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| Sharon Y StraussSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Evolution in ecological field experiments: implications for effect sizeSharon Y Strauss
Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Ecol Lett 11:199-207. 2008..We conclude with a consideration of the differences between plastic and genetic responses to treatments and discuss future research directions linking adaptation to ecological effect size...- Toward a more trait-centered approach to diffuse (co)evolutionSharon Y Strauss
Section of Evolution and Ecology, One Shields Ave, 2320 Storer Hall, UC, Davis, CA 95616, USA
New Phytol 165:81-89. 2005..We argue that a greater focus on selection on specific traits and the evolutionary response to that selection will improve our conceptual understanding of how communities affect the evolution of species embedded within them... - Cryptic seedling herbivory by nocturnal introduced generalists impacts survival, performance of native and exotic plantsSharon Y Strauss
Section of Evolution and Ecology, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Ecology 90:419-29. 2009..Cryptic nocturnal predation on seedlings was common and had large effects on plant establishment at our site. Without intensive monitoring, such predation could easily be misconstrued as poor seedling emergence... 
Exotic taxa less related to native species are more invasiveSharon Y Strauss
Section of Evolution and Ecology, 2320 Storer Hall, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:5841-5. 2006..Relatedness of invaders to the native biota may be one useful criterion for prioritizing management efforts of exotic species...- Evolutionary responses of natives to introduced species: what do introductions tell us about natural communities?Sharon Y Strauss
Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Ecol Lett 9:357-74. 2006.... 
Community complexity drives patterns of natural selection on a chemical defense of Brassica nigraRichard A Lankau
Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Am Nat 171:150-61. 2008....- Multiple mechanisms enable invasive species to suppress native speciesAlison E Bennett
Section of Evolution and Ecology, 2320 Storer Hall, One Shields Ave, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95615, USA
Am J Bot 98:1086-94. 2011.... - More closely related species are more ecologically similar in an experimental testJean H Burns
Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:5302-7. 2011.... - Genetic variation within a dominant shrub species determines plant species colonization in a coastal dune ecosystemGregory M Crutsinger
Department of Integrative Biology, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building 3140, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Ecology 91:1237-43. 2010.... - Interplay between ecological communities and evolution: review of feedbacks from microevolutionary to macroevolutionary scalesJon R Haloin
Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1133:87-125. 2008..We also discuss ways of linking these different disciplines, specifically by documenting feedbacks between evolution and ecological communities across multiple scales... - Flower color microevolution in wild radish: evolutionary response to pollinator-mediated selectionRebecca E Irwin
Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Am Nat 165:225-37. 2005..These results illustrate that flower color microevolution can be driven by both pollinator discrimination and other nonpollinator selective forces acting during the seed-to-adult transition, countering selection imposed by pollinators... - Population-level compensation by an invasive thistle thwarts biological control from seed predatorsJulie M Garren
Section of Evolution and Ecology, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Ecol Appl 19:709-21. 2009.... - Gene flow increases fitness at the warm edge of a species' rangeJason P Sexton
Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:11704-9. 2011.... - Inference of allelopathy is complicated by effects of activated carbon on plant growthJennifer A Lau
Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
New Phytol 178:412-23. 2008.... - Mutual feedbacks maintain both genetic and species diversity in a plant communityRichard A Lankau
Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Science 317:1561-3. 2007..nigra. Thus, conservation of species diversity may also necessitate maintenance of the processes that sustain the genetic diversity of each individual species... - A selection mosaic in the facultative mutualism between ants and wild cottonJennifer A Rudgers
Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Proc Biol Sci 271:2481-8. 2004..This work is some of the first to manipulate interactions experimentally across multiple sites and thereby document that geographically variable selection, mediated by a mutualist, can shape the evolution of plant traits... - The evolutionary ecology of metacommunitiesMark C Urban
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 23:311-7. 2008..We demonstrate that such an approach generates several novel outcomes and substantially enhances understanding of both ecological and evolutionary phenomena in three core research areas at the interface of ecology and evolution...