Kathryn McEachern
Dr. Kathryn McEachern began her career in the open pit coal mines of Pacific Power and Light in Wyoming and Montana.
There she designed long-term vegetation monitoring programs, directed topsoil salvage operations, and designed and tested native plant seed mixes for habitat reclamation. Her interest in ecosystem restoration led her to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she participated in the restoration ecology group, and helped design a new Conservation Biology Master’s program. In 1988, she began working with the National Park Service in the Great Lakes region on conservation of coastal ecosystems. She began long-term studies of a threatened dune thistle in one of the habitats she loves best: coastal dunes. Her research interests led her to the California south coast, where she continues to study rare plants and vegetation. Her particular interests are in the study of how the vegetation forms the context for rare plant persistence, as seen through long-term demographic patterns in the rare plants of the California Channel Islands. To look at this question, she is tracking the native and alien plant communities of the islands along with a suite of rare native plants that inhabit these communities. She guides the Prototype Vegetation Monitoring Program at Channel Islands National Park, and assists other agencies with plant community and rare plant monitoring program design.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Chaparral Ecology
- Coastal Sage Ecology
- Community ecology
- Conservation biology
- Ecological monitoring
- Geographic Information Systems
- Invasive species ecology
- Landscape ecology
- Landscape patterns
- Plant ecology
- Pop. viab. models
- Population biology
- Restoration ecology
- Species/Population management
- Weed management
Education and Certifications
Ph.D., Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 1992
B.S., Botany, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 1979
Affiliations and Memberships*
California Native Plant Society
International Association for Vegetation Science
Society for Conservation Biology
The Ecological Society of America
Science and Products
San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP) Rare Plant Monitoring Review and Revision
Evaluation of ecological risk to populations of a threatened plant from an invasive biocontrol insect
Projecting the success of plant restoration with population viability analysis
Reintroducing Pitcher's Thistle
Recovery Plan for the Pitcher's Thistle (Cirsium pitcheri)
Elk-Effects Vegetation Monitoring Program for Tomales Point Elk Range, Point Reyes National Seashore, California
Vegetation monitoring program review for Channel Islands National Park
Control/exclosure monitoring of tule elk effects on Tomales Point vegetation, Point Reyes National Seashore, 1998-1999
Tree and shrub community monitoring protocol for Channel Islands National Park, California
Channel Islands National Park Landbird Monitoring Program Review
Development and Implementation of an Alien Plant Control Strategy for Channel Islands National Park. Technical report
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San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP) Rare Plant Monitoring Review and Revision
Introduction The San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP) was developed for the conservation of plants and animals in the south part of San Diego County, under the California Natural Community Conservation Planning Act of 1991 (California Department of Fish and Game) and the Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S. Code 1531-1544.) The Program is on the leadingAuthorsKathryn McEachern, Bruce M. Pavlik, Jon Rebman, Rob SutterEvaluation of ecological risk to populations of a threatened plant from an invasive biocontrol insect
Controversy exists over estimation of ecological risk in biological control. At present, the risk to the rare, federally listed Pitcher's thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) in North America from Rhinocyllus conicus, a biological control weevil now feeding on many native thistles, is unknown. We hypothesized that quantification of host specificity and potential phenological overlap between insect and plantAuthorsS. M. Louda, T. A. Rand, A. E. Arnett, A. S. McClay, A. K. McEachernProjecting the success of plant restoration with population viability analysis
Conserving viable populations of plant species requires that they have high probabilities of long-term persistence within natural habitats, such as a chance of extinction in 100 years of less than 5% (Menges 1991, 1998; Brown 1994; Pavlik 1994; Chap. 1, this Vol.). For endangered and threatened species that have been severely reduces in range and whose habitats have been fragmented, important speAuthorsT.J. Bell, M.L. Bowles, A. K. McEachernReintroducing Pitcher's Thistle
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsTimothy J. Bell, Marlin Bowles, Jenny McBride, Kayri Havens, Pati Vitt, Kathryn McEachernRecovery Plan for the Pitcher's Thistle (Cirsium pitcheri)
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsElk-Effects Vegetation Monitoring Program for Tomales Point Elk Range, Point Reyes National Seashore, California
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsK. McEachern, M. Semenoff-Irving, P. van der LeedenVegetation monitoring program review for Channel Islands National Park
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsK. McEachernControl/exclosure monitoring of tule elk effects on Tomales Point vegetation, Point Reyes National Seashore, 1998-1999
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsK. McEachern, M. Semenoff-Irving, A. AtkinsonTree and shrub community monitoring protocol for Channel Islands National Park, California
No abstract available.AuthorsKathryn McEachernChannel Islands National Park Landbird Monitoring Program Review
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsK. McEachernDevelopment and Implementation of an Alien Plant Control Strategy for Channel Islands National Park. Technical report
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsS. Chaney, K. McEachern - News
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