| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
| Sept 9 |
Is ethnobotany biology?, is it a science? |
Balick, MJ. 1996. Transforming ethnobotany for the new millenium. Phillips, O, AH Gentry, C Reynel, P Wilkin, & C Galvez-Durand B. 1994. Quantitative ethnobotany and Amazonian conservation. |
| Sept 16 |
Unintended conseqeunces from GMO crops for food quality
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Prakash, CS. 2001. The genetically modified crop debate in the context of agricultural evolution.
Shepherd, LV, JW McNicol, R Razzo, MA Taylor, & HV Davies. 2006. Assessing the potential for unintended effects in genetically modified potatoes perturbed in metabolic and developmental processes. Targeted analysis of key nutrients and anti-nutrients. .
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| Sept 23 |
Impacts of fire suppression |
Backer, DM, SE Jensen, & GR McPherson. 2004. Impacts of fire suppression activities on natural communities.
Parks, SA, C Miller, CR Nelson, & ZA Holden. 2014. Previous fires moderate burn severity of subsequent wildland fires in two large western US wilderness areas.
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| Sept 30 |
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.
Liu. H, C-L Feng, B-S Chen, Z-S Wang, X-Q Xie, Z-H Deng, X-L Wei, S-Y Liu, Z-B Zhang, & Y-B Luo. 2012. Overcoming extreme weather challenges: successful but variable assisted colonization of wild orchids in southwestern China.
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| Oct. 7 |
Urban trees and air pollution removal |
Jim, CY, & WY Chen. 2009. Ecosystem services and valuation of urban forests in China.
Jim, CY, & WY Chen. 2008. Assessing the ecosystem service of air pollutant removal by urban trees in Guangzhou (China).
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| Oct. 14 |
Conciliation biology & invasive species |
Carroll, SP. 2011. Conciliation biology: the eco-evolutionary management of permanently invaded biotic systems.
Stromberg J.C, MK Chew, PL Nagler, & EP Glenn. 2009. Changing perceptions of change: The role of scientists in Tamarix and river management. Restoration Ecology 17: 177-186.
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| Oct. 28 |
Ecosystem-based adaptations for agriculture |
Vignola, R, CA Harvey, P Bautista-Solisa, J Avelinoa, B Rapidela, C Donattib, & R Martinez. 2015. Ecosystem-based adaptation for smallholder farmers: Definitions, opportunities and constraints.
Holt-Giménez, E. 2002. Measuring farmers’ agroecological resistance after Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua: a case study in participatory, sustainable land management impact monitoring.
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| Nov 4 |
Crop improvement through hybridization |
Huang, H, & Y Leu. 2014. Natural hybridization, introgression breeding, and cultivar improvement in the genus Actinidia.
Menda, N, SR Strickler, JD Edwards, A Bombarely, DM Dunham, GB Martin, L Mejia, SF Hutton, MJ Havey, DP Maxwell, & LA Mueller. 2014. Analysis of wild-species introgressions in tomato inbreds uncovers ancestral origins.
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| Nov 11 |
Genetic engineering of biofuel trees for lignin content
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Tang , W, & AY Tang. 2014. Transgenic woody plants for biofuel.
Van Ackera, R, J-C Leplé, D Aerts, V Storme, G Goeminn, B Ivensa, F Légée, C Lapierre, K Piens, MCE Van Montagua, N Santoro, CE Foster, J Ralph, W Soetaert, G Pilate, & W Boerjana. 2013. Improved saccharification and ethanol yield from field-grown transgenic poplar deficient in cinnamoyl-CoA reductase.
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| Nov 18 |
Managing the rhizosphere for plant health |
Berendsen, RL, CMJ Pieterse, & PAHM Bakker. 2012. The rhizosphere microbiome and plant health. .
Winston ME, J Hampton-Marcell, I Zarraonaindia, SM Owens, CS Moreau, JA Gilbert, JA Hartsel, SJ Kennedy, & SM Gibbons. 2014. Understanding cultivar-specificity and soil determinants of the Cannabis microbiome. .
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| Nov 25 |
Thanksgiving |
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| Dec 2 |
Human impacts on trophic cascades
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Estes, JA, J Terborgh, JS Brashares, ME Power, J Berger, WJ Bond, SR Carpenter, TE Essington, RD Holt, JBC Jackson, RJ Marquis, L Oksanen, T Oksanen, RT Paine, EK Pikitch, WJ Ripple, SA Sandin, M Scheffer, TW Schoener, JB Shurin, ARE Sinclair, ME Soulé, R Virtanen, & DA Wardle. 2011. Trophic downgrading of Planet Earth. .
Ripple, WJ, RL Beschta, & LE Painter. 2015. Trophic cascades from wolves to alders in Yellowstone. .
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| Dec 9 |
Research proposals, pizza, movie: Cane Toads
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more on VHS of the documentary availabe through the . there is also a followup documentary available through the IMC called (85' run time).
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