Item talk:Q54604

ORCID:

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     name: "Sea-cliff bedstraw (Galium buxifolium) patterns and trends, 2005\u2013\
       14, on Santa Cruz and San Miguel Islands, Channel Islands National Park, California"
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 alternateName: A. Kathryn McEachern
 familyName: McEachern
 givenName: Kathryn
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 name: Kathryn McEachern

USGS Staff Profile:

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 affiliation:
 - '@type': Organization
   name: California Native Plant Society
 - '@type': Organization
   name: International Association for Vegetation Science
 - '@type': Organization
   name: Society for Conservation Biology
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   name: The Ecological Society of America
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   abstract: Research Ecologist with the Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)
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   abstract: Dr. Kathryn McEachern began her career in the open pit coal mines of
     Pacific Power and Light in Wyoming and Montana.
   additionalType: staff profile page introductory statement
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   abstract: "There she designed long-term vegetation monitoring programs, directed\
     \ topsoil salvage operations, and designed and tested native plant seed mixes\
     \ for habitat reclamation. Her interest in ecosystem restoration led her to\
     \ the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she participated in the restoration\
     \ ecology group, and helped design a new Conservation Biology Master\u2019s\
     \ program. In 1988, she began working with the National Park Service in the\
     \ Great Lakes region on conservation of coastal ecosystems. She began long-term\
     \ studies of a threatened dune thistle in one of the habitats she loves best:\
     \ coastal dunes. Her research interests led her to the California south coast,\
     \ where she continues to study rare plants and vegetation. Her particular interests\
     \ are in the study of how the vegetation forms the context for rare plant persistence,\
     \ as seen through long-term demographic patterns in the rare plants of the California\
     \ Channel Islands. To look at this question, she is tracking the native and\
     \ alien plant communities of the islands along with a suite of rare native plants\
     \ that inhabit these communities. She guides the Prototype Vegetation Monitoring\
     \ Program at Channel Islands National Park, and assists other agencies with\
     \ plant community and rare plant monitoring program design.RESEARCH INTERESTSChaparral\
     \ EcologyCoastal Sage EcologyCommunity ecologyConservation biologyEcological\
     \ monitoringGeographic Information SystemsInvasive species ecologyLandscape\
     \ ecologyLandscape patternsPlant ecologyPop. viab. modelsPopulation biologyRestoration\
     \ ecologySpecies/Population managementWeed management"
   additionalType: personal statement
 email: kathryn_mceachern@usgs.gov
 hasCredential:
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   name: Ph.D., Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 1992
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   name: B.S., Botany, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 1979
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   affiliatedOrganization:
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     name: Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)
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   roleName: Research Ecologist
   startDate: '2024-05-12T15:23:01.815688'
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 jobTitle: Research Ecologist
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   member:
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     name: U.S. Geological Survey
   name: staff member
   startDate: '2024-05-12T15:23:01.812892'
 name: Kathryn  McEachern
 url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/kathryn-mceachern