Tara BB. Bishop, PhD
Former Employee
Research Ecologist; Maintaining Resilient Dryland Ecosystems (formerly Grassland, Shrubland and Desert Ecosystems Science)
Treesearch Publications
- Tara BB. Bishop, Rebecca Lee Molinari, Samuel B. St. Clair. 2022. Post‐fire restoration seeding success increases with early fall seeding and simulated precipitation in the Great Basin Desert of North America
- Rebecca Lee Molinari, Tara BB. Bishop, Matthew F. Bekker, Stanley G. Kitchen, Loreen Allphin, Samuel B. St. Clair. 2019. Creosote growth rate and reproduction increase in postfire environments
Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications
- Bishop TBB, Nusink BC, Lee Molinari R, Taylor J, St. Clair SB (2020) Fire and fall precipitation have neutral to positive effects on cheatgrass and sagebrush establishment and growth. Ecosphere 11(1):e03019. 10.1002/ecs2.3019
- Bishop TBB, Gill RA, McMillan BR, St. Clair SB (2019) Fire, rodent herbivory, and plant competition: implications for invasion and altered fire regimes in the Mojave Desert. Oecologia, 192, 155–167, 10.1007/s00442-019-04562-2
- *Lee Molinari R, *Bishop TBB, Bekker MF, Kitchen SG, Allphin L, St. Clair SB (2019) Creosote growth rate and reproduction increase in postfire environments. Ecol Evol. 9: 12897-12905. 10.1002/ece3.5771
- St. Clair SB, Bishop TBB (2019) Loss of biotic resistance and high propagule pressure promote invasive grass‐fire cycles. Journal of Ecology, 107(4), 1995-2005. 10.1111/1365-2745.13156
- Bishop TBB, Munson S, Gill RA, Belnap J, Petersen SL, & St. Clair SB (2019) Spatiotemporal patterns of cheatgrass invasion in Colorado Plateau National Parks. Landscape Ecology, 34(4), 925-941. 10.1007/s10980-019-00817-8
- Gill RA, O’Connor R. C., Rhodes A., Bishop TBB, Laughlin DC, & St. Clair SB (2019) Niche opportunities for invasive annual plants in dryland ecosystems are controlled by disturbance, trophic interactions, and rainfall. Oecologia, 1-11. 10.1007/s00442-018-4137-z
- Day JD, Bishop TBB, & St. Clair SB (2018) Fire and plant invasion, but not rodents, alter ant community abundance and diversity in a semi‐arid desert. Ecosphere, 9(7), e02344. 10.1002/ecs2.2344
- Horn KJ, Bishop TBB, & St. Clair SB (2017). Precipitation timing and soil heterogeneity regulate the growth and seed production of the invasive grass red brome. Biological Invasions, 19(4), 1339-1350. 10.1007/s10530-016-1348-2
- Brigham Young University, Phd, Ecology, Invasion Ecology, Wildlife and Wildlands Conservation, 2019
- Mississippi State University, Ms, Biology, 2012
- Brigham Young University, Bs, Biology Composite Teaching, 2008
Last updated March 10, 2026