Erik Beever, Ph.D.
Erik is interested in questions at the nexus of basic and applied science, especially those that also inform management and conservation efforts for species, communities, and ecosystems.
Research Interest
Dr. Erik Beever has published over 100 articles in diverse scientific journals and in numerous subdisciplines of biology. He has performed field research on plants, soils, amphibians, birds, reptiles, fishes, and insects, as well as small, medium, and large mammals. His work has spanned salt-scrub, sagebrush-steppe, alpine, subalpine, subarctic, riparian, primary and secondary temperate and tropical forest, and coastal ecosystems of the western hemisphere. In addition to seeking to understand mechanisms of biotic responses to long-term weather patterns and variability, he has also focused on disturbance ecology and monitoring in conservation reserves, all at community to landscape scales, as well as other topics of conservation ecology, wildlife biology, and landscape ecology. He is a member of the IUCN Protected Areas Specialist Group, the IUCN Lagomorph Specialist Group, as well as The Wildlife Society, Society for Conservation Biology, American Society of Mammalogists, and Sigma Xi.
Education and Certifications
Ph.D. 1999. University of Nevada, Reno. Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology
B.S. 1993. University of California, Davis. Biological Sciences
Science and Products
Niche shifts and energetic condition of songbirds in response to phenology of food-resource availability in a high-elevation sagebrush ecosystem
Plastic pikas: Behavioural flexibility in low-elevation pikas (Ochotona princeps)
Too hot to trot? evaluating the effects of wildfire on patterns of occupancy and abundance for a climate-sensitive habitat-specialist
Improving conservation outcomes with a new paradigm for understanding species’ fundamental and realized adaptive capacity
Assessing the components of adaptive capacity to improve conservation and management efforts under global change
Long-term plant responses to climate are moderated by biophysical attributes in a North American desert
Facing a changing world: Thermal physiology of American pikas (Ochotona princeps)
Successes and challenges from formation to implementation of eleven broad-extent conservation programs
Understanding relationships among abundance, extirpation, and climate at ecoregional scales
Playing by new rules: altered climates are affecting some pikas dramatically and rapidly
Conservation of greater sage-grouse- a synthesis of current trends and future management
Ecoregional-scale monitoring within conservation areas, in a rapidly changing climate
Non-USGS Publications**
horse grazing and other management practices. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nevada, Reno.
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Niche shifts and energetic condition of songbirds in response to phenology of food-resource availability in a high-elevation sagebrush ecosystem
Plastic pikas: Behavioural flexibility in low-elevation pikas (Ochotona princeps)
Too hot to trot? evaluating the effects of wildfire on patterns of occupancy and abundance for a climate-sensitive habitat-specialist
Improving conservation outcomes with a new paradigm for understanding species’ fundamental and realized adaptive capacity
Assessing the components of adaptive capacity to improve conservation and management efforts under global change
Long-term plant responses to climate are moderated by biophysical attributes in a North American desert
Facing a changing world: Thermal physiology of American pikas (Ochotona princeps)
Successes and challenges from formation to implementation of eleven broad-extent conservation programs
Understanding relationships among abundance, extirpation, and climate at ecoregional scales
Playing by new rules: altered climates are affecting some pikas dramatically and rapidly
Conservation of greater sage-grouse- a synthesis of current trends and future management
Ecoregional-scale monitoring within conservation areas, in a rapidly changing climate
Non-USGS Publications**
horse grazing and other management practices. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nevada, Reno.
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.