SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE PLAI GROUP
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. |