Jeanne Chambers

The Book

   -Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems: Ecology, Management, and Restoration
 

Curriculum Vitae

GBEM-Field Tour

Employment

Team Leader

Research Ecologist

USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station - Reno

Projects:

The Great Basin Ecosystem Management Project for Restoring and Maintaining Watersheds and Riparian Ecosystems

Geomorphic, Hydrologic and Vegetation Interactions Related to Alluvial Fans and Meadow Complexes

Determining the Environmental and Ecological Factors that Make Great Basin Watersheds Susceptible to Invasive Plant Species

Integrated Restoration Strategies Towards Weed Control on Western Rangeland

A Regional Experiment to Evaluate Effects of Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments in Sagebrush Biome

Effects of Fire and Rehabilitation Seeding on Sage Grouse Habitat in the Pinyon-Juniper Zone

Changing Fire Regimes, Increased Fuel Loads, and Invasive Species:  Effects on Sagebrush Steppe and Pinyon-Juniper Ecosystems

A Demonstration Area on Ecosystem Response to Prescribed Burns in the Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands

Relevant Publications:

Tausch, R. J., J. C. Chambers, R. R. Blank, and R. S. Nowak. 1995.  Differential establishment of perennial grass and cheatgrass following fire on an ungrazed sagebrush/juniper site. Pages 252-257, in B. A. Roundy, E. D. McArthur, J. S. Haley and D. K. Mann (compilers). Symposium on Wildland Shrub and Arid Land Restoration. USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, General Technical Report INT-GTR-315.

Chambers, J. C. 1995. Disturbance, life history strategies, and seed fates in alpine herbfield communities. American Journal of Botany 82: 421-433..

Chambers, J. C. 1995. Relationships between seed fates and seedling establishment in an alpine ecosystem. Ecology 76:2124-2133.

Chambers, J. C. 1997. Restoration of alpine ecosystems in the United States. Pages 161-187. in K. Urbanska and N. Webb (eds). Restoration ecology and sustainable development. Cambridge University Press.

Chambers, J. C., K. Farleigh, R. J. Tausch, J. R. Miller, D. Germanoski, D. Martin, and C. Nowak. 1998. Understanding long- and short-term changes in vegetation and geomorphic processes: the key to riparian restoration. Pages 101-110. in D. F. Potts (ed). Proceedings: Rangeland Management and Water Resources. American Water Resources Association and Society for Range Management, May 27-29, 1998, Reno, NV.

Chambers, J. C., K. Farleigh, R. J. Tausch, J. R. Miller, D. Germanoski, D. Martin, and C. Nowak. 1998. Understanding long- and short-term changes in vegetation and geomorphic processes: the key to riparian restoration. Pages 101-110. in D. F. Potts (ed). Proceedings: Rangeland Management and Water Resources. American Water Resources Association and Society for Range Management, May 27-29, 1998, Reno, NV.

Linnerooth, A. R., J. C. Chambers, and P. S. Mebine. 1998. Assessing the restoration potential of dry meadows using threshold and alternative states concepts. Pages 111-118. in D. F. Potts (ed). Proceedings: Rangeland Management and Water Resources. American Water Resources Association and Society for Range Management, May 27-29, 1998, Reno, NV.

Blank, R. R., J. C. Chambers, and A. Linnerooth. 1998. Influence of prescribed burning on riparian soils of central Nevada. Pages 235-242. in D. F. Potts (ed). Proceedings: Rangeland Management and Water Resources. American Water Resources Association and Society for Range Management, May 27-29, 1998, Reno, NV. 

Richards, R. T., J. C. Chambers, and C. Ross. 1998. Use of native plants on federal lands: policy and practice. Journal of Range Management 51:625-632.

Chambers, J. C., S. B. Vander Wall, and E. W. Schupp. 1999. Seed and seedling ecology of pinyon and juniper species in the pygmy woodlands of western North America. Botanical Reviews 65(1):1-38.

Chambers, J. C., E. W. Schupp, and S. B. Vander Wall. 1999. Seed dispersal and seedling establishment of pinyon and juniper species within the pinyon-juniper woodland. Pages 29-34. In S. B. Monson, R. Stevens, R. J. Tausch, R. Miller, and S. Goodrich. Proceedings: Ecology and Management of Pinyon-Juniper Communities within the Interior West. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, General Technical Report, RMRS-P-9.

Chambers, J. C., R. R. Blank, D. C. Zamudio, and R. J. Tausch. 1999. Central Nevada riparian areas: Physical and chemical properties of meadow soils. Journal of Range Management 52:91-98.

Schupp, E. W., J. C. Chambers, S. Vander Wall, J. M. Gomez, and M. Fuentes. 1999. Pinon and juniper seed dispersal and seedling recruitment processes at woodland ecotones.  In E. D. McArthur, W. K. Ostler, and C. L. Wamboldt, compilers. Proceedings: Shrubland Ecotones, August 12-14, 1998, Provo, UT. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, RMRS-P-11.

Castelli, R. M., J. C. Chambers, and R. Tausch. 2000. Soil-plant relations along a soil water gradient in Great Basin riparian meadows. Wetlands. 20:251-266.

Chambers, J. C. 2000. Seed movements and seedling fates in disturbed sagebrush steppe ecosystems: implications for restoration. Ecological Applications. 10:1400-1413.

Chambers, J. C. 2000. Using threshold and alternative state concepts to restore degraded or disturbed ecosystems. Pages 134-145. In:  Proceedings - High Altitude Revegetation Workshop No. 14. Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University.  Fort Collins, CO.

Chambers, J. C. 2000. Great Basin Ecosystem Management Project: restoring and maintaining riparian ecosystem integrity. Pages 110-113. In H. Y. Smith, ed. Proceedings: The Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Project--what we have learned, May 18-20, 1999. Missoula, MT. RMRS-P-17. Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO.

Miller, J., D. Germanoski, K. Waltman, R. Tausch, and J. Chambers. 2001. Influence of late Holocene processes and landforms on modern channel dynamics in upland watersheds of central Nevada. Geomorphology. 38:373-391.  

Chambers, J. C. 2001. Pinus monophylla establishment in an expanding pinon-juniper woodland: Environmental conditions, facilitation and interacting factors.  Journal of Vegetation Science. 12:27-40.

Martin, D. W. and J. C. Chambers. 2001. Restoration of riparian meadows degraded by livestock grazing: biomass and species composition responses. Journal of Range Management. 53:284-291. 

Martin, D. W. and J. C. Chambers. 2001. Effects of water table, clipping, and species interactions on Carex nebrascensis and Poa pratensis in riparian meadows. Wetlands. 21:422-430.

Chambers, J. C. and A. R. Linnerooth. 2001. Restoring sagebrush dominated riparian corridors using alternative state and threshold concepts: environmental and seedling establishment response. Applied Vegetation Science 4:157-166.

Martin, D. W. and J. C. Chambers. 2002. Restoration of riparian meadows degraded by livestock grazing: above and below-ground responses. Plant Ecology 163:77-91.  

Urbanska, K. M. and J. C. Chambers. 2002. High-elevation ecosystems. Pages 376-400. In: M. R. Perrow and A. J. Davies (eds.). Handbook of Restoration Ecology. Volume 2. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 

Wright, J. M. and J. C. Chambers. 2002. Restoring sagebrush dominated riparian corridors using alternative state and threshold concepts: biomass and species response. Applied Vegetation Science. 5:237-246.

Blank, R. R., J. C. Chambers, and D. C. Zamudio. 2003. Prescribed burning of central Nevada degraded riparian ecosystems:  effects on soil and vegetation. Journal of Range Management. 56:387-395.

Korfmacher, J. L., J. C. Chambers, R. J. Tausch, B. Roundy, S. Meyer, and S. Kitchen. 2003. Technical Note:  A technique for conducting small-plot burn treatments. Journal of Range Management. 56:251-254.

Korfmacher, J. L. and J. C. Chambers. 2003. Influences of alluvial fans on upland watersheds in central Nevada. Proceedings of the First Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, 27-30 October 2003, Benson, AZ.

Chambers, J. C. and J. R. Miller (eds). 2004. Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management and Restoration.  Island Press, Covelo, CA. 303 pages.

Chambers, J. C. and J. R. Miller. 2004. Restoring and maintaining sustainable riparian ecosystems – the Great Basin Ecosystem Management Project. Pages 1-23, In J. C. Chambers and J. R. Miller (eds). Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management, and Restoration.  Island Press, Covelo, CA

Miller, J. R., K. House, D. Germanoski, R.J. Tausch, and J. C. Chambers. 2004. Fluvial geomorphic responses to Holocene climate change. Pages 49-87, In J. C. Chambers and J. R. Miller (eds). Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management, and Restoration.  Island Press, Covelo, CA.

Jewett, D. G., M. Lord, J. R. Miller, and J. C. Chambers. 2004. Geomorphic and hydrologic controls on surface and subsurface flow regimes in riparian meadow ecosystems. Pages 124-161, In J. C. Chambers and J. R. Miller (eds). Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management, and Restoration.  Island Press, Covelo, CA.

Chambers, J. C., R. J. Tausch, J. L. Korfmacher, J. R. Miller, and D. G. Jewett. 2004. Effects of geomorphic processes and hydrologic regimes on riparian vegetation. In J. C. Chambers and J. R. Miller (eds). Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management and Restoration.  Island Press, Covelo, CA.

Chambers, J. C. and J. R. Miller. 2004. Process based approaches for managing and restoring riparian ecosystems. Pages 196-231, In J. C. Chambers and J. R. Miller (eds). Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems - Ecology, Management and Restoration. Island Press, Covelo, CA.

Beaver, E. A., D. A. Pyke, J. C. Chambers, F. Landau, and S. D. Smith. 2005. Monitoring temporal change in riparian vegetation of Great Basin National Park. Western North American Naturalist. in press.

D’Antonio, C. and J. C. Chambers. 2005. Using ecological theory to manage or restore ecosystems affected by invasive plant species. In D. Falk, M. Palmer, and J. Zedler (eds). Foundations of Restoration Ecology. Island Press, Covelo, CA. in press.

Rau, B. M., J. C. Chambers, R. R. Blank, and W. W. Miller. 2005. Hydrologic response to prescribed fire in central Nevada pinyon-juniper (Pinus monophylla-Juniperus osteosperma) woodland. Journal of Range Management. In press.

Address :

USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
920 Valley Road
Reno, NV 89512

775.784.5329

EMail : jchambers@fs.fed.us