Edited wikipedia page of notable UNR people

I was quite astounded to find that the great ecologist William Dwight Billings was not listed on the Wikipedia page of notable UNR people. For the first time in my life I found myself editing a Wikipedia page!  You can view the updated website by clicking HERE.

Dwight Billings was a leading ecologist, was known as the "father" of physiological ecology, and was a major contributor in desert and arctic ecology. In Nevada he received the prestigious Nevada medal. You can read about him by clicking HERE. Below is a partial list of his many papers which focused on our region:

Billings, W. D. (1945). The plant associations of the Carson Desert region, western Nevada. Butler University Botanical Studies, 7(1/13), 89-123.

Billings, W. D. (1949). The shadscale vegetation zone of Nevada and eastern California in relation to climate and soils. American Midland Naturalist, 87-109.

Billings, W. D. (1950). Vegetation and plant growth as affected by chemically altered rocks in the western Great Basin. Ecology, 31(1), 62-74.

Chabot, B. F., & Billings, W. D. (1972). Origins and ecology of the Sierran alpine flora and vegetation. Ecological Monographs, 42(2), 163-199.

DeLucia, E. H., Schlesinger, W. H., & Billings, W. D. (1988). Water relations and the maintenance of Sierran conifers on hydrothermally altered rock. Ecology, 69(2), 303-311.

Schlesinger, W. H., DeLucia, E. H., & Billings, W. D. (1989). Nutrient‐use efficiency of woody plants on contrasting soils in the western Great Basin, Nevada. Ecology, 70(1), 105-113.

Billings, W. D. (1994). Ecological impacts of cheatgrass and resultant fire on ecosystems in the western Great Basin. Proceedings–Ecology and Management of Annual Rangelands’.(Eds SB Monsen, SG Kitchen) pp, 22-30.