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Topic |
Reading |
| Aug 28 |
Organizational meeting |
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| Sept 4 |
Is ethnobotany biology?
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Gaoue, OG, MA Coe, M Bond, G Hart, BC Seyler, & H McMillen. 2017. Theories and major hypotheses in ethnobotany.
Phillips, O, AH Gentry, P Reynel, C Wilkin, and B Gálvez-Durand. 1994. Quantitative ethnobotany and Amazonian conservation.
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| 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. 22:357-365.
Wolf, AA, ES Zavaleta, & PC Selmants. 2017. Flowering phenology shifts in response to biodiversity loss.
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| Sept 18 |
Plasticity, local adaptation & climate change |
Merilä, J, & AP Hendry. 2014. Climate change, adaptation, and phenotypic plasticity: the problem and the evidence. .
Kim, E, & K Donohue. 2013. Local adaptation and plasticity of Erysimum capitatum to altitude: its implications for responses to climate change. .
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| Sept 25 |
Evolution of plant resitatnce to glyphosate. |
Powles, SB, & Q Yu. 2010. Evolution in action: plants resistant to herbicides. .
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.
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| 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.
Wadgymar, SM, MN Cumming & AE Weis. 2015. The success of assisted colonization and assisted gene flow depends on phenology. . |
| 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.
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.
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| 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.
Kim, S, D Qi, T Ashfield, M Helm & R Innes. 2016 . Using decoys to expand the recognition specificity of a plant disease resistance protein.
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| 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.
Pickering, CM, S Rossi, & A Barros. 2011. Assessing the impacts of mountain biking and hiking on subalpine grassland in Australia using an experimental protocol. .
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| Nov 6 |
Recreation ecology and invasive plants
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Foxcroft, LC, P Pyšek, DM Richardson, PGenovesi, & S MacFadyen. 2017. Plant invasion science in protected areas: progress and priorities.
Eagleston, HA, & JL Marion. 2018. “Naturalness” in designated wilderness: Long-term changes in non-native plant dynamics on campsites, Boundary Waters, Minnesota.
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| 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.
Quistberg, RD, P Bichier, & SM Philpott. 2016. Landscape and local correlates of bee abundance and species richness in urban gardens.
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| Nov 20 |
Plant biodiversity conservation in an urban setting |
Stockwell, CA, AP Hendry& MT Kinnison. 2003. Contemporary evolution meets conservation biology.
Roberts, DG, DJ Ayre, & RJ Whelan. 2007. Urban plants as genetic reservoirs or threats to the integrity of bushland plant populations.
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| Nov 27 |
pizza, movie: tbd
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TBA
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