Articles
An experimental evaluation of the use of C3 δ13C plant tissue as a proxy for the paleoatmospheric δ13CO2 signature of air (with B. H. Lomax and J. A. Lake), Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems (2012)
Previous work suggests that the relationship between the carbon isotope composition of air (d13Ca) and...
Do thick leaves avoid thermal damage in critically low wind speeds? (with A. Leigh, S. Sevanto, M. C. Ball, J. D. Close, D. S. Ellsworth, A. B. Nicotra, and S. Vogel), New Phytologist (2012)
• Transient lulls in air movement are rarely measured, but can cause leaf temperature to...
The evolution of seeds (with Ada Linkies, Kai Graeber, and Gerhard Leubner-Metzger), New Phytologist (2010)
The evolution of the seed represents a remarkable life-history transition for photosynthetic organisms. Here, we...
Correlated Evolution of Defensive and Nutritional Traits in Native and Non-Native Plants (with Nicole Molinari), Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (2010)
We performed a comparative analysis of defensive and nutritional plant traits responsible for differential herbivory...
Genome Size Is a Strong Predictor of Root Meristem Growth Rate (with Adam Gruner, Nathan Hoverter, and Tylia Smith), Journal of Botany (2010)
Variation in genome size (GS) has been linked to several facets of the plant phenotype....
On the Relationship between Pollen Size and Genome Size (with Rachel B. Clancy, Lars Götzenberger, Leighton Dann, and Jeremy M. Beaulieu), Journal of Botany (2010)
Here we test whether genome size is a predictor of pollen size. If it were,...
Small Heat Shock Protein Responses Differ between Chaparral Shrubs from Contrasting Microclimates, Journal of Botany (2010)
Small heat shock protein (sHsp) responses were studied for two evergreen perennial shrubs in the...
Genome size as a predictor of guard cell length in Arabidopsis thaliana is independent of environmental conditions (with Barry H. Lomax, F. Ian Woodward, Ilia J. Leitch, and Janice A. Lake), New Phytologist (2009)
• The recent discovery of a strong positive relationship between angiosperm genome size and stomatal...
Genome size is a strong predictor of cell size and stomatal density in angiosperms (with Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Ilia J. Leitch, Sunil Patil, and Arjun Pendharkar), New Phytologist (2008)
• Across eukaryotes phenotypic correlations with genome size are thought to scale from genome size...
Climate Change and the Future of California's Endemic Flora (with Scott R. Loarie, Benjamin E. Carter, Katherine Hayhoe, Sean McMahon, Richard Moe, and David D. Ackerly), PLoS ONE (2008)
The flora of California, a global biodiversity hotspot, includes 2387 endemic plant taxa. With anticipated...
Genome Size Scaling through Phenotype Space (with Jeremy M. Beaulieu), Annals of Botany (2008)
Background and Aims Early observations that genome size was positively correlated with cell size formed...
Correlated evolution of genome size and cell volume in diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) (with Jessica A. Connolly, Matthew J. Oliver, Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Lars Tomanek, and Mark A. Moline), Journal of Phycology (2008)
A correlation between genome size and cell volume has been observed across diverse assemblages of...
Genome Size Evolution in Relation to Leaf Strategy and Metabolic Rates Revisited (with Jeremy M. Beaulieu and Ilia J. Leitch), Annals of Botany (2007)
• Background and Aims It has been proposed that having too much DNA may carry...
Correlated evolution of genome size and seed mass (with Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Angela T. Moles, Ilia J. Leitch, Michael D. Bennett, and John B. Dickie), New Phytologist (2007)
• Previous investigators have identified strong positive relationships between genome size and seed mass within...
Improved monitoring of HABs using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) (with Ian C. Robbins, G. J. Kirkpatrick, Shelley M. Blackwell, J. Hillier, and Mark A. Moline), Harmful Algae (2006)
Blooms of toxic algae are increasing in magnitude and frequency around the globe, causing extensive...
Expression profiling and local adaptation of Boechera holboellii populations for water use efficiency across a naturally occurring water stress gradient (with Heiko Vogel, Juergen Kroymann, Alice Shumate, Hanneke Witsenboer, and Thomas Mitchell-Olds), Molecular Ecology (2006)
We studied the physiological basis of local adaptation to drought in Boechera holboellii, a perennial...
The Large Genome Constraint Hypothesis: Evolution, Ecology and Phenotype (with Nicole A. Molinari and Dmitri A. Petrov), Annals of Botany (2005)
• Background and Aims If large genomes are truly saturated with unnecessary ‘junk’ DNA, it...
Evolution and plasticity of photosynthetic thermal tolerance, specific leaf area and leaf size: congeneric species from desert and coastal environments (with David D. Ackerly), New Phytologist (2003)
• We examined whether increased high temperature photosynthetic thermal tolerance (PT), reduced specific leaf area...
Small heat shock protein responses of a closely related pair of desert and coastal Encelia (with David D. Ackerly), International Journal of Plant Sciences (2003)
Evolutionary variation for accumulation of small heat shock protein (sHsp) may contribute to thermal niche...
An ecological and evolutionary analysis of photosynthetic thermotolerance using the temperature-dependent increase in fluorescence (with David D. Ackerly), Oecologia (2002)
The hypothesis that species inhabiting warmer regions have greater photosynthetic tolerance of high temperatures was...
Leaf size, specific leaf area and microhabitat distribution of chaparral woody plants: contrasting patterns in species level and community level analyses (with D. D. Ackerly, S. B. Weiss, K. Barton, and K. P. Starmer), Oecologia (2002)
We examined variation in leaf size and specific leaf area (SLA) in relation to the...
Variation in nuclear DNA content across environmental gradients: a quantile regression analysis (with David D. Ackerly), Ecology Letters (2002)
The nuclear DNA content of angiosperms varies by several orders of magnitude. Previous studies suggest...
Correlated evolution of chloroplast heat shock protein expression in closely related plant species (with David D. Ackerly), American Journal of Botany (2001)
Interspecific variation in chloroplast low molecular weight (cLMW) HSP (heat shock protein) expression was examined...