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Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Dr. Sven C. Buerki joined Boise State University in 2017 and is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Biological Sciences specializing in evolutionary biology. He received his Ph.D. in evolutionary biology as well as his M.S. in behavior, Ecology and Evolution with high distinction both from the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Dr. Buerki’s professional experience includes working as a researcher with the Natural History Museum in the UK and as a Post-doctoral fellow for both the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, UK and the Real Jardin Botanico in Madrid, Spain. His research interests focus on understanding basic principles underpinning biological diversity and its conservation. Dr. Buerki is currently a member of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.

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Dr. Sven C. Buerki joined Boise State University in 2017 and is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Biological Sciences specializing in evolutionary biology. He received his Ph.D. in evolutionary biology as well as his M.S. in behavior, Ecology and Evolution with high distinction both from the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Dr. Buerki’s professional experience includes working as a researcher with the Natural History Museum in the UK and as a Post-doctoral fellow for both the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, UK and the Real Jardin Botanico in Madrid, Spain. His research interests focus on understanding basic principles underpinning biological diversity and its conservation. Dr. Buerki is currently a member of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.

Articles (30)

A Genotype × Environment Experiment Reveals Contrasting Response Strategies to Drought Between Populations of a Keystone Species (Artemisia tridentata; Asteraceae) (Anthony E. Melton, Kara Moran, Peggy Martinez, et al.) Plant-Environment Interactions (2023)

Western North America has been experiencing persistent drought exacerbated by climate change for over two decades. This extreme climate event is a clear threat to native plant communities. Artemisia tridentata is a keystone shrub species ...

A Field‐Capable Rapid Plant DNA Extraction Protocol Using Microneedle Patches for Botanical Surveying and Monitoring (Jonathan Selz, Nicolas R. Adam, Céline E. M. Magrini, et al.) Applications in Plant Sciences (2023)

Premise: A novel protocol for rapid plant DNA extraction using microneedles is proposed, which supports botanic surveys, taxonomy, and systematics. This protocol can be conducted in the field with limited laboratory skills and equipment. The ...

Acclimation and Hardening of a Slow-Growing Woody Species Emblematic to Western North America from in vitro Plantlets (Peggy Martinez, Marcelo Serpe, Rachael Barron, et al.) Applications in Plant Sciences (2023)

Premise: Determining the tolerance of plant populations to climate change requires the development of biotechnological protocols producing genetically identical individuals used for genotype-by-environment experiments. Such protocols are missing for slow-growth, woody plants; to address this ...

Meta-Analysis Reveals Challenges and Gaps for Genome-to-Phenome Research Underpinning Plant Drought Response (Anthony E. Melton, Stephanie J. Galla, Carlos Dave C. Dumaguit, et al.) International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2022)

Severe drought conditions and extreme weather events are increasing worldwide with climate change, threatening the persistence of native plant communities and ecosystems. Many studies have investigated the genomic basis of plant responses to drought. However, ...

A Haploid Pseudo-Chromosome Genome Assembly for a Keystone Sagebrush Species of Western North American Rangelands (Anthony E. Melton, Richard S. Beard, Carlos Dave C. Dumaguit, et al.) G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics (2022)

Increased ecological disturbances, species invasions, and climate change are creating severe conservation problems for several plant species that are widespread and foundational. Understanding the genetic diversity of these species and how it relates to adaptation ...

Uncovering Haplotype Diversity in Cultivated Mexican Vanilla Species (Paige Ellestad, Miguel Angel Perez Farrera, Félix Forest, et al.) American Journal of Botany (2022)

Premise Although vanilla is one of the best-known spices, there is only a limited understanding of its biology and genetics within Mexico, where its cultivation originated and where phenotypic variability is high. This study aims ...

Centralized Project-Specific Metadata Platforms: Toolkit Provides New Perspectives on Open Data Management within Multi-Institution and Multidisciplinary Research Projects (Andrew Wright Child, Jennifer Hinds, Lucas Sheneman, et al.) BMC Research Notes (2022)

Open science and open data within scholarly research programs are growing both in popularity and by requirement from grant funding agencies and journal publishers. A central component of open data management, especially on collaborative, multidisciplinary, ...

A Draft Genome Provides Hypotheses on Drought Tolerance in a Keystone Plant Species in Western North America Threatened by Climate Change (Anthony E. Melton, James Beck, Stephanie J. Galla, et al.) Ecology and Evolution (2021)

Climate change presents distinct ecological and physiological challenges to plants as extreme climate events become more common. Understanding how species have adapted to drought, especially ecologically important nonmodel organisms, will be crucial to elucidate potential ...

Phylogenetics and Comparative Plastome Genomics of Two of the Largest Genera of Angiosperms, Piper and Peperomia (Piperaceae) (Sara E. Simmonds, James F. Smith, Christopher Davidson, et al.) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2021)

Biological radiations provide unique opportunities to understand the evolution of biodiversity. One such radiation is the pepper plant family Piperaceae, an early-diverging and mega-diverse lineage that could serve as a model to study the diversification ...

The Role of Genome Duplication in Big Sagebrush Growth and Fecundity (Bryce A. Richardson, Matthew J. Germino, Marcus V. Warwell, et al.) American Journal of Botany (2021)

Premise: Adaptive traits can be dramatically altered by genome duplication. The study of interactions among traits, ploidy, and the environment are necessary to develop an understanding of how polyploidy affects niche differentiation and to develop ...

Pandanus grayorum (Pandanaceae): A New Species Endemic to North-Eastern Queensland (Australia) (Martin W. Callmander, Sven Buerki, Frank A. Zich, et al.) Australian Systematic Botany (2021)

Pandanus grayorum Callm., Buerki & Gallaher (Pandanaceae) is newly described from the Wet Tropics of north-eastern Queensland in Australia. It is the second Australian species other than P. gemmifer H.St.John known to reproduce by axillary ...

An Updated Infra-Familial Classification of Sapindaceae Based on Targeted Enrichment Data (Sven Buerki) American Journal of Botany (2021)

Premise: The economically important, cosmopolitan soapberry family (Sapindaceae) comprises ca. 1900 species in 144 genera. Since the seminal work of Radlkofer, several authors have attempted to overcome challenges presented by the family’s complex infra-familial classification. ...

Harnessing Large-Scale Biodiversity Data to Infer the Current Distribution of Vanilla planifolia (Orchidaceae) (Paige Ellestad, Félix Forest, Marcelo Serpe, et al.) Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (2021)

Although vanilla is one of the most popular flavours in the world, there is still uncertainty concerning the native distribution of the species that produces it, Vanilla planifolia. To circumscribe the native geographical extent of ...

Resolving Species Boundaries in a Recent Radiation with the Angiosperms353 Probe Set: The Lomatium packardiae/L. anomalum Clade of the L. triternatum (Apiaceae) Complex (Michael V. Ottenlips, Sven Buerki and James F. Smith) American Journal of Botany (2021)

Premise: Speciation not associated with morphological shifts is challenging to detect unless molecular data are employed. Using Sanger-sequencing approaches, the Lomatium packardiae/L. anomalum subcomplex within the larger Lomatium triternatum complex could not be resolved. Therefore, ...

Otto Warburg and His Contributions to the Screw Pine Family (Pandanaceae) (Martin W. Callmander, Robert Vogt, Anna Donatelli, et al.) Willdenowia (2021)

Otto Warburg (1859–1938) had a great interest in tropical botany. He travelled in South-East Asia and the South Pacific between 1885 and 1889 and brought back a considerable collection of plant specimens from this expedition ...

G2PMineR: A Genome to Phenome Literature Review Approach (John M.A. Wojahn, Stephanie J. Galla, Anthony E. Melton, et al.) Genes (2021)

There is a gap in the conceptual framework linking genes to phenotypes (G2P) for non-model organisms, as most non-model organisms do not yet have genomic resources readily available. To address this, researchers often perform literature ...

Neotypification of Pandanus odorifer the Correct Name for P. odoratissimus (Pandanaceae) (Martin W. Callmander, Timothy J. Gallaher, John McNeill, et al.) Taxon (2021)

Pandanus odorifer (Pandanaceae) is an economically important species distributed on coasts from India and Sri Lanka to South China through tropical Asian countries. Pandanus odoratissimus has been widely used as the accepted name for the ...

Evolutionary Origins of Three Rare Alpine-Endemic Species of Lomatium (Apiaceae) in the Wallowa and Elkhorn Mountains of Northeastern Oregon (Michael V. Ottenlips, Mary Ann E. Feist, Donald H. Mansfield, et al.) International Journal of Plant Sciences (2020)

Premise of research. Shared ancestry and convergent/parallel evolution are the two primary causes of morphologically similar species occurring in similar climatic niches. Alpine habitats harbor a unique biodiversity that is often characterized by many convergences ...

New Guinea Has the World’s Richest Island Flora (Sven Buerki) Nature (2020)

New Guinea is the world’s largest tropical island and has fascinated naturalists for centuries. Home to some of the best-preserved ecosystems on the planet and to intact ecological gradients—from mangroves to tropical alpine grasslands—that are ...

A New Micro-Endemic Species of Alectryon (Sapindaceae) from Koghis Forest, New Caledonia (Jérôme Munzinger, Porter P. Lowry, Martin W. Callmander, et al.) Systematic Botany (2020)

The new species Alectryon hirsutus is described from New Caledonia. It is distinguished from the only other member of the genus occurring on this southwest Pacific island, A. carinatus, by its uniformly densely hirsute indumentum ...

Influences of a Prolific Gut Fungus (Zancudomyces culisetae) on Larval and Adult Mosquito (Aedes aegypti)-Associated Microbiota (Jonas Frankel-Bricker, Sven Buerki, Kevin P. Feris, et al.) Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2020)

Adult mosquitoes inherit a bacterial community from larvae via transstadial transmission, an understudied process that may influence host-microbe interactions. Microbes contribute to important host life history traits, and analyzing transmitted microbial communities, the interrelationship between ...

The Ghost Fruits of Madagascar: Identifying Dysfunctional Seed Dispersal in Madagascar's Endemic Flora (Sven Buerki) Biological Conservation (2020)

Madagascar lost a large number of large-bodied animal species during the Holocene. Many of them played important roles as seed dispersers. In the case of the largest-seeded species, giant lemurs or elephant birds may have ...

The Role of Antarctica in Biogeographical Reconstruction: A Point of View (Manuel de la Estrella, Sven Buerki, Thais Vasconcelos, et al.) International Journal of Plant Sciences (2019)

Premise of research. The opening of the Drake Passage in the Miocene (disconnecting Antarctica and South America and resulting in the establishment of the Circumpolar Current preventing warm waters from the north to reach the ...

Museum Collections are the Key to Studying Lemurs’ Diet: Gastrointestinal Morphology of Cheirogaleus major (Sven Buerki and Roberto Portela Miguez) Systematics and Biodiversity (2018)

This study reports the first description of the gastrointestinal (GIT) morphology of a lemur species (Cheirogaleus major É. Geoffroy, 1812) of the family Cheirogaleidae using a museum collection deposited at the Natural History Museum, London. ...

Shedding New Light on the Origin and Spread of the Brinjal Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) and Its Wild Relatives (Xavier Aubriot, Sandra Knapp, Mindy M. Syfert, et al.) American Journal of Botany (2018)

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: While brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is the second most important solanaceous fruit crop, we lack firm knowledge of its evolutionary relationships. This in turn limits efficient use of crop wild ...