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Topic |
Reading* |
| Aug 29 |
Organizational meeting |
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Sept 5
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Quantitative ethnobotany
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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.
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Sept 12
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Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and management of foraging resources in Alaska
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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.
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. .
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Sept 19
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Effects of changing [CO2] & temperature on forest trees
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Stinziano, JR & DA Way. 2014. Combined effects of rising [CO2] and temperature on boreal forests: growth, physiology and limitations.
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.
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Sept 26
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Domesticating new crop species
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Leakey, RRB. 2019. From ethnobotany to mainstream agriculture: socially modified Cinderella species capturing ‘trade-ons’ for ‘land maxing’.
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. .
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Oct 3
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Urban ecology of plant-animal interactions
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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. .
Stanley, A & G Arceo-Gómez. 2020. Urbanization increases seed dispersal interaction diversity but decreases dispersal success in Toxicodendron radicans. .
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Oct 10
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Forest carbon storage
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Fahey, TJ, PB Woodbury, JJ Battles, CL Goodale, SP Hamburg, SV Ollinger, & CW Woodall. 2010. Forest carbon storage: ecology, management, and policy. .
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
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Oct 24
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Human effects on plant speciation in the Anthropocene
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Thomas, CD. 2015. Rapid acceleration of plant speciation during the Anthropocene. .
Staude, IR, & J Ebersbac. 2023. Neophytes may promote hybridization and adaptations to a changing planet. .
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Oct 31
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Tropical forest restoration
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Holl, KD. 2017. Research directions in tropical forest restoration. .
Kulikowski, AJ, RA Zahawi, LK Werden, K Zhu & KD Holl. 2022. Restoration interventions mediate tropical tree recruitment dynamics over time. .
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Nov 7
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Management of Juniper encroachment in eastern Oregon
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Morris, LR & RJ Rowe. 2014. Historical land use and altered habitats in the Great Basin.
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. .
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Nov 14
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Ecological calendars
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Kassam, KAS, ML Ruelle, C Samimi, A Trabucco & J Xu. 2018. Anticipating climatic variability: The potential of ecological calendars. .
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.
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Nov 21
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Valuing non-native species
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Sax, DF, MA Schlaepfer, & JD Olden. 2022. Valuing the contributions of non-native species to people and nature. .
dos Santos, LL, ALB do Nascimento, FJ Vieira, VA da Silva, R Voeks & UP Albuquerque. 2014. The cultural value of invasive species: A case study from semi–arid northeastern Brazil. |