Bio 431 - Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Human Interactions

Sept 5

Quantitative ethnobotany

Gaoue, OG, MA Coe, M Bond, G Hart, BC Seyler, & H McMillen.  2017.  Theories and major hypotheses in ethnobotany.  Economic Botany 71: 269-287.

Phillips, O, AH Gentry, P Reynel, C Wilkin, and B Gálvez-Durand.  1994.  Quantitative ethnobotany and Amazonian conservation.  Conservation Biology 8: 225-248.

Sept 12

Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and management of foraging resources in Alaska

Gordon (Iñupiaq), HSJ, JA Ross, C Bauer-Armstrong, M Moreno, R Byington (Choctaw), & N Bowman (Lunaape/Mohican). 2023. Integrating Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge of land into land management through Indigenous-academic partnerships.  Land Use Policy 125: 106469.

Herman-Mercer, NM, RA Loehman, RC Toohey, & C Paniyak. 2020.  Climate- and disturbance-driven changes in subsistence berries in coastal Alaska: Indigenous Knowledge to inform ecological inference. Human Ecology 48: 85–99.

Sept 19

Effects of changing [CO2] & temperature on forest trees

Stinziano, JR & DA Way. 2014. Combined effects of rising [CO2] and temperature on boreal forests: growth, physiology and limitations. Botany. 92: 425-436.

Kurepin, LV, ZR Stangl, AG Ivanov, V Bui, M Mema, NPA Hüner, G Öquist, D Way, & V Hurry. 2018. Contrasting acclimation abilities of two dominant boreal conifers to elevated CO2 and temperature. Plant, Cell & Environment 41: 1331–1345.

Sept 26

Domesticating new crop species

Leakey, RRB. 2019.  From ethnobotany to mainstream agriculture: socially modified Cinderella species capturing ‘trade-ons’ for ‘land maxing’.  Planta 250: 949-970.

Kalinganire, A, P Savadogo, C Ky-Dembele, D Bush, A Raebild, A Tougiani, A Muchugi, Fatoumata T Traore & B Kone. 2023.  Evidence of early genetic variation in survival and growth traits of baobab (Adansonia digitata L.)—the way forward for domestication and breeding. Agroforestry Systems 97:  1221–1231.

Oct 3

Urban ecology of plant-animal interactions

Teixido, AL, LF Fuzessy, CS Souza, IN Gomes, LA Kaminski, PC Oliveira, & PK Maruyama.  2022.  Anthropogenic impacts on plant-animal mutualisms: A global synthesis for pollination and seed dispersal.  Biological Conservation 266: 109461.

Stanley, A & G Arceo-Gómez.  2020.  Urbanization increases seed dispersal interaction diversity but decreases dispersal success in Toxicodendron radicans.  Global Ecology and Conservation  22: e01019.

Oct 10

Forest carbon storage

Fahey, TJ, PB Woodbury, JJ Battles, CL Goodale, SP Hamburg, SV Ollinger, & CW Woodall.  2010. Forest carbon storage: ecology, management, and policy. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8: 245-252.

Mngadi, M, J Odindi & O Mutanga. 2022. Quantifying carbon stock variability of species within a reforested urban landscape using texture measures derived from remotely sensed imagery. In Advances in Remote Sensing for Forest Monitoring (eds PC Pandey & P Arellano, Wiley Online Books).

Oct 24

Human effects on plant speciation in the Anthropocene

Thomas, CD. 2015. Rapid acceleration of plant speciation during the Anthropocene. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30: 448–455.

Staude, IR, &  J Ebersbac.  2023.  Neophytes may promote hybridization and adaptations to a changing planet.  Ecology and Evolution 13: e10405.

Oct 31

Tropical forest restoration

Holl, KD.  2017.  Research directions in tropical forest restoration.  Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 102:  237-250.

Kulikowski, AJ, RA Zahawi, LK Werden, K Zhu & KD Holl.   2022.  Restoration interventions mediate tropical tree recruitment dynamics over time.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 378: 20210077.

Nov 7

Management of Juniper encroachment in eastern Oregon

Morris, LR & RJ Rowe.  2014.  Historical land use and altered habitats in the Great Basin.  Journal of Mammalogy 95: 1144–1156.

Abdallah, MAB, R Mata-González, JS Noller, & CG Ochoa.  2020.  Ecosystem carbon in relation to woody plant encroachment and control: Juniper systems in Oregon, USA.  Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 290: 106762.

Nov 14

Ecological calendars

Kassam, KAS, ML Ruelle, C Samimi, A Trabucco & J Xu. 2018. Anticipating climatic variability: The potential of ecological calendars. Human Ecology 46: 249–257.

Kassam, KAS, & J Bernardo. 2022. Role of biodiversity in ecological calendars and its implications for food sovereignty: Empirical assessment of the resilience of indicator species to anthropogenic climate change. GeoHealth 6: e2022GH000614.

Nov 21

Valuing non-native species

Sax, DF, MA Schlaepfer, & JD Olden.  2022.  Valuing the contributions of non-native species to people and nature.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37: 1058-1066.