Dustin F. Haines

Ph.D. Student

 

Advisor: Diane Larson

 

Contact Information

Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

University of Minnesota

100 Ecology Building

1987 Upper Buford Circle

St. Paul, MN 55108

Phone: (612) 625-7271

E-mail: hain0072@umn.edu

Research Interests

Invasive species ecology, restoration ecology, long-term changes in ecosystems, desert ecology.

 

Professional and Academic Background

I began my career as a field biologist in the summer of 1992, when I did a volunteer internship through the Student Conservation Association, working with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) on a population survey of desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) in southwestern Utah.  After receiving a BS in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from Northwest Missouri State University in 1993, I worked with the UDWR again, which segued into a job with the National Biological Survey. This job eventually resulted in a permanent position with the U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division based at the Las Vegas Field Station. While in the desert southwest I worked on a broad array of research topics, including: ecology of the desert tortoise, the influence of invasive plants and fire on native plant and animal communities, long term changes in desert plant communities, the role of granivores in seed dispersal, and restoration ecology. I left the desert southwest and started graduate school in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota in the fall of 2005.

 

Selected Publications

Nussear, K.E., T.C. Esque, D.F. Haines, and C.R. Tracy. Submitted. Hibernation in the Mojave desert tortoise: hibernation temperatures, timing, and environment. Copeia (April 2005)

Esque, T.C., C.R. Schwalbe, J.A. Lissow, D.F. Haines, D. Foster. Submitted. Buffelgrass fuel loads in Saguaro National Park, Arizona. Park Science (April 2005)

Esque, T.C., C.R. Schwalbe, D.F. Haines, and W.L. Halvorson. 2004. Saguaros under siege: invasive species and fire. Desert Plants 20(1): 49-55.

Webb, R.H., Murov, M.B., Esque, T.C., Boyer, D.E., DeFalco, L.A., Haines, D.F., Oldershaw, D., Scoles, S.J., Thomas, K.A., Blainey, J.B., and Medica, P.A. 2003. Perennial vegetation data from permanent plots on the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-336, 251 p.

 

Selected Oral Presentations

Esque, T.C., D.F. Haines*, K.E. Nussear, and C.R. Tracy. 2003. A regional study of hibernation of desert tortoises: hibernation temperatures, timing, and site characteristics. Presented at the Desert Tortoise Council Symposium. 21-24 February 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Haines, D.F.*, T.C. Esque, M.L. Brooks, and R.H. Webb. 2002. Oral Presentation and Abstract. Fire and exotics in the Mojave Desert: An irreversible change? Presented at the 87^th Symposium of the Ecological Society of America. Tucson, Arizona. 4-9 August 2002. ESA Abstracts P. 22.

Haines, D.F.*, T.C. Esque, and C.R. Tracy.  1998.  Timing, temperatures, and behavior of hibernating Gopherus agassizii in the northeastern Mojave Desert.  American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 78^th Annual Meeting, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. July 16-22, 1998.

 

Sacred Datura (Datura wrightii) in Cataract Canyon, Utah, September 2000.

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