Date

Leader

Topic

Article(s)

Notes

4/3

Faculty

Climate change

Primack & Miller-Rushing. 2009. The role of botanical gardens in climate change research. New Phytologist 182:303-313.

4/10

Kathleen

Domestication

Diamond. 2002. Evolution, consequences and future of plant and animal domestication. Nature 418:700-707.

4/17

 Justin

 Coastal development

Thom, Williams, & Diefenderfer. 2005. Balancing the need to develop coastal areas with the desire for an ecologically functioning coastal environment: is net ecosystem improvement possible? Restoration Ecology 13:193-203.

4/24

All

Journal Club format

5/1

Katie

Soil quality evaluation

Vrscaj, B., L. Poggio, and F.A. Marsan. 2008. A method for soil environmental quality evaluation for management and planning in urban areas. Landscape and Urban Planning 88:81-94.

5/8

Hough-Snee

Restoration Design

Bergen, SD, SM Bolton, & JL Fridley. Design principles for ecological engineering. Ecological Engineering 18:201-210.

The SERNW conference has been cancelled, so Nate has stepped up and suggested this instead.

5/15

 Lab meeting

5/22

 Mitchell

Horticulture education

Van Nest, AM. 2004. Learning by doing. American Nurseryman 200(5):26-30.

5/29

 Cori

Trade as a vector for non-natives

Work, TT, DG McCullough, JF Cavey, and R Komsa. 2005. Arrival rate of nonindigenous insect species into the United States through foreign trade. Biological Invasions 7:323-332.

6/5

 Kelsey

Uncertainty

Fuller, MM, LJ Gross, SM Duke-Sylvester, and M Palmer. 2008. Testing the robustness of management decisions to uncertainty: Everglades restoration scenarios. Ecological Applications 18:711-723.