Jane Mangold         Ecologist U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS Rangeland Ecology

Dr. Mangold is a Restoration Ecologist for USDA-Agricultural Research Service in Burns, OR.  After receiving her BS (1994) in Biology from Iowa State University, she completed her MS (1997) at Montana State University in Abused Land Rehabilitation and her PhD (2004) at Montana State University in Land Resources and Environmental Sciences.  Dr. Mangold joined the research group at Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center in July 2004. 

Dr. Mangold’s research focuses on restoration of degraded range and wild lands.  Her specific interests include understanding biotic and abiotic factors that influence seedling establishment, increasing native plant diversity in “old fields” of introduced pasture grasses, revegetating noxious weed-infested range and wild land, and restoring juniper-encroached sagebrush-steppe.

Published Research by Dr. Mangold:

• Presence of Soil Surface Depressions Increases Water Uptake by Native Grass Seeds
  
  
• Effects of Soil Texture, Watering Frequency, and a Hydrogel on the Emergence and Survival of Coated and Uncoated Crested Wheatgrass Seeds
  
  
• Revegetating Russian Knapweed (Acroptilon repens) Infestations Using Morphologically Diverse Species and Seedbed Preparation

• Evaluating Montana's Dyer's Woad (Isatis tinctoria) Cooperative Eradication Project

• Toward ecologically-based invasive plant management on rangeland
  
  
• Identification of the limiting resource within a semi-arid plant association
  
  
• Principles for restoring invasive plant-infested rangeland
  
  
• Maintaining plant community diversity in a waterfowl production area by controlling Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) using glyphosate
  
  
• How to get on the list: listing and delisting exotic plants as noxious

For more information phone or email Dr. Mangold at:

(541) 573-4073 or Jane Mangold