Course Reading: Fall 2018

Date Topic Reading
Aug 28 Organizational meeting
Sept 4

Is ethnobotany biology?

Gaoue, OG, MA Coe, M Bond, G Hart, BC Seyler, & H McMillen.  2017.  Theories and major hypotheses in ethnobotany.  Economic Botany 71: 269-287.

Phillips, O, AH Gentry, P Reynel, C Wilkin, and B Gálvez-Durand.  1994.  Quantitative ethnobotany and Amazonian conservation.  Conservation Biology 8: 225-248.
Sept 11 Climate change and shifts in flowering time

Cleland, EE, I Chuine, A Menzel, HA Mooney, & MD Schwartz. 2007. Shifting plant phenology in response to global change. Trends Ecology & Evolution 22:357-365.

Wolf, AA, ES Zavaleta, & PC Selmants. 2017. Flowering phenology shifts in response to biodiversity loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U S A. 114: 3463-3468.
Sept 18 Plasticity, local adaptation & climate change

Merilä, J, & AP Hendry. 2014.  Climate change, adaptation, and phenotypic plasticity: the problem and the evidence.  Evolutionary Applications 7: 1-14.

Kim, E, & K Donohue. 2013.  Local adaptation and plasticity of Erysimum capitatum to altitude: its implications for responses to climate change. Journal of Ecology 101: 796–805.
Sept 25 Evolution of plant resitatnce to glyphosate.

Powles, SB, & Q Yu.  2010. Evolution in action: plants resistant to herbicides.  Annual Review of Plant Biology 61:  317-347.

Goh, SS, Q Yu, H Han, MM Vila-Aiub, R Busi, & SB Powles.  2018.  Non-target-site glyphosate resistance in Echinochloa colona from Western Australia.  Crop Protection 112: 257-263.
Oct 2 Assisted plant migration

Schwartz, MW, JJ Hellmann, JM McLachlan, DF Sax, JO Borevitz, et al. 2012. Managed relocation: integrating the scientific, regulatory, and ethical challenges. BioScience 62: 732–743.

Wadgymar, SM, MN Cumming & AE Weis.  2015.  The success of assisted colonization and assisted gene flow depends on phenology. Global Change Biology 21: 3786-3799.
Oct. 9 Fire as a tool in prairie restoration

Hamman, ST, PW Dunwiddie, JL Nuckols, & M McKinley.  2011.  Fire as a restoration tool in Pacific Northwest prairies and oak woodlands: challenges, successes, and future directions.  Northwest Science 85: 317-328.

Calabria, LM, K Petersen, ST Hamman, & RJ Smith.  2016. Prescribed fire decreases lichen and bryophyte biomass and alters functional group composition in Pacific Northwest prairies.   Northwest Science 90: 470-483.
Oct 23 Plant disease resistance proteins & crop engineering

Monteiro, F,  & M Nishimura.  2018. Structural, functional, and genomic diversity of plant NLR proteins: An evolved resource for rational engineering of plant immunity. Annual Review of Phytopathology 56: 243-267.

Kim, S, D Qi, T Ashfield, M Helm & R Innes.  2016 . Using decoys to expand the recognition specificity of a plant disease resistance protein. Science 351:  684–687.
Oct 30 Recreation Ecology

Marion, JL, Y Leung, H Eagleston, & K Burroughs. 2016.  A review and synthesis of recreation ecology research findings on visitor impacts to wilderness and protected natural areas. Journal of Forestry 114: 352-362.

 

Pickering, CM, S Rossi, & A Barros.  2011.  Assessing the impacts of mountain biking and hiking on subalpine grassland in Australia using an experimental protocol.  Journal of Environmental Management 92: 3049-3057.
Nov 6

Recreation ecology and invasive plants

Foxcroft, LC, P Pyšek, DM Richardson, PGenovesi, & S MacFadyen.  2017.  Plant invasion science in protected areas: progress and priorities.  Biological Invasions 19: 1353-1378.

Eagleston, HA, & JL Marion.  2018. “Naturalness” in designated wilderness: Long-term changes in non-native plant dynamics on campsites, Boundary Waters, Minnesota.  Forest Science 64: 50–56.
Nov 13 Biodiversity & urban agriculture

Lin, BB, SM Philpott, & S Jha.  2015. The future of urban agriculture and biodiversity-ecosystem services: Challenges and next steps. Basic and Applied Ecology 16: 189-201.

Quistberg, RD, P Bichier, & SM Philpott.  2016.  Landscape and local correlates of bee abundance and species richness in urban gardens. Environmental Entomology 45: 592–601.
Nov 20 Plant biodiversity conservation in an urban setting

Stockwell, CA, AP Hendry& MT Kinnison.  2003.  Contemporary evolution meets conservation biology.  Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18: 94-101.  

Roberts, DG, DJ Ayre, & RJ Whelan.  2007.  Urban plants as genetic reservoirs or threats to the integrity of bushland plant populations.  Conservation Biology 21: 842-852.
Nov 27

pizza, movie: tbd

TBA