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Course Reading

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

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. .

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.

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.

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). 

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. 

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. 

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.

Nov 11

Genetic engineering of biofuel trees for lignin content

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. 

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.  .

Nov 25 Thanksgiving

 

Dec 2


Human impacts on trophic cascades

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. .

Dec 9


Research proposals, pizza, movie: Cane Toads

more on   VHS of the documentary availabe through the .  there is also a followup documentary available through the IMC called (85' run time).