Heather Bechtold
Email: bechheat@isu.edu
Phone: 282-2139
Hometown: Denver, CO
BA : Univ. Colorado, Boulder
Heather is currently working on her doctorate with Dr. Richard Inouye, in collaboration with Dr. Colden Baxter and the ISU Stream Ecology Center. She received her B.S. degree at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and her M.S degree at ISU. Her Master’s work investigated the effect of disturbances on nutrient cycling in sagebrush steppe ecosystems. Heather’s interest in ecosystem science and biogeochemical processes continues with her dissertation research. Her research evaluates the effects of land use on the availability of nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon and the subsequent effects of resource availability on biofilm nutrient demand, nutrient uptake, and organic matter processing. Heather received a NSF Dissertation Improvement grant in 2009, which has provided funding to examine how change in resource availability alters competitive interactions of autotrophic and heterotrophic components in stream biofilm assemblages. The results of this research will help to clarify the relationship between the multiple effects of land use and their interactions in stream ecosystems.
For more details, please visit Heather's web page at https://sites.google.com/a/isu.edu/heather_bechtold/home
Selected Recent Publications
Hopkins, J.M., Marcarelli, A.M., Bechtold, H.A., Ecosystem structure and function are complementary measures of water quality in a polluted, spring-influenced river. In review : Water, Air, and Soil Pollution (submitted 10-09).
Bechtold, H.A., Germino, M.J., Mathies, S.M., Ruiz-Herrera, A., Inouye, R.S. Sagebrush loss and N additions: spatial changes in biomass and photosynthesis of dominant herbaceous species. In review: Great Basin Naturalist (submitted: 10-09).
Marcarelli, A.M., Bechtold, H.A., Rugenski, A.T., Inouye, R.S. 2008. Nutrient limitation of biofilm biomass and metabolism in the Upper Snake River basin, southeast Idaho, USA. Hydrobiologia 620: 63-76.
Suding, K.N., Ashton, I.W., Bechtold, H.A., Bowman, W.D., Mobley, M.L., Winkleman, R. 2008. Plant and microbe contribution to community resilience in a directionally changing environment. Ecological Monographs 78: 313-329.
Rugenski, A.T., Marcarelli, A.M., Bechtold, H.A., Inouye, R.S. 2008. Effects of temperature and concentration on nutrient release rates from nutrient diffusing substrates. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 27: 52-57.
Bechtold, H.A., R.S. Inouye, 2007. Distribution of carbon and nitrogen in sagebrush steppe after six years of nitrogen addition and shrub removal. Journal of Arid Environments 71: 122-132.
Suding, K.N., Miller, A.E., Bechtold, H.A., Bowman, W.D. 2006. The consequence of species loss on ecosystem nitrogen cycling depends on community compensation. Oecologia 149:141-149.
Bechtold, H. A., Forbis, T. A., Bowman, W.D, Diggle, P.K. 2002. Lack of reproductive plasticity in alpine Saxifraga rhomboidea Greene (Saxifragaceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 22:316-368.
Dalton, M.B., Fantle K.S., Bechtold H.A., Demaio L., Evans R.M., Krystosek A., Sinensky, M. 1995. The farnesyl protein trasferase inhibitor BZA-5B blocks farnesylation of nuclear lamins and p21 ras but does not affect their function or localization. Cancer Research 55 (15), 3295-3304.