Robert Nowak

Consortium of Great Basin Studies

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Collaborating Scientist

Profesor

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science,University of Nevada

Projects:

 Integrated Restoration Strategies Towards Weed Control On Western Rangelands

Relevant Publications:

Nowak, R.S., C.L. Nowak, and R.J. Tausch. 2000.  The probability that a fossil absent from a sample implies absent from the paleolandscape.  Quaternary Research 54:144-154.

Tausch, R.J., and R.S. Nowak. 1999. Fifty years of ecotone change between shrub and tree dominance in the Jack Springs Pinyon Natural Research Area. Pages 71-77 IN: E.D. McArthur, W.K. Ostler, C.L. Wamboldt, comps. Proceedings: Shrubland Ecotones. Proc. RMRS-P-11. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Moore, D.J., R.S. Nowak, and R.J. Tausch.  1999. Gas exchange of Juniperus osteosperma and Juniperus occidentalis across local and regional environmental gradients in the Great Basin of western North America. Tree Physiology 19:421-433.

Nowak, R.S., D.J. Moore, and R.J. Tausch.  1999.  Ecophysiological patterns of pinyon and juniper.  Pages 35-46 IN: S.B. Monsen, R. Stevens, R.J. Tausch, R. Miller, and S. Goodrich (eds.).  Proceedings: Ecology and Management of Pinyon-Juniper Communities within the Interior West. RMRS-P-9. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Tausch, R.J., C.L. Nowak, and R.S. Nowak.  1995.  Climate change and plant species response over the Quaternary: Implications for ecosystem management.  pp 14-19 IN: R.W. Tinus (ed).  Interior West Global Change Workshop.  U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station Gen. Tech Report RM-GTR-262.

Tausch, R.J., J.C. Chambers, R.R. Blank, and R.S. Nowak.  1994.  Differential establishment of perennial grass and cheatgrass following fire on an ungrazed sagebrush-juniper site.  pp 252-257 IN: B.A. Roundy, E.D. McArthur, J.S. Haley, and D.K. Mann (compilers).  Proceedings, Wildland Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium, October 1993.  U.S. Forest Service Intermountain Research Station Gen. Tech. Report INT-GTR-315.

Nowak, C.L., R.S. Nowak, R.J. Tausch, and P.E. Wigand.  1994.  A 30,000 year record of vegetation dynamics at a semi-arid locale in the Great Basin.  Journal of Vegetation Science 5:579-590.

Nowak, C.L., R.S. Nowak, R.J. Tausch, and P.E. Wigand.  1994.  Tree and shrub dynamics in northwestern Great Basin woodland and shrub steppe during the Late-Pleistocene and Holocene.  American Journal of Botany 81:265-277.

Tausch, R.J., R.S. Nowak, A.D. Bruner, and J. Smithson.  1994.  Effects of simulated fall and early spring grazing on cheatgrass and perennial grass in western Nevada.  pp 113-119 IN: S.B. Monsen and S.G. Kitchen (eds).  Proceedings - Ecology and Management of Annual Rangelands.  USDA Forest Service General Technical Report INT-GTR-313.

Nowak, R.S., C.L. Nowak, and J.E. Anderson.  1993.  Differential response to nitrogen form and concentration for Oryzopsis hymenoides and Elymus lanceolatus.  Great Basin Naturalist 53:222-236.

Melgoza, G., and R.S. Nowak.  1991.  Competition between cheatgrass and 2 native species after fire: Implications from observations and measurements of root distribution.  J. Range Manage. 44:27-33.

Melgoza, G., R.S. Nowak, and R.J. Tausch.  1990.  Soil water exploitation after fire: Competition between Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) and two native species.  Oecologia 83:7-13.

Nowak, R.S., C.L. Nowak, T. DeRocher, M.A. Jones, and N. Cole.  1990.  Prevalence of Oryzopsis hymenoides near harvester ant mounds: Indirect facilitation by ants.  Oikos 58:190-198.

Address :

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science
University of Nevada, Reno
Mail Stop 370
Reno, Nevada 89557

Phone: (775) 784-1656 or 784-4020
FAX: (775) 784-4789
 

EMail : nowak@cabnr.unr.edu