Sandy DeBano

Associate Professor
Sandy.DeBano [at] oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-567-6337

Hermiston Exp Sta

Hermiston Ag Res & Ext Ctr 2121 South 1st Street

Hermiston Ag Res & Ext Ctr
2121 South 1st Street
Hermiston, OR 97838

My research focuses on how human activities affect terrestrial invertebrate communities and the ecosystem services they provide, with a special interest in riparian and grassland ecology, food webs, native bees, and invertebrate predators.

Current projects involve examining the effects of restoration, rangeland management, and ungulate grazing on native bee communities and studying the effects of climate change and watershed management on food webs involving invertebrates. Below are some specific examples of topics my students and I are working on.

Native Bees:

  • Effects of riparian restoration and native and domestic ungulate grazing on native bees and their floral resources
  • Interaction of invasive annual grass invasions, fire, and livestock grazing on grassland bee communities, their floral resources, and their nesting habitat
  • Effect of grassland restoration on native bee communities
  • Understanding how climate change and riparian condition interact to influence native bees in riparian areas
  • Managing field margins and uncultivated areas in agroecosystems in the interior Columbia Basin to enhance crop pollination
  • Vertebrate wildlife-pollinator interactions

Food Webs:

  • The effects of river and upland management and climate change on riparian food webs and reciprocal subsidies with aquatic systems (visit our EPA STAR project page - Balancing Ecosystem Services in Semi-Arid Agricultural Lands in an Uncertain Future)
  • Livestock effects on grassland food webs involving invertebrates
  • Effects of riparian condition on the abundance, diversity and community composition of terrestrial invertebrates, and how these effects are translated through food webs involving fish and wildlife in adjacent streams and terrestrial uplands
  • The influence of riparian condition on the density of pest and beneficial invertebrates in agricultural lands next to riparian areas

Specialties: Native Pollinators, Riparian Ecology, Ecosystem Services, Terrestrial Invertebrate Community Ecology

Positions Open:

We have a post-doctoral fellow position in native bee ecology open. The position begins April 2018 - see the full ad for more information.

Profile Field Tabs

At OSU
Affiliated with: 
Hermiston Exp Sta
Career Links: 
DeBano Research Website
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Entomology Program
Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Do you accept grad students?: 
I accept graduate students for the Fisheries and Wildlife Department
Courses Taught: 

FW 462/562: Ecosystem Services

My Publications

2013

Journal Article

H. J. Schmalz, Taylor, R. V., Johnson, T. N., Kennedy, P. L., DeBano, S. J., Newingham, B. A., and McDaniel, P. A., “Soil Morphologic Properties and Cattle Stocking Rate Affect Dynamic Soil Properties”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 445 - 453, 2013.

2012

Conference Proceedings

P. L. Kennedy, Delcurto, T., DeBano, S. J., Taylor, R. V., Johnson, T. N., Wyffels, S., Kimoto, C., Schmalz, H., Limb, R., and Glaser, A., “Responses of a Pacific Northwest Bunchgrass Food Web to Experimental Manipulations of Stocking Rate”, America’s Grasslands Conference: Status, Threats, and Opportunities. Proceedings of the 1st Biennial conference on the Conservation of America’s Grasslands. Washington, D. C. and Brookings SD, USA, pp. 17-19, 2012.

Journal Article

C. Kimoto, DeBano, S. J., Thorp, R. W., Rao, S., and Stephen, W. P., “Investigating Temporal Patterns of a Native Bee Community in a Remnant North American Bunchgrass Prairie using Blue Vane Traps”, Journal of Insect Science, vol. 12, no. 108, pp. 1 - 23, 2012.
T. Delcurto, C., K., DeBano, S. J., Thorp, R. W., Taylor, R. V., Schmalz, H. J., Johnson, T. N., Kennedy, P. L., and Rao, S., “Short-term responses of native bees to livestock and implications for managing ecosystem services in grasslands”, vol. 3, no. 10, 2012.
C. Kimoto, DeBano, S. J., Thorp, R. W., Taylor, R. V., Schmalz, H., Delcurto, T., Johnson, T., Kennedy, P. L., and Rao, S., “Short-term responses of native bees to livestock and implications for managing ecosystem services in grasslands”, Ecosphere, vol. 3, no. 10, p. art88, 2012.

2011

Journal Article

S. Rao, Stephen, W. P., Kimoto, C., and DeBano, S. J., “The Status of the ‘Red-Listed’ Bombus occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) in Northeastern Oregon”, Northwest Science, vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 64 - 67, 2011.

Miscellaneous

T. Delcurto, Kennedy, P. L., DeBano, S. J., Taylor, R. V., Johnson, T. N., Wyffels, S., C., K., Schmalz, H., and Limb, R., “Responses of a Pacific Northwest Bunchgrass food Web to Experimental Manipulations of Stocking Rate”. 2011.

2010

Journal Article

C. G., Rondon, S. I., DeBano, S. J., David, N., and Hamm, P. B., “Cultural practices to control the potato tuberworm”, Journal of Ecological Entomology, vol. 103, no. 4, 2010.
G. H. Clough, Rondon, S. I., DeBano, S. J., David, N., and Hamm, P. B., “Cultural practices to control the potato tuberworm”, Journal of Economic Entomology, vol. 103, no. 4, p. 1306, 2010.
S. J. DeBano, Hamm, P. B., Jensen, A., Rondon, S. I., and Landolt, P. J., “Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Potato Tuberworm (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in the Columbia Basin of the Pacific Northwest”, Environmental Entomology, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1 - 14, 2010.

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