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Val J. Anderson Plant & Wildlife Sciences Email: Val_Anderson@byu.edu 275A WIDB Professor
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I investigate rangeland resoration methods and materials, plant responses to environmental stress and rangeland management. |
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Articles Brown, C.S., V.J. Anderson, V.P. Classen, M.E. Stannard, L.M. Wilson, S.Y. Atkinson, Je.E. Broomberg, T.A. Grant III, M.D. Munis. "Restoration ecology and invasive plants in the semi-arid west." Invasive Plant Science and Management. 1 (2008): 399-413. Smith D.C, S. Meyer, V.J. Anderson. "Factors affecting Bromus tectorum seed bank carryover in western Utah." Rangeland Ecology and Management. 61 (2008): 430-436. Jessop, B.D. and V. J Anderson. "Cheatgrass invasion in salt desert shrublands; benefits of post-fire reclamation." Rangeland Ecology and Managment. 60.3 (2007): 235-243. Woolstenhulme L.A., A.F. Hunt and V.J. Anderson. "Genetic diversity and low reproductive success in isolated populations of Utah juniper (Juniperous osteosperma, Cupressaceae)." Western North American Natrualist. 67.3 (2007): 323-337. Royer, C.W., R.D. Horrocks, V.J. Anderson and S.B. Monsen. "Seasonal acceptance of fourwing saltbrush by sheep when crested wheatgrass is the alternative." Sheep and Goat Research Journal. 20 (2005): 1-10. Royer, C.W., R.D. Horrocks, V.J. Anderson and S.B. Monsen. "What exactly are your sheep eating." Rangelands. 27.1 (2005): 31-34. Cosgriff, R.L., V.J. Anderson and S.B. Monsen. "Impact of mechanical and chemical control practices on false hellebore (Veratrum californicum Durand) and the associated mountain tall forb community." J. Range Manage. 2004: 365-370. Cox, R.D. and V.J. Anderson. "Increasing native diversity of cheatgrass-dominated rangeland through assisted succession." J. Range Manage. 2004: 203-210. Anderson, V.J. "Challenges to the return of native biodiversity in arid U.S. rangelands." African J. of Range and For. Sci. 20 (2003): 160. Horman, C.S. and V.J. Anderson. "Understory species response to Utah juniper litter." J. Range Manage. 56 (2003): 68-71. Quilter, M.C. and V.J. Anderson. "A proposed method for determining shrub utilization using (LA/LS) imagery." J. Range Manage. 54 (2001): 378-381. Stewart, A., V.J. Anderson and S.G. Kitchen. "Immigrant forage kochia seed viability as impacted by storage methods." J. Range Manage. 54 (2001): 396-399. Liao, J., S.B. Monsen, V.J. Anderson and N.L. Shaw. "Seed germination characteristics of rushskeletonweed in southwestern Idaho." J. Range Manage. 53 (2000): 544-549. Quilter, M.C. and V.J. Anderson. "Low altitude/large scale aerial photography: a tool for range and resource managers." Rangelands. 22 (2000): 13-17. Anderson, V.J. and K.C. Hodgkinson. "Synchronous tillering and flowering dynamics of perennial grasses in Australian semi-arid wooded grasslands." Proc. VI International Rangeland Congress. 1999: 244-246. Memmott, K.L., V.J. Anderson, S.B. Monsen. "Effects of seasonal cattle grazing on cryptogamic crust populations in a shrub-grass ecosystem." J. Range Management. 51 (1998): 547-550. Anderson, V.J. and K.C. Hodgkinson. "Perennial grass-mediated capture of resource flows and the maintenance of mulga (Acacia aneura) banded pattern in a semi-arid wooded reangeland." Aust. J. Botony. 45 (1997): 331-342. Horman, C.S. and V.J. Anderson. "The effects of juniper little depth and allelophathy on two native species." Brigham Young Univ. Undergrad. Res. J. 1997. <website> Anderson, V.J., K.C. Hodgkinson and A. Grice. "Influence of recent grazing pressure and landscape elements on grass recruitment in a semi-arid wooded rangeland of eastern Australia." Rangel. J. 18 (1996): 3-9. |
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PAS 494R
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Mentored Learning Experience
PAS 699R : Master's Thesis PWS 115 : Wildlife & Wildland Conservatn PWS 697R : Research PWS 492 : Wildlife Senior Seminar PWS 355 : Rangeland Veg Measurements PWS 330 : Rangeland Plant ID & Ecology PWS 494R : Mentored Learning Experience PAS 799R : Doctoral Dissertation PWS 799R : Doctoral Dissertation |