Will Richardson , Post Doctoral Associate
Monte Sanford , Post Doctoral Associate
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1) conservation planning and adaptive management,
2) conflict resolution in land-use planning,
3) metapopulation dyamics and population viability analysis
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Dennis D. Murphy is a Research Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. Until recently he served as Director, then as President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford. Author of more than 170 published papers and book chapters on the biology of butterflies and on key issues in the conservation of imperiled species, Dr. Murphy has worked in conflict resolution in land-use planning on private property since the first federal Habitat Conservation Plan on San Bruno Mountain, including HCPs in the Pacific Northwest, southern California, and Nevada. He won the industry's oldest and most respected prize in conservation, the Chevron Conservation Award, has been named a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment, and has received the California Governor's Leadership Award in Economics and the Environment.
Dr. Murphy has served a number of scientific societies and environmental organizations, and is Past President of the Society for Conservation Biology. His professional activities outside of academia include service on the Interagency Spotted Owl Scientific Advisory Committee, enjoined by Congress to develop a solution to that planning crisis in the Pacific Northwest, as chair of the National Park Service's Scientific Advisory Committee on Bighorn Sheep, as co-chair of the State Department's American-Russian Young Investigators Program in Biodiversity and Ecology, as co-director of the statewide Nevada Biodiversity Initiative based at the University of Nevada at Reno, and as chair of the Scientific Review Panel to the first Natural Community Conservation Planning Program in southern California's coastal sage scrub ecosystem. He served the National Academy of Sciences on its Committee on Scientific Issues in the Endangered Species Act and Committee on Threatened and Endangered Species in the Platte River Basin, as well as in its contribution to the recent GAO review of desert tortoise management and recovery. He has been a member of both the Applied Science Panel and Interagency Working Group to the federal-state Coastal Salmon Initiative in northern California.
Dr. Murphy’s ongoing activities in the area of conservation planning and adaptive management include service on the Science Board to the Cal-Fed Ecosystem Restoration Planning Program for the Sacramento and San Joaquin River systems, development of a conservation strategy for the imperiled Tahoe Yellow-cress for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, development of a watershed-based ecosystem management framework for the Truckee, Carson, and Walker hydrological units in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, and adaptive management design for the nation’s largest Habitat Conservation Plan under the Endangered Species Act, in Clark County, Nevada. Dr. Murphy recently served as team leader for the committee of scientists carrying out the Lake Tahoe Watershed Assessment, a Presidential deliverable to the Tahoe Federal Interagency Partnership via the U.S. Forest Service.
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Fleishman, E., D. D. Murphy, and D. W. Sada. 2006. Effects of environmental heterogeneity and disturbance on the native and non-native flora of desert springs. Biological Invasions 8:1091-1101.
Fleishman, E., R. Mac Nally, and D. D. Murphy. 2005. Relationships among non-native plants, diversity of plants and butterflies, and adequacy of spatial sampling. Biological Journal Of The Linnean Society 85:157-166.
Fleishman, E., J. R. Thomson, R. Mac Nally, D. D. Murphy, and J. P. Fay. 2005. Using indicator species to predict species richness of multiple taxonomic groups. Conservation Biology 19:1125-1137.
Sada, D. W., E. Fleishman, and D. D. Murphy. 2005. Associations among spring-dependent aquatic assemblages and environmental and land use gradients in a Mojave Desert mountain range. Diversity And Distributions 11:91-99.
Mac Nally, R., E. Fleishman, and D. D. Murphy. 2004. Influence of temporal scale of sampling on detection of relationships between invasive plants and the diversity patterns of plants and butterflies. Conservation Biology 18:1525-1532.
Britten, H. B., E. Fleishman, G. T. Austin, and D. D. Murphy. 2003. Genetically effective and adult population sizes in the Apache Silverspot Butterfly, Speyeria nokomis apacheana (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Western North American Naturalist 63:229-235.
Fleishman, E., N. McDonal, R. Mac Nally, D. D. Murphy, J. Walters, and T. Floyd. 2003. Effects of floristics, physiognomy and non-native vegetation on riparian bird communities in a Mojave Desert watershed. Journal Of Animal Ecology 72:484-490.
Hellmann, J. J., S. B. Weiss, J. F. McLaughlin, C. L. Boggs, P. R. Ehrlich, A. E. Launer, and D. D. Murphy. 2003. Do hypotheses from short-term studies hold in the long-term? An empirical test. Ecological Entomology 28:74-84.
Mac Nally, R., E. Fleishman, J. P. Fay, and D. D. Murphy. 2003. Modelling butterfly species richness using mesoscale environmental variables: model construction and validation for mountain ranges in the Great Basin of western North America. Biological Conservation 110:21-31.
Noon, B. R., D. D. Murphy, S. R. Beissinger, M. L. Shaffer, and D. Dellasala. 2003. Conservation planning for US National Forests: Conducting comprehensive biodiversity assessments. Bioscience 53:1217-1220.
Fleishman, E., C. J. Betrus, R. B. Blair, R. MacNally, and D. D. Murphy. 2002. Nestedness analysis and conservation planning: the importance of place, environment, and life history across taxonomic groups. Oecologia 133:78-89.
Fleishman, E., C. Ray, P. Sjogren-Gulve, C. L. Boggs, and D. D. Murphy. 2002. Assessing the roles of patch quality, area, and isolation in predicting metapopulation dynamics. Conservation Biology 16:706-716.
Fleishman, E., G. T. Austin, and D. D. Murphy. 2001. Biogeography of Great Basin butterflies: revisiting patterns, paradigms, and climate change scenarios. Biological Journal Of The Linnean Society 74:501-515.
Fleishman, E., R. B. Blair, and D. D. Murphy. 2001. Empirical validation of a method for umbrella species selection. Ecological Applications 11:1489-1501.
Fleishman, E., A. E. Launer, K. R. Switky, U. Yandell, J. Heywood, and D. D. Murphy. 2001. Rules and exceptions in conservation genetics: genetic assessment of the endangered plant Cordylanthus palmatus and its implications for management planning. Biological Conservation 98:45-53.
Fleishman, E., R. Mac Nally, J. P. Fay, and D. D. Murphy. 2001. Modeling and predicting species occurrence using broad-scale environmental variables: an example with butterflies of the Great Basin. Conservation Biology 15:1674-1685.
Fleishman, E., J. P. Fay, and D. D. Murphy. 2000. Upsides and downsides: contrasting topographic gradients in species richness and associated scenarios for climate change. Journal Of Biogeography 27:1209-1219.
Fleishman, E., D. D. Murphy, and P. E. Brussard. 2000. A new method for selection of umbrella species for conservation planning. Ecological Applications 10:569-579.
Fleishman, E., and D. D. Murphy. 1999. Patterns and processes of nestedness in a Great Basin butterfly community. Oecologia 119:133-139.
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