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
Short-term responses of desert soil and vegetation to removal of feral burros and domestic cattle (California)
Vital signs monitoring plan for the Klamath Network: Phase I report
Integrated monitoring of hydrogeomorphic, vegetative, and edaphic conditions in riparian ecosystems of Great Basin National Park, Nevada
Community- and landscape-level responses of reptiles and small mammals to feral-horse grazing in the Great Basin
Science for the changing Great Basin
Sagebrush ecosystems: current status and trends.
Patterns of apparent extirpation among isolated populations of pikas (Ochotona princeps) in the Great Basin
Management implications of the ecology of free-roaming horses in semiarid ecosystems of the western United States
Characterizing grazing disturbance in semiarid ecosystems across broad spatial scales using multiple indices.
Research plan for lands administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior in the Interior Columbia Basin and Snake River Plateau
Effects of food limitation and emigration on self-thinning in experimental minnow cohorts
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
Short-term responses of desert soil and vegetation to removal of feral burros and domestic cattle (California)
Vital signs monitoring plan for the Klamath Network: Phase I report
Integrated monitoring of hydrogeomorphic, vegetative, and edaphic conditions in riparian ecosystems of Great Basin National Park, Nevada
Community- and landscape-level responses of reptiles and small mammals to feral-horse grazing in the Great Basin
Science for the changing Great Basin
Sagebrush ecosystems: current status and trends.
Patterns of apparent extirpation among isolated populations of pikas (Ochotona princeps) in the Great Basin
Management implications of the ecology of free-roaming horses in semiarid ecosystems of the western United States
Characterizing grazing disturbance in semiarid ecosystems across broad spatial scales using multiple indices.
Research plan for lands administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior in the Interior Columbia Basin and Snake River Plateau
Effects of food limitation and emigration on self-thinning in experimental minnow cohorts
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.