Here you will find links or citations for much of my research since 2010.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at kmwolf[AT]ucdavis.edu (replace [AT] with the @ symbol). Thank you!

Completed and Ongoing Research

Grazing, Ecosystem Processes, and Working Landscapes

• Wolf KM, Horney M. In Review. 2016. Revisiting the rotational and continuous grazing system debate via meta-analysis. Rangeland Ecology & Management.
• Livestock-recreation interactions on California’s Central Coast: literature review, rancher and manager interviews and surveys, and analysis of the effects of shared livestock grazing and recreation on public and private rangelands on the Central Coast of California. I conducted a rancher-stakeholder workshop (commissioned by the Central Coast Rangeland Coalition, Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program, and funded by Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District), and participated in a public outreach workshop for Santa Clara County Parks’ users. A synthesis paper on this topic has been Accepted by Rangeland Ecology & Management (see post on this manuscript at Compatibility of livestock grazing and recreational use on coastal California public lands: Importance, interactions, and management solutions), and expect to submit the second detailing the Interview and Survey Results soon. We also intend to publish at least one outreach paper to Rangeland Round-up or the CCRC Newsletter.
  • Central Coast Rangeland Coalition stakeholder meeting: September 29, 2015; see Elkhorn Slough CTP Workshop for slides and information from this workshop
  • Santa Clara County Parks Workshop: October 17th, 2015; see Interacting with Cattle at SCC Parks for slides and information from this workshop
• Society for Range Management, 2015 Conference Paper: Continuous versus rotational grazing again: Another perspective from meta analysis
• Master’s thesis 2011, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo: Effects of high density short duration planned livestock grazing on soil carbon sequestration potentials in a coastal California mixed grassland
• Wolf K, Hallock B, Rutherford R, Horney M, O’Geen AT, Larsen R. 2011. Effects of high-density, short-duration planned livestock grazing on soil carbon sequestration potentials in a coastal California mixed grassland (update). 64^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Range Management, 2011, Feb. 5 – Feb. 10, Billings, MT.
• Wolf K, Hallock B, Rutherford R, Horney M, O’Geen AT, Larsen R. 2011. Effects of high-density, short-duration planned livestock grazing on soil carbon sequestration potentials in a coastal California mixed grassland. Robert F. Barnes Graduate Student Competition. ASA, CSSA, and SSSA 2010 International Annual Meetings, Oct. 31 – Nov. 4, Long Beach, CA.

Wildlife Utilization in Restored and Unrestored Grasslands

• Wolf, K. 2016. Rodents, and raptors, and snakes, oh my! The Wildlife Society Sac-Shasta Chapter, Invited Talk, Aug. 30, Sacramento, CA. Sac-Shasta Presentation
• Wolf, K. 2016. Restoration is best for wildlife, right? Grasslands. 26(1):7-10.
• Wolf K. 2015. Scouting Out the Hedgerows on DH Long Ranch, 2015 Cooperative Extension Hedgerows Workshop invited talk: Raptors, rodents, and reptiles: What’s in restored grasslands?
• Preliminary data: Invasive fire ants in restored and unrestored central valley grasslands
• Wolf K. 2015. California Native Plant Society, 2015 Conference Paper: Native perennial grassland restoration may not confer increased wildlife diversity of habitat
• Wolf K. 2014. The Wildlife Society Sac-Shasta Chapter, 2014 Natural Resources Symposium Conference Paper: Native perennial grassland restoration may not confer increased wildlife diversity or habitat utilization
• Preliminary data: October 2014 wildlife sampling – Season three
• Preliminary data: July 2014 wildlife sampling – Season two
• Preliminary data: April 2014 wildlife sampling – Season one: Here we go!
• Wildlife Project Overview: Wildlife use of native perennial and exotic annual grasslands: A comparative study

Biological Invasions

• Wolf KM, DiTomaso JM. 2016. Management of blue gum eucalyptus in California requires region-specific consideration. California Agriculture. 70(1):39-47. DOI#10.3733/ca.v070n01p39.
• Zefferman E, Stevens JT, Charles GK, Dunbar-Irwin M, Emam T, Fick S, Morales L, Wolf KM, Young DJN, Young TP. 2015. Plant communities in harsh sites are less invaded: a summary of observations and proposed explanations. Biological Invasions  DOI:10.1093/aobpla/plv056. Plant communities in harsh sites are less invaded, or download full-text here: Zefferman et al. 2015
  • For this paper, I specifically wrote the section on serpentine, but also contributed to the direction and writing of the entire manuscript.
• Wolf K, Johnson D. 2014. Revisiting bluegum eucalyptus: Cal-IPC proposes adjustments to its assessment. Cal-IPC News 22:10. Download full-text here: Cal-IPC News Summer 2014
• Wolf K. 2014 Bluegum eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus) in California: Cal-IPC reassessment. Monday morning weeders’ meeting, U.C. Davis. 25 Aug, Davis, CA.
• Wolf K. 2014. Eucalyptus globulus plant assessment form. California Invasive Plant Council, Berkeley, CA. Available online at: E. globulus Plant Assessment Form.

Restoration Methods and Applications

Year and Priority Effects (Restoration strategies)

• Werner CM, Vaughn KJ, Stuble KL, Wolf K, Young TP. 2016. Persistent asymmetrical priority effects in a California grassland restoration experiment. Ecological Applications. 26(2):1624-1632. doi:10.1890/15-1918.1.
• Stuble KL, Zefferman E, Wolf K, Vaughn KJ, Young TP. In Review 2015. Outside the envelope: Rare events disrupt the relationship between climatic factors and restoration outcomes.
• Historical contingency in ecology and restoration: year effects, priority effects, and climate change in California grasslands (ongoing): see link to data archive, metadata, and at description of this study at: KNB ecoinformatics data archive

Manipulating Summer Water to Alter Seasonal Priority Effects in Restored Native Perennial Grasslands (Post-restoration management)

• Wolf KM, Young TP. 2016. Summer water in a restored native grassland flushes annual grass seedbank but fails to increase native perennial cover. Ecosphere7(6):e01309. DOI#10.1002/ecs2.1309.
• Project Overviews: Can summer watering alter seasonal priority effects and reduce the annual grass weed challenge in a restored grassland?
• Wolf K. 2014. Society for Ecological Restoration California, 2014 Conference Paper: Can summer watering to flush annuals reduce exotic cover in restored grasslands
• Burning post-restoration and post-flushing (summer watering): see “Fire and Restoration” section, below

Fire and Restoration (Post-restoration management)

• Wolf K. 2015. Society for Ecological Restoration California, 2015 Conference Paper: Burning post-restoration and post-flushing – Summer watering and fire to control weeds in restored grasslands
• Wolf K. 2014. Ecological Society of America, 2014 Conference Paper: Burning reveals cryptic diversity and promotes coexistence of native species in a restored California prairie
• Young DJN, Porensky LM, Wolf KM, Fick SE, Young TP. 2015. Burning reveals cryptic plant diversity and promotes coexistence in a California prairie restoration experiment. Ecosphere 6(5):1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00303.1 or download here: Young et al. 2015 Fire reveals cryptic diversity.

Soils and Nutrients

• Wallace M, Appel C, Stubler C, Ainuddin I, Bennett L, Jackson C, Morgan R, Johnson K, Norton L, Roberts K, Ripley C, Smith S, Tornincasa A, Widrig G, Wolf K. 2010. Chromium and lead concentrations in soils and plants at the Chumash Creek Dump, San Luis Obispo, CA. ASA, CSSA, and SSSA 2010 International Annual Meetings, Oct. 31 – Nov. 4, Long Beach, CA. https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/meetings/2010am/7854/59728
• Also see the Grazing, Ecosystem Processes, and Working Landscapes section, at the top of this page for information on soil carbon and nitrogen in grazed and ungrazed pastures.