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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Donors and Special Funds----------------------------------------------------- ii Faculty in the Department ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Emeritus Faculty, Courtesy/Adjunct Faculty, and Postdoctoral Fellows in the Department ------------------------------------- 2 Graduate Students in Department ------------------------------------------------------- 3 Courses Taught by Faculty----------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Faculty Research Publications Journal Publications of Faculty ---------------------------------------- 7 Books and Book Chapters by Faculty ------------------------------- 25 Reports, Minor Publications, and Electronic Communications ------------------------------------------------ 27 Presentations by Faculty ---------------------------------------------------------- 40 Extramural Funding Received by Faculty ------------------------------------ 77 Postdoctoral Research Publications Publications of Postdoctoral Researchers -------------------------- 32 Presentations by Postdoctoral Researchers ----------------------------------- 62 Graduate Student Research Publications Publications of Graduate Students ----------------------------------- 33 Presentations by Graduate Students ------------------------------------------- 65 Funding Received by Graduate Students -------------------------------------- 85 Faculty Awards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 87 Graduate Student Awards, Scholarships and Fellowships Graduate Student Scholarships and Fellowships ---------------------------- 88 Graduate Students Awards ------------------------------------------------------- 91 Students Graduating with Advanced Degrees -------------------------------------- 92 Faculty Service Partial Listing of Service Activities of the Faculty -------------------------- 93 Editorial Boards and Editorships of Faculty ---------------------------------- 99

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FACULTY

Alexander, Helen M ....................................................................... Professor Billings, Sharon ............................................................................. Associate Professor Blumenstiel, Justin ......................................................................... Assistant Professor Brown, Rafe ................................................................................... Associate Professor Cartwright, Paulyn ......................................................................... Associate Professor Chaboo, Caroline ........................................................................... Assistant Professor deBoer, Gerrit ................................................................................ Associate Professor deNoyelles, Frank .......................................................................... Professor Engel, Michael ............................................................................... Professor Fautin, Daphne G ........................................................................... Professor Foster, Bryan .................................................................................. Professor Gleason, Jennifer............................................................................ Associate Professor Haufler, Christopher H................................................................... Professor and Chair Hileman, Lena ................................................................................ Associate Professor Holder, Mark .................................................................................. Assistant Professor Jander, Rudolf ................................................................................ Professor Jensen, Kirsten ............................................................................... Associate Professor Kelly, John K ................................................................................. Professor Krishtalka, Leonard........................................................................ Professor Martin, Craig E .............................................................................. Professor Martin, Larry D. ............................................................................. Professor Martinko, Edward A. ..................................................................... Professor Mort, Mark ..................................................................................... Associate Professor Moyle, Robert ................................................................................ Associate Professor Orive, Maria E ............................................................................... Associate Professor Peterson, A. Townsend .................................................................. Distinguished Professor Pierotti, Raymond .......................................................................... Associate Professor Short, Andrew ................................................................................ Assistant Professor Smith, Deborah .............................................................................. Professor Smith, Val H .................................................................................. Professor Soberon, Jorge ............................................................................... Professor Taylor, Edith L ............................................................................... Professor Taylor, Orley R., Jr ........................................................................ Professor Taylor, Thomas N .......................................................................... Distinguished Professor Thorp, James H .............................................................................. Professor Timm, Robert M ............................................................................ Associate Professor Trueb, Linda ................................................................................... Professor Ward, Joy ....................................................................................... Associate Professor

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Courtesy/Adjunct FACULTY

Ballantyne, Ford………………………………………… Adjunct Assistant Professor Burg, J. Gregory ................................................................ Courtesy Assistant Professor Busby, William H. ........................................................... Courtesy Assistant Professor Crawford, Daniel ……...................................................... Adjunct Professor Freeman, Craig C. ............................................................ Courtesy Associate Professor Granier, Bruno R. Claude ................................................. Adjunct Research Scientist Greenfield, Michael .......................................................... Adjunct Professor Huggins, Don .................................................................... Courtesy Professor Kindscher, Kelly .............................................................. Courtesy Associate Professor Krings, Michael ................................................................ Adjunct Research Scientist Lieberman, Bruce S. ........................................................ Courtesy Professor Martin-Cereceda, Merche (Maria) .................................... Adjunct Research Associate McLeod, David ................................................................. Courtesy Research Associate Smith, Marilyn .................................................................. Adjunct Research Associate Tourtellot, Michael ........................................................... Adjunct Assistant Professor White, Merlin .................................................................... Adjunct Research Associate

Postdoctoral Fellows

Becklin, Katie

Bomfleur, Benjamin

Koelling, Vanessa

Lehmeier, Christoph

Medeiros, Juliana

Money, Daniel

Schwendemann, Andrew

Zwickl, Derek

Emeritus Faculty Armitage, Kenneth B. Byers, George W. Cutler, Bruce Duellman, William E. Johnston, Richard Lichtwardt, Robert W. Michener, Charles D. Torres, Andrew

Trueb, Linda

Schultze, Hans Peter

Slade, Norman

Wiley, Edward

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2012 - GRADUATE STUDENTS

Alvarado Gutierrez, Mabel

Andersen, Michael

Arroyo, V. Baruch

Barley, Anthony

Barve, Narayani

Bentlage, Bastian

Bergene, Julie

Bittel, Alexander

Bodbyl-Roels, Sarah

Bowes, Rachel

Campbell, Lindsay

Carter, Jacob

Chan, Kin Onn

Chang, Elizabeth “Sally”

Chatterjee, Lera

Chen, Xi

Cielocha, Joanna

Colicchio, Jack

Colyott, Kaila

Crowther, Andrea

Davis, Steve

Eldredge, Taro

Erwin, Alexandra

Fuiten, Allison

Gerhart, Laci

Grismer, Jesse

Hall, David

Harper, Carla

Hemmer, Lucas

Hensz, Chris

Hosner, Peter

Ingenloff, Kathryn

Janra, Muhammad

Jones, Robin

Klymiuk, Ashley

Koseva, Boryana

Krueger, Elise

Linkem, Charles

Lira-Noriega, Andres

Lubin, Terra

Luce, Logan

Maier, Crystal

Manthey, Joseph

Mayes, Daphne

Mickle, Kathryn

Min, Kyungjin

Monnahan, Patrick

Munoz, Sofia

Murphy, Cheryl

Nawrocki, Annalise

Oaks, Jamie

Odell, Nadia

Oliveros, Carl

O’Neill, Brian

Owens, Hannah

Palikij, Jason

Pesek, Mari

Pocius, Victoria

Reed, Alexis

Roccaforte, Kathryn

Romero, Andrea

Sahrmann, John

Samy, Abdallah

Sanders, Steven

Schmidt, Sarah

Schwendemann, Andrew

Sengupta, Aniket

Shin, Choru

Simoes, Marianna

Song, Chao

Su, Shan-Hui

Su, Yong-Chao (Randy)

Sukumaran, Jeet

Toro Nunez, Oscar

Travers, Scott

Walker, S. Michael

Welton, Luke

Williams, Bradley

Yun, Jin-Ho

2012 Annual Report Courses Taught by Faculty

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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

2012

Courses Taught by Faculty Term Course # Name of course Credits Students

Spring 2012 BIOL 100 Prin of Biology 3 690

BIOL 116 Introd to Evolutionary Biology 3 8

BIOL 152 Prin Organisms Biology 4 396

BIOL 153 Prin Organismal Biol Lab, Honors 4 42

BIOL 240 Fundamentals of Human Antomy 3 414

BIOL 241 Human Anatomy Lab 2 160

BIOL 242 Human Anatomy Dissection 3 27

BIOL 408 Physiology of Organisms 3 110

BIOL 409 Physiology of Organisms, Lab 2 29

BIOL 412 Evolutionary Biology 3 167

BIOL 419 Topics in Insect Physiology 1 20

BIOL 420 Chemical Cues: Sex, Food & Flight 2 11

BIOL 420 Behavioral Genetics 3 15

BIOL 420 Evolution of Sex 2 11

BIOL 420 Simulation Modeling Biology 3 3

BIOL 420 Native & Westrn Views of Nature 3 14

BIOL 420 Disease Ecology 2 12

BIOL 420 Freshwater Ecology 2 15

BIOL 423 Non-lab Independent Study 3 5

BIOL 424 Independent Study 3 12

BIOL 425 Teaching Apprenticeship in Biology 1 4

BIOL 499 Intro to Honors Research 2 12

BIOL 550 Intro to Systematics 4 47

BIOL 598 Research Methods 3 32

BIOL 599 Sr. Sem.: Organismal Biology 1 10

BIOL 599 Sr. Sem.: Evolutionary Biology 1 13

BIOL 599 Sr. Seminar in Biology 1 11

BIOL 616 Medical Entomology 3 13

BIOL 646 Mammalian Physiology 4 252

BIOL 652 Comparative Animal Behavior 3 31

BIOL 655 Behavioral Genetics 3 15

BIOL 701 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant 2 7

BIOL 701 Dissertation Improvement Grants Revising 1 3

BIOL 701 Phylogenetics 1 8

BIOL 701 Native & Westrn Views of Nature 3 14

BIOL 701 Simulation Modeling Biology 3 9

BIOL 701 Freshwater Ecology 3 1

BIOL 701 Disease Ecology 2 1

BIOL 701 Global Change/Eco Phy & Istop 2 10

BIOL 786 Fundamentals of Tropical Biology 1 20


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BIOL 801 Paleobotany & Plant Evolution 1 3

BIOL 801 Current EEB Research 2 21

BIOL 801 EEB Genetics 11 1 5

BIOL 899 Advanced Study 1-10 4


BIOL 999 Doctoral Dissertation 1-12 9

GEOL 791 Adv. Topics in Geology-Macroevolution 1 4

GEOL 791 Prehistoric Life 3 105

CHEM 598 Research Methods 3 32

EVRN 720 Climate Change in the Arctic 3 15

EVRN 420 Disease Ecology 3 11

EVRN 460 Field Ecology 9 9

LAT 302/602 Latin American Studies 3 6/5

HINU Field Biology 3 3

Summer 2012

BIOL 100 Principles of Biology 3 82


BIOL 418 Fld Methd Biology Peru (Study Abroad) 3 8

BIOL 420 Chem. Cues in Sex, Food & Fighting 2 12

BIOL 423 Non-lab Indepenendent Study 1-9 1

BIOL 424 Independent Study 1-9 10

BIOL 570 Introduction to Biostatistics 3 18

BiOL 599 Senior Seminar in Biology 1 6

BIOL 899 Master’s Thesis 1-10 8



Fall 2012

BIOL 100 Principles of Biology 3 813

BIOL 177 First Year Seminar in Biology 3 15

BIOL 240 Fudamental of Human Anatomy 2 427


BIOL 242 Human Anatomy Dissection 3 25

BIOL 350 Principles of Genetics 3 178

BIOL 360 Principles of Genetics, Honors 3 32

BIOL 408 Physiology of Organisms 3 35

BIOL 413 History and Diversity of Organisms 3 52

BIOL 414 Principles of Ecology 3 105

BIOL 415 Field and Lab Methods in Ecology 2 27

BIOL 418 Kansas Plants and Landscapes 3 15

BIOL 420 Biology of Flowers 3 12

BIOL 420 Environmental Justice 3 18

BiOL 420 Learning Cognition 2 9

BIOL 420 Femal Choice and Sexual Selection 2 6

BIOL 420 Biodiversity Patterns 3 8

BIOL 420 Insect Physiology 2 11

BIOL 420 Learning and Cognition 2 9

BIOL 423 Nonlab Independent Study 1-9 2


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BIOL 424 Independent Study 1-9 19

BIOL 425 Teaching Apprenticeship in Biology 1 11

BIOL 427 Developmental Biology Lab 2 15

BIOL 500 Biology of Insects 3 18

BIOL 502 Insect Biology and Diversity Lab 2 6

BIOL 570 Introduction to Biostatistics 3 76

BIOL 571 Intro Biostatistics Laboratory 1 76

BIOL 599 Sr. Sem. in Biology 1 11

BIOL 599 Sr. Sem. in Organismal Biology 1 12

BIOL 625 Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 3 8

BIOL 644 Comparative Animal Physiology 3 5

BIOL 661 Ecology of Rivers and Lakes 3 20

BIOL 667 Chem Cues in Sex, Food, & Fighting Lect. 3 8

BIOL 701 Responsible Scholarship & Teacing Effevt. 2 16

BIOL 701 Learning Cognition 2 9

BIOL 701 Biology of Honey bees 3 3

BIOL 701 Biodiversity Patterns 3 2

BIOL 701 Femal Choice and Sexual Selection 2 2

BIOL 701 Writing the NSF GRF 1 5

BIOL 701 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant 2 7

BIOL 701 Climate Change, Ecological Change,

Social Change: NSF IGERT-C-CHANGE 3 19

BIOL 801 EEB Genetics: 11 1 1

BIOL 801 Paleobotany and Plant Evolution 1 2

BIOL 801 Kansas Plants and Landscapes 1-3 15

BIOL 841 Biometry I 5 23

BIOL 899 Masters thesis 1-10 6

BIOL 944 Theoretical Population Ecology 3 4



EVRN 460 Field Ecology 3 43

HINU Field Biology 3 14

2012 Annual Report Journal Publications of Faculty

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Journal Publications of Faculty

ALEXANDER, DAVID Burgers, P. and D. E. Alexander. 2012. Normalized lift: An energy

interpretation of the lift coefficient simplifies comparisons of the

lifting ability of rotating and flapping surfaces. PLoS ONE 7(5):

e36732. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036732

ALEXANDER, HELEN Alexander, H. M., B.L. Foster, F. Ballantyne IV, C. D. Collins, J.

Antonovics, and R. D. Holt. 2012. Metapopulations and

metacommunities: combining spatial and temporal perspectives in

plant ecology. Journal of Ecology 100: 88-103.

Alexander, H. M., A. W. Reed, W. D. Kettle, N. A. Slade, S. A.

Bodbyl-Roels, C. D. Collins, and V. Salisbury. 2012. Detection

and plant monitoring programs: lessons from an intensive survey

of Asclepias meadii with five observers. PLoS ONE 7(12):

e52762.

ARMITAGE, KENNETH Armitage, K. B. 2012. Sociality, individual fitness, and population

dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots. Molecular Ecology 21: 532-

540.

BILLINGS, SHARON Billings, S. A., S. E. Ziegler, W. H. Schlesinger, R. Benner, D.

Richter. 2012. Predicting carbon cycle feedbacks to climate:

Integrating the right tools for the job. Eos 93: 188-189.

Li, J., S. E. Ziegler, C. Lane, C., S. A. Billings. 2012. Warming-

enhanced preferential mineralization of humified boreal forest soil

organic matter: Interpretation of soil profiles along a climate

During 2012, faculty had over transect using laboratory incubations. Journal of Geophysical

70 peer–reviewed publications Research Biogeosciences 117, G02008,

doi:10.1029/2011JG001769.

Tiemann, L.K., S. A. Billings. 2012. Tracking C and N flows through

microbial biomass with increased soil moisture variability. Soil

Biology and Biochemistry 49: 11-22.

BLUMENSTIEL, JUSTIN Miller, D.E, S. Takeo, K. Nandanan, A. Paulson, M. M. Gogol, A. C.

Noll, K. N. Walton, W. D. Gilliland, H. Li, K. Staehling-Hampton,

J. P. Blumenstiel, and R. S. Hawley. 2012. A whole chromosome

analysis of recombination and gene conversion in Drosophila

melanogaster. G3: Genes,Genomes,Genetics.

BROWN, RAFE Siler, C. D., J. R. Oaks, L. J. Welton, C. W. Linkem, J. Swab, A. C.

Diesmos, and R. M. Brown. 2012. Did geckos ride the Palawan

raft to the Philippines? Journal of Biogeography 39:1217–1234.

Spinks, P. Q., R. C. Thomson, B. Hughes, B. Moxley, R. M. Brown,

A. C. Diesmos, and H. B. Shaffer. 2012. Cryptic variation and the

tragedy of unrecognized taxa: the case of international trade in the


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spiny turtle Heosemys spinosa (Testudines: Geoemydidae).

Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 164: 811–824

Brown, R. M., C. D. Siler, I. Das, and P. Y. Min. 2012. Testing the

phylogenetic affinities of Southeast Asia’s rarest geckos: flap-

legged geckos (Luperosaurus), flying geckos (Ptychozoon) and

their relationship to the pan-Asian genus Gekko. Molecular

Phylogenetics and Evolution 63: 915–921.

Oaks, J., R., J. Sukumaran, J. A. Esselstyn, C. W. Linkem, C. D. Siler,

M. T. Holder, and R. M. Brown. 2012. Evidence for Pleistocene-

driven diversification? A caution for interpreting ABC inferences

of simultaneous historical events. Evolution. doi:10.1111/j.1558-

5646.2012.01840.x

Siler, C. D., R. M. Jones, A. C. Diesmos, M. L. Diesmos, and R. M.

Brown. 2012. Phylogeny-based species delimitation in Philippine

slender skinks (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) III: taxonomic

revision of the Brachymeles gracilis complex, with description of

three new species. Herpetological Monographs 26: 135–172.

Linkem C. W., R. M. Brown, C. D. Siler, B. J. Evans, C. C. Austin, D.

T. Iskandar, A. C. Diesmos, J. Supriatna, N. Andayani, and J. A.

McGuire. Stochastic faunal exchanges drive diversification in

widespread Wallacean and Pacific Island lizards (Squamata:

Scincidae: Lamprolepis smaragdina). Journal of Biogeography

doi:10.1111/jbi.12022

Brown, R. M., C. D. Siler, L. L. Grismer, I. Das, and J. A. McGuire.

2012. Phylogeny and cryptic diversification in Southeast Asian

flying geckos. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65: 351–

361.

Brown, R. M., C. H. Oliveros, C. D. Siler, J. B. Fernandez, L. J.

Welton, P. A. C. Buenavente, M. L. D. Diesmos, and A. C.

Diesmos. 2012. Amphibians and Reptiles of Luzon Island

(Philippines), VII: Herpetofauna of Ilocos Norte Province,

Northern Cordillera Mountain Range. Check List 8: 469–490.

Alcala, A. C., Bucol, A., A. C. Diesmos and R. M. Brown. 2012.

Vulnerability of Philippine amphibians to climate change.

Philippine Journal of Science 141: 77–87.

Welton, L. J., C. D. Siler, A. C. Diesmos, M. L. D. Diesmos, R. Lagat,

R. Causaren, and R. M. Brown. 2012. Genetic identity,

geographic range, and major distribution records for frugivorous

monitor lizards of Luzon Island, Philippines. Herpetological

Review 43: 226–230.

Siler, C. D., J. C. Swab, C H. Oliveros, A. C. Diesmos, L. Averia, A.

C. Alcala, and R. M. Brown. 2012. Amphibians and reptiles,


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Romblon Island Group, central Philippines: comprehensive

herpetofaunal inventory. Check List 8: 443-462.

Devan-Song, A., and R. M. Brown. 2012. Amphibians and Reptiles

of Luzon Island, Philippines, VI: the Herpetofauna of the Subic

Bay Area. Asian Herpetological Research 2012: 1–20.

CARTWRIGHT, PAULYN Nawrocki, A.M. and P. Cartwright. 2012. A novel mode of colony

formation through fusion of sexually-generated individuals

(Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Current Biology 22(9): 825-829.

CHABOO, CAROLINE Chaboo, C. S. 2012. New records of Diamphidia Gerstaecker, 1855

and Polyclada Chevrolat, 1842 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae:

Galerucinae s.l.) in the Republic of Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Coleopterists Bulletin 66(1): 70–71.

Chaboo, C. S. 2012. New distribution records for Cassidinae

Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Neotropical Entomology

41(5): 435–436.

Niemack, R. S., D. J. Bennett, I. A. Hinojosa-Díaz, and C. S. Chaboo.

2012. A contribution to the knowledge of the orchid bee fauna of

the Los Amigos Biological Station, Madre de Dios, Peru

(Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini). Checklist 8(2): 215–217.

Shin, C., and C. S. Chaboo. 2012. A revision and phylogenetic

analysis of Stoiba Spaeth, 1909 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae).

ZooKeys 224: 1–36.

Shin, C., C. S. Chaboo, and S.M. Clark. 2012. Phylogenetic revision

of the Hispaniolan endemic genus Asteriza Chevrolat, 1836

(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Ischyrosonychini).

Zootaxa 3227: 34–53.

Shin, C., H. Jin, and C. S. Chaboo. 2012. Biology and morphology of

Neochlamisus gibbosus (Fabricius, 1777) (Coleoptera:

Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Fulcidacini). Journal of the

Kansas Entomological Society 85(2): 116–134.

CRAWFORD, DANIEL J. Maraner, F., R. Samuel, T. F. Stuessy, D. J. Crawford, J. V. Crisci ,

A. Pandey, A. and M. E. Mort. 2012. Molecular phylogeny of

Nassauvia (Asteraceae, Mutisieae) based on nrDNA ITS

sequences. Plant Systematics and Evolution 298: 399-408.

DENOYELLES, FRANK Sturm, B. S. M., E. Peltier, V. H. Smith, and F. deNoyelles. 2012.

Controls of microalgal biomass and lipid production in municipal

wastewater-fed bioreactors. Environmental Progress and

Sustainable Energy 31: 10-16.


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ENGEL, MICHAEL Alqarni, A. S., M. A. Hannan, and M. S. Engel. 2012. A new wild,

pollinating bee species of the genus Tetraloniella from the Arabian

Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 172: 89–96.

Alqarni, A.S., M.A. Hannan, V.H. Gonzalez, and M.S. Engel. 2012. A

new species of Chalicodoma from Saudi Arabia with modified

facial setae (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). ZooKeys 204: 71–83.

Ascher, J.S., and M.S. Engel. 2012. Discovery of the bee genus

Perdita in the West Indies (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae): A new

species from Isla Cabritos in the Dominican Republic. Acta

Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52(2): 595–602.

Chatzimanolis, S., M.E. Cashion, M.S. Engel, and Z.H. Falin. 2012. A

new genus of Ptilodactylidae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea) in mid-

Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Burma). Geodiversitas 34(3):

569–574.

Chatzimanolis, S., D.A. Grimaldi, M.S. Engel, and N.C. Fraser. 2012.

Leehermania prorova, the earliest staphyliniform beetle, from the

Late Triassic of Virginia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). American

Museum Novitates 3761: 1–28.

Engel, M.S. 2012. On the classification of the bee genus Manuelia

(Hymenoptera: Apidae). Acta Entomologica Slovenica 20(1): 65–

72.

Engel, M.S. 2012. The honey bees of Indonesia (Hymenoptera:

Apidae). Treubia 39: 41–49.

Engel, M.S. 2012. Family-group names for snakeflies (Raphidioptera).

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 85(1): 48–52.

Engel, M.S., and M. Gross. 2012. A new fossil crane fly from the

Early Pannonian of the Styrian Basin (Diptera: Tipulidae). Journal

of the Kansas Entomological Society 85(2): 160–163.

Engel, M.S., and Z. Liu. 2012. A new species of ibaliid wasp in Baltic

amber (Hymenoptera: Ibaliidae). Journal of the Kansas

Entomological Society 85(2): 164–168.

Engel, M.S., and C.D. Michener. 2012. The melectine bee genera

Brachymelecta and Sinomelecta (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys

244: 1–19.

Engel, M.S., and R. Pérez-de la Fuente. 2012. A new species of roach

from the Jurassic of India (Blattaria: Mesoblattinidae). Journal of

the Kansas Entomological Society 85(1): 1–4.


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Engel, M.S., and A.H. Smith-Pardo. 2012. Bolivian Neocorynura

(Hymenoptera: Halictidae): A new species with a preliminary key

to the fauna. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 155(1): 3–8.

Engel, M.S., D.A. Grimaldi, V.H. Gonzalez, I.A. Hinojosa-Díaz, and

C.D. Michener. 2012. An exomalopsine bee in Early Miocene

amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

American Museum Novitates 3758: 1–16.

Engel, M. S., M. A. Hannan, and A. S. Alqarni. 2012. Systropha

androsthenes in Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Journal


Engel, M. S., I. A. Hinojosa-Díaz, and D. J. Bennett. 2012. New

species of macrocephalic halictine bees (Hymenoptera:

Halictidae). Annales Zoologici 62(2): 297–307.

Engel, M. S., R. C. McKellar, S. Gibb, and B. D. E. Chatterton. 2012.

A new Cenomanian-Turonian (Late Cretaceous) insect assemblage

from southeastern Morocco. Cretaceous Research 35: 88–93.

Garrouste, R., G. Clément, P. Nel, M. S. Engel, P. Grandcolas, C.

D’Haese, L. Lagebro, J. Denayer, P. Gueriau, P. Lafaite, S. Olive,

C. Prestianni, and A. Nel. 2012. A complete insect from the Late

Devonian period. Nature 488(7409): 82–85.

Gonzalez, V. H., and M. S. Engel. 2012. A new species of Geotrigona

Moure from the Caribbean coast of Colombia (Hymenoptera,

Apidae). ZooKeys 172: 77–87.

Gonzalez, V. H., and M. S. Engel. 2012. African and Southeast Asian

Chalicodoma (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): New subgenus, new

species, and notes on the composition of Pseudomegachile and

Largella. Annales Zoologici 62(4): 599–617.

Gonzalez, V. H., J. S. Ascher, and M. S. Engel. 2012. A new Stelis

(Dolichostelis) from northern Colombia (Hymenoptera:

Megachilidae): First records for South America and a synopsis of

the bee fauna from the Caribbean region of Colombia. Journal of

Natural History 46(47–48): 2919–2934.

Gu, J.-J., F. Montealegre-Z, D. Robert, M. S. Engel, G.-X. Qiao, and

D. Ren. 2012. Wing stridulation in a Jurassic katydid (Insecta,

Orthoptera) produced low-pitched musical calls to attract females.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 109(10):

3868–3873.

Hannan, M. A., A. S. Alqarni, A.A. Owayss, and M. S. Engel. 2012.

The large carpenter bees of central Saudi Arabia, with notes on the

biology of Xylocopa sulcatipes Maa (Hymenoptera, Apidae,

Xylocopinae). ZooKeys 201: 1–14.


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Hinojosa-Díaz, I. A., and M. S. Engel. 2012. Alloglossura, a new

subgenus of the orchid bee genus Euglossa (Hymenoptera:

Apidae), with a review of the included species. Scientific Papers,

Natural History Museum, University of Kansas 45: 1–37.

Hinojosa-Díaz, I. A., and M. S. Engel. 2012. A checklist of the orchid

bees of Nicaragua (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini). Journal of


Hinojosa-Díaz, I. A., V. H. Gonzalez, R. Ayala, J. Mérida, P. Sagot, &

M. S. Engel. 2012. New orchid and leaf-cutter bee

gynandromorphs, with an updated review (Hymenoptera,

Apoidea). Zoosystematics and Evolution 88(2): 205–214.

Hinojosa-Díaz, I. A., A. Nemésio, and M. S. Engel. 2012. Two new

species of Euglossa from South America, with notes on their

taxonomic affinities (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 221: 63–79.

Faculty in the Department of Huang, D.-Y., M. S. Engel, C.-Y. Cai, H. Wu, and A. Nel. 2012.

Ecol. & Evol. Biology had Diverse transitional giant fleas from the Mesozoic era of China.

peer–reviewed publications in Nature 483(7388): 201–204. 100 national and international journals in 2012. McKellar, R. C., and M. S. Engel. 2012. Hymenoptera in Canadian

Cretaceous amber (Insecta). Cretaceous Research 35: 258–279.

Nemésio, A., and M. S. Engel. 2012. Three new cryptic species of

Euglossa from Brazil (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 222: 47–

68.

Oliveira, F.F., de, M. S. Engel, and T. Mahlmann. 2012. A new

Chlerogelloides from northeastern Brazil and French Guiana, with

a key to the species (Hymenoptera, Halictidae). ZooKeys 185: 41–

53.

Ortega-Blanco, J., X. Delclòs, E. Peñalver, and M.S. Engel. 2012.

Erratum to: Serphitid wasps in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain

(Hymenoptera: Serphitidae). Cretaceous Research 33(1): 205.

Ortega-Blanco, J., H. Singh, and M. S. Engel. 2012. First amber

Rhysipolini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A new genus and species

in Early Eocene Cambay amber. Acta Entomologica Musei

Nationalis Pragae 52(2): 585–594.

Pérez-de la Fuente, R., X. Delclòs, E. Peñalver, M. Speranza, J.

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Oliveros, C. H., S. Reddy and R. G. Moyle. 2012. The phylogenetic

position of some Philippine "babblers" spans the muscicapoid and

sylvioid bird radiations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

65: 799–804.

ORIVE, MARIA Marriage, T. N. and M. E. Orive. 2012. Mutation-selection balance

and mixed mating with asexual reproduction. Journal of

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PETERSON, A. TOWNSEND Araújo, M. B., and A. T. Peterson. 2012. Uses and misuses of

bioclimatic envelope modelling. Ecology 93: 1527-1539.

Arboleda, S., N. Jaramillo-O., and A. T. Peterson. 2012. Spatial and

temporal dynamics of Aedes aegypti breeding sites in Bello,

Colombia. Journal of Vector Ecology 37: 37-48.

Barve, N., A. J. Bonilla, J. Brandes, J. C. Brown, N. Brunsell, F. V.

Cochran, R. J. Crosthwait, J. Gentry, L. M. Gerhart, T. Jackson, A.

J. Kern, K. S. Oberhauser, H. L. Owens, A. T. Peterson, A. S.

Reed, J. Soberón, A. D. Sundberg, and L. M. Williams. 2012.

Climate change and lethal conditions for overwintering monarch

butterflies. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 83: 817-824

Donalisio, M. R., A. T. Peterson, P. L. Costa, F. J. Silva, H. F.

Valença, J. J. Shaw, and S. P. Brandão-Filho. 2012. Microspatial

distributional patterns of vectors of cutaneous leishmaniasis in

Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil. Journal of Tropical Medicine

2012: 642910.

Ellis, C. K., D. S. Carroll, R. R. Lash, A. T. Peterson, I. K. Damon, J.

Malekani, and P. Formenty. 2012. Ecology and geography of

human monkeypox case occurrences across Africa. Journal of

Wildlife Diseases 48: 335-347.

Emmett, A., J. Stratton, A. T. Peterson, J. Church-Duran, and L. J.

Haricombe. 2011. Toward open access: It takes a “village”.

Journal of Library Administration 51: 557-579.

Emmett, A., L. J. Haricombe, and A. T. Peterson. 2012. Congress has

a role to play in making research public. Chronicle of Higher

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Fiaboe, K. K. M., A. T. Peterson, M. T. Kairo, and A. L. Roda. 2012.

Predicting the potential worldwide distribution of the Red Palm

Weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (Coleoptera:

Curculionidae) using ecological niche modeling. Florida

Entomologist 95: 659-673.

Gurgel-Gonçalves, R., C. Galvão, J. Costa, and A. T. Peterson. 2012.

Geographic distribution of Chagas disease vectors in Brazil based


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Lash, R. R., D. S. Carroll, C. M. Hughes, Y. Nakazawa, K. Karem, I.

K. Damon, and A. T. Peterson. 2012. Effects of georeferencing

effort on mapping monkeypox case distributions and transmission

risk. International Journal of Health Geographics 11: 23.

Menon, S., M. L. Khan, A. Paul, and A. T. Peterson. 2012.

Rhododendron species in the Indian Eastern Himalayas: New

approaches to understanding rare plant species' distributions.

Journal of the American Rhododendron Society Spring 2012: 78-

84.

Peterson, A. T., and B. S. Lieberman. 2012. Species' geographic

distributions through time: Playing catch up with changing

climates. Evolution 5: 569-581.

Peterson, A. T., and J. Soberón. 2012a. Integrating fundamental

concepts of ecology, biogeography, and sampling into effective

ecological niche modeling and species distribution modeling.

Journal of Plant Biosciences 146: 789-796.

Peterson, A. T., and J. Soberón. 2012b. Species distribution modeling

and ecological niche modeling: Getting the concepts right.

Natureza e Conservação 10: 1-6.

Peterson, A. T., and M. T. Holder. 2012. Phylogenetic assessment of

filoviruses: How many lineages of Marburgvirus? Ecology and

Evolution 2: 1826-1833.

Ramsey, J. M., A. E. Gutiérrez-Cabrera, L. Salgado-Ramírez, A. T.

Peterson, V. Sánchez-Cordero, and C. N. Ibarra-Cerdeña. 2012.

Ecological connectivity of Trypanosoma cruzi reservoirs and

Triatoma pallidipennis hosts in an anthropogenic landscape with

endemic Chagas disease. PLoS ONE 7: e46013.

Rohwer, S. A., A. G. Navarro-Sigüenza, and A. T. Peterson. 2012.

Assessing migratory double breeding through complementary

specimen densities and breeding records. Condor 114: 1-14.

Saupe, E., V. Barve, C. Myers, J. Soberón, N. Barve, C. Hensz, A. T.

Peterson, H. L. Owens, and A. Lira-Noriega. 2012. Variation in

niche and distribution model performance: The need for a priori

assessment of key causal factors. Ecological Modeling 237–238:

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Williams, R. A. J., A. Vázquez, I. Asante, K. Bonney, S. Odoom, N.

Puplampu, W. Ampofo, M. P. Sánchez-Seco, A. Tenorio, and A.

T. Peterson. 2012b. Yaoundé-like virus in resident wild bird,

Ghana. African Journal of Microbiology Research 6: 1966-1969.


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Williams, R. A. J., K. Segovia-Hinostroza, B. M. Ghersi, V. Gonzaga,

A. T. Peterson, and J. M. Montgomery. 2012a. Avian influenza

infections in non-migrant land birds in Andean Peru. Journal of

Wildlife Diseases 48: 910-917.

SHORT, ANDREW Alarie, Y., A.E.Z. Short, M. García, and L. Joly. 2011. Larval

morphology of Meruidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) and its

phylogenetic implications. Annals of the Entomological Society

of America 104(1): 25–36.

Cai, C., A.E.Z. Short, and D. Huang. 2012. The first skiff beetle

(Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Hydroscaphidae) from Early Cretaceous

Jehol Biota. Journal of Paleontology 86(1): 116–119.

Clarkson, B., and A.E.Z. Short. 2012. Revision of the Oocyclus sharp

of Brazil with description of ten new species (Coleoptera:

Hydrophilidae: Laccobiini). Zootaxa 3183: 1–35.

McIntosh, C. E., and A.E.Z. Short. 2012. New Delaware, U.S.A.

records and notes about the endangered Seth Forest water

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66(3): 294–296.

Oliva, A., and A.E.Z. Short. 2012. Review of the Berosus Leach of

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of fourteen new species. ZooKeys 206: 1–69.

Short, A.E.Z., Y. Alarie, M. Garcia, and L.J. Joly. 2012. Are noterids

specialised meruids (Coleoptera, Adephaga)? A reply to Dressler

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Effects of habitat disturbance on a Peromyscus leucopus

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Journal of Mammalogy 93: 211-219.

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Climate change and lethal conditions for overwintering monarch

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Gymnosperm trees from the Permian of Antarctica: an

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Bomfleur, B., H. Kerp, T. N. Taylor, Ø. Moestrup, and E. L. Taylor.

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Taylor, T. N., M. Krings, J. Galtier, and N. Dotzler. 2012. Fungal

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Peña-Valdivia, C. B., C. Trejo L, V. B. Arroyo-Peña, A.

Sánchez, and U. R. Balois. 2012. Diversity of

unavailable polysaccharides and dietary fiber in

domesticated nopalito and cactus pear fruit (Opuntia

spp.). Chemistry and Biodiversity DOI

10.1002/cbdv.201200047

BARLEY, ANTHONY McLeod, D. S., J. K. Kelly, and A. J. Barley. 2012. Same-

same, but different: another new species of the

Limnonectes kuhlii complex from Thailand

(Anura:Dicroglossidae). Russian Journal of Herpetology

19: 261–274.

BARVE, NARAYANI V. Barve,N., A. J. Bonilla, J. Brandes, J. C. Brown, N.

Brunsell, F. V. Cochran, R. J. Crosthwait, J. Gentry, L.

M. Gerhart, T. Jackson, A. J. Kern, K. S. Oberhauser, H.

L. Owens, A. T. Peterson, A. S. Reed, J. Soberón, A. D.

Sundberg, and L. M. Williams. 2012. Climate-change

and mass mortality events in overwintering monarch

butterflies. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 83: 817-

824.

Saupe, E. E., V. Barve, C. E. Myers, J. Soberón, N. Barve,

C. Hensz, A. Peterson, H. Owens, A. Lira-Noriega.

2012. Variation in niche and distribution model

performance: The need for a priori assessment of key

causal factors, Ecological Modelling 237-238: 11-22.

CARTER, JACOB Carter, J. M., and J. B. Nippert. 2012. Leaf-level

physiological response of Tamarix ramosissima to


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increasing salinity. Journal of Arid Environments 77:

17-24.

CHAN, KIN ONN Johnson, C.B., E. S. H. Quah, A. M. S. Shahrul, M.A. Muin,

P. L., J Wood, J. L. Grismer, L. F. Greer, K. O. Chan,

A. Norhayati, A.M. Bauer, and L. L. Grismer 2012.

Phylogeography, geographic variation, and taxonomy of

the bent-toed gecko Cyrtodactylus quadrivirgatus

Taylor, 1962 from Peninsular Malaysia with the

description of a new swamp dwelling species. Zootaxa

3406: 39–58.

CIELOCHA, JOANNA Borucinska, J. D., J. J. Cielocha, and K. Jensen. 2012. The

parasite-host interface in the zonetail butterfly ray

Gymnura zonura, infected with Hexacanalis folifer

(Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea). Journal of Fish Diseases.

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2761.2012.01408.x.

DAVIS, STEVE Engel, M.S. and Davis, S. R. 2012. 75 years ago in bee

systematics: Cockerell on “the evolution of the bees.”

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 85(2): 170-

172.

ELDREDGE, KEN T. Eldredge, K. T. 2012a. Review of the Nearctic species of

Drusilla Leach (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae:

Aleocharinae). Zootaxa 3300: 45-54.

Eldredge, K. T. 2012b. Redescription of the genus Apalonia

Casey, description of immature stages and reevaluation

of its tribal placement (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae:

Aleocharinae). Koleopterologische Rundschaeu 82: 151-

171.

Eldredge, K. T. 2012c. Lissagria foveolata (Coleoptera:

Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), a distinctive new species

from Mexico. Journal of the Kansas Entomological

Society 85(3): 226–230.

Eldredge, K. T. 2012d. A New Species of Probrachida

Ashe (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), the

First Record of the Genus from North America. Journal


Kanao, T., K. T. Eldredge, and M. Maruyama, M. 2012.

Two new genera and species of the termite inquilinous

symbiont lineage Termitohospitini (Coleoptera,

Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) from Bolivia and

peninsular Malaysia. ZooKeys 254: 67-87.

ERWIN, ALEXANDRA Li, C., A. Erwin, D. Pap, C. Coleman, A. Higgins, E. Kiss,

P. Kozma, S. Hoffmann, D. Ramming, and L. Kovacs.


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2012. Selection for Run1-Ren1 dihybrid grapevines

using microsatellite markers. The American Journal of

Ecology and Viticulture. doi: 10.5344/ ajev.2012.12060.

GERHART, LACI M. Gerhart, L. M., J. M. Harris, J. B. Nippert, D. R. Sandquist,

J. K. Ward. 2012. Glacial trees from the La Brea tar pits

show physiological constraints of low CO2. New

Phytologist. 194: 63-69.

Barve,N., A. J. Bonilla, J. Brandes, J. C. Brown, N. Brunsell,

F. V. Cochran, R. J. Crosthwait, J. Gentry, L. M.

Gerhart, T. Jackson, A. J. Kern, K. S. Oberhauser, H. L.

Owens, A. T. Peterson, A. S. Reed, J. Soberón, A. D.




824.

HARPER, CARLA J. Harper, C. J., B. Bomfleur, A.-L Decombeix, E. L. Taylor,

T. N. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012. Tylosis formation

and fungal interactions in an early Jurassic conifer from

northern Victoria Land. Antarctica. Review of

Palaeobotany and Palynology 175: 25-31.

HENSZ, CHRISTOPHER Saupe, E. E., V. Barve, C. E. Myers, J. Soberón, N. Barve,

C. M. Hensz, A. T. Peterson, H. L. Owens, and A. Lira-

Noriega. 2012. Variation in niche and distribution

model performance: The need for a priori assessment of

key causal factors. Ecological Modelling 237: 11-22.

HOSNER, PETER Hosner, P. A., and R. G. Moyle. 2012. A molecular

phylogeny of the Knipolegus black-tyrants reveals strong

geographic patterns and homoplasy in plumage and

display behavior. Auk 129: 156–176.

INGENLOFF, KATHRYN Ingenloff, K., R. Garlapati, D. Poché, M. I. Singh, J. L.

Remmers, and R. M. Poché. 2012. Feed-through

insecticides for the control of the sand fly Phlebotomus

argentipes. Medical and Veterinary Entomology doi:

10.1111/j.1365-2915.2012.00995.x.

Ingenloff, K. 2012. Review of Seabird Islands: Ecology,

Invasion, and Restoration. Edited by Christa P. H.

Mulder, Wendy B. Anderson, David R. Towns, and

Peter J. Bellingham. Quarterly Review of Biology

87(4):381-3812. DOI: 10.1086/668179

JONES, ROBIN Siler C. D., R. M. Jones, A. C. Diesmos, M. L. Diesmos,

and R. M. Brown. 2012. Phylogeny-based species

delimitation in Philippine slender skinks (Reptilia: Squamata: Scinidae) III: Taxonomic revision of the


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Brachymeles gracilis complex, with descriptions of three

new species. Herptological Monographs 26: 135–172.

KLYMIUK, ASHLEY Klymiuk, A. A., and R. A. Stockey. 2012. A Lower

Cretaceous (Valanginian) seed cone provides the earliest

fossil record for Picea (Pinaceae). American Journal of

Botany 99: 1069-1082.

LIRA-NORIEGA, ANDRÉS Saupe E., E., Barve V., Myers C. E., Soberón J., Barve N.,

Hensz C. M., Peterson A.T., Owens H. L. and A. Lira-

Noriega. 2012. Variation in niche and distribution

model performance: The need for a priori assessment of

key causal factors. Ecological Modeling 237–238: 11-

22.

LUCE, LOGAN Wyckoff, P. H., R. Greiman, A. Krueger, and L. Luce.

2012. Forest dynamics at Minnesota's prairie-forest

border driven by invasive buckthorn (Rhamnus

cathartica) and native bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa).

The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, 139(3):

311-322.

MAIER, CRYSTAL A. Maier, C. A., 2012. Elachistelmis gen. n. (Coleoptera:

Elmidae: Elminae) from Suriname, with description of

two new species. Zootaxa 3500: 61-69.

MANTHEY, JOSEPH Manthey, J. D., J. Klicka, and G. M. Spellman. 2012. Is

gene flow promoting the reversal of Pleistocene

divergence in the Mountain Chickadee (Poecile

gambeli)? PLoS One 7: e49218.

Siemens, D. H., J. Duvall-Jisha, J. Jacobs, J. Manthey, R.

Haugen, and S. Matzner. 2012. Water deficiency

induces stress-tolerance-chemical defense evolutionary

tradeoff that may help explain local range limits in

plants. Oikos 121: 790-800.

MONNAHAN, PATRICK Koelling, V. A., P. J. Monnahan, J. K. Kelly. 2012. A


rate and inbreeding depression. Heredity 109(6): 393-

400.

OAKS, JAMIE Siler, C. D., J. R. Oaks, L. J. Welton, C. W. Linkem, J.

Swab, A. C. Diesmos, and R. M. Brown. 2012. Did

geckos ride the Palawan raft to the Philippines? Journal

of Biogeography, 39: 1217–1234. doi/10.1111/j.1365-

2699.2011.02680.x.

OLIVEROS, CARL Oliveros, C. H., S. Reddy and R. G. Moyle. 2012. The

phylogenetic position of some Philippine “babblers”


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spans the muscicapoid and sylvioid bird radiations.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65: 799–804.

Sheldon, F. H., C. H. Oliveros, S. S. Taylor, B. McKay, H.

C. Lim, M. A. Rahman, H. Mays and R. G. Moyle.

2012. Molecular phylogeny and insular biogeography of

the lowland tailorbirds of Southeast Asia (Cisticolidae:

Orthotomus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

65: 54–63.

Brown, R. M., C. H. Oliveros, C. D. Siler, J. B. Fernandez,

L. J. Welton, P. A. C. Buenavente, M. L. L. Diesmos

and A. C. Diesmos. 2012. Amphibians and reptiles of

Luzon Island (Philippines), VII: Herpetofauna of Ilocos

Norte Province, Northern Cordillera Mountain Range.

Check List 8: 469–490.

Siler, C. D., J. C. Swab, C. H. Oliveros, A. C. Diesmos, L.

Averia, A. C. Alcala and R. M. Brown. 2012.

Amphibians and reptiles, Romblon Island Group, central

Philippines: comprehensive herpetofaunal inventory.

Check List 8: 443–462.

Siler, C. D., C. H. Oliveros and R. M. Brown. 2012.

Geographic range notes on Brachymeles cebuensis and

re-evaluation of its conservation status. Herpetological

Review 43: 305.

Moyle, R. G., M. J. Andersen, C. H. Oliveros, F.

Steinheimer and S. Reddy. 2012. Phylogeny and

biogeography of the core babblers (Aves: Timaliidae).

Systematic Biology 61: 631–651.

O’NEILL, BRIAN O’Neill, B. J. and J. H. Thorp. 2011. A simple channel

complexity metric for analyzing river ecosystem

responses. River Systems 19(4): 327-335.

O’Neill, B. J. and J. H. Thorp. 2011. Flow refugia for the

zoobenthos of a sand bed river: the role of physical

habitat complexity. Journal of the North American

Benthological Society 30(2): 546-558.

OWENS, HANNAH Barve, N, A. J. Bonilla, J. Brandes, J. C. Brown, N. Brunsell,

F. V. Cochran, R. J. Crosthwait, J. Gentry, L. M.

Gerhart, T. Jackson, A. J. Kern, K. S. Oberhauser, H. L.

Owens, A. T. Peterson, A. S. Reed, J. Soberón, A. D.




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Saupe, E. E., V. Barve, C. E. Myers, J. Soberon, N. Barve,

C. M. Hensz, A. T. Peterson, H. L. Owens, and A. Lira-

Noriega. 2012. Variation in niche and distribution model

performance: The need for a priori assessment of key

causal factors. Ecological Modelling 237-238: 11-22.

Owens, H. L., A. C. Bentley, and A. T. Peterson. 2012.

Predicting suitable environments and potential

occurrences for coelacanths (Latimeria spp.).

Biodiversity and Conservation 21: 577-587. doi:

10.1007/s10531-011-0202-1.

SHIN, CHULWOO Shin, C., H. Jin, and C. S. Chaboo. 2012. Biology and

morphology of Neochlamisus gibbosus (Fabricius, 1777)

(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae:

Fulcidacini). Journal of the Kansas Entomological

Society 85(2): 116–134.

Shin, C. and C. S. Chaboo. 2012. A revision and

phylogenetic analysis of Stoiba Spaeth 1909

(Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). ZooKeys 224: 1–36.

Shin, C., C. S. Chaboo, and S. M. Clark. 2012. Phylogenetic

revision of the Hispaniolan endemic genus Asteriza

Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae:

Cassidinae: Ischyrosonychini). Zootaxa 3227: 34–53.

SIMÕES, MARIANNA Monné, M. L., Monné, M. A., Quintino, H.Y., Botero, J.P.,

Machado, V.S., Carelli, A. and Simões, M. V. P., Cupello,

M. 2012. Inventário das espécies de Lamiinae (Insecta,

Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) do Parque Nacional do Itatiaia,

RJ, Brasil. Biota Neotropica. 12(1).

Machado, V. S., Botero, J. P., Carelli, A., Cupello, M.,

Quintino, H. Y., Simões, M. V. P.. 2012. Host plants of

Cerambycidae and Vesperidae (Coleptera, Chrysomeloidea)

from South America. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia

56(2): 186–198.

Simões, M. V. P. 2012. Male and female reproductive systems

of Stolas conspersa (Germar, 1824) (Coleoptera,

Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae). Revista Brasileira de

Entomologia. 56(1): 19–22.

Simões, M.V.P. & Monné, M. L. 2012. Inventario das especies

de Cassidinae (Insecta, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) do

Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro. Biota

Neopropica,11(4): 216-228.


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TRAVERS, SCOTT Daza, J. D., S. L. Travers, and A. M. Bauer. 2012. New records

of the mourning gecko Lepidodactylus lugubris (Duméril

and Bibron, 1836) (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Colombia.

Check List 8(1): 164–167.

2012 Annual Report Presentations by Faculty

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Presentations by Faculty

ALEXANDER, DAVID Alexander, D. E. 2012. One meandering path into science.

Joint Career Night, California Academy of Sciences Interns,

and San Francisco Exploratorium X-Tech Program. San

Francisco, CA, January.

Chatterjee, S., D. E. Alexander, and R. J. Templin. 2012.

Flight-initiating quadrupedal jumps in the giant

pterodactyloid Quetzalcoatlus: fact or fantasy? Geological

Society of America Charlotte, N.C., November.

ALEXANDER, HELEN Alexander, H. M. 2012. Plant populations in a changing

world: sunflowers and the ecology of crop-wild

hybridization. Departments of Plant Biology and

Ecology/Evolutionary Biology, University of Minnesota,

Minneapolis, MN., April.

Alexander, H. 2012. Introduced forest pathogens:

problems, policy, and problems with policy.

Community Genetics Group. University of Minnesota,

Minneapolis, MN., April.

Malmstrom, C. M., A. C. Schrotenboer, H. M. Alexander,

A. Busch, and P. Trebicki. 2012. Pathogen

considerations in the deployment of bioenergy crops.

Ecological Society of America, Portland, OR, August.

ARMITAGE, KENNETH Maldonado-Chaparro, A., J. G. A. Martin, K. B. Armitage,

M. K. Oli and D. T. Blumstein. 2012. Life history and

behavioral plasticity of yellow-bellied marmots in

response to social and climatic variation. Animal

Behavior Society, University of New Mexico,

Albuquerque, N.M., June.

BILLINGS, SHARON Billings, S. A. 2012. Dynamic global soil modeling.

European Cooperation in Science and Technology

workshop, Cordoba, Spain, September.

Billings, S., and S. Ziegler. 2012. Nitrogen status and

temperature as drivers of SOM decay, fate, and

formation. The American Geophysical Union, San

Francisco, CA., December.

Billings, S., S. Ziegler, F. Ballantyne, C. Lehmeier, J. Li,

and C. Lane. 2012. Soil warming consequences across

timescales. Soil Organic Matter Meeting, Ascona,

Switzerland, October.

Ziegler, S.E., S. A. Billings, C. S. Lane, J. Li, and M. I.

Fogel. 2012. Warming alters microbial routing of labile


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and slower-turnover carbon in boreal forest organic

soils. The American Geophysical Union, San Francisco,

CA, December.

Laganière, J., S. A. Billings, K. Edwards, and S. E. Ziegler.

2012. Elemental and isotopic composition of boreal

forest SOM reservoirs along a climate transect:

Indicators of enhanced SOM decay rates with warming.

The Canadian Soil Science Society, Québec City,

Québec.

Min, K., C. Lehmeier, A. Tatarko, F. Ballantyne, and S. A.

Billings. 2012. Temperature sensitivity of organic

substrate decay varies with pH. The American

Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December.

Lehmeier, C., K. Min, R. Felton, C. Song, H. Shinogle, F.

Ballantyne, and S. A. Billings. 2012. Temperature

effects on microbial carbon use efficiency and 13

C of

respired CO2: Assessment with continuous culture and

CO2-exchange techniques. The American Geophysical

Union, San Francisco, CA., December.

BLUMENSTIEL, JUSTIN Blumenstiel, J. P. 2012. Understanding Meiotic decision

making by whole genome sequencing. American

Genetic Associatoin Annual Symposium.

Recombination: Molecular Mechanisms and

Evolutionary Consequences. Durham, NC., July.

Blumenstiel, J.P. 2012. The epigenetics and evolution of TE

control by piRNA: The significance of dose. SMBE

2012. Dublin, Ireland, June.


control by piRNA: The significance of dose. 3rd

International Conference on the Genomic Impact of

Eukaryotic Transposable Elements. Pacific Grove, CA.,

February.


control by piRNA: The significance of dose. 53rd

Annual

Drosophila Research Conference. Chicago, IL., April.

Galdos, M., C. Harrison, K. S. Box, M. Wickersheim, C.

Yoder, J. Fang, and J. P. Blumenstiel. 2012. The role

of piRNAs in genome stability and germline

maintenance in Drosophila virilis. Midwest Drosophila

Research Conference. Allerton, IL., March.

Galdos, M., C. Harrison, K. S. Box, M. Wickersheim, C.

Yoder, J. Fang, and J. P. Blumenstiel. 2012. The role of


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piRNAs in genome stability and germline maintenance

in Drosophila virilis. 53rd

Annual Drosophila Research

Conference. Chicago, IL., April.

BROWN, RAFE M. Brown, R. 2012. The conservation significance of

phylogenetic exceptions to the Palawan Rule. Father

Saturnino University, Philippines, September.

Brown, R. 2012. The biogeographical and conservation

significance of phylogenetic exceptions to the Palawan

Rule. Seoul National University, South Korea,

September.

Brown, R. 2012. Integrative species diversity estimation in

biodiversity hotspots: Why do we need to protect

amphibian species we have never met? IUCN 2012

World Conservation Congress, Jeju, South Korea,

September.

Brown, R. 2012. Common evolutionary mechanisms of

diversification in a model island archipelago. Brigham

Young University, Provo, UT., February.

Brown, R., A. C. Alcala, and A. C. Diesmos. 2012.

Estimating true evolutionary species diversity in

Philippine amphibians with an integrative taxonomic

approach. The 4th annual OVPAA Research Symposium

Series (Biodiversity and Genomics), National Institute of

Physics, Quezon City, Philippines, June.

Brown, R. 2012. Patterns of species diversification in the

Solomon‐Bismarck Island Archipelago: The

conservation significance of adaptive radiation and

community assembly in Melanesian forest frogs. The

Pacific Islands Species Forum, Honiara, Solomon

Islands, June.

Siler, C. D., A. C. Alcala, A. C. Diesmos, and R. M. Brown.

2012. Novel tools for biodiversity research and

education outreach in the Philippines. Wildlife

Conservation Society of the Philippines, Manila,

Philippines, April.

Bickford, D., D. Blackburn, A C. Diesmos and R. M.

Brown. 2012. The ecology and evolution of Southeast

Asian lungless frogs, genus Barbourula. The World

Congress of Hepetology, Vancouver, Canada, August.

Vredenburn, V., A. C. Diesmos, M. Diemsos, T. Cheng, C.

Dodge, C. Siler, and R. M. Brown. 2012.

Chytridiomycosis in Amphibians of the Philippines.


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Wildlife Conservation Society of the Philippines,

Manila, Philippines, April.

Gonzales, P., A. Barley, A C. Diesmos and R. M. Brown.

2012. Common mechanisms of diversification in co-

distributed tree frogs of the genus Rhacophorus of the

eastern Philippines? Biomedical Research Conference

for Minority Students, San José, CA., November.

Gonzales, P., A. Barley, A C. Diesmos and R. M. Brown.

2012. Common mechanisms of diversification in co-

distributed tree frogs of the genus Rhacophorus of the

eastern Philippines? The World Congress of

Hepetology, Vancouver, Canada August.

Brown, R. M., A. C. Diesmos, M. Diesmos, and D.

McLeod. 2012. Bulacan Herpetological Biodiversity and

Manila’s Water Supply. Wildlife Conservation Society

of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines, April.

BUSBY, WILLIAM Dobbs, K., R. Surface, S. Egbert, and W. Busby. 2012.

Developing a presettlement Kansas Forest Cover GIS

database by extracting forest cover from 1850s U.S.

General land survey office maps, Kansas Natural

Resources Conference, Wichita, KS., January.

Busby, W. and D. Kettle. 2012. Anderson county prairie

preserve patch burn management. Annual conference of

Patch Burn Grazing Working Group, Elmdale, KS.,

August.

Pisani, G. and W. Busby. 2012. Redbelly snakes in Kansas:

Finding needles in haystacks without a metal detector.

Kansas Herpetological Society Meeting, Hays, KS.,

November.

CARTWRIGHT, PAULYN Cartwright, P. 2012. Insights into the evolution of

immunity from colonial marine invertebrates. Mount

Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Annual Meeting of

the Corporation. Washington, D.C., July.

Cartwright, P. 2012. A transcriptomic approach to

investigating colony patterning in the

hydrozoan Hydractinia. Mount Desert Island Biological

Laboratories Brown Bag seminar series. Salisbury Cove,

ME., July.

Cartwright, P. 2012. Integrating phylogenetics and

development to investigate character evolution in

hydrozoa. American Museum of Natural History. New

York City, NY., January.


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CHABOO, CAROLINE Gimmel, M. L., and C. S. Chaboo. 2012. Las familias de

Coleopteros de Peru. Peru Entomological Society;

Cusco, Peru, November.

CRAWFORD, DANIEL Crawford, D. J. 2012. Reproductive biology and the

evolution of Tolpis (Asteraceae: : Cichorieae) in the

Canary Islands. Plant Systematics and Evolution

Symposium, Faculty Center Biodiversity, University of

Vienna, November.

Crawford, D. J. 2012. Progenitor-derivative species pairs as

model systems for studying plant speciation. Department

of Botany, University of Vienna, November.

Crawford, D. J. and M. E. Mort. 2012. Evolution and

breeding systems of Tolpis in Macaronesia. Faculty of

Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal, November.

Archibald, J., F. Soto-Trejo, M. E. Mort, J. Kelly, A.

Santos-Guerra, and D. J. Crawford. 2012. Botanical

Society of America, Columbus, OH., July.

Crawford, D. J., R. Kimball, M. Tadesse and M. E. Mort.

2012. Radiation of Coreopsis section Pseudoagarista

(Asteraceae) in the Andes. Botanical Society of

America, Columbus, OH., July.

Takayama, K., P. López, G. Kohl, J. Greimler, C. König, M.

Baeza, E. Ruiz, D. Crawford, P. Peñailillo, A. Gatica, L.

Letelier, P. Novoa, K. Tremetsberger, J.Novak, and T.

Stuessy. 2012. Evolution and genetic diversity of endemic

plants in the Juan Fernandez, Archipelago, Chile. Botanical


Funk, V. A., G. Johnson, M. Knope, M. Bonifacino, D.

Crawford, F. Ganders, D. Lorence, J-Y. Meyer, and W.

H. Wagner. 2012. Biogeographical patterns in Bidens in

Pacific Oceania. The International Compositae Alliance

Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July.

DENOYELLES, FRANK deNoyelles, F. 2012. Ecology of problem growths of

yanobacteria in reservoirs as related to sedimentation.

Govenor’s Conference on the Future of Water in Kansas,

Manhattan, KS., October.

deNoyelles, F. 2012. Phytoplankton vertical migration

behavior. KU Evolutionists, Lawrence, KS., April.

deNoyelles, F. 2012. Micro-organisms on the move for a

reason: seeing is believing. Visiting scientists(12) from

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Notre Dame University, Kansas University Field Station,

October.

deNoyelles, F. 2012. Phytoplankton vertical migration

behavior: observing the search for light and nutrients.

Kansas Biological Survey ecology seminar, University

of Kansas, Kansas City, KS., November.

Jakubauskas, M., F. deNoyelles, and E. Martinko. 2012.

Bathymetric Mapping and Hydroacoustics Applications

in Kansas Reservoirs. Midwest Fish and Wildlife

Conference, Wichita, KS,, December.

Smith, V. H., B. Sturm, and F. deNoyelles. 2012. The

ecology of algal biofuel production. Algae Biomass

Summit, Denver, CO, September.

Faculty in the Department Yun, J-H, V. H. Smith, and F. deNoyelles. 2012. Filamentous

gave more than 150 presentations green algae as a potential solid biofuel feedstock. NSF

their research at national EPSCoR, Kansas Center for Solar Energy Research,

international professional Wichita, KS., June. meetings and symposia

Yun, J-H, V.H. Smith, and F. deNoyelles. 2012. Filamentous

green algae as a potential solid biofuel feedstock. EPSCoR

Conference, Wichita, KS., June.

Yun, J-H, V.H. Smith, and F. deNoyelles. 2012. Filamentous

green algae as a potential solid biofuel feedstock.

University of Kansas Energy Confeerence, Lawrence, KS.,

April.

Jakubauskas, M., F. deNoyelles, P. Liechti, E. Martinko, A.

Blackwood, and N. Niehues. 2012. The curious case of

Atchison Lake sedimentation. Governor’s Conference

on the Future of Water in Kansas, Topeka, KS., October.

ENGEL, MICHAEL S. Engel, M. S. 2012. Sic transit gloria mundi: When bad

things happen to good bugs. Geological Society of

America, Charlotte, N. C., November.

Beckemeyer, R. J., and M. S. Engel. 2012. Insect fossils

and the Alabama Pottsville Formation (Upper

Carboniferous: Pennsylvanian). Kansas Academy of

Science, Wichita, KS., March.

Davis, S. R., P. Cartwright, and M. S. Engel. 2012.

Elucidating rostrum development in the weevils

(Curculionoidea) through morphology, transcriptomics,

and differential gene expression. Entomological Society

of America, Knoxville, TN., November.


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Davis, S. R., P. Cartwright, and M. S. Engel. 2012. Weevil

evolution and differential gene expression in the

development of the rostrum. XXIV International

Congress of Entomology, Daegu, South Korea, August.


Differential gene expression in the evolutionary

development of the weevil rostrum. 6th Annual

Arthropod Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, MO.,

June.


Differential gene expression in the evolutionary

development of the weevil rostrum. European Evo-Devo

Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, July.

FAUTIN, DAPHNE Fautin, D. G. and W. E. Eash-Loucks. 2012. Oxygen-

minimum zones: a threat to deep-sea corals and other

cnidarians? 5th International symposium on deep-sea

corals. Amsterdam, Netherlands, April.

FOSTER, BRYAN Foster, B. L. 2012. Long-term studies of secondary

succession, grassland community assembly and prairie

restoration. Tallgrass Prairie Restoration in the 21st

Century, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL., September.

Bittel, A. T. and B. L. Foster. 2012. Exploring stochastic and

niche-based community assembly dynamics in a long-term

grassland field experiment. The Ecological Society of

America, Portland OR., August.

Hall, D. R., Bryan L. Foster and Greg Houseman. 2013. Does

planting native prairie species slow the establishment and

spread of Lespedeza cuneata? Kansas Natural Resources

Conference (KNRC) Wichita KS.

Long, Q., K. K. Kindscher and B. L. Foster. 2012. Seed

addition with heterogeneous disturbances to increase native

diversity in restored grasslands. The Ecological Society of

America, Portland OR., August.

Pesek, M. F. and B. L. Foster. 2012. Bottom-up forces and

recurrent disturbance shape arthropod community

composition and diversity in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem.

The Ecological Society of America, Portland OR., August.

FREEMAN, CRAIG Freeman, C.C. 2012. Penstemon (Plantaginaceae) for the

flora of North America. American Penstemon Society,

Laramie, WY., June.


47

Freeman, C.C. 2012. An introduction to the common

wildflowers and grasses of Akin Prairie. Douglas

County Extension Master Gardeners, Lawrence, KS.,

June.

GLEASON, JENNIFER Gleason, J. M. Y. Zhou, J. L. Hackett, B.R. Harris and

M.D. Greenfield. 2012. Development of genomic

resources for studying acoustic communication in the

lesser wax moth, Achroia grisella. Arthropod Genomics

and i5K Workshop, Kansas City, MO., June.

HILEMAN, LENA Hileman, L. C., J. K. Kelly, J. Colicchio, A. G. Scoville.

2012. RNA-seq identifies global patterns of gene

expression correlated with damage induced trichome

production across generations. Cold Spring Harbor Asia

Conference: Plant Epigenetics, Stress and Evolution.

Suzhou, China. October.

Hileman, L.C. 2012. Evolution of flower developmental

genetic programs. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

February.

Preston, J.C., R. Orozco, L. C. Hileman. 2012. Evolution

of SQUAMOSA-PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN

LIKE (SPL) genes in the core eudicot flowering time and

branching pathways. Botany Conference, Columbus,

OH., July.

Colicchio, J., J. K. Kelly, L. C. Hileman. 2012. The

inheritance of altered gene expression in response to

parental conditions (Mimulus guttatus). Ecological

Genomics Conference, Kansas City, MO., October.

Colicchio, J., J. K. Kelly, L. C. Hileman. 2012. Leaf

damage to Mimulus guttatus leads to increased stress

response and altered gene expression in their offspring.

Annual Midwestern Section Meeting of American

Society of Plant Biologists, Lincoln, NE., March.

HOLDER, MARK Zwickl, D. J. and M. T. Holder. 2012. A simple insertion-

deletion mixture model for phylogenetic inference.

Frontiers in Phylogenetics Symposium, Smithsonian

Institution, Washington, D.C., May.

Money, D., and M. Holder. 2012. Detecting and correcting

alignment overcompression. Society for Molecular

Biology and Evolution. Dublin, Ireland, June.

Davis, S., K. Taro Eldredge, and M. T. Holder. 2012.

Branch length estimates from morphological character

data. Joint meeting of the Society for the Study of


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Evolution (SSE), the Society of Systematic Biologists

(SSB), and the American Society of Naturalists (ASN),

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July.

Koch, J. M. and M. T. Holder. 2012. Algorithms for

calculating pattern class probabilities on phylogenetic

trees. University of Kansas Undergraduate Research

Symposium, Lawrence, KS., March.

JENSEN, KIRSTEN Caira, J. N. and K. Jensen. 2012. On the occasional

challenges of maintaining monophyletic genera. 87th

Annual meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists.

Richmond, VA., July.

Cielocha, J. J.†, A. Yoneva, and K. Jensen. Spermatozoon

ultrastructure of Adelobothrium Shipley, 1900

(Eucestoda: Lecanicephalidea). 87th Annual Meeting of

the American Society of Parasitologists. Richmond,

VA., July.

Faculty members in Ecology and Odell, N. H. and K. Jensen. 2012. Tetraphyllide

Evolutionary Biology gave pre- tapeworms of electric rays (Torpediniformes) off the

sentations on their research in many Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Southwestern Association of

cities in the U.S. and in 19 international Parasitologists. Lake Texoma, OK., April. countries including: Peru, Philippines, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Thailand, Korea, Mexico, and Portugal. Cielocha, J. J., A. Yoneva, and K. Jensen. Spermatozoon

ultrastructure of Adelobothrium Shipley, 1900

(Eucestoda: Lecanicephalidea). Southwestern

Association of Parasitologists. Lake Texoma, OK.,

April.

Odell, N. H. and K. Jensen. 2012. Tetraphyllidean tapeworms

of electric rays (Torpediniformes) off the Pacific coast of

Costa Rica. 87th Annual Meeting of the American Society

of Parasitologists. Richmond, VA., July.

KELLY, JOHN Kelly, J. K. 2012. Predicting evolution with quantitative

genetics. University of Akron, Akron, OH., February.

Kelly, J. K. 2012. Transgenerational plasticity in plant

defenses of Mimulus guttatus. Iowa State University,

Ames, IA., October.

Kelly, J. K., B. Koseva, J. Mojica. 2012. Looking for polygenic

adaptation in genomic data from bulked population

samples. Evolution meeting, Ottawa, Canada.

Colicchio, J. M., J. K. Kelly, and L. C. Hileman. 2012.

Parental Leaf Damage in Mimulus guttatus Modifies the

Expression of Specific Genes and Pathways in Their


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Offspring. Ecological Genomics Symposium, Kansas City,

MO., October.

Koelling, V. A., P. J. Monnahan, and J. K. Kelly. 2012. A

Bayesian method for the joint estimation of outcrossing rate

and inbreeding depression. Ecological Genomics

Symposium, Kansas City, MO., October.

KINDSCHER, KELLY Leopold, S., K. Kinscher, and S. Dentali. 2012. Conservation

of medicinal plants. Economic Botany Conference,

Frostburg, MD., June.

Kindscher, K., 2012. Wild tomatillos (Physalis species) as

food and medicine. International Congress on Natural

Product Research (American Pharmacognosy Assn). New

York, N.Y., July.

McClure, K, Corbett S.M., and K. Kindscher. 2012. Native

medicinal plants of Kansas. The Association of American

Geographers. New York, N.Y., February.

Kindscher, K. 2012. The ethnobotany of Physalis longifolia,

the longleaf groundcherry, and related Physalis species

north of Mexico. Society for Ethnobiology Conference,

Denver, CO., April.

McClure, K, Corbett S.M., and K. Kindscher. 2012. Native

medicinal plants of Kansas. Society for Ethnobiology

Conference, Denver, CO., April.

Long, Q., K. Kindscher, and B. Foster. 2012. Seed addition

with heterogeneous disturbances to increase native diversity

in restored grasslands. Ecological Society of America,

Portland, OR., August.

Kindscher, K. 2012. The sustainability of harvest of Osha

(Ligusticum porteri), an important medicinal plant of the

southwest United States. Natural Areas Association

Conference, Norfolk, VA., October.

Kindscher, K. 2012. The ethnobotany of wild tomatillos

(Physalis species) in the Gila River Watershed and Greater

Southwest. 4th Natural History of the Gila Symposium,

Silver City, N. M., October.

KRINGS, MICHAEL Harper, C., T. N. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012. Antarctic

wood-decay fungi in glossop teridalean roots and stems.

Botanical Society of America, Columbus, OH., July.

Klymiuk, A., T. N. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012.

Anamorphic fungi from the Princeton Chert: new


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insights into paleomicrobial diversity. Botanical Society

of America, Columbus, OH., July.

Harper, C.J., T. N. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012.

Mycorrhizal-like associations in the Permian seed fern

Glossopteris from Antarctica. International

Palynological Congress and International Organisation

of Paleobotany Conference, Tokyo, Japan, August.

Klymiuk, A.A., T. N. Taylor, M. Krings, and E. L. Taylor.

2012. The Princeton Chert: An unprecedented window

into fungal diversity during the Eocene. 22nd

Canadian

Paleontology Conference, Toronto, ON., September.

KRISHTALKA, LEONARD Krishtalka, L. and R. Robbins. 2012. Biological dark

matter and Quantum Biology. Gordon Research

Conference, Ciocca, Italy, June.

Krishtalka, L. 2012. Management of research. Iowa State

University Corn and Crop Science Symposium, Chicago,

IL.

Krishtalka, L. 2012. Biodiversity semantics workshop.

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS., May.

LIEBERMAN, BRUCE Gapp, I. W. and B. Lieberman. 2012. Comparing and

contrasting parsimony and maximum likelihood

approaches to paleontological phylogenetics using

trilobites as a model system. Geological Society of

America, Charlotte, N.C., November.

Lieberman, B. 2012. The PALEONICHES-TCN. Integrated

Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) Summit II, Florida

Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL., October.

Lieberman, B. 2012. Applying biodiversity science to

paleontology. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.,

September.


paleontology. Iowa State University, Ames, IA., August.


paleontology. Integrated Digitized Biocollections

(iDigBio) Paleo Workshop. Florida Museum of Natural

History, Gainesville, FL., April.


paleontology. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.,

March.


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Lieberman, B. 2012. Museum Studies Director’s Forum:

Darwin, the Fossil Record and Evolution. University of

Kansas, January.

Lieberman, B. 2012. Declining volatility, a

macroevolutionary property of disparate systems: from

fossils, to stocks, to the stars. Geological Society of

America, Charlotte, N.C., November.

MARTINKO, EDWARD Jakubauskas, M., J. deNoyelles, and E. Martinko. 2012.

Bathymetric mapping and hydroacoustics applications in

Kansas reservoirs. Midwest Fish and Wildlife

Conference, Wichita, KS., December.

Jakubauskas, M., J. deNoyelles, P. Liechti, E. Martinko, A.

Blackwood, and N. Niehues. 2012. The curious case of

Atchison lake sedimentation. Governor’s Conference on

the Future of Water in Kansas, Topeka, KS., October.

MORT, MARK Mort, M.E. 2012. Plant evolution in Macaronesia: patterns

and timing of diversification in two stonecrops

(Crassulaceae). South Dakota State University,

Brookings, S. D., November.

Crawford, D. J. and M. E. Mort. 2012. Evolution and

breeding systems of Tolpis in Macaronesia. Faculty of

Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal. November.

Archibald, J.K. F. Soto-Trejo, M. Mort, J. Kelly, A. Santos-

Guerra, and D. Crawford. 2012. The evolution of self-

compatibility and associated floral characters in Tolpis

(Asteraceae) in the Canary Islands. Botanical Society of


Mort, M.E. 2012. Platteklips on the Table – the

diversification of Crassulaceae in southern Africa. 29th

Succulent Plant Symposium, Huntington Botanical

Garden and Library, San Marino, CA., September.

D. J. Crawford, R. Kimball, Mesfin Tadesse and M. E.

Mort. 2012. Radiation of Coreopsis section

Pseudoagarista (Asteraceae) in the Andes. Botanical


Toro, O. and M. E. Mort. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships

inside tribe Schizopetalae (Brassicaceae) based on

nrDNA and cpDNA regions: evolutionary insights from

and endemic lineage to the Atacama Desert. Botanical



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MOYLE, ROBERT Moyle, R. G. 2012. The tempo and mode of bird

diversification in the tropical Pacific. Oklahoma State

University, Tulsa, OK., February.

Lim, H. C., F. H. Sheldon, R. G. Moyle. 2012. Historical

drivers of avian diversification and divergence in SE

Asia. International Ornithological Congress of Southeast

Asia, Phuket, Thailand, November.

Moyle, R. G., M. J. Andersen, C. E. Filardi. 2012.

Phylogeography in the tropical Pacific: systematics,

biogeography, and species limits in the Collared

Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) complex. IUCN

Pacific Islands Species Forum, Solomon Islands, April.

Moyle, R. G., M. J. Andersen, C. E. Filardi. 2012. Denser

sampling of Pacific monarchs reveals unexpected

relationships but clearer biogeographic patterns. North

American Ornithological Conference, Vancouver,

Canada, August.

Moyle, R. G., and P. A. Hosner. 2012. A reassessment of

Ficedula systematics and biogeographic history.

International Ornithological Congress of Southeast Asia,

Phuket, Thailand, November.

Oliveros, C. H., and R. G. Moyle. 2012. Reconstructing the

biogeographic history of Philippine whistlers reveals a

complex scenario of colonization history and a distinct

Palawan taxon. International Ornithological Congress of

Southeast Asia, Phuket, Thailand, November.

Andersen, M. J., A. S. Nyari, C. E. Filardi, and R. G. Moyle.

2012. Phylogeography in the SW Pacific: Systematics,

biogeography, and species limits in the Golden Whistler

(Pachycephala pectoralis) complex. North American

Ornithological Conference, Vancouver, Canada, August.


biogeographic history of Philippine whistlers reveals

complex scenarios of colonization history and a distinct

Palawan taxon. North American Ornithological

Conference, Vancouver, Canada, August.

Hosner, P. A., and R. G. Moyle. 2012. Testing the

Pleistocene Aggregate Island Complex (PAIC)

diversification model in co-distributed avian lineages.

North American Ornithological Conference, Vancouver,

Canada, August.


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Uy, J.A.C., M. R. Concannon, J. Poelstra, E. A. Cooper, R.

G. Moyle, and C. E. Filardi. 2012. The genetic basis of

convergent plumage color among populations of an

island flycatcher. North American Ornithological


Shult, H. T., M. J. Andersen, A. Cibois, C. E. Filardi, J-C.

Thibault, and R. G. Moyle. 2012. Phylogeography in

the tropical Pacific: Systematics, biogeography, and

species limits in the Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus

chloris) complex. North American Ornithological


Oliveros, C. H., S. Reddy, and R. G. Moyle. 2012. The

phylogenetic position of some Philippine “babblers”

spans the muscicapoid and sylvioid bird radiations.


Phuket, Thailand, November.

Selbe, J. S., C. H. Oliveros, and R. G. Moyle. 2012.

Phylogeography of Philippine drongos reveals

underestimated species diversity. Society for the

Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in

Science National Conference, October.


biogeographic history of Philippine whistlers reveals

complex scenarios of colonization history and two

unrecognized species. North American Ornithological



Phylogeography of Philippine drongos reveals

underestimated species diversity. Self Research

Symposium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, July.


Phylogeography of two polytypic bird species from the

Philippines. 15th Annual KU Undergraduate Research

Symposium, Lawrence, KS, April.


Phylogeography of two polytypic bird species from the

Philippines. 12th Annual KU-Haskell Indian Nations

University Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Lawrence, KS, April.

PETERSON, A. TOWNSEND Peterson, A. T. 2012. Range-wide, species-specific,

ecological and historical biogeography: Getting the

concepts right in ecological niche modeling and species


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distribution modeling. Entomological Society of

America. Knoxville, TN., November.

Peterson, A. T. 2012. The Value of sharing primary,

research-grade biodiversity data: Applications to

biodiversity inventories, understanding species’

distributions, and effects of environmental change.

Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation,

Bonito, Brazil, June.

Peterson, A. T. 2012. Potential for integrating biodiversity

measurements, assessments, and policy responses in a

global ecosystem capital accounting framework.

International Society for Ecological Economics, Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil, June

Peterson, A. T. 2012. Estimating ecological niches of

species. Universidade Federal de São Carlos – Sorocaba

Campus, May.

Peterson, A. T. 2012. Status of digital knowledge of birds

of the world. Universidade Federal de São Carlos –

Sorocaba Campus, May.

Peterson, A. T. 2012. Tecnologias novas a favor das

coleções biologicas, simpósio Latino-Americano de

coleções biológicas e biodiversidade: conhecimento e

gestão, Teresopolis, Brazil, May

Peterson, A. T. 2012. Biodiversity research in Mongolia.

East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence,

KS.

Peterson, A. T. 2012. Ecological niche modeling in

appropriate conceptual frameworks. Oklahoma State

University, Tulsa, OK.

Peterson, A. T. 2012. Estimating disease transmission risk.

CDC-Kenya, Kisumu.

Peterson, A. T. 2012. Understanding global bird diversity.

Miami University and Oxford Audubon Society.

Peterson, A. T. 2012. Understanding pleistocene

distributions of biodiversity. Museum of Vertebrate

Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

Peterson, A. T. 2012. Modeling ecological niches of

species, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.


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Peterson, A. T. 2012. How to publish scientific papers,

Universidade de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.

Peterson, A. T. 2012. New insights into leishmaniasis

geography and ecology in Brazil. Brazilian Tropical

Medicine Society, Brazil.

Peterson, A. T. 2012. Estimating ecological niches in

appropriate conceptual frameworks. Instituto de

Ecologia, Xalapa, Mexico.

Peterson, A. T. 2012. On becoming a scholar in an

increasingly small world, Self Fellowship Program,

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

PIEROTTI, RAYMOND Fogg, B., and Pierotti, R. A. 2012. Indigenous Fiction and

the coding of ecological knowledge: Canid behavioral

ecology. Ethnobiology Conference, Denver, CO., April.

Pierotti, R. A. 2012. The beginning law meets constructual

law: Indigenous insights into the nature of life. James

Brown Fest Symposium, University of New Mexico,

Albuquerque, N.M., June.

Pierotti, R. A. 2012. Journey of a thousand cuts. 13th

International Congress of the Society for Ethnobiology,

Montpellier, France, May.

Pierotti, R. A. 2012. Indigenous science education:

Understanding the world from the perspective of

relatedness. 13th International Congress of the Society

for Ethnobiology, Montpellier, France, May.

SHORT, ANDREW Short, A.E.Z. 2012. Ecological diversification in aquatic

beetles. Department of Entomology and Wildlife

Ecology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.,

October.

Short, A.E.Z. 2012. Ecological diversification in aquatic

beetles. Department of Biology, University of Delaware.

Newark, DE., October.

Short, A.E.Z. 2012. The SEMC insect collection. Invertnet

PI Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,

IL., April.

Short, A.E.Z. 2012. Viewing specimen data through the

prism of collecting events: Expanding the utility and

resolution of the traditional collection database.

Entomological Collections Network, Knoxsville, TN.,

November.


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Short, A.E.Z. 2012. Molecular phylogeny and revised

classification of the water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera:

Hydrophilidae). Entomological Society of America.

Knoxsville, TN., November.

SLADE, NORMAN Reed, A. W. and N. A. Slade. 2012. Environmental

buffering and plasticity in vital rates alters demographic

response to climate variability. American Society of

Mammalogists, Reno, NV, June.

SMITH, DEBORAH Smith D. R.. 2012. DNA studies on the Asian honey bees:

past successes, future challenges. 11th Asian Apicultural

Association, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, September-

October.

Smith D. R.. 2012. The social life of spiders: inbreeding,

matricide and thievery, University of North Carolina,

Greensboro, March.

Su, S-H., and D. R. Smith. 2012. Phylogeography of dwarf

honeybees. 11th Asian Apicultural Association, Kuala

Terengganu, Malaysia, September-October.

SMITH, VAL Smith, V. H. 2012. Freshwater macroalgae as a biofuel

feedstock. NSF EPSCoR Conference, Wichita, KS., June.

Smith, V. H. 2012. Algal biofuel production: Energy

landscapes of the future. University of Kansas Mini-College, Lawrence, KS., June.

Smith, V. H., B. Sturm, and F. deNoyelles. 2012. The

ecology of algal biofuel production. International Biomass Conference and Expo, Denver, CO., April.

Smith, V. H. 2012. Calculating the nutrient requirements of

algal biomass production. Algae Biomass Summit, Denver, CO., September.

Burnett, N., M. Criss, V. H. Smith, and B. Sturm. 2012.

Research experiences for teachers: Shaping inquiry, imagination, and innovation from teachers to students. NSF RET: SHIFT, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS., July.

Gahagan, B., S. Ralph, M. C. Carter, and V. H. Smith. 2012.

Building a stove and burning filamentous algae as an energy source. NSF RET: SHIFT, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS., July.

SOBERON, JORGE Soberon, J., A. Lira-Noriega, N. Barve, and A. T. Peterson.

2012. Envy of physics to envy of computer sciences.


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The Ecological Society of America, Portland OR., August.

TAYLOR, EDITH Ryberg, P. E., and E. L. Taylor. 2012. How productive were

the polar forests of the Permian and Triassic of

Antarctica? Internatoinal Palynology

Conference-XIII/International Organisation of

Palaeobotany Conference-VIIII, Tokyo, Japan, August.

Ryberg, P. E., and E. L. Taylor. 2012. Glossopterid ovulate

diversity from Skaar Ridge, Transantarctic Mountains,

Antarctica. Botanical Society of America, Columbus,

OH., July.

Bomfleur, B., A.-L. Decombeix, E. L. Taylor, and T. N.

Taylor. 2012. A review of the Petriellales, a group of

Triassic gymnosperms from Gondwana. Botanical


Klymiuk, A., C. Harper, D. Moore, E. L. Taylor, T. N.

Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012. Reinvestigating

Carboniferous “actinomycetes”: authigenic formation of

biomimetic carbonates and implications for microbial

paleoecology. Botanical Society of America, Columbus,

OH., July.

Klymiuk, A. A., T. N. Taylor, M. Krings, and E. L. Taylor.



Canadian


Gulbranson, E. L., J. L. Isbell, E. L. Taylor, P. E. Ryberg,

and T. N. Taylor. 2012. Late Permian forest composition

and climate revealed from high-resolution carbon

isotopes in tree rings. 45th Annual American

Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA.,

December.

TAYLOR, ORLEY Taylor, O. 2012. Plants and pollinators: Relationships that

sustain the planet. Audubon – Discovery Center –

Kansas City, MO., September.

Taylor, O. 2012. Native plants: Sustaining biodiversity.

Native Plant Society of Texas. Kerrville, TX., October.

Taylor, O. 2012. Monarch conservation: The challenges

ahead. Toronto Entomological Society, Toronto, CA.,

November.

Taylor, O. 2012. Biology of swarms. Missouri Beekeepers

Association, Kansas City, MO., October.


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Taylor, O. 2012. Beekeeping and the future (climate

change, etc.) Northeast Kansas Beekeepers, Lawrence,

KS., June.

Taylor, O. 2012. Superfund site restoration – Public

Meeting Olathe, KS., April.

Taylor, O. 2012. Butterflies and climate: A year like no

other. Grassland Heritage Foundation, Lawrence, KS.,

October.

Barve, N., O. Taylor, K. Lentz, and Howard. 2012. Re-

colonization of northern breeding areas and Monarch

production. Monarch Biology and Conservation

meeting, Minneapolis, MN., June.

Taylor, O. 2012. Conservation and restoration of Monarch

butterfly habitats. Monarch Biology and Conservation

Meeting, Minneapolis. MN., June.

TAYLOR, THOMAS Taylor, T. N. 2012. How ancient ecosystems became

sustainable. International Palynological Congress and

International Organisation of Paleobotany Conference,

Tokyo, Japan, August.

Taylor, T. N. 2012. Fungi as a driving force in land plant

evolution: Evidence from the fossil record. Chicago

Plant Science Symposium: Major Evolutionary

Transitions. Chicago, IL., April.

Harper, C., T. N. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012. Antarctic

wood-decay fungi in glossopteridalean roots and stems.

Botanical Society of America, Columbus, OH., July.

Klymiuk, A., T. N. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012.

Anamorphic fungi from the Princeton Chert: new

insights into paleomicrobial diversity. Botanical Society

of America, Columbus, OH., July.

Bomfleur, B., A.-L. Decombeix, E. L. Taylor, and T. N.




Harper, C.J., T. N. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012.

Mycorrhizal-like associations in the Permian seed fern

Glossopteris from Antarctica. International

Palynological Congress and International Organisation

of Paleobotany Conference, Tokyo, Japan, August.


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Klymiuk, A.A., T. N. Taylor, M. Krings, and E. L. Taylor.



Canadian


Gulbranson, E. L., J. L. Isbell, E. L. Taylor, P. E. Ryberg,

and T. N. Taylor. 2012. Late Permian forest

composition and climate revealed from high-resolution

carbon isotopes in tree rings. 45th Annual American

Geophysical Union Meeting. San Francisco, CA,

December.

THORP, JAMES Thorp, J. H. 2012. Interdisciplinary, macroecological

perspectives on river ecology and management. Ball

State University, Muncie, IN., January.

Thorp, J. H. 2012. Complex relationships among dams,

reservoirs, and river food webs: understanding effects

over multiple decades of altered hydrology and

geomorphology. Invited ASLO at Otsu, Japan, July.

Thorp, J. H. 2012. The rivierine ecosystem synthesis and

RESonate model. Normal University, Beijing, China,

July.

Thorp, J. H. 2012. RES, zooplankton ecology, ecosystem

services, and river food webs. Osaka Prefecture

University, Japan, July.

Thorp, J. H. 2012. The RES model. Saitama University in

Tokyo, Japan, July.

Thorp, J. H. 2012. Macroecology of riverine landscapes:

from conceptual models to empirical tests. The Society

for Freshwater Science, Louisville, KY, May.

TIMM, ROBERT C. Rinaldi, L. D. Martin, R. M. Timm, T. Cole, III, and V.

Kumar. 2012. Late Pleistocene giant beavers: the

parallel evolution of giant size and ridged incisors in two

species. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology International

Conference. October.

A. Romero, B. J. O’Neill, R. M. Timm, K. G. Gerow, and

D. K. McClearn. 2012. Group dynamics and behavior of

collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) in Costa Rica’s

Caribbean lowlands. American Society of

Mammalogists annual meeting. Reno, NEV., June.

Hanson, J. D. and R. M. Timm. 2012. Using 454

pyrosequencing to determine phylogenetic information


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from antique samples. American Society of

Mammalogists annual meeting. Reno, NEV., June.

WARD, JOY Ward, J. K. 2012. Using stable isotope analysis to

understand the physiology of glacial trees.

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland,

WA., August.

Ward, J. K. 2012. Plant phenology and global change: The

role of CO2. Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology

Meeting, Beltsville, MA., August.

Ward, J. K.2012. Climate change and plants: Preparing for

the future. AAAS Center for Science meeting, Tashkent,

Uzbekistan, September.

Ward, J. K. 2012. Plant Responses to Changing [CO2]: From

the Last Glacial Period Through the Future. Iowa State

University, Ames, IA, December.

Ward, J. K. 2012. Climate change and the flowering time

proxy. Evolutionists, Lawrence, KS., October.

Sale, K., J. Medeiros, and J. K. Ward. 2012. Modeling gas

exchange in ancient and modern trees samples using leaf

morphology. SELF Summer Undergraduate Research

Symposium, Lawrence, KS., July.

Gerhart, L. M., J. M. Harris, and J. K. Ward. 2012. Growth

and physiological responses of glacial and modern trees to

changes in atmospheric [CO2] since the Last Glacial

Maximum. Ecological Society of America, Portland, OR.,

August.

Gerhart, L. M., and J. K. Ward. 2012. Interannual responses of

glacial and modern Agathis australis to changes in

atmospheric [CO2]. Geological Society of America.

Charlotte, NC., November.

Becklin K. M., J. S. Medeiros, and J. K. Ward. 2012.

Mycorrhizal functioning since the last glacial period:

Evidence from packrat middens and stable isotopes.

Ecological Society of America, Portland, OR., August.

Medeiros, J. S. and J. K. Ward. 2012. Increasing [CO2] from

glacial to future predicted levels does not improve plant

drought tolerance. Ecological Society of America,



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Carter, J. M., and J. K. Ward. 2012. Patterns of white ash

phenology are unique in the extreme year of 2012.


Medeiros, J. S., K. Becklin and J. K. Ward. 2012. Leaves from

ancient packrat middens reveal differences between plant

families in physiological response to rising atmospheric

CO2 since the Pleistocene. Botanical Society of America,

Columbus, OH., July.

Mo, K., L.M. Gerhart, J. M. Harris, and J. K. Ward. 2012.

Growth and physiological responses of glacial and modern

trees to changes in atmospheric [CO2] since the Last

Glacial Maximum. Geological Society of America,

Charlotte, NC., November.

Gerhart, L. M. and J. K. Ward. 2012. Interannual responses of

glacial Juniperus to atmospheric [CO2]. Biological

Sciences Alumni Seminar Student Research Symposium,

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS., April.

Carter, J, J. Dunn, M. Walker, A. Ahrens, S. Case, J. Nippert, J.

Bailey, J. Ford, and J. Ward. 2012. Kansas MSP:

Enhancing science education through inquiry-based

learning in ecology. NSF Math Science Partnerships

Learning Network Conference, Washington, D.C., January.

Walker, M., and J. Ward. 2012. CO2 and temperature

interactions buffer flowering time changes over the last

century. Ecological Society of America, Portland, OR.,

August.

Medeiros, J. S., K. Becklin and J. K. Ward. 2012. Leaves

from ancient packrat middens reveal differences between

plant families in physiological response to rising

atmospheric CO2 since the Pleistocene. IRACDA

Conference, Philadelphia, PA., June.

Sale, K., Medeiros, J., and J. K. Ward. Modeling gas exchange

in ancient and modern trees samples using leaf morphology.

KU/Haskell Research Symposium, Lawrence, KS., April.

2012 Annual Report Presentations by Postdoctoral Researchers

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Presentations by Postdoctoral Researchers

BECKLIN-ATKINSON, KATIE M. Becklin, K.M. 2013. Plant physiology and adaptation over

recent geologic history. Pacific Northwest National

Laboratory, Richland, WA, February.

Becklin, K. M,, G. Gamez, B. Uelk, R. A. Raguso, and C.

Galen. 2012. Soil fungal effects on floral signals,

rewards, and aboveground interactions in an alpine

pollination web. Gordon Conference on Plant Volatiles,

Ventura, CA., January.

Becklin, K. M., J. S. Medeiros, and J. K. Ward. 2012.




Becklin, K. M. 2012. Context dependent interactions:

Variation in mycorrhizal associations across space and

time. Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, November.

Medeiros, J. S., K. Becklin, and J. K. Ward. 2012. Leaves



atmospheric CO2 since the Pleistocene. Botanical







BOMFLEUR, BENJAMIN Bomfleur, B. A.-L. Decombeix, E. L. Taylor, and T. N.




KOELLING, VANESSA Koelling, V. A., P. J. Monnahan, and J. K. Kelly. 2012. A


rate and inbreeding depression. Ecological Genomics

Symposium. Kansas City, MO.



rate and inbreeding depression. Institutional Research

and Academic Career Development Award conference.

Philadelphia, PA.


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Koelling, V. A. 2012. Ecological and genetic factors in the

speciation and mating system evolution of plants.

Division of Biology, Kansas State University,

Manhattan, KS.

LEHMEIER, CHRISTOPH Min, K., C. Lehmeier, A. Tatarko, F. Ballantyne, and S.

A. Billings. 2012. Temperature sensitivity of

organic substrate decay varies with pH. The

American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA,

December.

Lehmeier, C., K. Min, R. Felton, C. Song, H. Shinogle,

F. Ballantyne, and S. A. Billings. 2012. Temperature

effects on microbial carbon use efficiency and δ 13

C

of respired CO2: Assessment with continuous culture

and CO2-exchange techniques. The American

Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA., December.

MEDEIROS, JULIANA Sale, K., J. Medeiros, and J. K. Ward. 2012. Modeling gas


morphology. KU/Haskell Research Symposium,

Lawrence, KS., April.






Sale, K., J. Medeiros, and J. K. Ward. 2012. Modeling gas


morphology. Self Summer Undergraduate Research

Symposium, Lawrence, KS., July.




atmospheric CO2 since the Pleistocene. Botanical


Becklin K. M., J. S. Medeiros, and J. K. Ward. 2012.




Medeiros, J. S. and J. K. Ward. 2012. Increasing [CO2]

from glacial to future predicted levels does not improve

plant drought tolerance. Ecological Society of America,



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MONEY, DANIEL Money, D., and M. Holder. 2012. Detecting and

correcting alignment overcompression. Society for

Molecular Biology and Evolution. Dublin, Ireland,

June.

ZWICKL, DERRICK Zwickl, D. J. and M. T. Holder. 2012. A simple

insertion-deletion mixture model for phylogenetic

inference. Frontiers in Phylogenetics Symposium,

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May.

2012 Annual Report Presentations by Graduate Students

65

Presentations by Graduate Students

ALVARADO, MABEL Alvarado, M. 2012. Advances in the revision of the South

American wasp Alophophion Cushman 1947 (Hymenoptera:

Ichneumonidae: Ophioninae). Entomological Society of

America, Knoxville, TN., November.

Alvarado, M. and Figueroa, L. 2012. Three new species of

genus Ateleute Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae,

Cryptinae) with a key to the New World species. Peruvian

Entomological Meeting in Cuzco, Peru, November.

Sanchez, E. and Alvarado, M. 2012. Diversity of the genus Ophion

(Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ophioninae) in Udima Reserve,

Cajamarca, Peru). Peruvian Entomological Meeting, Cuzco,

Peru, November.

Alvarado, M. 2012. Ichneumonidae from Peru: where are we and

where are we going? , Lawrence, KS, The University of Kansas,

Entomology Division, Lawrence, KS., October.

Alvarado, M. and A. Rodriguez-Berrio, 2012. Ten new species of

the genus Triclistus Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera,

Ichneumonidae) from the eastern Andes of Peru. Kansas (Central

States) Entomological Society Meeting. Jonesboro, AK., April.

ANDERSON, MICHAEL Andersen, M. J., Á. S. Nyári,, C. E. Filardi and R. G. Moyle.

2012. Phylogeography in the southwest Pacific: systematics,

biogeography, and species limits in the Golden Whistler

(Pachycephala pectoralis) complex. North American

Ornithological Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August.

Shult, H. T., M. J. Andersen, A. Cibois, C. E. Filardi, J..-C.

Thibault, J.-C., and R. G. Moyle. 2012. Phylogeography in the

tropical Pacific: systematics, biogeography, and species limits in

the Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) complex. North

American Ornithological Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada,

August.

Moyle, R. G., M. J. Andersen, and C. E. Filardi. 2012. Denser

sampling of Pacific Monarchs reveals unexpected relationships

but clearer biogeographic patterns. North American

Ornithological Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August.

ARROYO, V. BARUCH Sánchez-Urdaneta, A. B., E. Suárez, J. Tusent, C. Labarca, C. B.

Peña-Valdivia, and V. B. Arroyo-Peña. 2012. Anatomía de los

cladodios de tres variantes de nopal (Opuntia ficus-indica). XIII


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Jornadas Científico Técnicas de la Facultad de Agronomía.

Universidad del Zulia. Maracaibo, Venezuela, November.

Sánchez-Urdaneta, A. B., C. B. Peña-Valdivia, B. Bracho, C.

Colmenares, and V. B. Arroyo-Peña. 2012. Evaluación de

diferentes métodos de propagación “sexual y asexual” de nopal

(Opuntia spp.) en condiciones de umbráculo. XIII Jornadas

Científico Técnicas de la Facultad de Agronomía. Universidad

del Zulia. Maracaibo, Venezuela, November.

BARLEY, ANTHONY Barley, A. J, J. White, and R.M. Brown. 2012. Species delimitation

in a morphologically conserved group of Philippine skinks.

University of Kansas GSO Annual Retreat. Lawrence, KS.,

November.

BARVE, NARAYANI Barve, N., K.N. Shivaprakash, S. Sen, N. A. Aravind, G. Ravikanth.

2012. Modeling the fate of endemic land snail using ecological

niche modeling tools. International Eco-summit, Columbus

OH., October.

Barve, N. 2012. Spatio-temporal analysis of climatic data in

understanding species’ distributions. International USER

Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN., June.

BITTEL, ALEXANDER Bittel, A. T., B. Foster, and G. Houseman. 2012. Exploring

stochastic and niche-based community assembly dynamics in a

long-term grassland field experiment. The Ecological Society of

America, Portland, OR., August.

BOWES, RACHEL Bowes, R. E., and O’Neill, B. 2012. Rectification of stable isotopes

in an ecological context: Synthesizing various approaches to

problems when using different tissues and life stages. University

of Kansas EEB graduate student retreat. November. Graduate students in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology gave Bowes, R. E. 2012. Comparison of amino-acid and bulk-tissue

presentations on their research in several stable isotope techniques for analyzing current and historical

states and in a number of international food webs. University of Kansas Ecology Seminar Series,

countries including: Peru, Venezuela, Greenland. Lawrence, KS., October.

CAMPBELL, LINDSAY Campbell L., 2012. Climate change and infectious disease risk:

Tick-borne encephalitis in the Arctic. IGERT 2012 Annual

Meeting, Washington, D.C., May – June.

Nagel J,, N. Barve, L. Campbell, A. Kern, A. Lira-Noriega, A. T.

Peterson, J. Soberon. 2012. Dynamics of uncoupled natural and

human systems. IGERT 2012 Annual Meeting, Washington,

D.C., May – June.


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CARTER, JACOB Carter, J. M., L.M. Gerhart, R. M., Marchin, J. Nagel, and J.K.

Ward. 2012. Shifts in white ash phenology during the warmest

spring in U.S. history. Annual KU Graduate Student

Organization Retreat. Lawrence, KS., November.

Carter, J. M., and J. K. Ward. 2012. Patterns of white ash

phenology are unique in the extreme year of 2012. 97th Annual

Ecological Society of America Meeting, Portland, OR., August.

Carter, J.M. 2012. Populations big and small: arctic fox ecology

and conservation biology in Greenland and Norway. University

of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland, June.

Carter, J. M., J. Dunn, M. Walker, A. Ahrens, S. Case, J. Nippert, J.

Bailey, J. Ford, and J. K. Ward. 2012. Kansas MSP: Enhancing

science education through inquiry-based learning in ecology.

MSP Learning Network Conference, Washington, D.C., January.

CHANG, ELIZABETH S. Chang, E. S., M. Shcheglovitova, and P. Cartwright. 2012.

Transcriptome characterization of the parasite Polypodium

hydriforme (Phylum Cnidaria). First Joint Congress on

Evolutionary Biology. Ottawa, Canada, July.

CIELOCHA, JOANNA Cielocha, J. J, A. Yoneva, M. Cantino, S. Daniels, and K. Jensen.

2012. Spermatozoon ultrastructure of Adelobothrium Shipley,

1900 (Eucestoda: Lecanicephalidea). American Society of

Parasitologists, Richmond, VA., July..

Cielocha, J. J., A. Yoneva, and K. Jensen. 2012. Spermatozoon

ultrastructure of Adelobothrium Shipley, 1900 (Eucestoda:

Lecanicephalidea). Southwestern Association of Parasitologists,

University of Oklahoma Biological Station, Oklahoma City,

OK., April.

COLICCHIO, JACK Colicchio, J. J. Kelly, and L. Hileman. 2012. Patterns of heritable

differential gene expression due to variable parental conditions.

Ecological Genomics Symposium, Kansas State University,

Kansas City, MO., October.

DAVIS, STEVE Davis, S.R., P. Cartwright, and M. S. Engel. 2012. Elucidating

rostrum development in the weevils (Curculionoidea) through

morphology, transcriptomics, and differential gene expression.

Entomological Society of America annual meeting, Knoxville,

Tennessee. November.

Davis, S. R., P. Cartwright, and M. S. Engel, M.S. 2012. Weevil

evolution and differential gene expression in the development of

the rostrum. XXIV International Congress of Entomology,

Deagu, South Korea. August.


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Davis, S.R., P. Cartwright, and M. A. Engel. 2012. Differential gene

expression in the evolutionary development of the weevil

rostrum. Euro Evo-Devo meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, July.

Davis, S.R., K. T. Eldredge, and M. T. Holder. 2012. Branch length

estimates from morphological character data. Evolution

meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July.

Davis, S.R., P. Cartwright, and M. S. Engel. 2012. Differential gene

expression in the evolutionary development of the weevil

rostrum. 6th Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium and 15k

Workshop, Kansas City, Kansas, June.

ELDREDGE, KENT T. Eldredge, K. T. 2012. Phylogenetic placement of the termite guest

lineage, Termitohospitini (Coleoptera: Aleocharinae).

Entomological Society, Knoxville, Tennessee, November.

ERWIN, ALEXANDRA Galdos, M., A. Erwin, M. Wickersheim, C. Harris, and J. Fang.

2012. Genetics and epigenetics of hybrid dysgenesis of

Drosophila virilis. Midwest Drosophila Conference, University

of Illinois, Monticello, IL. November.

GERHART, LACI Gerhart, L. M., J. M. Harris, J. K. Ward. 2011. Inter-annual

physiological responses of glacial Juniperus to changes in

atmospheric [CO2] since the Last Glacial Maximum. American

Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA,

December.

Gerhart, L.M., and J. K. Ward. 2012. Interannual

responses of glacial and modern Agathis australis to

changes in atmospheric [CO2]. Geological Society of

America, Charlotte, NC., November.

Mo, K., L. M. Gerhart, J. M. Harris, and J. K. Ward. 2012.

Growth and physiological responses of glacial and

modern trees to changes in atmospheric [CO2] since the

Last Glacial Maximum. Charlotte, NC., November.

Gerhart, L.M., J. M. Harris, and J. K. Ward. 2012. Growth

and physiological responses of glacial and modern trees

to changes in atmospheric [CO2] since the last glacial

maximum. Ecological Society of America, Portland, OR,

August.

Gerhart, L.M., and J. K. Ward. 2012. Interannual responses

of glacial Juniperus to atmospheric [CO2], Biological

Sciences Alumni Board, University of Kansas,

Lawrence, KS., April.

Gerhart L.M. Interannual physiological responses of Juniperus to

changes in atmospheric [CO2] since the Last Glacial Maximum.


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Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Competition, Lawrence,

KS., March.

HALL, DAVID Hall, D. R. 2012. A multi-scale, policy relevant approach to

invasive Lespedeza cuneata. KU Graduate student retreat,

Lawrence, Ks., October.

HARPER CARLA Harper, C. J., T. N. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012. Mycorrhizal-like

associations in Permian seed fern Glossopteris from Antarctica.

International Organisation of Palaeobotany Conference. Tokyo,

Japan, August.

Harper, C. J., T. N. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012. Antarctic wood-

decay fungi in glossopteridalean roots and stems. Botanical

Society of America, Paleobotanical Section, Columbus, OH.,

July.

Klymiuk, A. A., C. J. Harper, D. S. Moore, E. L. Taylor, T. N.

Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012. Reinvestigating Carboniferous

“actinomycetes”: authigenic formation of biomimetic carbonates

and implications for microbial paleoecology. Botanical Society

of America, Paleobotanical Section, Columbus, OH., July.

Harper, C. J., T. N. Taylor, and M. Krings. Mycorrhizal-like

associations in the Permian seed fern Glossopteris from

Antarctica. International Organisation of Palaeobotany

Conference. Tokyo, Japan, August.

HEMMER, LUCAS Hemmer, L.W. and J. Bricker. 2012. The extraction of bioactive

compounds from potential fungal endophytes. 37th West Coast

Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, Los

Angeles, CA., April.

HENSZ, CHRISTOPHER Hensz, C.M. 2012. Estimating migration resistance: A case study

of Greenlandic Arctic terns. GIS Day 2012, Lawrence, KS.,

November 2012.

Hensz, C.M. 2012. Estimating migration resistance: A case study

of Greenlandic Arctic terns. EEB GSO Retreat, Lawrence, KS.,

November.

Hensz, C.M. 2012. Estimating migration resistance: A case study

of Greenlandic Arctic terns. KISS IGERT Poster Session,

Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, May.

Hensz, C.M. 2012. Estimating migration resistance: A case study of

Greenlandic Arctic terns. University of Greenland IGERT Poster

Session, Nuuk, Greenland, May.


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HOSNER, PETER Hosner, P. A. 2012. Testing the Pleistocene aggregate island

complex (PAIC) model of diversification in co-distributed avian

lineages. EEB BIO3 Seminar Series, University of Kansas,

Lawrence, KS., August.

Hosner, P.A. 2012. Testing the pleistocene aggregate island

complex (PAIC) model of diversification in co-distributed avian

lineages. North American Ornithological Congress, Vancouver,

BC., August.

JANRA, MUHAMMAD Novarino, W. and M. N. Janra. 2012. Bird diversity and global

change. International Symposium on Climate Change. Andalas

University, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, September.

JONES, ROBIN Jones R. M., and R. G. Moyle. 2012. Distinguishing genetic

introgression from competing evolutionary hypotheses in an

island bird system (Passeriformes: Cisticoldae). KU Graduate

Student Retreat, Lawrence, KS., November.

KLYMIUK, ASHLEY Klymiuk, A. A., T. N. Taylor, E. L. Taylor, M. Krings. 2012. The

Princeton Chert: an unprecedented window in fungal diversity

during the Eocene. 22nd

Canadian Palaeontology Conference,

University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September.

Klymiuk, A. A., T. N. Taylor, E. L. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012.

Anamorphic fungi from the Princeton Chert: new insights into

paleomicrobial diversity. BIO3 Seminar, University of Kansas,

Lawrence, KS., August.

Klymiuk, A. A., T. N. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012. Anamorphic

fungi from the Princeton Chert: new insights into

paleomicrobial diversity. The Botanical Society of America,

Columbus, OH., July.

Klymiuk, A. A., C. J. Harper, D. M. Moore, E. L. Taylor, T. N.

Taylor, and M. Krings. 2012. Reinvestigating Carboniferous

“actinomycetes”: authigenic formation of biomimetic carbonates

and implications for microbial paleoecology. The Botanical


Bronson, A. W., A.A. Klymiuk, R. A. Stockey, and A. M. F.

Tomescu. 2012. A perithecial sordariomycete (Ascomycota) of

diaporthalean affinity from the Early Cretacious of Vancouver

Island, British Columbia, Canada. The Botanical Society of


KOSEVA, BORYANA Kelly, J. K., B. S. Koseva, and J. Mojica. 2012. Looking for

polygenic adaptation in genomic data from bulked population

samples. Evolution Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, July.


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LIRA-NORIEGA, ANDRÉS Lira-Noriega, A., N. Barve, J. Soberón and A.T. Peterson. 2012.

Current and future climatic spaces in the global protected areas

network. EcoSummit, Columbus, OH., October.

Soberon, J., A. Lira-Noriega, N. Barve, and A. T. Peterson. 2012.

Physics envy vs. computer sciences envy: Shifting theoretical

paradigms in ecology. Portland Symposium, Portland, OR.,

August.

MAIER, CRYSTAL Maier, C. A. 2012. A survey of the use of woody debris by aquatic

beetles, with an emphasis on neotropical Lutrochidae. Ecology

and Conservation of Saproxylic Insects Symposium,

Entomological Society of America, Knoxville, TN., November.

MANTHEY, JOSEPH Manthey, J. D., S.V. Edwards, J. Klicka, and G.M. Spellman. 2012.

Ecological selection or environmental drift in western North

American phylo-species? North American Ornithological

Conference - V. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC,

Canada, August.

Manthey, J. D. 2012. Foci of genetic diversity in a changing Arctic.

Climate Change in the Arctic Symposium. University of

Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland, May.

MAYES, DAPHNE Mayes, D. 2012. Insect pollinators within cotton fields of small-scale

farms in Mwachisompola, Zambia. EEB GSO Retreat,

Lawrence, Kansas, November.

MIN, KYUNGJIN Min, K., C. A. Lehmeier, A. Tatarko, F. Ballantyne IV, and S. A.

Billings. 2012. Temperature sensitivity of organic substrate

decay varies with pH. American Geophysical Union, San

Francisco, CA., December.

Lehmeier, C.A., K. Min, R. Felton, C. Song, H. Shinogle, F.

Ballantyne IV, S. A. Billings. 2012. Temperature effects on

microbial carbon use efficiency and 13C of respired CO2.

Assessment with continuous culture and CO2-exchange

techniques. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.

Min, K., C. A. Lehmeier, F. Ballantyne IV, F., and S. A. Billings.

2012. C and N flow from soil organic substates varies with

temperature and pH. EEB Graduate Student Organization

Retreat , Lawrence, KS., November.

MONNAHAN, PATRICK Monnahan, P. J. 2012. Epistasis among QTL affecting floral size

and development in Mimulus guttatus. microMorph Workshop.

Harvard University. Boston, MA., May.

Monnahan, P. J. Epistasis in fitness for pairs of QTL derived from a

natural population of Mimulus guttatus. Ecological Genomics

Symposium, Kansas City, MO., October.


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Koelling, V. A., P. J. Monnahan, and J. K. Kelly. 2012. A Bayesian

method for the joint estimation of outcrossing rate and

inbreeding depression. Ecological Genomics Symposium,

Kansas City, MO., October.


Bayesian method for the joint estimation of outcrossing rate and

inbreeding depression. Institutional Research and Academic

Career Development Award conference, Philadelphia, PA.,

September.

MU OZ, SOFIA I. Mu oz, S. I. F. Abad-Franch, M.J. Grijalva. 2012. Preliminary

analysis of the genetic structure of synanthropic populations of

Rhodnius ecuadoriensis of the coast of Ecuador. MUVE-2,

Knoxville, TN., November.

Muñoz, S. I., F. Abad-Franch, M. J. Grijalva. 2012. Preliminary

analysis of the genetic structure of synanthropic populations of

Rhodnius ecuadoriensis of the coast of Ecuador. Sigma Xi

Graduate Research Competition, Lawrence, KS., March.

OAKS, JAMIE Oaks, J. R., J. Sukumaran, J.A. Esselstyn, C.W. Linkem, C.D. Siler,

M.T. Holder, and R.M. Brown. 2012. ABC, not as easy as 1, 2,

3: The potential perils of model choice via approximate Bayesian

computation. KU Graduate Student Organization Retreat,

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS., November.

OLIVEROS, CARL. H. Oliveros, C. H. and R. G. Moyle. 2012. Reconstructing the

biogeographic history of Philippine whistlers reveals complex

scenarios of colonization history and two unrecognized species.


November.

Oliveros, C.H., S. Reddy and R.G. Moyle. 2012. The phylogenetic

position of some Philippine “babblers” spans the muscicapoid

and sylvioid bird radiations. International Ornithological

Congress of Southeast Asia. Khao Lak, Thailand, November.

Selbe, J. S., C. H. Oliveros and R. G. Moyle. 2012. Phylogeography

of Philippine drongos reveals underestimated species diversity.

Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in

Science, Seattle, WA., October.

Oliveros, C. H. and R. G. Moyle. 2012. Reconstructing the

biogeographic history of Philippine whistlers reveals complex

scenarios of colonization history and two unrecognized species.

North American Ornithological Congress, Vancouver, Canada,

August.


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of Philippine drongos reveals underestimated species diversity.

SELF Research Symposium, Lawrence, KS., July.

Layusa, C. A. A., J. D. De Alban, C. C. Monoy, T. B. Moya and C.

H. Oliveros. 2012. Implications of hunting and forest loss to the

conservation and habitat of the Calayan Rail Gallirallus

calayanensis. 21st Annual Philippine Biodiversity Symposium

of the Wildlife Conservation Society of the Philippines,

Dasmariñas, Cavite, Philippines, April.

Layusa, C.A.A., J. D. T. De Alban, A. Lira-Noriega, C. C. Monoy,

T. B. Moya and C. H. Oliveros. 2012. An assessment of the

conservation status of the Calayan Rail using species distribution

modeling, forest change detection, and interview data. Asia-

Pacific Chapter Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology

and Conservation, Yunnan, China, April.


of two polytypic bird species from the Philippines. 15th Annual

Undergraduate Research Symposium, Lawrence, KS., April.


of two polytypic bird species from the Philippines. 12th Annual

University of Kansas-Haskell Indian Nations University

Undergraduate Research Symposium, Lawrence, KS., April.

O’NEILL, BRIAN Bowes, R., B. J. O’Neill. 2012. Rectification of stable isotopes in an

ecological context: synthesizing various approaches to problems

when using different tissues and life stages. University of

Kansas, EEB GSO Retreat, Lawrence, KS., November.

O’Neill, B. J., J. Steffen, M. Jakubauskas. 2012. Effects of

sedimentation on the benthic ecology of Perry Lake. Governor’s

Conference on the Future of Water in Kansas, Manhattan, KS.,

October.

O’Neill, B.J., J. H. Thorp, D. C. Rogers. 2012. Community structure

and food web dynamics in endangered, ephemeral wetlands of

the high plains. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of


Romero, A., B.J. O’Neill, R.M. Timm, K.G. Gerow, and D.K.

McClearn. 2012. Group dynamics and behavior of collared

peccaries (Pecari tajacu) in Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowlands.

American Society of Mammalogists, Reno, NV., June.

OWEN, HANNAH Owens, H. L. 2012. Niche conservatism in Gadine fishes. World

Congress of Herpetology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,

August.


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Owens, H. L. 2012. Whither cod? Incorporating climate model data

into ecological niche models. National Center for Atmospheric

Research Mesa Lab Research Reports, Boulder, CO., March.

Owens, H. L. 2012. I wonder where that fish will go? Predicting

ecological shifts in the northwest Atlantic. NSF IGERT

Competition, Washington, D.C., May.

PESEK, MARI Pesek, M., S. Hinman, and B. Foster. 2012. Seed availability and

soil fertility interact to govern plant diversity through succession.

KU EEB Graduate Student retreat, University of Kansas,

Lawrence, KS., November.

Pesek, M. and B. Foster. 2012. Bottom-up forces and disturbance

shape arthropod community structure in a tallgrass prairie

ecosystem. University of Kansas BIO3 Seminar, Lawrence, KS.,

August.

Pesek, M & B Foster. 2012. Bottom-up forces and disturbance shape

arthropod community structure in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem.

Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Competition, University of

Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

ROMERO, ANDREA Romero, A. 2012. Ecology, habitat preference, and conservation of

Neotropical non-volant mammal communities in Costa Rica’s

Caribbean lowlands. Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA.

Romero, A. B. J. O’Neill, R. M. Timm, K. Gerow, D. K. McClearn.

2012. Group dynamics and behavior of collared peccaries in

Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowlands. American Society of

Mammalogists, Reno, NV., June.

SCHMIDT, SARAH Benson, B., R. Everhart, E. Mangus and S. Schmidt. 2012.

Utilizing social media for expanded communication and

feedback. GK-12 Annual Conference, Washington, D. C.,

March.

SHIN, CHULWOO Shin, C. 2012. Phylogeny and biology of Ischyrosonychini Chapuis

1875. Entomological Society of America, Knoxville, TN.,

November.

Shin, C. 2012. Making of a chrysomelid systematist: Year IV.

University of Kansas, Entomology Division, Biodiversity

Institute, Lawrence, KS, October.

Shin, C. 2012. Phylogeny and biology of Ischyrosonychini Chapuis

1875. International Congress of Entomology, Daegu, South

Korea, August.


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Shin, C. 2012. Phylogeny and biology of Ischyrosonychini Chapuis

1875. University of Kansas, Entomology Division, Biodiversity

Institute, Lawrence, KS., May.

SILER, CAMERON Siler, C. D. 2012. Comparative species delimitation and patterns of

cryptic diversity in an island radiation of fossorial lizards.

Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meeting,

Charleston, S.C., January.

Siler, C. D. and R. M. Brown. 2012. Philippine biodiversity

research and education outreach (PhilBREO). Society of

Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meeting,

Charleston, S.C., January.

SIMOES, MARIANA Monné, M. L., M. A. Monné, J. P. Botero, H. Quintino, V. S.

Machado, A. Aragão, A., M. V. P. Simões, and M. Cupello.

2012. Inventário das espécies de Lamiinae (Insecta, Coleoptera,

Cerambycidae) no Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, RJ, Brasil, XXIX

Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, Salvador, BA, Brazil, March.

Simões, M.V.P. and M. L. Monné. 2012. Morfologia dos estágios

imaturos de Mesomphalia turrita (Insecta, Coleoptera,

Chrysomelidae), XXIX Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, Salvador,

BA, Brazil, March.

Simões, M.V.P. and Monné, M.L. 2012. Description of immatures

of Mesomphalia gibbosa (Fabricius, 1781) and Mesomphalia

turrita (Illiger, 1801) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae:

Mesomphaliini). Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas,

Lawrence, KS., November.

SU, YONG-CHAO Su, Y.-C and D. R. Smith. 2011. Cooperative kleptoparasitism?

Living in groups increases foraging efficiency in Argyrodes

miniaceus (Theridiidae, Aranea). American Arachnological

Society. Portland, OR., June.

Su, S. H. Another reason for why infant shouldn’t eat honey. KU

Entomology, Biodiversity Institute, November.

Su, S. H. Are Nosema species generalists or specialists? KU EEB

Graduate Student Retreat, Lawrence, KS., November.

TORO-NU EZ, OSCAR Toro-Nu ez, O., and M. E. Mort. Phylogenetic relationships of

Mathewsia and Schizopetalon (Brassicaceae) based on two

nrDNA and cpDNA regions. . 104th Meeting of the Botanical

Society of America, St. Louis, MO., July.

Toro-Nu ez, O., and M. E. Mort. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships

in Mathewsia and Schizopetalon (Brassicaceae) based on nrDNA


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and cpDNA regions. Sigma Xi Research Competition,

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS., March.

Toro-Nu ez, O. and M. E. Mort. Phylogenetic relationships inside

the tribe Schizopetaleae (Brassicaceae) based on nrDNA and

cpDNA regions: evolutionary insights from an endemic lineage

to Atacama Desert (Chile). Botany 2012, Columbus, OH., July.

TRAVERS, SCOTT L. Travers, S. L., A. M. Bauer, and T. R. Jackman. 2012.

Diversification of an African dwarf: Molecular phylogenetics,

species limits, and historical biogeography of southern African

dwarf geckos (Gekkonidae: Lygodactylus). 7th World Congress

of Herpetology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August.

WALKER, S. MICHAEL Walker II, S. M. and J.K Ward. 2012. CO2, not temperature, may

be driving earlier flowering times. Ecological Society of


Ward, J.K and S. M. Walker II. 2012. Kansas MSP. MSP Learning

Network Conference, Washington, D. C., February.

WILLIAMS, BRADLEY S. Williams, B. S. 2011. RESonate and RESonate-Reach: GIS-based

tools designed to facilitate biomonitoring and assessment

programs in riverine ecosystems. Kansas Department of Health

and Environment, Topeka, KS., November.

YUN, JIN-HO Patterson, T., J-H. Yun, G. Roberts, V. H. Smith. 2012. Productivity

and growth of filamentous macroalgae for use as a biofuel

feedstock. NSF EPSCoR. Kansas State University, Manhattan,

KS., June.

Hoy, J., V. H. Smith, J-H. Yun. 2012. Production and co-

combustion of algal biomass pellets for use in heating and

cooking applications in developing countries. Undergraduate

Research Symposium. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.,

June.

Yun, J-H., V. H. Smith and J. deNoyelles. 2012. Filamentous green

algae as a potential solid biofuel feedstock. NSF EPSCoR

Kansas Center for Solar Energy Research, Wichita, KS.

2012 Annual Report Extramural Funding Received by Faculty

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Extramural Funding Received by Faculty

BALLANTYNE, FORD National Science Foundation. 2010-2013. $595,998.

(ETBC) Temperature sensitivity of substrate

decomposition from enzymes to microbial communities.

( Co-PI with 2 others)

National Science Foundation. 2011-2016. $195,660.

Collaborative Research: Scale, Consumers and Lotic

Ecosystem Rates (SCALER): Scaling from Centimeters

to Continents. (PI on KU portion)

BILLINGS, SHARON National Science Foundation. 20011-2014. $329,890.

Facilities to enhance research and teaching at the

University of Kansas Field Station. (P.I. with two others)


ETBC: Temperature sensitivity of substrate

decomposition from enzymes to microbial communities.

(P.I. with two others)

Faculty in EEB were supported Canadian Provincial Funds. 2010-2012. $84,425. Soil

by nearly $27.5 million in active carbon dynamics with climate change in boreal forests.

extramural grants. (P.I.)


Purchase of a cyber-enhanced regional 500 MHz solid-

state NMR spectrometer. (co-PI with 3 others)

Wallace Genetic Foundation. 2012-2013. $3,086.

Planning for sampling and analysis of the world’s long-

term soil experiments. (co-PI with 1 other)

Wallace Genetic Foundation. 2012-2013. $349,714.

Enhancements to Internet and communication systems at

the KU Field Station. (co-PI with 4 others)

BLUMENSTIEL, JUSTIN P. National Science Foundation. 2010-2013. $678,711. The

epigenetics of RNA based silencing and transposon

control in Drosophila virilis. (PI)

BROWN, RAFE U. S. Forest Service. 2011-2013. $48,961. Wildlife

without borders – amphibians in decline program. Can

we prevent a chytridiomycosis epidemic in the

Philippines? (Co-PI with one other)

National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement

Grant Panel. 2010-2012. Comparative phylogeography

of a dynamic Archipelago. (PI with 2 co-PIs).


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National Science Foundation, Biotic Surveys and

Inventories Panel. 2008–2014, $900, 942. A

comprehensive biotic survey of Philippine land

vertebrates and their parasites. (PI with 2 co-PIs)

BUSBY, WILLIAM Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, 2012-2012.

$50,000. Wildlife conservation planning.. (PI with two

others)

Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, 2011-2013.

(PI with one other)

CARTWRIGHT, PAULYN National Science Foundation, 2010-2015. $750,000.

Career: Integrating phylogenetics and development to

investigate character evolution in hydrozoans. (PI)

CHABOO, CAROLINE National Science Foundation, 2011-2015. $107,000.

Digitization TCN: Collaborative research: Plants,

herbivores, and parasitoids: A model system for the

study of tri-trophic associations. (Co-PI with three

others)

National Science Foundation, 2011-2013. $495,426. A

specimen-level database of the world’s bees (Apoidea) at

the University of Kansas. (co-PI with three others)

DENOYELLES, FRANK Kansas Water Resources Institute. 2012-2013. $30,000.

Sediment core analysis for understanding reservoir

history. (co-PI with one other)

Kansas Water Resources Institute. 2012-2013. $160,000.

Bathymetric surveys of Kansas reservoirs. (co-PI with

two others)


Bathymetric surveys of Kansas reservoirs. (co-PI with

two others)


Sediment core analysis for understanding reservoir

history. (co-PI with two others)

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. 2005-2015.

$10,000. Wetland and wet meadow restoration on the

Robinson tract. (co-PI with two others)

U. S. Fish and Wildlife Services. 2009-2012. $8,000.

Topeka Shiner study extension. (co-PI with one other)


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ENGEL, MICHAEL National Science Foundation, 2011–2014. $495,426. A


the University of Kansas. (PI with three others)

National Science Foundation, 2011–2013. $14,824.

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Evolution of

the weevils and development of the weevil rostrum

(Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). (P.I. with two others)

National Science Foundation, 2012–2015. $312,644.

Evolution of living and fossil green lacewings

(Chrysopidae): Molecular and morphological

phylogenetics with a universal ontology for Neuroptera.

(P.I.)

FOSTER, BRYAN National Science Foundation. LTREB. 2010-2015.

$267,524. Long-term studies of secondary succession

and community assembly in the prairie-forest ecotone of

eastern Kansas. (PI)


Facilities to enhance research and teaching at the

University of Kansas Field Station. (co-PI with two

others)

National Science Foundation. LTREB. 2010-2015.

$580,362. Plant recruitment, coexistence and

community assembly in developing prairie restorations.

(P.I.)

FREEMAN, CRAIG Missouri Botanical Garden, 2011-2013. $44,800. Plants,

herbivores, and parasitoids: a model system for the study

of tri-trophic associations. (subcontractor)

U.S. Core of Engineers. 2010-2012, $243,000. Vegetation

survey and mapping of Fort Riley, Kansas. (co-PI with

3 others)

Bureau of Land Management. 2010-2013. $23,744.

Assessment of the status of blowout penstemon

(Penstemon haydenii S. Watson, Plantaginaceae) using

molecular and morphological approaches. (PI with one

other).

HILEMAN, LENA National Science Foundation. 2010–2013, $560,502.

The molecular basis for epigenetic inheritance of

trichome patterning in Mimulus. (co-P.I. with 2 others)

National Science Foundation. 2011–2013, $240,000.

Determining the evolutionary developmental

consequences of gene duplications in the SPL family of


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transcription factors.(P.I. with one other)

HOLDER, MARK National Science Foundation. Dissertation Research.

2010–2013, $14,886. Comparative phylogeography of

a dynamic archipelago. (co-P.I. with two others)


Collaborative research large-scale simultaneous multiple

alignment and phylogeny estimation. (P.I. with two

others)

JENSEN, KIRSTEN National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement.

2011–2013, $14,555. Toward resolving

lecanicephalidean familial relationships using

morphology and molecules. (co-P.I. with one other)


Collaborative Research: PBI: A survey of the

tapeworms (Cestoda: Platyhelminthes) from the

vertebrate bowels of the earth. Planetary Biodiversity

Inventory Program. (P.I.)

KELLY, JOHN National Institute of Health. 2012-2015. $1,500,00.

Genomic analysis of complex trait variation in Mimulus.

(P.I. with one other)

National Science Foundation. 2010-2014. $560,502. The

molecular basis for epigenetic inheritance of trichome

patterning in Mimulus. (PI with two others).

National Institute of Health. 2011-2014. $12,000.

Doctoral Dissertation Improvcement Grant:

Experimental evolution of mating system under varying

pollinator availability in Mimulus guttatus. (P.I. with

one other)

KRINGS, MICHAEL National Science Foundation. 2010-2014. $390,746.

Understanding the diversity and biology of microbes in

late Paleozoic ecosystems. (co-PI with one other)

KRISHTALKA, LEONARD National Science Foundation, IGERT: C-CHANGE.

2008–2013. $3,200,000. Climate change, humans and

nature in the global environment. (co-PI with 4 others)

National Science Foundation: ARI-R2. 2009-2013.

$1,512,426. Repair and renovaton advancing research in

biodiversity science. (PI with 3 others)

National Science Foundation. 2010-2013. $6,000,000. A

cyberCommons for ecological forecasting. (PI with 4

others)


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LICHTWARDT, ROBERT National Science Foundation. 2009-2013. $81,473.

Collaborative Research: REVSYS: RUI: Phylogenetic

and revisionary systematics of early-diverging,

ecologically unique clades of fungi: Harpellales and

Asellariales. (P.I. with one other)

LIEBERMAN, BRUCE National Science Foundation. 2007-2013. $213,000.

Revisionary systematics of Cherirurid trilobites. (P.I.

with one other)

National Science Foundation, Emerging Frontiers. 2012-

2015. $600,000. Advancing the digitization of

biological collections: Paleoniches. (P.I. with two co-

PIs)

MARTINKO, EDWARD National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. 2005-2015.

$10,000. Wet meadow restoration on the Robinson

Tract. (PI with 2 others)

Kansas Water Office, 2011-2013. $155,000. Bathymetric

surveys of Kansas reservoirs. (co-PI with two others)

Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. 2011-2012.

$105,000. Supporting Kansas Department of Wildlife

and Parks natural resource management objectives using

Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing.

(P.I.)


$88,239. Supporting natural resources management

objective using GIS and Remote Sensing Technologies.

(P.I. with one other)


$27,975. Development of natural resources mapping

technology. (P.I. with one other)

MOYLE, ROB National Science Foundation. 2008-2012. $225,000.

Collaborative Research: Avian diversification across

tropical Asia: A systematic and biogeographic analysis

of babblers (Aves: Timaliidae), (P.I.)


A comprehensive survey of Philippines land vertebrates

and their parasites. (co-P.I. with 3 others)


Dissertation Research: Testing the Pleistocene aggregate

island complex (PAIC) model of diversification in co-

distributed avian lineages. (P.I. with one other)


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Collaborative Research: Systematics of a pantropical

diversification: the suboscine passerine birds. (P.I. with

one other)


Dimensions: Collaborative Research: Historical and

contemporary influences on elevational distributions and

biodiversity tested in tropical Asia. (P.I. with one other)

PETERSON, A. TOWNSEND National Institutes of Health. 2010-2014, $1,995,000.

Monkeypox ecology: An integrated approach to investigations of the sylvatic reservoirs of human monkeypox. (PI)

National Science Foundation. 2004-2011. $3,200,000.

IGERT: C-CHANGE: Climate change, humans, and

nature in the global environment. (co-PI with 4 others)

Microsoft Research. 2007-2012. $550,000. Ecological

niche modeling in theory and practice. (co-PI with 1

other)

National Science Foundation. 2008-2013. $1,571,567.

ORNIS: A community effort to build an integrated

distributed, enriched and error-check Ornithological

Information System. (PI with 2 others)

JRS Biodiversity Foundation. 2012-2015. $410,000.

Training in biodiversity informatics across Africa. (P.I.)

PIEROTTI, RAYMOND Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams. 2009-2012.

$20,000. Water quality, rainfall, and runoff sampling

and monitoring in upper Wakarusa watershed. (PI)

SHORT, ANDREW National Science Foundation. 2008-2012. $500,000.

Survey of the acquatic insects of Venezuela with an

emphasis on Coleoptera. (P.I.)

National Science Foundation, 2011–2014. $495,426. A


the University of Kansas. (co-PI with three others)

National Science Foundation, 2011-2014. $208,000.

Digitization TCN: Collaborative research:InvertNet – an

integrative platform for research on environmental

change, species, discovery, and identification. (P.I.)

National Science Foundation, 2012. $7,269. REU sup-

plement to active grant: Survey of the acquatic insects of

Venezuela with an emphasis on Coleoptera. (P.I.)


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SMITH, DEBORAH U. S. Israel Binational Science Foundation. 2012-2015.

$110,460. Dispersal in a colonial spider undergoing

rapid range expansion behavioral mechanisms and

population consequences.

U. S. Department of Agriculture, CREES. 2010-2014.

$449,988. Genetic characterization of absolute VFarroa

mite resistance in honey bees. (co-PI with one other)

SMITH, VAL National Science Foundation, EPSCoR. 2009-2014.

$28,000. Phase VI: Climate change and energy: Basic

science, impacts and mitigation. (collaborative

researcher)

SOBERON, JORGE National Science Foundation. 2012-2015. $660,156.

Collaborative Research: phyloFlow: Comparative

analysis workflows for the Tree of Life. (P.I.)

JRS Biodiversity Foundation. 2012. $9,000. Indices of

biodiversity importance, and scientific and government

capacitities of African countries. (co-PI with two others)

TAYLOR, EDITH National Science Foundation, Polar Programs, 2010–

2013, $618,348. Collaborative Research: Antarctic

ecosystems across the Permian-Triassic boundary:

integrating paleobotany, sedimentology, and

paleoecology. (P.I .with 1 other)

National Science Foundation, Antarctic Earth Sciences. 2012–2015, $475,073. Collaborative research: Life in a

volcanic landscape: Early Jurassic paleoenvironment and

paleobotany. (P.I. with one other)

TAYLOR, ORLEY U. S. Forest Service. 2010-2013. $48,910. Monarch

conservation. (PI)

TAYLOR, THOMAS National Science Foundation, Polar Programs. 2010–

2013, $618,348. Collaborative Research: Antarctic

ecosystems across the Permian-Triassic boundary:

integrating paleobotany sedimentology, and

paleoecology. (co-PI with 1 other)

National Science Foundation, Polar. 2010–2014,

$390,746. Understanding the diversity and biology of

microbes in late Paleozoic ecosystems. (P.I. with one

other)

National Science Foundation, Polar. 2012–2015,

$475,073. Collaborative Research: Life in a Volcanic

Landscape: Early Jurassic paleoenvironment and

paleobotany. (co-P. I. with one other)


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THORP, JAMES National Science Foundation. 2012-2014. $100,000.

Comparison of amino-acid and builk-tissue stable

isotope techniques for analyzing current and historical

food webs. (co-PI with one other)

Environmental Protection Agency. 2011-2014. $250,000.

Development of quantitative invertebrate community

sampling protocols to assess playa wetlands. (P.I. with

one other)

WARD, JOY National Science Foundation, CAREER, 2008–2013,

$842,893. Plant evolution at low C02: Responses of ice

age trees. (P.I.)


Global environmental change and local ecosystems: A

Kansas MSP-Start project for P-20 students. (P.I. with 4

co-PIs)

National Science Foundation: Doctoral Dissertation

Improvement Grant: 2012-2014. $11,740. The El

Nino Southern Oscillation and Glacial Juniperus

Physiology. (P.I.)

National Science Foundation: REU: CAREER. 2012-

2013. $6,000. Plant evolution at low CO2: Responses of

ice age trees. (P.I.)

National Academy of Science. 2012. $4,750. Grant from

the Arab-American Frontiers Symposium in Science,

Engineering. (P.I.)

2012 Annual Report Funding Received by Graduate Students

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Funding Received by Graduate Students

Name Source Amount

ANDERSON, MICHAEL KU Doctoral Student Research Fund $ 1,991

BARLEY, ANTHONY KU Doctoral Student Research Fund $ 2,000

Panorama Travel Funds $ 1,000

BITTEL, ALEXANDER Kansas Native Plant Society and the Grassland

Heritage Foundation $ 1,000

KU Field Station Small Grants Fund 200

EEB Grad Travel Funds $ 300

CARTER, JACOB KU Field Station Small Grants Fund 450


CHANG, ELIZABETH EEB Grad Travel Funds $ 300

CIELOCHA, JOANNA NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant $14,555

COLICCHIO, JACK EEB Grad Travel Funds $ 300

DAVIS, STEVE NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant $14,824


GERHART, LACI NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant $11,740

Grad Studies Travel Funds $ 500


GUTIERREZ, MABEL EEB Grad Travel Funds $ 300

HALL, DAVID KU Field Station Small Grants Fund $ 250

HARPER, CARLA EEB Grad Travel Fund $ 300

Botanical Society of America Travel Fund $ 150

International Organisation of Palaeobotany

Travel Fund $ 500

International Organisation of Paleobotanical

Travel Grant (IOPC) $ 1,000

HOSNER, PETER NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant $14,866


JONES, ROBIN KU Biodiversity Panorama Grant $ 1,000

KLYMIUK, ASHLEY EEB Grad Travel Fund $ 300

KU Biodiversity Panorama Grant $ 300

2012 Annual Report Funding Received by Graduate Students

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LIRA-NORIEGA, ANDRES JRS Biodiversity Foundation Grant $ 9,000

EEB Grad Travel Fund $ 300

Biodiversity Institute Travel Funds $ 500

MAIER, CRYSTAL Entomology Travel Funds $ 564

MANTHEY, JOSEPH KU Biodiversity Panorama Grant $ 700

American Museum of Natural History Frank

Chapman Memorial Fund $ 1,900

American Ornithologists’ Union $ 2,199

MIN, KYUNGJIN EEB Grad Travel Fund $ 300

MONNAHAN, PATRICK KU Doctoral Student Research Fund $ 1,500

MUNOZ, SOFIA EEB Grad Travel Fund $ 300

H. B. Hungerford Travel Fund $ 755

OAKS, JAMIE NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant $14,886

Biodiversity Institute Panorama Grant $ 1,000

OLIVEROS, CARL EEB Grad Travel Funds $ 300

O’NEILL, BRIAN KU Doctoral Student Research Fund $ 2,000


OWENS, HANNAH KU Biodiversity Panorama Grant $ 685

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grant $14,753

PESEK, MARI EEB Grad Travel Fund $ 300

KU Field Station Small Grant Fund $ 500

ROMERO, ANDREA KU Doctoral Student Research Fund $ 2,000

SHIN, CHULWOO Entomology Travel Fund $ 498

Grad Studies Travel fund $ 500

EEB Grad Travel Fund $ 300

SU, YONG-CHAO Entomology Endowment Travel Fund $ 1,900

TORO NUNEZ, OSCAR KU Doctoral Student Research Fund $ 2,000

KU Biodiversity Panorama Grant $ 600


Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid $ 1,000

WALKER, MICHAEL Grad Studies Travel Funds $ 500

WILLIAMS, BRADLEY EPA Student Services Contract $35,630

YUN, JIN-HO KU Field Station Small Grant Fund $ 200

2012 Annual Report Faculty Awards

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Faculty Awards

BROWN, RAFE Philippine government honor for 300 discoveries in

Philippines.

HILEMAN, LENA Kavli Fellow, Korean-American Kavli Frontiers of Science.

SOBERON, JORGE Presidential Award, President, Mexico

TAYLOR, ORLEY Leafs Award, Environmental Protection Agency

TAYLOR, THOMAS N. Paleobotanical Service Award, International Paleobotanical

Congress, Tokyo, Japan.

Paleobotany Career Award, Botanical Society of America.

WARD, JOY Kavli Fellow and Planning Member, Arab-American Kavli

Frontiers of Science

U.S. Chair and Kavli Fellow, Japan-American Kavli

Frontiers of Science

2012 Annual Report Graduate Student Scholarships or Fellowships

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Graduate Student Scholarships or Fellowships

ALVARADO GUTIERREZ, MABEL Byron Alexander Memorial Fellowship

William Bell Memorial Fellowship

ANDERSEN, MICHAEL J. EEB Summer Fellowship

ARROYO-PENA, VICTOR B. Consejo Mexiquenese de Ciencia y Tecnología

Fellowship

BARLEY, ANTHONY Leaman D. Harris Biodiversity Scholarship

EEB Summer Fellowship

CAMPBELL, LINDSAY NSF IGERT C-CHANGE Fellowship

CARTER, JACOB NSF IGERT C-CHANGE Fellowship

CIELOCHA, JOANNA Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship

University of Kansas Graduate Fellowship

COLICCHIO, JACK Statistical Genomics Summer Fellowship

Hall Plant Biology Fellowship

COLYOTT, KAILA Ida H. Hyde Scholarship

First Year Diversity Fellowship

DAVIS, STEVE H. B. Hungerford Fellowship

ELDREDGE, KEN T. John M. Deal Scholarship

ERWIN, ALEXANDRA First Year Research Fellowship

KU Graduate Research Fellowship

GERHART, LACI Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship

NSF IGERT C-CHANGE Fellowship

HARPER, CARLA EEB Summer Fellowship

HENSZ, CHRISTOPHER NSF IGERT C-CHANGE Fellowship

HOSNER, PETE EEB Summer Fellowship

INGENLOFF, KATHRYN NSF IGERT C-CHANGE Fellowship

JANRA, MUHAMMAD International Foundation of Science Scholarship

JONES, ROBIN NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

KU Graduate Research Fellowship


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Institute in Statistical Genetics Scholarship

Ida Hyde Women in Science Scholarship

EEB Summer Scholarship

KLYMIUK, ASHLEY EEB Summer Fellowship

LIRA, ANDRES EEB Summer Fellowship

LUBIN, TERRA NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

MAIER, CRYSTAL John M. Deal Scholarship

R. H. Beamer Scholarship

MANTHEY, JOSEPH NSF IGERT C-CHANGE Fellowship

MIN, KYUNGJIN Ida H. Hyde Scholarship

Graduate Research Fellowship

Summer Soil Institute Fellowship

MONNAHAN, PATRICK Fratcher Botany Fellowship

MUNOZ TOBAR Marshall Barbara Fellowship

Steven Ashe Memorial Fellowship

OAKS, JAMIE Graduate Research Fellowship

O’NEILL, BRIAN Graduate Research Fellowship

OWENS, HANNAH EEB Summer Fellowship

PESEK, MARIA NSF GK-12 Fellowship

ROCCAFORTE, KATHY Madison & Lila Self Graduate Fellowship

ROMERO, ANDREA Graduate Research Fellowship

EEB Summer Scholarship

SAMY, ABDALLAH M. Fulbright Scholarship

SCHMIDT, SARAH NSF GK-12 Fellowship

SHIN, CHULWOO John M. Deal Scholarship

SIMÕES, MARIANNA M.V.P. Doctoral Research Fellowship

SU, SHAN-HUI Lewis C. Hack Scholarship

SCHWENDEMANN, ANDREW Polson Botany Scholarship


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TRAVERS, SCOTT First Year Fellowship

Dorothy Clark Lettice Scholarship

Madison & Lila Self Graduate Fellowship

Graduate Research Fellowship, Villanova University

WALKER, S. MICHAEL, II NSF GK-12 Fellowship

2012 Annual Report Graduate Student Awards

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Graduate Student Awards

BOWES, RACHEL Honorable Mention, NSF GRF Dissertation Research

Third Place Oral Presentation, EEB GSO Retreat

CIELOCHA, JOANNA Best Student Paper Competition, SW Association of

Parasitologists

COLICCHIO, JACK Runner up, Graduate Poster, Regional American Society

for Plant Biologist Conference

GERHART, LACI Honorable Mention, Graduate Studies Distinguished

Service Award

First Place, Snyder Book Collecting Contest, Graduate

Student Division

Third Place, Sigma Xi Student Research Paper

Competition

HENSZ, CHRISTOPHER Second Place, GIS Day, Student Research Competition

JONES, ROBIN Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

KLYMIUK, ASHLEY Isabel C. Cookson Paleobotanical Award, Botanical

Society of America.

MANTHEY, JOE Student Research Award, American Ornithologists’

Union

MICKLE, KATHRYN Argersinger Dissertation Prize

MONNAHAN, PATRICK Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

O’NEILL, BRIAN Mentor, Governor’s Award Recipient, Undergraduate

Poster Competition

ROELS, STEVE CLAS Outstanding Thesis Project

SIMOES, MARIANA Nominated, Nelson Scholarship

SONG, CHAO GTA Award, KU Grad Studies

2012 Annual Report Students Graduating with Advanced Degrees

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Students Graduating with Advanced Degrees

Students Graduating with M. A. Degree and Thesis Title

(Graduate Advisor in parenthesis)

BERGENE, JULIE (Edith L. Taylor) —Dordrechtites arcanus, an anatomically preserved

gymnospermous reproductive structure from the Middle Triassic of Antarctica.

FUITEN, ALLISON (Rafe Brown and Linda Trueb)—Skeletal variation in Melanesian forest frogs

(Anura: Ceretobatrachidae).

WELTON, LUKE (Rafe Brown)—Multilocus phylogeny and Bayesian estimates of species

boundaries reveal hidden evolutionary relationships and cryptic diversity in Southeast Asian water

monitors (genus Varanus).

Students Graduating with Ph.D. Degree and Dissertation Title

(Graduate Advisor in parenthesis)

BENTILAGE, BASTIAN (Paulyn Cartwright)—Phylogenetic systematics, taxonomy, and

biogeography of jellyfish (Cnidaria: Medusozoa)

BODBYL ROELS, SARAH (John Kelly)—Mating system evolution, plant-pollinator interactions, and

floral ultraviolet patterning in Mimulus guttatus.

LINKEM, CHARLES (Rafe Brown) —Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of

Sphenomorphini (Squamata: Scincidae).

MICKLE, KATHRYN (Hans-Peter Schultze and Ed Wiley)—Unraveling the systematics of

palaeoniscoid fishes-lower actinopterygians in need of a complete phylogenetic revision.

MURPHY, CHERYL (Bryan Foster)—Aboveground-belowground interactions: Investigating the

role of plant communities in structuring soil bacterial communities.

NAWROCKI, ANNALISE (Paulyn Cartwright)—Phylogenetics of Aplanulata (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa)

and the evolution and development of Ectopleura larynx.

REED, ALEXIS (Sharon Billings)—Variation in physiological responses of forest trees to

disturbance: implications for future forest carbon and management.

SCHWENDEMANN, ANDREW (Thomas N. Taylor)—Paleophysiology of Permian and Triassic seed

plants.

SU, YONG-CHAO (Deborah Smith)—A gang of thieves—evolution of cooperative kleptoparasitism

in the subfamily Argyrodinae (Araneae: Theridiidae).

SUKUMARAN, JEET (Rafe Brown and Mark Holder)—Geographies and genealogies:

Phylogeographic simulation and Bayesian approaches to statistical phylogeographic model

selection.

2012 Annual Report Service Activities Provided by Faculty

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Partial Listing of Service Activities Provided by Faculty

ALEXANDER, DAVID Endowment Award/Special Support Committee,

Entomology Scholarships

Undergraduate Program Committee

Undergraduate Majors Application Appeals Committee

ALEXANDER, HELEN Plant Virus Ecology Network (PVEN)

Chancellors Club Teaching Professor Selection Committee

Field Station and Ecological Reserves Executive Committee

EEB Merit Evaluation Committee

CLAS Task Force on Administrative Compensation

Ecological/Evolutionary Genomics Search Committee

ARMITAGE, KENNETH Historic Mount Oread Friends

Kansas Heritage Advisory Board

BALLANTYNE, FORD EEB Seminar Committee

Microbial Ecologist Faculty Search Committee

BILLINGS, SHARON National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)

Canada’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

(NSERC)

KBS Field Station Executive Committee

KBS Executive Committee

College Academic Council

Ex-officio member, EEB Graduate Admissions Committee

Ex-officio member, Graduate Program Committee

BLUMENSTIEL, JUSTIN EEB Genomics Faculty Search Committee

EEB Seminar Committee

BROWN, RAFE SSAR Long-Range Planning Committee

SSAR Seibert Awards Committee Chair

Philippine WCSP Student Presentation Award Committee

University Senate Task Force on Learner Outcomes

EEB Systematic Herpetologist Search Committee

EEB Sabbatical Leave Committee

EEB Webpage Committee

BURG, GREGORY Undergraduate Biology Director

UKan Teach Steering Committee

UKan Teach Policy and Appeals Committee

EEB Undergraduate Biology Program Committee

Tri-Beta Biology Honors Society

Biology KBOR Core Outcomes Committee

BUSBY, WILLIAM Kansas Threatened and Endangered Species Task Force

Kansas Ornithology Society

Kansas Nongame Wildlife Advisory Council


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North American Breeding Bird Survey

CARTWRIGHT, PAULYN CLAS Graduate Program Committee

EEB Website Committee

EEB Graduate Program Committee

EEB Microbial Ecology Search Committee

EEB/BI Ichthyology Search Committee

CHABOO, CAROLINE Commons Seed Grant Review

Kansas African Studies Center

Herpetologist Search Committee

EEB Diversity Enhancement Committee

DEBOER, GERRIT Entomology Endowment Committee

MySuccess Development Committee

Faculty Student Senate

College Undergraduate Student Scholarships and Award

Committee


Undergraduate Writing Assessment Committee

KU Majors Fair

Diversity Development Committee

DENOYELLES, FRANK Kansas Biological Survey Deputy Director

Director, Kansas Aquatic Mesocosm Program

Sediment Baseline Research Group

ICL Community Advisory Board

Kansas Field Station Operations Committee

Kansas Field Station Executive Committee

EEB Microbial Ecology Search Committee

ENGEL, MICHAEL University Committee on Faculty Compensation

KU Undergraduate Biology


EEB Graduate Admissions Committee

EEB Diversity Development Committee

FAUTIN, DAPHNE International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature

NOAA Data Access and Archiving Working Group

FOSTER, BRYAN Microbial Ecologist Search Committee

Systematic Ichthyology Search Committee

Executive Committee Kansas Field Station

EEB Graduate Admission Committee

FREEMAN, CRAIG Flora of North America Association

Western Prairie Fringed Orchid Recovery Team, U.S. Fish &

Wildlife Service.

Kansas Native Plant Society

Grassland Heritage Foundation

Kansas Forestry Stewardship Committee


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Dyck Arboretum of the Plains

KBS Executive Committee

GLEASON, JENNIFER KU Faculty Senate and Faculty Senate Executive Committee

Search Committee: Director for Undergraduate Research University Senate Task Force on Tuition Compensation

Faculty Senate Task Force on Promotion and Tenure

Committee on Standards and Procedures in Promotion and

Tenure

First Year Seminar Steering and Selection Committees


EEB Genomics Search Committee

EEB Undergraduate Biology Program Committee

HAUFLER, CHRISTOPHER EEB Department Chairperson

Special Advisor, Provost’s Office

Center for Teaching Excellence

Botanical Society of America

HILEMAN, LENA EEB Graduate Admissions Committee

CLAS Academic Misconduct Committee



HOLDER, MARK EEB Graduate Program Committee



JANDER, RUDOLF KU Graduate Research Competition Committee


KU Evolutionist Club


JENSEN, KIRSTEN American Society of Parasitologists

Scientific Committee, International Symposium for Fish

Parasites

Faculty in the Department of American Society of Parasitologists Site Selection Committee

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Fulbright/Graduate Direct Exchange Committee

are representatives on numerous Director for Museum Studies Search Committee

state, national, and international Systematic Herpetology Search Committee

boards and policy-making bodies. Biology Honors Committee

Biology Microscopy Committee

EEB Promotion and Tenure Committee

KELLY, JOHN Society for the Study of Evolution

EEB Greenhouse Director



Ichthyology Search Committee


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KINDSCHER, KELLY KBS Undergraduate Research and Internship Committee

Kansas Land Trust Board Member

Prairie/Plains Resource Institute

Michael Young Academic Advisor Award, CLAS

KRISHTALKA, LEONARD Global Biodiversity Information Facility

AAAS Council on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

BioOne Board

Natural Science Collections Alliance Board

KU Research Initiative Summit #4

Freedom Frontier Natural Heritage Site

Museum Studies Committee

The Commons, Leadership Team


LIEBERMAN, BRUCE International Palaeontological Association

Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)

KU Core Curriculum Committee

KU Committee on Sabbatical Leave

Undergraduate Biology Program Committee


MARTIN, CRAIG Biology Honors Committee

MARTINKO, EDWARD Kansas Biological Survey Director

NEON Domain 6 Committee

KU Field Station Director

Kansas Water Authority

Kansas Water Resources Research Institute Council

Kansas Geographic Information Systems Policy Board

KUCR, Research Directors Council

KUCR Finance and Audit Committee

Research and Graduate Studies Promotion Committee


MORT, MARK Botanical Society of America Election Committee

American Society of Plant Taxonomists Website Committee

EEB Graduate Admissions Committee Chairperson

EEB Executive Committee

MOYLE, ROBERT Organizing Committee, International Ornithological

Conference of SE Asia.



EEB/BI Systematic Ichthyology Search Committee

ORIVE, MARIA EEB Executive Committee

Biological Sciences Advisory Board Faculty Liaison

EEB GRF Review Committee

Ex officio, Promotion and Tenure Committee

Ex officio, Sabbatical Leave Committee


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Ex officio, Diversity Development Committee

EEB Website Development Committee

PETERSON, A. TOWNSEND Northeast India Biodiversity Network (NEIBN) Advisory

Board

VertNet Coordinating Committee

American Ornithologists’ Union Collections Committee

European Network for Biodiversity Information

Candian Research Chairs Program

International Ornithological Congress

Open Access Advisory Board

Latin American Studies Executive Committee

IGERT Steering Committee

EEB Graduate Program Committee Director

PIEROTTI, RAYMOND University Animal Care Committee

EEB Diversity Enhancement Committee

SHORT, ANDREW EEB Seminar Committee

Microbial Ecologist Search Committee

Systematics Ichthyology Search Committee

SMITH, DEBORAH American Arachnological Society

KU Committee on Promotion & Tenure (UCPT)

Standards and Procedures for Promotion & Tenure

EEB Executive Committee

Undergraduate Biology Program Committee

EEB CTE Ambassador

SMITH, VAL EEB Promotion and Tenure Committee


SOBERON, JORGE National Museum of Natural History Advisory Board

CONABIO

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

JRS Biodiversity Foundation Board of Directors,

Kisumu, Kenya

The Nature Conservancy Science Council

EEB Promotion and Tenure Committee


TAYLOR, EDITH Society for Sedimentary Geology Council Nomination

Committee

NSF Panel, Earth Sciences

International Organisation of Palaeobotany, Vice-President

Friends of Lawrence Public Library

EEB Merit Evaluation Committee

TAYLOR, ORLEY EEB Graduate Program Committee

EEB Undergraduate Program Committee



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Monarch Joint Venture

Wildlife Habitat Council

TAYLOR, THOMAS National Science Board

NSB Committee on Programs and Plans

NSB-Committee on Education and Human Resources

NSB-CPP Subcommittee on Polar Issues

NSB CPP Task Force on Unsolicited Mid-Scale Research

NSB-Task Force on Merit Review

NSB-Committee on Education and Human Resources

Vannevar Bush Award Committee

NAS Award in Early Earth and Life Sciences Committee

EEB Coloquium Program Committee

THORP, JAMES International Society for River Science

The Nature Conservancy Great River Partnership

ISRS Organizing Committee in Beijing

KU Faculty Senate Faculty Rights, Privileges and

Responsibilities


TIMM, ROBERT American Society of Mammalogists

Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)

Graduate Committee, Latin American Studies

Science Library Liaison

Academic Misconduct Panel

Animal Care and Use Committee

Las Cruces Advisory Committee

WARD, JOY National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Chair

University of Kansas Athletic Director’s Advisory Committee

KUCR Board of Trustees


2012 Annual Report Editorial Boards and Editorships of Faculty

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Editorial Boards and Editorships of Faculty

ARMITAGE, KENNETH Oecologia Montana

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

BILLINGS, SHARON Global Change Biology

Frontiers in Terrestrial Microbiology

Biogeochemistry

BROWN, RAFE Taprobanica

Journal of Herpetology

CARTWRIGHT, PAULYN Integrative and Comparative Biology

CHABOO, CAROLINE Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Chrysomela Newsletter

ENGEL, MICHAEL African Invertebrates

Annales Zoologici

Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny

Journal of Paleontology

Paleontological Contributions

Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne

Systematic Entomology

Taprobanica

ZooKeys

FAUTIN, DAPHNE Ocean Biogeographic Information System

World Register of Marine Species

Encyclopedia of Life

FOSTER, BRYAN Oecologia

Journal of Vegetation Science

FREEMAN, CRAIG Flora of North America Association

HAUFLER, CHRISTOPHER American Fern Journal

American Journal of Botany

Journal of Plant Research

Anales del Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid

HILEMAN, LENA Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

HOLDER, MARK Systematic Biology

BMC Evolutionary Biology

JENSEN, KIRSTEN Journal of Parasitology

Comparative Parasitology

KU Scientific Papers

Systematic Parasitology

2012 Annual Report Editorial Boards and Editorships of Faculty

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KELLY, JOHN Evolution

LIEBERMAN, BRUCE Journal of Paleontology

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Open Access Paleontology

Lethaia

MORT, MARK Plant Systematics and Evolution

The Scientific World Journal

KRINGS, MICHAEL Zitteliana

ORIVE, MARIA Genetica

PETERSON, A. TOWNSEND Biodiversity Informatics

Revista Mexicana de la Biodiversidad

Graellsia

SHORT, ANDREW Zootaxa

SMITH, VAL Industrial Biotechnology

SOBERON, JORGE Biodiversity Informatics

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad

TAYLOR, EDITH PALAIOS, SEPM

TAYLOR, THOMAS Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

THORP, JAMES River Research and Applications

River Systems

WARD, JOY Faculty of 1000, Physiological Ecology section

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