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| Maya's interests include riparian and plant ecology, river and floodplain restoration/conservation, and landscape ecology. Maya's research is focused on understanding the interactions between fluvial processes and riparian vegetation dynamics, how alterations to these interactions may affect the long-term persistence of riparian forests, and how we can use this information to improve resource management. Currently, she is investigating the role of spatial refugia in the population dynamics of a pioneer tree species, Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii), which is the dominant overstory riparian tree in many western US streams. Specifically, she is investigating the mechanisms that control cottonwood recruitment into abandoned channels along the Sacramento River, California. |
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| Dufour, S., M.K. Hayden, J.C. Stella, H. Piégay, and J.J. Battles. (In prep) Composition and diversity patterns of terrestrial vegetation colonizing abandoned channels along a gravel bed meandering river (Sacramento, USA). |
| Stella, J.C., M.K. Hayden, J.J. Battles, H. Piégay, S. Dufour and A.K. Fremier. (2011) The role of abandoned channels as refugia for sustaining pioneer riparian forest ecosystems. Ecosystems. Online in advance of print: VIEW. |
| Hayden, M.K. 1999. The effects of elevated carbon dioxide and nitrogen addition on seed quality of five California annual grassland plants. Master's Thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, California. |
| ESPM 102A: Terrestrial Resource Ecology |
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