Course Reading
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Quantitative ethnobotany: is it biology?, is it a science? |
Balick, MJ. 1996. Transforming ethnobotany for the new millenium.
Annals
of the Missouri Botanical Garden 83: 58-66. Phillips, O, AH Gentry, C Reynel, P Wilkin, & C Galvez-Durand B. 1994. Quantitative ethnobotany and Amazonian conservation. Conservation Biology 8: 225-248 |
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Bioprospecting using ecological principles | Coley, PD, MV Heller, R Aizprua, B Arauz, N Flores, M Correa, M Gupta, PN Solis, E Ortega-Barria, LI Romero, B Gomez, M Ramos, L Cubilla-Rios, TL Capson, & TA Kursar. 2003. Using ecological criteria to design plant collection strategies for drug discovery. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1: 421-428. Helson, JE, TL Capson, T Johns, A Aiello, & DM Windsor. 2009. Ecological and evolutionary bioprospecting: using aposematic insects as guides to rainforest plants active against disease. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7: 130-134. |
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Plant invasions and ecosystem processes | Liao, C, R Peng, Y Luo, X Zhou, X Wu, C Fang, J Chen, & B Li. 2008. Altered ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycles by plant invasion: a meta-analysis. New Phytologist 177: 706-714. Hickman, JE, W Shiliang , LJ Mickley, and MT Lerdau. 2010. Kudzu (Pueraria montana) invasion doubles emissions of nitric oxide and increases ozone pollution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 107: 10115-10119. |
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Ecological effects of agricultural herbicides |
de Snoo, GR, & RJ van der Poll. 1999. Effect of herbicide drift on adjacent boundary vegetation. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 73: 1-6 |
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Landscape effects on crop pollination |
Ricketts, TH, I Steffan-Dewenter, SA Cunningham, J Regetz, B
Gemmill, S Greenleaf, AM Klein, C Kremen, MM Mayfield,
L Mordandin, & R Winfree. 2008. Landscape effects on crop
pollination services: are there general patterns?
Ecology Letters
11: 499-515
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Ecosystem engineering & reclamation |
Crain, CM, & MD Bertness. 2006. Ecosystem engineering across environmental gradients: Implications for conservation and management.
BioScience 56: 211-218
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Escape of plant transgenes |
Cleveland, DA, D Soleri, FA Cuevas, J Crossa, & P Gepts. 2005. Detecting (trans)gene flow to landraces in centers of crop origin: lessons from the case of maize in Mexico.
Environmental Biosafety Research 4: 197-208.
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Allelopathy & crop management |
Khanh, TD, MI Chung, TD Xuan, & S Tawata. 2005. The exploitation of crop allelopathy in sustainable agricultural production.
Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 191: 172–184.
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Biocontrol of invasive plants |
Louda, SM, AE Arnett, TA Rand, & FL Russell. 2003. Invasiveness of some biological control insects and adequacy of their ecological risk assessment and regulation.
Conservation Biology 17: 73- 82.
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Managing PNW forests with fire |
Harrod, RJ, RW Fonda, & MK McGrath. 2008. Vegetation response to thinning and burning in a ponderosa pine forest, Washington.
Northwest Science 82:141–150.
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Intecropping for agriculture |
Malézieux E, Y Crozat, C Dupraz, M Laurans, D Makowski, H Ozier-Lafontaine, B Rapidel, S de Tourdonnet, & M Valantin-Morison. 2008. Mixing plant species in cropping systems: concepts, tools and models. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development29:43–62. |
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Research proposals & pizza |
toppings TBD |