Undergraduate student in environmental sciences, Taylor Tate, has been awarded a Northwestern University 2015 Summer Research Grant ($3,000) for her research "Pollinator and Flower Characteristics." Her advisor is Dr. Krissa Skogen.
PhD student, Elliot Gardner, has been awarded a grant of $4,673 from ISEN (Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, 2015) for his research " Basic science for a sustainable future: the genome of breadfruit’s wild relative."
Barak, R. S., J. B. Fant, A. T. Kramer, and K. A. Skogen. (2015). Assessing the value of potential “native winners” for restoration of cheatgrass-invaded habitat. Western North American Naturalist 75(1) 58-69.
Barak, R.S., K.A. Skogen, A.T. Kramer and J.B. Fant. 2015. Assessing the value of potential "native winners" for restoration of cheatgrass-invaded habitat. Western North American Naturalist 75:55-69. (https://ojs.lib.byu.edu/spc/index.php/wnan/article/view/35847)
Basey, A.C., J.B. Fant, A.T. Kramer. 2015. Producing native plant materials for restoration: 10 rules to collect and maintain genetic diversity. Native Plants Journal 16(1): 37-53. (http://npj.uwpress.org/content/16/1/37.abstract)
Gardner, E.M., K.M. Laricchia, M. Murphy, D. Ragone, B.E. Scheffler, S. Simpson, E.W. Williams, and N.J.C. Zerega. 2015. Primer Note: Chloroplast microsatellite markers for Artocarpus (Moraceae) developed from transcriptome sequences. Applications in Plant Sciences 3(9): http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.3732/apps.1500049
Glisson, W. J., R. S. Brady, A. T. Paulios, S. K. Jacobi, and D. J. Larkin. 2015. Sensitivity of secretive marsh birds to vegetation condition in natural and restored wetlands in Wisconsin. Journal of Wildlife Management. DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.937
Hipp, A.L., D.J. Larkin, R.S. Barak, M.L. Bowles, M.W. Cadotte, S.K. Jacobi, E. Lonsdorf, B.C. Scharenbroch, E. Williams, E. Weiher. 2015. Phylogeny in the service of ecological restoration. American Journal of Botany, doi:10.3732/ajb.1500119.
Larkin, D. J., A. L. Hipp, J. Kattge, W. Prescott, R. K. Tonietto, S. K. Jacobi, and M. L. Bowles. 2015. Phylogenetic measures of plant communities show long-term change and impacts of fire management in tallgrass prairie remnants. Journal of Applied Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12516.
MacIvor, S and K. Ksiazek. 2015. Invertebrates on Green Roofs. In R. Sutton (Ed.) Green Roof Ecosystems, (pp. 333-355). New York: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14983-7_14.
McCary, M. A., J.C. Martinez, L. Umek, L. Heneghan, and D. H. Wise. 2015. Effects of woodland restoration and management on the community of surface-active arthropods in the metropolitan Chicago region. Biological Conservation. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2015.06.005
Riebkes, J.L., R.S. Barak, and A.T. Kramer. 2015. Evaluating seed viability in prairie forbs: a test of three methods. Native Plants Journal 16(2): 96-106. (http://npj.uwpress.org/content/16/2/96.abstract)
Staehlin B. & J.B. Fant (2015) Climate change impacts on seedling establishment for a threatened endemic thistle. The American Midland Naturalist 173(1):47-60. 2015
Zerega, N.J.C., T. Wiesner-Hanks, D. Ragone, B. Irish, B. Scheffler, S. Simpson, and F. Zee. 2015. Diversity of the breadfruit complex (Artocarpus, Moraceae): Genetic characterization of critical germplasm. Tree Genetics and Genomes. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11295-014-0824-z
Zerega, N.J.C., G. Ravikanth, E.M. Gardner, K. Laricchia, T. Melhem, M. Wang, C. E. Witherup, S. Setty, M.I. Zuberi, M.R. Jagdish, and D. Ragone. 2015. New genomic resources to understand genetic diversity and promote crop improvement of jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), breadfruit (A. altilis), and other under utilized Artocarpus crops. Procedings of the International Symposium on Jackfruit and Breadfruit of the Tropics.
MS student ,Claire Ellwanger, received funding ($20,390) from The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in collaboration with the Fish and Wildlife Service for her research "Genetic assessment of management and restoration practices of the federally threatened orchid, Platanthera leucophaea (The Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid). For a more detailed update on Claire's research, please see the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Field Notes Entry (http://www.fws.gov/fieldNotes/regmap.cfm?arskey=36323).
Undergraduate student in biological sciences, Taran Lichtenberger, has been awarded a Northwestern University Undergraduate 2015 Summer Research Grant ($3,000) for her research "Diversity and Prairie Restoration," Her advisor is Dr. Andrea Kramer.
Elliot Gardner, PhD student, was awarded a 2015 NSF-Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for "Evolutionary transitions: pollination biology and domestication of Artocarpus (Moraceae)." Elliot's research combines phylogenomics with field experiments and morphological studies, and the grant will fund fieldwork in Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo) ($17,882). (http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1501373)
PhD student, Aleksander Radosavljevic, was awarded a 2015 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement grant for "Systematics, biogegeography and taxonomy of the pantropical legume genus Cynometra s.l.” ($20,111) (http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1501199&HistoricalAwards=false)
Becky Barak, PhD student, has been awarded $1,000 from the Illinois Association of Environmental Professionals 2015 Student Research Program for her grant "How do seed traits influence establishment in restored prairies?"
Adrienne Basey, MS student, was awarded $800 from the Washington Native Plant Society for her research to determine changes in genetic diversity of native plants associated with plant production. Her study species is golden paintbrush (Castilleja levisecta), a threatened species native to the prairies of western Oregon and Washington (2015).
