Ecological Reserves
3521 14 Mile House Road
Forest Ranch, CA 95942
530-898-5010
530-342-1371

Mailing Address
Ecological Reserves - Chico State Enterprises
25 Main St. Suite 203
Chico, CA 95928-5388

Invertebrate Research

The BCCER is noted for long-term research on Tamalia gall aphids on manzanita species (Arctostaphylos manzanita and A. viscida) by Dr. Don Miller and graduate students.

Benigno, Gina Marie, 2011: Invertebrate Drift in Neighboring Perrenial and Seasonal Tributaries of the Sacramento River (PDF) (PDF)

Buchholtz, Clara, 2017: An Investigation of Communal Gall Sharing by Tamalia Coweni Under Variable Conditions of Population Density on Arctostaphylos Manzanita (Ericaceae) (PDF) (PDF)

Lynch, Mark, 2011: Beetle Response to Seasonal Prescribed Fire in Blue Oak (Quercus douglasii) Woodlands of Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve (PDF) (PDF)

Miller, D.G., Raman Anantanarayanan, 2018: Host-Plant Relations of Gall-Inducing Insects (link).

Miller et al., 2015: The origin and genetic differentiation of the socially parasitic aphid Tamalia inquilinus (PDF) (PDF)

Miller, 2004: The Ecology of Inquilism in Communally Parasitic Tamalia Aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) (PDF) (PDF)

Taylor, Brian, 2012: Relatedness Among Galling Aphids as Determined by AFLP Analysis (PDF) (PDF)