Publications
LAB PUBLICATIONS (* denotes undergraduate author)
STUDENT POSTERS
2009 Ecological Society of America Meetings in Albuquerque, NM:
- -Kirsch* et al. – EEON productivity and diversity
- -Rook* et al. – prairie restoration and diversity responses to invasive species
- -Andrews* et al. – stream decomposition of native NW USA and Japanese Poplars
- -Otto* et al. predicting fine root distribution in Ponderosa pine forests from spatial data
2008 South Sound Science Symposium (S4)
- Kazakova, AN, JL Kirsch, and DG Fischer. 2008. Carbon Storage and Productivity Estimates in a Second-Growth Forest
2007 Ecological Society of America Meetings in San Jose California:
- Bretherton, W, CJ LeRoy, and DG Fischer. 2007. salmon carcasses, leaf litter diversity, leaf decomposition and macro-invertebrate diversity.
- Halstead KE, Pritchard, KR, and D Fischer. 2007. Environmental Stress, Diversity, Water-Use Efficiency and Leaf Morphology of Native Quercus Species in the Chiricahua Mountains, AZ
- Smith, N, McNett, K, Crabtree, M, Brady, G, Liebmann, M, and D Fischer. 2007. Variance in the Algal Layer Ratios of Parmelia sulacta: Canopy Height, Tree Species, and N Deposition Effects.
PUBLISHED PAPERS:
- Lojewski*, N.R., D.G. Fischer, J.K. Bailey, J.A. Schweitzer, T. G. Whitham and S. C. Hart. 2009. Genetic basis of aboveground productivity in two native Populus species and their hybrids. Tree Physiology. 29: 1133–1142
- Bailey, J.K., J.A. Schweitzer, J. Koricheva, M.D. Madritch, C.J. LeRoy, B.J. Rehill, R.K. Bangert, D.G. Fischer, G. Allen, and Thomas G. Whitham. From Genes to Ecosystems: Synthesizing the Effects of Plant Genetic Factors Across Systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364: 1607-1616
- Whitham, T.G., C.A. Gehring, L.M. Evans, C.J. LeRoy, R.K. Bangert, J.A. Schweitzer, G.J. Allan, R.C. Barbour, D.G. Fischer, B.M. Potts and J.K. Bailey. 2009. A Community and Ecosystem Genetics Approach to Conservation Biology and Management. In Molecular Approaches in Natural Resource Conservation. Cambridge University Press (in press).
- Fischer and Kazakova*. 2008. Book Review: Measuring Carbon Uptake in Forests and Farms . Environmental Practice.
- Muehlbauer * J.D., LeRoy C.J., Lovett J.M., Flaccus K.K., Vlieg J.K. & Marks J.C. 2008 Short-term responses of decomposers to flow restoration in Fossil Creek, Arizona, USA.Hydrobiologia in press, online first pdf
- Schweitzer, J.A., M. D. Madritch, J. K. Bailey, C.J. LeRoy, D.G. Fischer, B.J. Rehill, R.L. Lindroth, T.G. Whitham. Review – Ecological impacts of foliar condensed tannins: a genes-to-ecosystem approach. Ecosystems (in press)
- Schweitzer, JA, JK Bailey, DG Fischer, CJ LeRoy, EV Lonsdorf, TG Whitham and SC Hart. 2008. Soil Microorganism-Plant Interactions; Heritable relationship between plant genotype and associated microorgansims.. Ecology. 89: 773–781
- Bangert, RK, EV Lonsdorf, GM Wimp, , S M Shuster, DG Fischer, JA Schweitzer, GJ Allan, JK Bailey, TG Whitham. 2008. Genetic structure of a foundation species: scaling community phenotypes from the individual to the region. Heredity. 18 October 2006
- LeRoy, C.J., T.G. Whitham, and J.C. Marks. 2007. Within-species variation in litter chemistry influences aquatic leaf litter decomposition. Journal of the North American Benthological Society (in press).
- Fischer, DG, SC Hart, CJ LeRoy and TG Whitham. 2007 Variation in Belowground Carbon Fluxes along a Populus Hybridization Gradient. New Phytologist. 176: 415–425
- Kovacs, Z.I., C.J. LeRoy, D.G. Fischer, S. Lubarsky, and W.Burke. 2007 How do aesthetics affect our ecology? Journal of Ecological Anthropology. 10:61-65
- Fischer, D.G., S.C. Hart, B.J. Rehill, R.L. Lindroth, P. Keim and T.G. Whitham. 2006. Do high-tannin leaves require more roots? Oecologia 149:668–675
- LeRoy, C.J., T.G. Whitham, P. Keim, and J.C. Marks. 2006. Plant genes link forests and streams. Ecology 87(1): 255-261. pdf
- LeRoy, C.J., and J.C. Marks. 2006. Litter quality, stream condition, and litter diversity influence decomposition rates and macroinvertebrate communities. Freshwater Biology 51: 605-617. pdf
- Whitham TG, Bailey JK, Schweitzer JA, LeRoy CJ, Fischer, DG, Lonsdorf E, Shuster SM, Lindroth RL, Hart SC, Allan GJ, Gehring CA, Keim P, Potts BM, and Woolbright S. 2006. From Genes to Ecosystems: How Genes Structure Communities and Affect Ecosystem Processes. Nature: Genetics. 7:510-523
- G. Cox*, D.G. Fischer, S.C. Hart, and T.G. Whitham. 2005. Nonresponse of native cottonwood trees to water additions during summer drought. Western North American Naturalist. 65: 175-185
- Whitham TG, Lonsdorf E, Schweitzer JA, Bailey JK, Fischer, DG, Shuster SM, Lindroth RL, Hart SC, Allan GJ, Gehring CA, Keim P, Potts BM, Marks, J, Rehill BJ, DiFazio SP, LeRoy CJ, Wimp GM, and S. Woolbright 2005. “All effects of a gene on the world”: Extended phenotypes, feedbacks, and multi-level selection. Écoscience 12: 5-7.
- Fischer, D.G., S.C. Hart, T.G. Whitham, G.D. Martinsen and P. Keim. 2004. Ecosystem implications of genetic variation in water-use of a dominant riparian tree. Oecologia 139:188-197.
- Flaccus, K., J. Vlieg, J.C. Marks and C.J. LeRoy. 2004. Restoring Fossil Creek. The Science Teacher 71(6):36-40.
- Whitham, T.G., W.P. Young, G.D. Martinsen, C.A. Gehring, J.A. Schweitzer, S.M. Shuster, G.M. Wimp, D.G. Fischer, J.K. Bailey, R.L. Lindroth, S. Woolbright, and C.R. Kuske. 2003. Community and ecosystem genetics: a consequence of the extended phenotype. Ecology 84: 559-573
- Fischer, D.G., T.E. Kolb, and L.E. Dewald. 2002. Changes in whole-tree water relations during ontogeny of Pinus flexilis and Pinus ponderosa in a high-elevation meadow. Tree Physiology. 22:675-685.
- LeRoy, C., S. Determann, T. Wallace, M. Blake and T. Salem. 2000. Hanley Hall renovation project. Proceedings of the Air and Waste Management Association Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.