Biography:Juliet Stromberg
Juliet C. Stromberg | |
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| Occupation | Plant ecologist |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.S. in Botany M.S. in Botany Ph.D. in Plant Ecology |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Arizona State University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Arizona State University |
Juliet C. Stromberg is a plant ecologist. She is a professor emerita at Arizona State University. Her research has examined the relationship of hydrogeomorphic processes such as stream base flows and floods with attributes of riparian vegetation of the American Southwest including population dynamics, species diversity, and community structure and function.
Education
Stromberg completed her B.S. in Botany in 1979 and M.S. in Botany in 1981 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She earned her Ph.D. in Plant Ecology[1] with Duncan Patten[2] from Arizona State University in 1988.[1]
Career
Stromberg began her career as an assistant research professor at the Center for Environmental Studies of Arizona State University in 1989. In 1997, she became an associate professor in the Department of Plant Biology and later in the School of Life Sciences at the same institution.[1] She also holds the title of professor emerita.[3] Additionally, she worked on the Arizona Governor's Riparian Area Advisory Committee from 1992 to 1994, on the Arizona Water Protection Fund Board from 1994 to 1996, and on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Recovery Team for the endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax trailii extimus).[1]
Research
Stromberg demonstrated that water regimes and restoration are crucial for maintaining dryland ecosystems' biodiversity.[4] The key rivers she studied included the Bill Williams River,[5] Hassayampa River, and San Pedro River in Arizona[6] and Rush Creek in the Eastern Sierras.[7] Together with Merritt, she classified riparian plants into guilds associated with intermittent, perennial, and ephemeral rivers,[8] concluding that fluvial disturbances and water availability influence vegetation structure.[9] She demonstrated how species richness of riparian vegetation is influenced by flooding[10] and reported the influence of high-flow and low-flow characteristics of surface water on riparian vegetation.[11] Together with Tiller and Richter, she documented how soil moisture availability and groundwater level regulate the distribution of flood plain plant species.[12] Additionally, she carried out an assessment study focusing on the influence of groundwater withdrawals.[13]
Stromberg described the flow regimes that benefit Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii) and Goodding's willow (Salix gooddingii),[14] riparian species along Sonoran Desert rivers,[15] and those that favor tamarisk (Tamarix).[5]
Stromberg authored a book titled Ecology and Conservation of the San Pedro River. In this book, she explained aspects of the San Pedro River, including hydrology, biota, human history, and ecological patterns and processes, as well as ongoing scientific and conservation efforts by nonprofits and governments. J. H. Thorp III called this book "well written" and a "scientifically sophisticated book". However, he expressed concern about the title, describing it as "misleading" because the author ignored aquatic ecology.[16] In her other book, Bringing Home the Wild: A Riparian Garden in a Southwest City, she examined an eco-friendly gardening experience in Phoenix, Arizona, using humor and lighthearted language, recognizing the animals that pollinate the plants and the fungi that recycle the organic matter. The book was reviewed by Kristen Rabe, who described the book as an "accessible" and "entertaining narrative" written with "gentle humor".[17]
Awards and honors
- 2023 – George Miksch Sutton Award in Conservation Research, The Southwestern Association of Naturalists[1]
- 2024 – Southwest Book of the Year, Pima County Public Library[1]
Bibliography
Books
- Stromberg, Juliet C.; Tellman, Barbara (2009). Ecology and Conservation of the San Pedro River. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-2752-6.
- Stromberg, Juliet C. (2023). Bringing Home the Wild: A Riparian Garden in a Southwest City. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-5027-2.
Selected articles
- Stromberg, J. C.; Tiller, R.; Richter, B. (1996). "Effects of groundwater decline on riparian vegetation of semiarid regions: the San Pedro, Arizona". Ecological Applications 6 (1): 113–131. doi:10.2307/2269558. Bibcode: 1996EcoAp...6..113S.
- Lite, S. J.; Bagstad, K. J.; Stromberg, J. C. (2005). "Riparian plant species richness along lateral and longitudinal gradients of water stress and flood disturbance, San Pedro River, Arizona, USA". Journal of Arid Environments 63 (4): 785–813. doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2005.03.026. Bibcode: 2005JArEn..63..785L.
- Lite, S. J.; Stromberg, J. C. (2005). "Surface water and ground-water thresholds for maintaining Populus–Salix forests, San Pedro River, Arizona". Biological Conservation 125 (2): 153–167. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2005.01.020. Bibcode: 2005BCons.125..153L.
- Stromberg, J. C.; Lite, S. J.; Rychener, T. J.; Levick, L. R.; Dixon, M. D.; Watts, J. M. (2006). "Status of the riparian ecosystem in the upper San Pedro River, Arizona: application of an assessment model". Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 115 (1): 145–173. doi:10.1007/s10661-006-6549-1. PMID 16648960. Bibcode: 2006EMnAs.115..145S.
- Stromberg, J. C.; Chew, M. K.; Nagler, P. L.; Glenn, E. P. (2009). "Changing perceptions of change: the role of scientists in Tamarix and river management". Restoration Ecology 17 (2): 177–186. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00514.x. Bibcode: 2009ResEc..17..177S.
- Stromberg, J. C.; Shafroth, P. B.; Hazelton, A. F. (2012). "Legacies of flood reduction on a dryland river". River Research and Applications 28 (2): 143–159. doi:10.1002/rra.1449. Bibcode: 2012RivRA..28..143S.
- Katz, G. L.; Denslow, M. W.; Stromberg, J. C. (2012). "The Goldilocks effect: intermittent streams sustain more plant species than those with perennial or ephemeral flow". Freshwater Biology 57 (3): 467–480. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02714.x. Bibcode: 2012FrBio..57..467K.
- Stromberg, J. C. (2013). "Root patterns and hydrogeomorphic niches of riparian plants in the American Southwest". Journal of Arid Environments 94: 1–9. doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2013.02.004. Bibcode: 2013JArEn..94....1S.
- Stromberg, J. C.; McCluney, K. E.; Dixon, M. D.; Meixner, T. (2013). "Dryland riparian ecosystems in the American Southwest: sensitivity and resilience to climatic extremes". Ecosystems 16 (3): 411–415. doi:10.1007/s10021-012-9606-3. Bibcode: 2013Ecosy..16..411S.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Juliet Stromberg – Arizona State University". https://search.asu.edu/profile/52090.
- ↑ Stromberg, Juliet; Patten, Duncan (31 March 1990). Seed production and seedling establishment of a Southwest riparian tree, Arizona walnut (Juglans major). 50. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol50/iss1/6/. Retrieved August 7, 2025.
- ↑ "Juliet C. Stromberg". 12 July 2017. https://uapress.arizona.edu/author/juliet-c-stromberg.
- ↑ Macfarlane, William W.; McGinty, Christopher M.; Laub, Brian G.; Gifford, Suzanne J. (2017). "High-resolution riparian vegetation mapping to prioritize conservation and restoration in an impaired desert river". Restoration Ecology 25 (3): 333–341. doi:10.1111/rec.12425. Bibcode: 2017ResEc..25..333M. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rec.12425.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Wilcox, Andrew C.; Shafroth, Patrick B. (2013). "Coupled hydrogeomorphic and woody-seedling responses to controlled flood releases in a dryland river" (in en). Water Resources Research 49 (5): 2843–2860. doi:10.1002/wrcr.20256. Bibcode: 2013WRR....49.2843W. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wrcr.20256.
- ↑ Nagler, Pamela L.; Hinojosa-Huerta, Osvel; Glenn, Edward P.; Garcia-Hernandez, Jaqueline; Romo, Reggie; Curtis, Charles; Huete, Alfredo R.; Nelson, Stephen G. (2005). "Regeneration of Native Trees in the Presence of Invasive Saltcedar in the Colorado River Delta, Mexico". Conservation Biology 19 (6): 1842–1852. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00234.x.
- ↑ Patten, Duncan T. (1998). "Riparian ecosytems of semi-arid North America: Diversity and human impacts". Wetlands 18 (4): 498–512. doi:10.1007/BF03161668. Bibcode: 1998Wetl...18..498P. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03161668.
- ↑ Datry, Thibault; Fritz, Ken; Leigh, Catherine (2016). "Challenges, developments and perspectives in intermittent river ecology". Freshwater Biology 61 (8): 1171–1180. doi:10.1111/fwb.12789. Bibcode: 2016FrBio..61.1171D. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fwb.12789.
- ↑ Lozanovska, Ivana; Ferreira, Maria Teresa; Aguiar, Francisca C. (2018). "Functional diversity assessment in riparian forests – Multiple approaches and trends: A review". Ecological Indicators 95: 781–793. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.08.039. Bibcode: 2018EcInd..95..781L. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1470160X1830640X.
- ↑ Méndez-Toribio, Moisés; Zermeño-Hernández, Isela; Ibarra-Manríquez, Guillermo (2014). "Effect of land use on the structure and diversity of riparian vegetation in the Duero river watershed in Michoacán, Mexico". Plant Ecology 215 (3): 285–296. doi:10.1007/s11258-014-0297-z. Bibcode: 2014PlEco.215..285M.
- ↑ Rohde, Melissa M.; Stella, John C.; Roberts, Dar A.; Singer, Michael Bliss (2021). "Groundwater dependence of riparian woodlands and the disrupting effect of anthropogenically altered streamflow". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (25). doi:10.1073/pnas.2026453118. PMID 34161277. Bibcode: 2021PNAS..11826453R.
- ↑ Hayes, Daniel S.; Brändle, Julia M.; Seliger, Carina; Zeiringer, Bernhard; Ferreira, Teresa; Schmutz, Stefan (2018). "Advancing towards functional environmental flows for temperate floodplain rivers". Science of the Total Environment 633: 1089–1104. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.221. PMID 29758861. Bibcode: 2018ScTEn.633.1089H. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969718309793.
- ↑ Leigh, Catherine; Boulton, Andrew J.; Courtwright, Jennifer L.; Fritz, Ken; May, Christine L.; Walker, Richard H.; Datry, Thibault (2016). "Ecological research and management of intermittent rivers: an historical review and future directions". Freshwater Biology 61 (8): 1181–1199. doi:10.1111/fwb.12646. Bibcode: 2016FrBio..61.1181L. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fwb.12646.
- ↑ Horton, J. L.; Kolb, T. E.; Hart, S. C. (2001). "Responses of riparian trees to interannual variation in ground water depth in a semi-arid river basin". Plant, Cell & Environment 24 (3): 293–304. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3040.2001.00681.x. Bibcode: 2001PCEnv..24..293H. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1365-3040.2001.00681.x.
- ↑ Garssen, Annemarie G.; Verhoeven, Jos T. A.; Soons, Merel B. (2014). "Effects of climate-induced increases in summer drought on riparian plant species: a meta-analysis". Freshwater Biology 59 (5): 1052–1063. doi:10.1111/fwb.12328. PMID 26180267. Bibcode: 2014FrBio..59.1052G.
- ↑ Thorp IIIi, J. H.. "Review of Ecology and Conservation of the San Pedro River". Choice Magazine.
- ↑ "Bringing home the wild: A riparian garden in a southwest city". 27 October 2023. https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/bringing-home-the-wild/.
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