Jon D. Bates

Rangeland Ecologist
U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS
Range Ecology Research

Dr. Bates is a Rangeland Ecologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service in Burns, Oregon. He received his BS (1984) in Agricultural Business Management at Cornell, his MS (1989) in Agricultural Economics from Oregon State University, and PhD (1996) in Rangeland Management from Oregon State University. He served a two year post-doctoral at Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center from 1997 to 1999. He joined the research group at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center in 1999 . Current research is focused in three general areas; response of sagebrush steppe to altered precipitation patterns, management and plant community restoration in juniper woodlands, and native seed production dynamics and harvesting.

Ongoing research includes management of juniper slash debris after woodland cutting, response of shrub/understory to burning in juniper woodlands and sagebrush grassland, response of sagebrush steppe vegetation and soil nitrogen dynamics to altered precipitation patterns, and prescription grazing in juniper woodlands and sagebrush steppe.

Published Research by Dr. Bates:

• Mowing Wyoming Big Sagebrush Communities with Degraded Herbaceous Understories:  Has a Threshold Been Crossed? (2012)
• Comparing Burned and Mowed Treatments in Mountain Big Sagebrush Steppe (2012)
• Vegetation Response to Mowing Dense Mountain Big Sagebrush Stands (2012)
• Are There Benefits to Mowing Wyoming Big Sagebrush Plant Communities? An Evaluation in Southeastern Oregon (2011)
• Saving the sagebrush sea: An ecosystem conservation plan for big sagebrush plant communities (2011)
• Herbaceous succession after burning of cut western juniper trees (2009)
• Litter Decomposition in Cut and Uncut Western Juniper Woodlands
• Western Juniper Control Studies
• Long-Term Successional Trends Following Western Juniper Cutting
• Biology, Ecology, and Management of Western Juniper
  
• Herbaceous response to cattle grazing following juniper removal in eastern Oregon
• Restoration of aspen woodland invaded by western juniper: Applications of partial cutting and prescribed fire
• Ecology of the Wyoming big sagebrush alliance in the northern Great Basin
• Effects of Juniper Cutting on Nitrogen Mineralization
  
• Restoration of Quaking Aspen Woodlands Invaded by Western Juniper

For more information phone or email Dr. Bates at:

(541) 573-8932 or Jon Bates