Active Areas of Research

Biodiversity Conservation, Renewable Energy Extinction Crisis, Rare Plant Biology, Western North American Floristics, Systematics of Phrymaceae,

Plant Conservation Publications

Fraga N.S., A.L. Miller, S.J. De Groot, C. Lee, C.L. Lund, and K. Moore-O’Leary. 2021. Status of the Amargosa niterwort (Amaranthaceae) in California and Nevada. California Fish and Wildlife Special CESA Issue: 78-95. PDF

Bell D.S., N.S. Fraga. 2021. Newly discovered populations of Astragalus tricarinatus (triple-ribbed milkvetch; Fabaceae) are found on carbonate soils in the Santa Rosa Mountains. Madroño. 67 (4), 211-217.

Fraga, N.S. 2021. Ethics of plant reintroduction in the 21st century. Fremontia 48: 36-38 PDF

Parker S.P., A. Zdon, W.T. Christian, B.S. Cohen, M. Palacios Mejia, N.S Fraga, E.E. Curd, K. Edalati, M.A. Renshaw. 2021. Conservation of Mojave Desert Springs: Status, Threats, and Policy Opportunities. Biological Conservation. 30: 311-327. PDF

Parker, S.P., G.P. Pauly, J. Moore, N.S. Fraga, J.J. Knapp, Z. Principe, B.V. Brown, J.M. Randall, B.S. Cohen, T.A. Wake. 2018. Adapting the bioblitz to meet conservation needs. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13103

Fraga, N.S., T. La Doux, L. Prince, M. Harding, and J. Hoines. 2015. Conservation assessment for triple-ribbed milkvetch (Astragalus tricarinatus, Fabaceae) in Joshua Tree National Park. Natural Resource Report NPS/JOTR/NRR—2015/999. National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO.

Fraga, N.S., T. La Doux, L. Prince, M. Harding, and J. Hoines. 2014. Conservation assessment for Parish’s daisy (Erigeron parishii, Asteraceae) in Joshua Tree National Park. Natural Resource Report NPS/JOTR/NRR—2014/887. National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO.

Meyer E., N. Jensen, and N.S. Fraga. 2014. Seed banking California’s rare plants. California Department of Fish and Game. 100: 79-85. PDF

Floristics Publications

Fraga N.S. 2023. B.S. Cohen, A. Zdon, M. Palacios Mejia, and S.S. Parker. Floristic patterns and conservation values of Mojave and Sonoran desert springs in California. Natural Areas J. 43:4-21 https://doi.org/10.3375/22-7

Soza, V.L., S.D. Boyd, L.J. Gross, and N.S. Fraga. 2013. Vascular Flora of the Verdugo Mountains and San Rafael Hills, Los Angeles County, California. Crossosoma 39: 1-140

Fraga N.S., L.J. Gross, E.A. Kempton, and D.S. Bell. 2012. Reappearance of the vanishing buckwheat. A status review of Eriogonum evanidum (Polygonaceae). Madroño 59: 150-155.

Fraga N.S., L.J. Gross., D.S. Bell, O. Mistretta, J. Wood and T.S. Stoughton. 2011. The Vascular Flora of the Upper Santa Ana River Watershed, San Bernardino Mountains, California. Crossosoma.37: 9-111

Fraga N.S. 2008. The Vascular Flora of the Owens Peak Eastern Watershed, southern Sierra Nevada. California. Aliso. 25: 1-26. PDF

Fraga N.S. 2006. A short flora of Short Canyon, Kern County, California. Crossosoma 32: 1–30.

Monkeyflower Publications

Grossenbacher D., L. Makler, M. McCarthy, and N. Fraga. 2021. Abiotic Environment Predicts Micro- but Not Macroevolutionary Patterns of Flower Color in Monkeyflowers (Phrymaceae). Front. Plant Sci. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.636133

Nesom G.L., N.S. Fraga, W.R. Barker, P.M. Beardsley, D.C. Tank, B. G. Baldwin, R. G. Olmstead. 2019. Response to “The case for the continued use of the genus name Mimulus for all monkeyflowers”. Taxon. 68: 624-627.

Nesom, G.L., N.S. Fraga. 2019. Erythranthe In: Flora of North America, North of Mexico. Vol. 17. Oxford Univ. Press, New York, Oxford. Link

Fraga N.S. 2018. Phrymaceae, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 6, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=93790

Fraga N.S. 2015. Diversity, endemism and conservation of California monkeyflowers (Phrymaceae): a case study in Erythranthe section Paradantha. PDF

Fraga N.S. 2012. A Revision of Erythranthe montioides and Erythranthe palmeri (Phrymaceae), with descriptions of five species from California and Nevada, USA. Aliso 30: 49-68 PDF

Barker, W.R., G.L. Nesom, P.M. Beardsley, and N.S. Fraga. 2012.A taxonomic conspectus of Phrymaceae: A narrowed circumscription for Mimulus, new and resurrected genera, and new namesand combinations. Phytoneuron 39: 1-60. PDF

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