SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE PLAI GROUP 

 

 

 

 

Plant Responses to Herbivory 

Cahill, J. F., Jr., J. P. Castelli, and B. B. Casper.  2000.  The herbivory uncertainty principle: Visiting plants can alter herbivory. Ecology.  82:307-312.

Hik, D.S. and R.L. Jefferies. 1990. Increases in the net above-ground primary production of a salt marsh forage grass: a test of the predictions of the herbivore-optimization model. Journal of Ecology 78:180-195. 

Hik, D.S., R.L. Jefferies and A.R.E. Sinclair. 1992. Grazing by geese, isostatic uplift and asymmetry in the development of salt-marsh plant communities. Journal of Ecology 80:395-406. 

Hik, D.S., H.A. Sadul and R.L. Jefferies. 1991. Effects of the timing of multiple grazings by geese on net above ground primary production of swards of Puccinellia phryganodes. Journal of Ecology 79:715-730. 

Roland J. 1994 After the decline: what maintains low winter moth density after successful biological control? Journal of Animal Ecology, 63: 392-398. 

Roland J. 1993 Large-scale forest fragmentation increases the duration of tent caterpillar outbreaks. Oecologia, 93: 25-30. 

Roland J. & K.E. Denford 1991 Identification and use of volatile plant compounds for the enhancement of biological control by Cyzenis albicans (Tachinidae). Redia, 74(3): 135- 141. 

Zellmer, I.D., M. Clauss, D.S. Hik, and R.L. Jefferies. 1993. Growth responses of arctic graminoids following grazing by captive lesser snow geese. Oecologia 93:487-492. 

 


Herbivore Responses to Variation in Host Plants and Landscape Structure 

Dale, M.R.T., & Zbigniewicz, M.W. 1997. Spatial pattern in boreal shrub communities: effects of a peak in herbivore densities. Can. J. Bot. 75: 1342-1348. 

Martin, K. and D.S. Hik. 1992. Willow ptarmigan chicks consume moss sporophyte capsules. Journal of Field Ornithology 63:355-358. 

Merrill, E. H., K. J. Raedeke, and R. D. Taber. 1995. Food habits and simulated diet quality of elk inhabiting early successional forests in western Washington. Northwest Sci. 69:9-18. 

Roland, J., B. Mackey & B. Cooke. 1998. Effects of climate and forest structure on duration of forest tent caterpillar outbreak across central Ontario. Canadian Entomologist, 130: 1-12. 

Roland, J. & P.D. Taylor. 1997. Insect parasitoid species respond to forest structure at different spatial scales. Nature, 386: 710-713. 

Roland J. & P.D. Taylor. 1995 Herbivore-natural enemy interactions in fragmented and continuous forests. In: Population Dynamics: New Approaches and Synthesis (N. Cappuccino and P.W. Price eds.) Academic Press, San Diego (pp. 195-208). 

Roland J. & D.G. Embree 1995 Biological control of the winter moth. Annual Review of Entomology, 40: 475-492. 

Roland J. & W.J. Kaupp. 1995 Reduced transmission of forest tent caterpillar NPV at the forest edge. Environmental Entomology, 24: 1175-1178. 

Rothman L. & J. Roland.1998. Relationships between forest fragmentation and colony performance in the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria. Ecography, 21: 383-391. 

Schmitz, O.J., D.S. Hik and A.R.E. Sinclair. 1992. Plant chemical defence and twig selection by snowshoe hares: an optimal foraging perspective. Oikos 65:295-300. 

 


Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant-Herbivore Defense 

C. Peter Constabel (1999) A Survey of Herbivore-Inducible Defensive Proteins and Phytochemicals. In: Induced Plant Defenses Against Herbivores and Pathogens (Agrawal, A.A., Tuzun, S., and Bent, A., eds). APS Press. 

C. Peter Constabel, L. Yip and C. A. Ryan (1998) Prosystemin from potato, black nightshade, and bell pepper: Primary structure and biological activity of predicted systemin polypeptides. Plant Mol. Biol. 36: 55-62. 

C. Peter Constabel and Clarence A. Ryan (1998) A survey of wound- and methyl jasmonate-induced leaf polyphenol oxidase in crop plants. Phytochemistry 47: 507-511. 

C. Peter Constabel, Daniel R. Bergey and Clarence A. Ryan (1996) Polyphenol oxidase as a component of the inducible defense response of tomato against insect herbivores. Phytochemical Redundancy in Ecological Interactions, Rec. Adv. Phytochem., Vol 30. 

C. Peter Constabel, Daniel R. Bergey and Clarence A. Ryan (1995) Systemin activates synthesis of wound-inducible tomato leaf polyphenol oxidase via the octadecanoid wound signalling pathway. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92: 407-411. 

C. Peter Constabel and Normand Brisson (1995) Stigma- and vascular-specific expression of the PR-10a gene of potato: a novel pattern of expression of a pathogenesis-related gene. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 8: 104-113. 

Keddie, Andrew and Martin Erlandson. 1995. Characterization of a Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus from the Forest Tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 65: 43-47.

 


Evolution of Plant-Animal Interactions 

Breton L, Addicott JF (1992) Does host-plant quality mediate aphid-ant mutulaism? Oikos 63:253-259

Breton L, Addicott JF (1992) Density-dependent mutualism in an aphid-ant interaction. Ecology 73:2175-2180
Sperling, FAH, AG Raske and IS Otvos. Mitochondrial.  1999.  DNA sequence variation among populations and host races of Lambdina fiscellaria (Gn.)
Sperling, FAH and PP Feeny. 1995.  Umbellifer and composite feeding in Papilio species: phylogenetic frameworks and constraints on caterpillars. pp. 299-306 in "Swallowtail Butterflies: Their Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", J.M. Scriber, Y. Tsubaki and R.C. Lederhouse, eds. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Gainsville, FL.
Sperling, FAH, J-F Landry and DA Hickey.  1995.  DNA-based identification of introduced ermine moth species in North America (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 88: 155-162.
Sperling, FAH and DA Hickey.  1995.  Amplified mitochondrial DNA as a diagnostic marker for species of conifer-feeding Choristoneura (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). The Canadian Entomologist 127: 277-288.

Tyre RA, Addicott JF (1993) Facultative non-mutualistic behaviour in an "Obligate" mutualist: "Cheating" by yucca moths. Oecologia 94:173-175

 


Microbial-Plant-Animal Interactions 

R.S. Currah, R.A. Stockey and B.A. LePage. 1998.  "An Eocene tar spot on a fossil palm and its fungal hyperparasite." Mycologia 90 no. 4:  667-673.

G. Kernaghan and R.S. Currah. 1998.  "Ectomycorrhizal fungi at tree line in the Canadian Rockies." Mycotaxon 69 (Accepted for publication 30 June 1998): 39-80.

Kernaghan, G., R. S. CURRAH and R. J. Bayer. (1997). Russulaceous ectomycorrhizae of Abies lasiocarpa and Picea engelmannii. Can. J. Bot. 75:1843-1850.

Zelmer, C. D. and R. S. CURRAH. (1997). Symbiotic germination of Spiranthes lacera (Orchidaceae) with a naturally occurring endophyte. Lindleyana 12:142-148.

Hambleton, S. and R. S. CURRAH. (1997). Fungal endophytes from the roots of alpine and boreal Ericaceae. Can. J. Bot. 75:1570-1581.


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