Kirk Davies

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Dr. Davies is a Rangeland Scientist with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center in Burns, OR. Dr. Davies research focuses on vegetation patterns, disturbance ecology, climate and management influences on rangeland vegetation, sagebrush-bunchgrass community ecology, and invasive plant prevention, control, and ecology.

Current Research Projects:

  • Resource islands and vegetation heterogeneity in sagebrush plant communities
  • Ecology and prevention of exotic annual grass invasion
  • Impacts of exotic annual grass invasions
  • Identifying characteristics of invasion resistant plant communities
  • Revegetation of exotic annual grass invaded plant communities
  • Prior disturbance impacts on subsequent disturbances
  • Pre- and post-fire management influence on plant community ecology
  • Wyoming and mountain big sagebrush plan community ecology
  • Influence of disturbances on wildlife habitat in the sagebrush steppe
  • Insect response to distrubances in sagebrush plant communities
  • Feral (wild) horse impacts to riparian areas and adjacent uplands
  • Influence of climate and soils on native vegetation cover, density, and production

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Animal & Rnglnd Sciences
Career Links: 
Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center - Burns
My Publications

2021

Journal Article

S. M. Copeland, Baughman, O., Boyd, C. S., Davies, K. W., Kerby, J. D., Kildisheva, O., and Svejcar, T., “Improving Restoration Success Through a Precision Restoration Framework”, Restoration Ecology, vol. 79, no. 2, 2021.
K. W. Davies, Bates, J. D., and O'Connor, R., “Long-term Evaluation of Restoring Understories in Wyoming Big Sagebrush Communities with Mowing and Seeding Native Bunchgrass”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 75, pp. 81-90, 2021.

2020

Journal Article

D. R. Clenet and Davies, K. W., “A New Seed Enhancement Technology for Revegetating Exotic Annual Grass-Invaded Rangelands”, Oregon Cattleman, vol. February , pp. 24-27, 2020.
J. T. Smith, “Are Sage‐Grouse Fine‐Scale Specialists or Shrub‐Steppe Generalists?”, Journal of Wildlife Management, vol. 84, no. 4, pp. 759-774, 2020.
K. W. Davies and Boyd, C. S., “Grazing Is Not Binomial (i.e., Grazed or Not Grazed): A Reply to Herman”, BioScience, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 6-7, 2020.
D. R. Clenet, Davies, K. W., Johnson, D. D., and Kerby, J. D., “Herbicide Protection Pods (HPPs) Facilitate Sagebrush and Bunchgrass Establishment under Imazapic Control of Exotic Annual Grasses”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 687-693, 2020.
K. W. Davies, Bates, J. D., and Clenet, D. R., “Improving Restoration Success Through Microsite Selection: An Example with Planting Sagebrush Seedlings After Wildfire”, Restoration Ecology, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 859-868, 2020.
J. D. Bates, “Longer-Term Post-Fire Succession on Wyoming Big Sagebrush Steppe”, International Journal of Wildland Fire , p. A-K, 2020.
A. M. Nafus, “Native Vegetation Composition in Crested Wheatgrass in Northwestern Great Basin”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 9-18, 2020.
K. W. Davies and Bates, J. D., “Re-Introducing Fire in Sagebrush Steppe Experiencing Decreased Fire Frequency: Does Burning Promote Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity?”, Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 29, pp. 686-695, 2020.

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