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Sept 9

Quantitative ethnobotany

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. 

Sept 16

Early domestication of crop species

Lepofsky, D, & K Lertzman. 2008. Documenting ancient plant management in the northwest of North America. .

Carney, M, S Tushingham, T McLaughlin & J d'Alpoim Guedes.  2021.  Harvesting strategies as evidence for 4000 years of camas (Camassia quamash) management in the North American Columbia Plateau.  .
     

Sept 23

Recreation impacts on native vegetation

Ballantyne, M, & CM Pickering.  2015.  The impacts of trail infrastructure on vegetation and soils: Current literature and future directions.  .

Barros, A, J Gonnet, & C Pickering.  2013.  Impacts of informal trails on vegetation and soils in the highest protected area in the Southern Hemisphere. 

Sept 30

Cemeteries as conservation sites of plant biodiversity

Löki, V, B Deák, AB Lukács, A Molnár V.   2019.  Biodiversity potential of burial places – a review on the flora and fauna of cemeteries and churchyards. 

Nagy, J, V Löki, Z Vitál, K Nótári, SJ Reynolds, T Malkócs, R Fekete, K Süveges, A Lovas-Kiss, A Takács, AB Lukács, A Molnár V.  2025.  Life after death: Hidden diversity of orchids across European cemeteries. 

Oct 7

Agricultural impacts on coral reefs

Carlson, RR, SA Foo, & GP Asner.  2019.   Land use impacts on coral reef health: a ridge-to-reef perspective. 

Tyohemba, RL, MS Humphries, MH Schleyer, & SN Porter.  2022.  Accumulation of commonly used agricultural herbicides in coral reef organisms from iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa.  .

Oct 14

Urban ecology & cooling trees

Kisvarga, S,  K Horotán, A Neményi, T Jana, Z Istvánfi, & L Orlóci.  2025.  The ecology of urban Vegetation: Trade-Offs, stressors, and adaptive strategies.  .

Rahman, MA, D Armson, & AR Ennos. 2015.  A comparison of the growth and cooling effectiveness of five commonly planted urban tree species.

Oct 28

Human-introduced insect pest outbreaks

Ciesla, WM. 2015. The role of human activities on forest insect outbreaks worldwide. .

Knight, K,  J Brown & R Long. 2013.  Factors affecting survival of ash trees infested by emerald ash borer. 

Nov 4

Genetically modified crops

Ahmad, N, & Z Mukhtar.  2017.  Genetic manipulations in crops: Challenges and opportunities.  .

Cao, X, Z Dong, D Tian, L Dong, W Qian, J Liu, X Liu, H Qin, W Zhai, C Gao, K Zhang, & D Wang. 2020.  Development and characterization of marker-free and transgene insertion site-defined transgenic wheat with improved grain storability and fatty acid content. .

Nov 11

Atomic gardening (ion-beam mutagenesis in crop breeding)

Yamaguchi H. 2018.  Mutation breeding of ornamental plants using ion beams.

Ohmiya, A, T Toyoda, H Watanabe, K Emoto, Y Hase, & S Yoshioka.  2012.  Mechanism behind petal color mutation induced by heavy-ion-beam irradiation of recalcitrant chrysanthemum cultivar.  .

Nov 18

DNA barcoding of medicinal plants

Mishra, P, A Kumar, A Nagireddy, DN Mani, AK Shukla, R Tiwari, & V Sundaresan.  2015. DNA barcoding: an efficient tool to overcome authentication challenges in the herbal market.  .

Jamdade, R, KA Mosa, A El-Keblawy, K Al Shaer, E Al Harthi, M Al Sallani, M Al Jasmi, S Gairola, H Shabana, & T Mahmoud. 2022.  DNA Barcodes for accurate identification of selected medicinal plants (Caryophyllales): toward barcoding flowering plants of the United Arab Emirates. .

Nov 25

Benefits from non-naive plant species

Carroll, SP. 2011.  Conciliation biology: the eco-evolutionary management of permanently invaded biotic systems.  

Zhang, M, C Schwarz, W Lin, H Naing, H Cai, & Z Zhu. 2023.  A new perspective on the impacts of Spartina alterniflora invasion on Chinese wetlands in the context of climate change: A case study of the Jiuduansha Shoals, Yangtze Estuary. 

Dec 2

 Movie & pizza (applied biology theme)

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