Dr. Steve Zitzer

Title: Assistant Research Professor (Plant Ecology) and Teaching Professor (Biology)
Affiliation: Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences
Location: DRI Las Vegas
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Phone: 702.862.5436

Professional Interests

Dr. Zitzer has current research interests that focus on global change biology including the effects of elevated CO₂ on ecosystem, community and population level carbon sequestration, biodiversity and net primary productivity. He is also actively involved in determining the impacts of wild horses on the diversity and productivity of Great Basin plant communities located on the Nevada Test and Training Range. Currently he is developing proposals to investigate symbiotic biological N2-fixation by actinorhizal plants in arid communities with a specific focus on Cowania, Purshia and Cercocarpus shrub communities in southern Nevada.