Course Reading: Fall 2016
| Date | Topic | Reading |
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| Aug 31 | Organizational meeting | |
| Sept 7 |
Is ethnobotany biology? |
Balick, MJ. 1996. Transforming ethnobotany for the new millennium. 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. |
| Sept 14 | Evolutionary genetics of fruit size in tomato |
Meyer, RS & MD Purugganan. 2013. Evolution of crop species: genetics of domestication and diversification. Nature Reviews Genetics 14: 840–852. Cong, B, LS Barrero & SD Tanksley. 2008. Regulatory change in YABBY-like transcription factor led to evolution of extreme fruit size during tomato domestication. Nature Genetics 40: 800 - 804. |
| Sept 21 | Conservation agriculture |
Hobbs, PR, K Sayre, & R Gupta. 2008. The role of conservation agriculture in sustainable agriculture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363: 543-555. Balázs Madarász, B, K Juhos, Z Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, S Benke, G Jakab & Z Szalai. 2016. Conservation tillage vs. conventional tillage: long-term effects on yields in continental, sub-humid Central Europe, Hungary. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 14: 408-427. |
| Sept 28 | Non-timber forest product harvesting |
Ticktin, T. 2004. The ecological implications of harvesting non-timber forest products. Journal of Applied Ecology 41: 11-21. Gaoue, OG, & T Ticktin. 2007. Patterns of harvesting foliage and bark from the multipurpose tree Khaya senegalensis in Benin: Variation across ecological regions and its impacts on population structure. Biological Conservation 137: 424-436. |
| Oct 5 | 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. BioScience 62: 732–743. Wadgymar, SM, MN Cumming & AE Weis. 2015. The success of assisted colonization and assisted gene flow depends on phenology. Global Change Biology 21: 3786-3799. |
| Oct. 12 | Human land-use ecological legacies |
Foster, D, F Swanson, J Aber, I Burke, N Brokaw, D Tilman & A Knapp. 2003. The importance of land-use legacies to ecology and conservation. BioScience 53: 77–88. Oyuela-Caycedo, A. 2010. The forest as a fragmented archaeological artifact. pp. 75-95, In, The Archaeology of Anthropogenic Environments (R Dean, ed.) . Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 37, Southern Illinois University. |
| Oct 26 | Invasive plants & agricultural legacies |
Vila, M, & I Ibanez. 2011. Plant invasions in the landscape. Landscape Ecology 26:461–472. Dalrymple, GH, RF Doren, NK O'Hare, MR Norland, and TV Armentano. 2003. Plant colonization after complete and partial removal of disturbed soils for wetland restoration of former agricultural fields in Everglades National Park. Wetlands 23: 1015-1029. |
| Nov 2 | Impact of forest fragmentation on herbaceous species |
Honnay, O, H Jacquemyn, B Bossuyt, & M Hermy. 2005. Forest fragmentation effects on patch occupancy and population viability of herbaceous plant species. New Phytologist 166: 723–736. Kolk, J, & T Naaf. 2015. Herb layer extinction debt in highly fragmented temperate forests – Completely paid after 160 years? Biological Conservation 182: 164–172. |
| Nov 9 |
Vegetation responses to prescribed fires |
Stephens, SL, JD McIver, REJ Boerner, CJ Fettig, JB Fontaine, BR Hartsough, PL Kennedy & DW Schwilk. 2012. The effects of forest fuel-reduction treatments in the United States. BioScience 62: 549-560. Knapp, EE, DW Schwilk, JM Kane, JE Keeley. 2007. Role of burning season on initial understory vegetation response to prescribed fire in a mixed conifer forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 37: 11–22. |
| Nov 16 | GMO risks - transgene escape |
Craig, W, M Tepfer, G Degrassi, & D Ripandelli. 2008. An overview of general features of risk assessments of genetically modified crops. Euphytica 164: 853-880. Watrud , LS, EH Lee , A Fairbrother, C Burdick, JR Reichman, M Bollman, M Storm, G King, & PK Van de Water. 2004. Evidence for landscape-level, pollen-mediated gene flow from genetically modified creeping bentgrass with CP4 EPSPS as a marker. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101: 14533–14538. |
| Nov 23 | Thanksgiving |
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| Nov 30 |
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Bhattacharya, S, A Ganguli, A Muhkopadhyay, U Ghosh, & D Chattopadhyay. 2013. Impacts of genetically modified foods on environment, economy, and health: A comprehensive review. International Journal of Environmental Biology. 3: 64-70. Venneria, E, S Fanasca, G Monastery, E Finotti, R Ambra, E Azzini, A Durazzo, M Foddai, & G Maiani. 2008. Assessment of the Nutritional Values of Genetically Modified Wheat, Corn, and Tomato Crops. Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry 56: 9206-9214. |
| Dec 7 |
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TBA |