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Erica Fleishman
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Links: Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University
Nevada Biodiversity Initiative
Society for Conservation Biology
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Collaborating ScientistResearch Associate Stanford University
Projects: The Great Basin Ecosystem Management Project for Restoring and Maintaining Watersheds and Riparian Ecosystems
Effects of Fire and Rehabilitation Seeding on Sage Grouse Habitat in the Pinyon-Juniper Zone
A Demonstration Area on Ecosystem Response to Prescribed Burns in the Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands
Relevant Publications: Fleishman, E., J.F. Baughman, A.E. Launer, and P.R. Ehrlich. 1993. The effect of fluorescent pigments on butterfly copulation. Ecological Entomology 18:165–167.
Fleishman, E., G.T. Austin, and D.D. Murphy. 1997. Natural history and biogeography of the butterflies of the Toiyabe Range, Nevada (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Holarctic Lepidoptera 4:1–18.
Fleishman, E., A.E. Launer, S.B. Weiss, J.M. Reed, C.L. Boggs, D.D. Murphy, and P.R. Ehrlich. 1997 (2000). Effects of microclimate and oviposition timing on prediapause larval survival of the Bay checkerspot butterfly, Euphydryas editha bayensis (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 36:31–44.
Fleishman, E., G.T. Austin, and A.D. Weiss. 1998. An empirical test of Rapoport’s rule: elevational gradients in montane butterfly communities. Ecology 79:2482–2493.
Fleishman, E., G.T. Austin, P.F. Brussard, and D.D. Murphy. 1999. A comparison of butterfly communities in native and agricultural riparian habitats in the Great Basin. Biological Conservation 89:209–218.
Fleishman, E., and D.D. Murphy. 1999. Patterns and processes of nestedness in a Great Basin butterfly community. Oecologia 119:133–139.
Fleishman, E., D.D. Murphy, and G.T. Austin. 1999. Butterflies of the Toquima Range, Nevada: distribution, natural history, and comparison to the Toiyabe Range. Great Basin Naturalist 59:50–62.
Fleishman, E., G.H. Wolff, C.L. Boggs, P.R. Ehrlich, A.E. Launer, J.O. Niles, and T.H. Ricketts. 1999. Conservation in practice: overcoming obstacles to implementation. Conservation Biology 13:450–452.
Fleishman, E. 2000. Monitoring the response of butterfly communities to prescribed fire. Environmental Management 26:685–695.
Fleishman, E., J.P. Fay, and D.D. Murphy. 2000. Upsides and downsides: contrasting topographic gradients in species richness and associated scenarios for climate change. Journal of Biogeography 27:1209–1219.
Fleishman,
E., B.G. Jonsson, and P. Sjögren-Gulve. 2000. Focal
species modeling for biodiversity conservation. In P. Sjögren-Gulve and T.
Ebenhard, editors. The use of population viability analyses in conservation
planning. Ecological Bulletins 48:85–99.
Fleishman, E., D.D. Murphy, and P.F. Brussard. 2000. A new method for selection of umbrella species for conservation planning. Ecological Applications 10:569–579.
Fleishman, E., G.T. Austin, and D.D. Murphy. 2001. Biogeography of Great Basin butterflies: revisiting patterns, paradigms, and climate change scenarios. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 74:501–515.
Fleishman, E., R.B. Blair, and D.D. Murphy. 2001. Empirical validation of a method for umbrella species selection. Ecological Applications 11:1489–1501.
Fleishman, E., A.E. Launer, K.R. Switky, U. Yandell, J. Heywood, and D.D. Murphy. 2001. Rules and exceptions in conservation genetics: genetic assessment of the endangered plant Cordylanthus palmatus and its implications for management planning. Biological Conservation 98:45–53.
Fleishman, E., R. Mac Nally, J.P. Fay, and D.D. Murphy. 2001. Modeling and predicting species occurrence using broad-scale environmental variables: an example with butterflies of the Great Basin. Conservation Biology 15:1674–1685.
Fleishman, E., C.J. Betrus, R.B. Blair, R. Mac Nally, and D.D. Murphy. 2002. Nestedness analysis and conservation planning: the importance of place, environment, and life history across taxonomic groups. Oecologia 133:78–89.
Fleishman, E., and R. Mac Nally. 2002. Topographic determinants of faunal nestedness in Great Basin butterfly assemblages. Conservation Biology 16:422–429.
Fleishman, E., D.D. Murphy, T. Floyd, N. McDonal, and J. Walters. 2002. Characterization of riparian bird communities in a Mojave Desert watershed. Great Basin Birds 5:38-44.
Fleishman, E., D.D. Murphy, and P. Sjögren-Gulve. 2002. Modeling species richness and habitat suitability for species of conservation interest. Pages 507–517 in J.M. Scott, P.J. Heglund, M. Morrison, M. Raphael, J. Haufler, and B. Wall, editors. Predicting species occurrences: issues of scale and accuracy. Island Press, Covello, California.
Fleishman, E., C. Ray, P. Sjögren-Gulve, C.L. Boggs, and D.D. Murphy. 2002. Assessing the relative roles of patch quality, area, and isolation in predicting metapopulation dynamics. Conservation Biology 16:706–716.
Mac Nally, R., and E. Fleishman. 2002. Using ‘indicator’ species to model species richness: model development and predictions. Ecological Applications 12:79–92.
Austin, G.T., D.D. Murphy, J.F. Baughman, A.E. Launer, and E. Fleishman. 2003. Hybridization of checkerspot butterflies in the Great Basin. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 57:176–192.
Britten, H.B., E. Fleishman, G.T. Austin, and D.D.
Murphy. 2003. Genetically effective and adult census population sizes in the
Apache silverspot butterfly, Speyeria nokomis apacheana (Lepidoptera:
Nymphalidae). Western North American Naturalist 63:229–235.
Fleishman, E., C.J. Betrus, and R.B. Blair. 2003.
Effects of
spatial scale and taxonomic group on partitioning of butterfly and bird
diversity in the Great Basin. Landscape Ecology 18:675–685.
Fleishman, E., C.J. Betrus, and L.P. Bulluck. 2003.
Annual variability of species richness and composition of breeding birds in the
central Great Basin. Great Basin Birds 6(1):36–44.
Fleishman, E. and R. Mac Nally. 2003.
Distinguishing between signal and noise in faunal responses to environmental
change. Global Ecology and Biogeography 12:395–402.
Fleishman, E., R. Mac Nally, and J.P. Fay. 2003.
Validation tests
of predictive models of butterfly occurrence based on environmental variables.
Conservation Biology 17:806–817.
Fleishman, E., N. McDonal, R. Mac Nally, D.D.
Murphy, J. Walters, and T. Floyd. 2003.
Effects of floristics,
physiognomy, and non-native vegetation on riparian bird communities in a Mojave
Desert watershed. Journal of Animal Ecology 72:484–490.
Mac Nally, R., E. Fleishman, J.P. Fay, and D.D.
Murphy. 2003. Modeling butterfly
species richness using mesoscale environmental variables: model construction and
validation. Biological Conservation 110:21–31.
Bailey, S-A., S. Anderson, K. Carney, E. Cleland,
M.C. Horner-Devine, G. Luck, L.A. Moore, C. Betrus, and E. Fleishman. 2004.
Primary
productivity and species richness: relationships among functional guilds,
residency groups and vagility classes at multiple spatial scales. Ecography
27:207–217.
Fleishman, E., J.B. Dunham, P.F. Brussard, and D.D.
Murphy. 2004. Explanation, prediction, and maintenance of native species
richness and composition in the central Great Basin. Pages 232–260 in J.C.
Chambers and J.R. Miller, editors.
Great Basin riparian
ecosystems—ecology, management, and restoration. Island Press, Washington,
D.C.
Fleishman, E. and R. Mac Nally. 2002–2003 (2004).
Linking models of
species occurrence and landscape reconstruction. Transactions of the Western
Section of the Wildlife Society 38/39:1–4.
Mac Nally, R. and E. Fleishman. 2004.
A successful predictive
model of species richness based on indicator species. Conservation Biology
18:646–634. RM&EF Cons Biol 2004
Mac Nally, R., E. Fleishman, L. Bulluck, and C.
Betrus. 2004.
Comparative influence of spatial scale on beta diversity within regional
assemblages of birds and butterflies. Journal of Biogeography 31:917–929.
Mac Nally, R., E. Fleishman, and D.D. Murphy. 2004.
Influence of temporal scale of sampling on detection of relationships between
invasive plants and the diversity patterns of plants and butterflies.
Conservation Biology 18:1525–1532.
Seto, K.C., E. Fleishman, J.P. Fay, and C.J. Betrus.
2004. Linking spatial patterns
of butterfly and bird species richness with Landsat TM derived NDVI.
International Journal of Remote Sensing 25:4309–4324.
Betrus, C.J., E. Fleishman, and R.B. Blair. 2005.
Cross-taxonomic potential
and spatial transferability of an umbrella species index. Journal of
Environmental Management 74:79–87.
Fleishman, E. In press. Identification and
conservation application of signal, noise, and taxonomic effects in diversity
patterns. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation (by invitation).
Bulluck, L.P., E. Fleishman, C.J. Betrus, and R.B.
Blair. In press. Spatial and temporal variation in species occurrence rate
affects the accuracy of occurrence models. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
Fleishman, E., R. Mac Nally, and J.R. Thomson. In
press. Challenges and opportunities for conserving faunal biodiversity in arid
ecosystems. Annals of Arid Zone (by invitation).
Fleishman, E., J.R. Thomson, R. Mac Nally, D.D.
Murphy, and J.P. Fay. In press. Predicting species richness of multiple
taxonomic groups using indicator species and genetic algorithms. Conservation
Biology.
Thomson, J.R., E. Fleishman, R. Mac Nally, and D.S.
Dobkin. In press. Influence of the temporal resolution of data on the success of
indicator species models of species richness across multiple taxonomic groups.
Biological Conservation. Education:
Ph.D.,
1997, University of Nevada, Reno (Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology)
M.S.,
1992, Stanford University (Biological Sciences)
B.S.,
1991, Stanford University (Biological Sciences)
Professional Experience:
2000
to present – Research Associate, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford
University
1997
to 2000 – Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford
University
1993
to 1997 – Research Assistant, Department of Biology, University of Nevada,
Reno
1988 to 1993 – Research Assistant, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University
Awards and Grants:
1997
– 1999: USDA Forest Service challenge
cost-share agreement, “Meadow Canyon butterfly monitoring project”
1998
– 2001: USDA Forest Service challenge
cost-share agreement, “Apache silverspot butterfly monitoring and
management”
2000 – 2003: Joint Fire Sciences Program, “A demonstration area on ecosystem response to watershed-scale burns in Great Basin pinyon-juniper woodlands” (Chambers, J.C., R.J. Tausch, M.C. Amacher, D. Germanoski, E. Fleishman, and D. Zamudio)
2001: Special Recognition for volunteer service, Society for Conservation Biology
2001 – 2002: Long Distance All-American, United States Masters Swimming
2001 – 2002: USDA Forest Service, “Ecology and conservation of butterflies on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest”
2001 – 2004: Joint Fire Sciences Program, “Effects of fire and rehabilitation seeding on sage grouse habitat in the pinyon-juniper zone (an extension of the Great Basin pinyon-juniper demonstration area)” (Chambers, J.C., R.J. Tausch, R.R. Blank, and E. Fleishman)
2002 – 2004: Center for GeoSpatial Workforce Development, University of Mississippi, “Model curriculum for remote sensing: remote sensing of the environment” (Seto, K., and E. Fleishman)
2003 – 2005: Australian Research Council, “Reconstructing landscapes for biodiversity: from predictive modelling to future scenarios” (Mac Nally, R., and E. Fleishman)
2003 – 2004: Institute for Advanced Education in Geospatial Sciences, University of Mississippi, “Model curriculum for remote sensing: ecosystems modeling applications” (Fleishman, E. and K. Seto)
Professional
Service:
1994
– present: Founding Editor, Society for
Conservation Biology Newsletter
1997 – present: Coordinating Committee, Nevada Biodiversity Initiative
1999: Scientific review panel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Terrestrial indicators of ecological integrity”
1999 – 2000: Assistant Editor, Association for Women in Science Magazine
1999 – present: Board of Governors (ex officio), Society for Conservation Biology
2001 – 2002: Scientific review panel, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, “Evaluating potential methods for prioritizing species for listing actions under the Endangered Species Act”
2002 – present: Facilitator, Science Advisory Panel, East Contra Costa County, California Habitat Conservation Plan / Natural Communities Conservation Plan
2002 – present: Board of Editors, Conservation Biology
2003: Committee on National Forest Planning and Management, North American Section, Society for Conservation Biology
2003 – present: Coordinator, Great Basin
Invasive Species and Remote Sensing Network
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Center for Conservation Biology Department of Biological Sciences Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-5020
Phone: 650.725.9914
Fax: 650.723.5920
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