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Erik A. Beever Title: Ecologist Address: 4210 University Dr., Anchorage, AK 99508-4626 Phone: (907) 786-7085 Fax: (907) 786-7150 Email: ebeever@usgs.gov

Education and/or Training

Ph.D.	1999	University of Nevada, Reno, NV	Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology
B.S.	1993	University of California, Davis, CA	Biological Sciences

Areas of Specialization and/or Research Interests

Disturbance ecology, mechanisms of biotic responses to climate change, and monitoring in conservation reserves, all at community to landscape scales. Greatest experience with mammals, but also with plants, soils, reptiles, amphibians, and ants.

Professional Experience

2007 - Present	Ecologist, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK
2005 - 2007	Quantitative Ecologist, U.S. National Park Service, Great Lakes Network, Ashland, WI
2005 - 2007	Affiliate Assistant Professor, Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
2000 – 2005	Ecologist, USGS Forest & Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Corvallis, OR

Professional Activities and/or Memberships

Invited Member, IUCN Species Survival Commission, Lagomorph Specialist Group
Editorial Board Member, The Open Conservation Biology Journal
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)
The American Society of Mammalogists (ASM)
Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)
The Wildlife Society (TWS) [Biological Diversity Working Group]
Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
Union of Concerned Scientists

Significant Recent Publications

Belant, J.L., E.A. Beever, J.E. Gross, and J.J. Lawler. 2010. Ecological responses to contemporary climate change within species, communities, and ecosystems. In press, Conservation Biology.

Beever, E. A. Ecological silence of the grasslands, forests, wetlands, mountains, and seas. In press, Conservation Biology.

Bowen, K. D., E. A. Beever, and U. B. Gafvert. Improving the design of amphibian surveys using soil data: A case study in two wilderness areas. In press, Natural Areas Journal.

Beever, E.A., and C. Aldridge. 2010. Influences of free-roaming equids on sagebrush ecosystems, with focus on Greater Sage-grouse. In press, Studies in Avian Biology.

Beever, E.A., R.J. Tausch, and W.E. Thogmartin. 2008. Landscape- and local-scale responses of vegetation to removal of horse grazing from Great Basin (U.S.A.) mountain ranges. Plant Ecology. 196(2):163-184.

Beever, E.A, J.L. Wilkening, D.E. McIvor, S.S. Weber, and P.F. Brussard. 2008. American pikas (Ochotona princeps) in northwestern Nevada: a newly discovered population at a low-elevation site. Western North American Naturalist. 68(1):8-14.

Johnson, S.E., E.L. Mudrak, E.A. Beever, S. Sanders, and D.M. Waller. 2008. Comparing power among three sampling methods for monitoring forest vegetation. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 38:143-156.

Haig, S.M, E.A. Beever, et al. 2006. Taxonomy and listing of subspecies under the U.S. ESA: challenges for conservation and policy implementation. Conservation Biology 20(6):1584-1594.

Beever, E.A. 2006. Monitoring biological diversity: strategies, tools, limitations, and challenges. Northwestern Naturalist 87(1):66-79.

Beever, E.A., R.K. Swihart, and B.T. Bestelmeyer. 2006. Linking the concept of scale to studies of biological diversity: evolving approaches and tools. Diversity and Distributions 12(3):229-235.

Beever, E.A., M. Huso, and D.A. Pyke. 2006. Multi-scale responses of soil stability and invasive plants to removal of non-native grazers from an arid conservation reserve. Diversity and Distributions 12(3):258-268.

Beever, E.A., and J.E. Herrick. 2006. Effects of feral horses in Great Basin landscapes on soils and ants: direct and indirect mechanisms. Journal of Arid Environments 66(1):96-112.

Beever, E.A., and D.A. Pyke. 2005. Short-term responses of soil and vegetation to removal of feral burros and domestic cattle (California). Ecological Restoration 23(4):279-280.

Beever, E.A., D.A. Pyke, J.C. Chambers, F. Landau, and S. Smith. 2005. Monitoring temporal change in riparian vegetation of Great Basin National Park. Western North American Naturalist 65(3):382-402.

Beever, E.A., and D.A. Pyke. 2004. Integrated monitoring of hydrogeomorphic, vegetative, and edaphic conditions in riparian ecosystems of Great Basin National Park, Nevada. U.S. Geological Survey, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5185.

Beever, E.A., and P.F. Brussard. 2004. Community- and landscape-level responses of reptiles and small mammals to feral-horse grazing in the Great Basin. Journal of Arid Environments 59(2):271-297.

Beever, E.A. 2003. Management implications of the ecology of free-roaming horses in semiarid ecosystems of the western United States. Wildlife Society Bulletin 31(3):887-895.

Beever, E.A., R.J. Tausch, and P.F. Brussard. 2003. Characterizing grazing disturbance in semiarid ecosystems across broad spatial scales using multiple indices. Ecological Applications 13(1):119-136.

Beever, E.A., P.F. Brussard, and J. Berger. 2003. Patterns of extirpation among isolated populations of pikas (Ochotona princeps) in the Great Basin. Journal of Mammalogy 84(1):37-54.

Beever, E.A. 2002. Persistence of pikas in two low-elevation national monuments in the western United States. Park Science 21(2):23-29.

Beever, E.A. and D.A. Pyke. 2002. Research plan for lands administered by the U.S. Department of Interior in the Interior Columbia Basin & Snake River Plateau. U.S. Geological Survey, Information and Technology Report 2002-003. 76 p.

Beever, E.A. 2000. The roles of optimism in conservation biology. Conservation Biology 14(3):907-909.

Beever, E.A. and P.F. Brussard. 2000. Examining ecological consequences of feral horse grazing using exclosures. Western North American Naturalist 60(3):236-254.

Dunham, J. B., B. R. Dickerson, E. Beever, R. D. Duncan, and G. L. Vinyard. 2000. Effects of food limitation and emigration on self-thinning in experimental minnow cohorts. Journal of Animal Ecology 69(6):927-934.