Botany
Agriculture Building 119
Department 3165
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-4207
Email: botany@uwyo.edu
R.T.J. Bush, J. Wallace, E. D. Currano, B. F. Jacobs, F. A. McInerney, R. E. Dunn, and N. J. Tabor. in press. Cell anatomy and leaf δ13C as proxies for shading and canopy structure in a Miocene forest from Ethiopia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
Colbach, N., S. Cordeau, A. Garrido, S. Granger, D.C. Laughlin, B. Ricci, F. Thomson, A. Messean. In press. Landsharing vs landsparing: how to reconcile crop production and biodiversity? A simulation study focusing on weed impacts. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment.
Gompert, Z., Mandeville, E.G., Buerkle, C.A., in press. Using genomic data in the analysis of hybrid zones. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics.
Laughlin, D.C., C.H. Lusk, P. Bellingham, D. Burslem, A.H. Simpson, and K.R. Kramer-Walter. In press. Intraspecific trait variation can weaken interspecific trait correlations when assessing the whole-plant economic spectrum. Ecology and Evolution.
Laughlin, D. C., R. T. Strahan, D. W. Huffman, and A. S. Meador. In press. Using trait-based ecology to restore resilient ecosystems: historical conditions and the future of montane forests in western North America. Restoration Ecology.
Li, Y., Shipley, B., Price, J.N., Dantas, V.d.L., Tamme, R., Westoby, M., Siefert, A., Schamp, B.S., Spasojevic, M.J., Jung, V., Laughlin, D.C., Richardson, S.J., Bagousse-Pinguet, Y.L., Schöb, C., Gazol, A., Prentice, H.C., Gross, N., Overton, J., Cianciaruso, M.V., Louault, F., Kamiyama, C., Nakashizuka, T., Hikosaka, K., Sasaki, T., Katabuchi, M., Frenette Dussault, C., Gaucherand, S., Chen, N., Vandewalle, M. & Batalha, M.A. In press. Habitat filtering determines the functional niche occupancy of plant communities worldwide. Journal of Ecology.
Mandeville, E. G., Parchman, T. L., Thompson, K. G., Compton, R. I., Gelwicks, K. R., Song, S. J., Buerkle, C. A., in press. Inconsistent reproductive isolation revealed by interactions between Catostomus fish species. Evolution Letters.
Nelson, K.N., M.G. Turner, W.H. Romme, and D.B. Tinker. In Press. Simulated fire behavior in young, postfire lodgepole pine forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
Matti J. Salmela, Robby L. McMinn, Carmela R. Guadagno, Brent E. Ewers & Cynthia Weinig (2018) Circadian rhythms and reproductive phenology covary in a natural plant population. Journal of Biological Rhythms, in press.
Sivanpillai, R., Jones, B.K., Lamb, R.M., in press. Accessing satellite imagery for disaster response through the International Charter: Lessons learned from the 2011 US Midwestern Floods. Space Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.spacepol.2017.08.003.
Sorokin, Y., T.J. Zelikova, D. Blumenthal, D.G. Williams, and E. Pendall. 2017. Seasonally contrasting responses of evapotranspiration to warming and elevated CO2 in a semi-arid grassland. In press Ecohydrology
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R. Guadagno, B. E. Ewers, C. Weinig (2018) Circadian rhythms and redox state in plants: till stress do us part. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9: 247 doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00247
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C. Weinig. 2017. Quantifying time-series of leaf morphology using 2D and 3D photogrammetry
methods for high-throughput plant phenotyping. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture,
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Baker, R.L., Y. Yarkhunova, K. Vidal, B.E. Ewers, and C. Weinig. 2017. Polyploidy
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Brock, M.T., R. Winkelman, M.J. Rubin, C.E. Edwards, B.E. Ewers, and C. Weinig. 2017.
Allocation to male vs female floral function varies by currency and responds differentially
to density and moisture stress. Heredity,
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Brudvig, L., R. Barak, J. Bauer, T. Caughlin, D.C. Laughlin, L. Larios, J. Matthews,
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Buerkle, C.A. 2017. Inconvenient truths in population and speciation genetics point
toward a future beyond allele frequencies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30: 1498–1500.
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Copenhaver-Parry, PE, BN Shuman, DB Tinker. 2017. Towards an improved conceptual understanding
of North American tree species distributions. Ecosphere 8:e01853.
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Copenhaver-Parry, P., S.E. Albeke, and D.B. Tinker. 2016.Do community-level models
account for the effects of biotic interactions? A comparison of community-level and
species distribution modeling of current and future distributions of Rocky Mountain
conifers. Plant Ecology 217: 533-547.
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Dwyer, J.M. & D.C. Laughlin. 2017. Constraints on trait combinations explain climatic
drivers of biodiversity: the importance of trait covariance in community assembly.
Ecology Letters 20:872-882.
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Greenwood, S., Ruiz Benito, P., Martinez-Vilalta, J., Lloret, F., Kitzberger, T.,
Allen, C., Fensham, R., Laughlin, D.C., Kattge, J., Boehnisch, G., Kraft, N., Jump,
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density and higher specific leaf area. Ecology Letters 20 (4): 539-553.
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Greenham, K., C.R. Guadagno, M.A. Gehan, T.C. Mockler, C. Weinig, B.E. Ewers, and
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Guadagno, C.R., B.E. Ewers, H.N. Speckman, T.L. Aston, B.J. Huhn, S.B. DeVore, J.T.
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Hood, P.R., K.N. Nelson, C.C. Rhoades, and D.B. Tinker. 2017.The effect salvage logging
on surface fuel loads and fuel moisture in beetle-infested lodgepole pine forests.
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Kerwin, R., J. Feusier, A. Muok, C. Lin, B. Larson, D. Copeland, J. Corwin, M.J. Rubin,
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by environment interactions among Arabidopsis thaliana glucosinolate genetic impact
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Kingston, S., Parchman, T. L., Gompert, Z., Buerkle, C.A., Braun, M. 2017. Heterogeneity
and concordance in locus-specific differentiation and introgression between species
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Kramer-Walter, K.R. & Laughlin, D.C. 2017. Root nutrient concentration and biomass
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Laughlin, D.C., Strahan, R., Moore, M.M., Fule, P.Z., Huffman, D.W., Covington, W.W.
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Lee, M., E. Bernhardt, P. van Bodegom, J.H. Cornelissen, J. Kattge, D.C. Laughlin,
U. Niinemets, J. Peñuelas, P. Reich, B. Yguel, J. Wright. 2017. Invasive species'
leaf traits and dissimilarity from natives shape their impact on nitrogen cycling:
a meta-analysis. New Phytologist 213: 128-139.
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Weinig, J.N. Maloof. 2017. Using RNA-Seq for genomic scaffold placement, correcting
assemblies, and genetic map creation in a common Brassica rapa mapping population.
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Nelson, K.N., W.H. Romme, M.G. Turner, and D.B. Tinker. 2016. Pre- and post-fire forest structure influence fuel characteristics in 24-yr old post-fire lodgepole pine forests. Ecological Applications 26(8): 2424-2438.
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McNally, S. R., D. C. Laughlin, S. Rutledge, M. B. Dodd, J. Six, and L. A. Schipper.
2017. Herbicide application during pasture renewal initially increases root turnover
and carbon input to soil in perennial ryegrass and white clover pasture. Plant and
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Meier, J.I., D.A. Marques, S. Mwaiko, C.E. Wagner, L. Excoffier, O. Seehausen. 2017.
Ancient hybridization fuels cichlid fish adaptive radiations. Nature Communications,
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