1. Evaluating climate effects on plant-soil interactions in terrestrial ecosystems remains challenging due to the fact that floristic composition co-varies with climate, particularly along rainfall gradients. It is difficult to separate effects of precipitation per se from those mediated indirectly

Light foraging by trees is a fundamental process shaping forest communities. In heterogeneous light environments this behavior is expressed as plasticity of tree growth and the development of structural asymmetries. We studied the relative influence of neighborhood structure and directional solar ra

Map data used in simulations described in: Mifuyu Nakajima and Carol l. Boggs. 2015. Fine-grained distribution of a non-native resource can alter the population dynamics of a native consumer. PLOS ONE.

Abiotic and biotic conditions often vary continuously across the landscape, imposing divergent selection on local populations. We used a provenance trial approach to examine microgeographic variation in local adaptation in Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae), a perennial forb native to the Rocky Mountai

As a greater number and diversity of high-quality vertebrate reference genomes become available, it is increasingly feasible to use these references to guide new draft assemblies for related species. Reference-guided assembly approaches may substantially increase the contiguity and completeness of a

Sex chromosomes contribute disproportionately to species boundaries as they diverge faster than autosomes and often have reduced diversity. Their hemizygous nature contributes to faster divergence and reduced diversity, as do some types of selection. In birds, other factors (mating system and bottle

De novo assembly of the Gunnison Sage-Grouse using CLC Genomics Workbench. Includes CLC assembly report.

1x consensus Sage-Grouse genome from reference-guided assembly using the Chicken genome as reference. Assembly statistics report is included.

Chromsome annotation of the Sage-Grouse using the Chicken genome. Used 1x reference-guided assembly and blast, and assumed high synteny between species.

2x consensus Sage-Grouse genome from reference-guided assembly using the Chicken genome as reference. Assembly statistics report is included.

Reference-guided assembly of the Sage-Grouse mitochondrion using consensus Galliformes mitochondrial sequence as guide. Includes MITOS annotation.

5x consensus Sage-Grouse genome from reference-guided assembly using the Chicken genome as reference. Assembly statistics report is included.

Plant architecture is crucial to pollination and mating in wind pollinated species. We investigate the effect of crown architecture on pollen dispersal, mating system and offspring quality, combining phenotypic and genotypic analyses in a low-density population of the endangered species Abies pinsap

The development of organisms is changing drastically because of anthropogenic changes in once-limited nutrients. Although the importance of changing macronutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, is well-established, it is less clear how anthropogenic changes in micronutrients will affect organism

Trait-based ecology predicts that evolution in high-resource agricultural environments should select for suites of traits that enable fast resource acquisition and rapid canopy closure. However, crop breeding targets specific agronomic attributes rather than broad trait syndromes. Breeding for speci

1) The concentration, stoichiometry, and resorption of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in plant leaves are often used as proxies of the availability of these growth-limiting nutrients, but the responses of these metrics to changes in nutrient availability remains largely untested for tropical forest