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Val J. Anderson

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Val J. Anderson
Plant & Wildlife Sciences
Email: Val_Anderson@byu.edu

275A WIDB
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 422-3527

Professor

 Education
  • PhD , Range Science , Texas A&M University , 1988
  • MS , Range Science , Utah State University , 1985
  • BS , Range Science , Utah State University , 1982
  • AS , Science , Snow College , 1980
 Research

I investigate rangeland resoration methods and materials, plant responses to environmental stress and rangeland management.

 Selected Publications

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. 

 Experience

General

  • Full Professor , Brigham Young University , 1999-Present
  • Associate Professor , Brigham Young University , 1994-1999
  • Assistant Professor , Brigham Young University , 1988-1994

 Awards
  • Undergraduate Teacher of the Year , National Range Science Education Council/SRM , 2003
  • National Fellow Award , Society For Range Management , 2001
  • John A. Widstoe Fellowship , BYU , 2000
  • Creative Achievement Award , College of Biology and Agriculture, BYU , 1998
  • Centennial Partnership Award , Uinta National Forest , 1997
  • Winner , Ph.D.. division of Graduate Student Competition Papers, SRM , 1988
  • Tom Slick Fellowship, outstanding Ph.D. candidates , Texas A&M Univ. , 1988
  • Outstanding Senior in the College of Natural Resources , Utah State Univ. , 1982
  • Outstanding Senior in the Range Science Department , Utah State Univ , 1982
  • L.A. Stoddart Scholarship , Utah Section of the Society For Range Management , 1981
  • Leadership Scholarship , Utah State University , 1980
  • Drama Scholarship , Snow College , 1979
  • Academic Scholarship , Snow College , 1977
 Courses Taught
PAS 494R : 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
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