A5065107859- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Fire effects on ecosystems
University of Nevada, Reno
2025
Agricultural Research Service - Plains Area
2023
Abstract Plants respond to their environment with both short‐term, within‐generation trait plasticity, and long‐term, between‐generation evolutionary changes. However, the relative magnitude of plant responses short‐ long‐term changes in remains poorly understood. Shifts phenological traits can serve as harbingers for environmental change, a plant's current source (i.e., genotype origin) affect phenology via plasticity local adaptation, respectively. To assess role environments explaining...
Abstract Local adaptation may facilitate range expansion during invasions, but the mechanisms promoting destructive invasions remain unclear. Cheatgrass ( Bromus tectorum ), native to Eurasia and Africa, has invaded globally, with particularly severe impacts in western North America. We sequenced 307 genotypes conducted controlled experiments. found that diverse lineages America, where long-distance gene flow is common. Ancestry phenotypic clines predicted those range, indicating pre-adapted...