conservation, from mass tree die-offs to forest recovery. Plot-level studies of tree demography, including field measurements of tagged individuals, have been fundamental for developing ecological...
This project employs stakeholder-driven scenarios identified in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Genes by Environment: Modeling, Mechanisms, and Mapping (GEM3) program’s Owyhee...
The Southwestern North America megadrought is an extreme climate event. Artemisia tridentata (big sagebrush) is the dominant, keystone species of sagebrush- steppe ecosystems in arid and semi-arid habitats of western North America. I conducted a...
Epigenetic variation is a potential pathway for rapid response to environmental change and may be able to influence local adaptation at the population level through population by environment interactions. The most well-understood mechanism of...
Anthropogenic forces of land use and land cover change have affected Columbian Sharp-tailed grouse habitats in southeastern Idaho over the past century, with the assumption that the decline in bird counts at lek sites relates to the increase and...