Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve

CSUC Ecological Reserves Research Reports

Research theses and projects may also be found by searching the  CSU, Chico CDR(opens in new window) (Chico Digital Repository).

Adams, Chloe, 2015: Slope Stability Analysis of a Small Intermittent Failure (PDF)

Aslan, Clare, 2010: Implications of newly-formed seed-dispersal mutualisms between birds and introduced plants in northern California, USA (PDF)

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

Bergmann, Jean-Phillipe, 2013: Prezygotic Reproductive Isolation Between  Mimulus guttatus and  Mimulus glaucescens (PDF)

Bright, Lisa, 2011: Taphonomic Signatures of Animal Scavenging in Northern California: A Forensic Anthropological Analysis (PDF)

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

Cresswell, Danielle, 2004: Summer Stream Temperatures Experienced by Adult Spring-Run Chinook Salmon in a Central Valley Stream (PDF)

Daly, Jennifer, 2009: The Temporal Nature of Things (PDF)

Daniele, Ninette, 2014:Blood Profiles in Western Pond Turtles (Emys marmorata) from a Nature Reserve and Comparison with a Population from a Modified Habitat (PDF)

Daniele, et al., 2011: Relationship Between Avian and Vegetation Diversities in an Ecotonal Habitat (PDF)

DeCarvalho, Patrick, 2012: Stream Gauging, Groundwater Monitoring, and Isotopic Analysis in Big Chico Creek, California (PDF)

DeVost, Erec, 2008: Methods for Vegetation Mapping in the Cascade/Sierra Nevada Foothills: A Case Study of Big Chico Creek Watershed, Chico, California (PDF)

Garcia, Dawn: Northern Saw‐whet Owl Migration Monitoring Project Summary, 2015 (PDF)

Garcia, Dawn: Northern Saw‐whet Owl Migration Monitoring Project Summary, 2016 (PDF)

Garcia, Dawn: Fall Migration of the Northern Saw-whet Owl in Northern Interior California, from the Central Valley Bird Club Bulletin, 2017 (PDF)

Garcia, Dawn: Northern Saw‐whet Owl Migration Monitoring Project Summary, 2017 (PDF)

Gonzalez, Marisol, 2014: Stratal Geometries of Tuscan Deposits in Big Chico Creek Canyon Outcrops and in the Subsurface Underlying Chico, California (PDF)

Gruenberg, Robert, 2018: Effects of Prescribed Fire on Soil Physical and Chemical Characteristics (PDF)

Habecker, Nicole, 2012: Ecogeographical and Intrinsic Postzygotic Isolation Between  Mimulus guttatus and  Mimulus glaucescens (PDF)

Hamill, Timmarie, 2012: Environmental Education Linking Academic Needs with Resource Management Goals (PDF)

Hankins, Don, 2015: Restoring Indigenous Fire to California Oak Woodlands (PDF)

Linden, 1999: Correlation Between Habitat Characteristics and Native Perennial Grass Species (PDF)

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

McCall, William, 2014: Evaluating Bilateral Asymmetry of the Adult Western Pond Turtle ( Emys marmorata) (PDF)

C. Martin, M Ocken, M. Sopoliga: Habitat Utilization and Selection by Birds within a Chaparral Community with Notes on Avian and Plant Diversity, June 2005. (PDF)

Maslin, Paul: Blue Oak Age and Growth in the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve (PDF)

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

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

Mills, Jason, 2015: Reestablishing the Competitive Hierarchy in an Invaded California Grassland through the Process of Habitat Restoration Following a Prescribed Burn (PDF)

Moore et al., 2017: Acoustic Monitoring of Bat Diversity in Northern California (poster) (PDF)

Murphy & Perkins, 2006: Spring, Creek, and Groundwater Chemistry in the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve and the Butte Basin, California (PDF)

Perkins, Carol, 2013: Geologic and Hydrologic Controls on Spring, Stream, and Ground Water Chemistry in the Big Chico Creek Watershed and Butte Basin, California (PDF)

Rizzo, Abigail, 2012: Vegetation Management Plan: Butte Creek and Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve Complex (PDF)

Shaw, Julie, 2014: Winter Ecology of Northern Saw-whet owls ( Aegolius acadicus) in the Sierra Nevada Foothills of California (PDF)

Shedd, Jackson, 2009: Bilateral Asymmetry in Two Secondary Sexual Characters in the Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporos occidentalis): Implications for a Correlation with Lateralized Aggression (PDF)

Silver, Courtney, 2017: Population-Level Variation in Vocalizations of Rana Boylii, the Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog (PDF)

Stone, Brandee, 2011: Analysis of Environmental Bacteria Capable of Utilizing Reduced Phosphorus Compounds (PDF)

Street, Quinn, 2009: Regional Paleo-Topographic Setting of the Lovejoy Basalt, Northern California (PDF)

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

Walker, Kristoffer, 2012: Evaluating the opposing wave interaction hypothesis for the generation of microbaroms in the eastern North Pacific (PDF)

Willard, Eric, 2009: Temperature and Relative Humidity Gradients of Intermittent and Perennial Tributaries in Northern California (PDF)

Wittsell, Rick, 2008: Density-Dependent Seasonal Home Range Size Change in Female Columbian Black-Tailed Deer (PDF)

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