Erin J Questad

Erin J Questad

Professor, Biological Sciences, College of Science

Recent Publications

2022

Questad, E.J., Uowolo, A., Brooks, S., & Cordell, S. 2022. Shifting limitations to restoration across dryland ecosystems in Hawaii. Sustainability 14: 5421 doi:10.3390/su14095421

Questad, E.J., Antill, M., Liu, N., Stavros, E.N., Townsend, P.A., Bonfield, S., & Schimel, D. 2022. A camera-based method for collecting rapid vegetation data to support remote-sensing studies of shrubland biodiversity. Remote Sensing 14: 1933 doi:10.3390/rs14081933

2021

Myers, B.M., D.J. Moriarty, and E.J. Questad. In press. Bird species responses to drought in two southern California coastal sage scrub communities. Southwestern Naturalist.

Questad, E.J., R. L. Fitch, J. Paolini, E. Hernández, and K. Suding. 2021. Nitrogen addition, not heterogeneity, alters the relationship between invasion and native decline in California grasslands. Oecologia 197(3): 651-660.

2019

Morrison, G. and E.J. Questad. 2019. Elevated soil nitrogen, but not phosphorous, increases growth and reproduction in Crimson Fountain grass, Pennisetum setaceum (Poaceae). Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.

Quon, LH, E.G. Bobich, E.J. Questad. 2019. Facilitation and herbivory during restoration of California coastal sage scrub. Restoration Ecology 27(5): 1041-1052.

Fitch, R.L, E.J. Questad, and E.G. Bobich. 2019. Soil resource availability and its effect on the ecophysiology and establishment of Stipa pulchra. Journal of Plant Ecology 12(4): 603-614.

Bañuelas, D.G, E.J. Questad, and E. Bobich. 2019. Interactions between the invasive Schinus molle (Peruvian pepper tree) with six plant species commonly found in Southern California nature reserves. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 43: 126348.

Myers, B.M.U, E.J. Questad, M.D. Hubbell, and D.J. Moriarty. 2019. Bird diversity response to the interactive effects of drought, fire, and urbanization. Western Birds 50: 74-91.

Litle, J.W., L.H. Quon, M. L. Antill, E.J. Questad, and W.M. Meyer. 2019. Vertebrate herbivory on shrub seedlings in California sage scrub: important but understudied interactions. Plant Ecology 220: 523-528.

Hernández, E., E.J. Questad, W.M. Meyer III, and K.N. Suding. 2019. The effects of nitrogen deposition and invasion on litter fuel quality and decomposition in a Stipa pulchra grassland. Journal of Arid Environments 162: 35-44.

2018

Questad, E.J., A. Uowolo, S. Brooks, R. Fitch, and S. Cordell. 2018. Resource availability, propagule supply, and the effect of non-native, ungulate herbivores on Senecio madagascariensis invasion. Pacific Science 72(1):69-79.

2017

Cordell, S., E.J. Questad, G.P. Asner, K.M. Kinney, J.M. Thaxton, A. Uowolo, S. Brooks, and M.W. Chynoweth. 2017. Remote sensing for restoration planning: how the big picture can inform stakeholders. Restoration Ecology 25(S2): S147-S154

2015

Kinney, K.M., G.P. Asner, S. Cordell, O.A. Chadwick, K. Heckman, S. Hotchkiss, M. Jeraj, T. Kennedy-Bowdoin, D.E. Knapp, E.J. Questad, J.M. Thaxton, F. Trusdell, and J.R. Kellner. 2015. Primary succession on a Hawaiian dryland chronosequence. PLOS One, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123995

2014

Questad, E.J., J.R. Kellner, K. Kinney, S. Cordell, G.P. Asner, J. Thaxton, J. Diep, A. Uowolo, S. Brooks, N. Inman-Narahari, S.A. Evans, B. Tucker. 2014. Mapping habitat suitability for at-risk plant species and its implications for restoration and reintroduction. Ecological Applications 24 (2): 385-395.

Paolini, J.J., L.H. Quon, and E.J. Questad. 2014. The impact of invasive forbs on fuel loads in degraded coastal sage scrub. Crossosoma 40(1): 9-21.

2012

Questad, E.J., J.M. Thaxton, and S. Cordell. 2012. Patterns and consequences of re-invasion into a Hawaiian dry forest restoration. Biological Invasions 14(12): 2573-2586.

Kellner, J., G. Asner, S. Cordell, J. Thaxton, K. Kinney, T. Kennedy-Bowdoin, D. Knapp, E. Questad, and S. Ambagis. 2012. Historical land-cover classification for conservation and management in Hawaiian subalpine drylands. Pacific Science 66(4): 457-466.