Biodiversity Journal Club
The journal club website was moved!
You can find it now at: http://mobot-biodiversity-jc.weebly.com/
When: Fridays from 4 p.m. to ~5 p.m.
Where: Conference room of the second floor in the
Spring semester 2013
May 10
Lawrence, P.A. 2006. Men, Women,
and Ghosts in Science. Plos Biol, 4, e19.
Shteir, A.B. 1997. Gender and
“Modern” Botany in Victorian England. Osiris, 12, 29–38.
May 3
Humphreys & Linder. 2013. Evidence for recent evolution of
cold tolerance in grasses suggests current distribution is not limited by (low)
temperature. New Phytologist.
April 26
Ellegren, et al. 2012. The genomic landscape of species
divergence in Ficedula flycatchers. Nature 491, 756–760.
Supplementary Material: Ellegren, et al. 2012. Supplement.
Background (optional) paper: Wu.
2001. The genic view of the process of speciation. J. Evol. Biol. 14, 851–865.
April 19
Wiegand, et al. 2012. Testing the independent species’ arrangement assertion made by theories
of stochastic geometry of biodiversity. Proc. R. Soc., 279, 3312–3320.
Supplementary Material: Wiegand, et al. 2012. Supplement.
Background (optional) paper: McGill, B.J. 2010. Towards a unification of
unified theories of biodiversity. Ecol. Lett.,
13, 627–642.
April 11
Craford et al. 2012. The intermediate disturbance hypothesis and plant invasions:
Implications for species richness and management.
Jeremy
Fox’s blog post: Zombie ideas in ecology.
April 5
Waldron, A. 2007. Null models of geographic
range size evolution reaffirm its heritability. Am. Nat., 170, 221–231.
March 29
Crisp, M.D. & Cook, L.G. 2012. Phylogenetic niche conservatism: what are the underlying evolutionary
and ecological causes? New Phytol., 196, 681–694.
March 22
Powell, K.I., et al. 2013. Invasive plants have
scale-dependent effects on diversity by altering species-area relationships.
Science, 339, 316–318.
Supplementary Material: Powell, K.I., et al. 2013. Supplement.
March 8
Pigot, A.L. & Tobias, J.A. 2013. Species interactions constrain geographic range expansion over
evolutionary time. Ecol. Lett., 16, 330–338.
March 1
Cheptou, P.O. 2011. Clarifying Baker’s Law. Ann Bot.
Background (optional) paper: Baker, H.G. 1967. Support for Baker’s Law-As a
Rule. Evolution, 21, 853–856.
February 22
Chave, J. 2013. The problem of pattern and scale in ecology: what have
we learned in 20 years? Ecol. Lett.
Background (optional) paper: Levin, S.A. 1992. The Problem of Pattern and
Scale in Ecology. Ecology, 73, 1943–1967.
February 15
Goldberg, E. E. & B. Igic. 2012.
Tempo and mode in plant breeding system evolution. Evolution 66: 3701–3709.