Publications and Presentations

Smith, D. S., J. K. Bailey, S. M. Shuster, and T. G. Whitham. 2011. A geographic mosaic of trophic interactions and selection: trees, aphids and birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:422 - 429.

Axelsson, E. P., J. Hjältén, T. G. Whitham, R. Julkunen-Tiitto, and G. Pilate. 2011. Leaf ontogeny interacts with Bt modification to affect innate resistance in GM aspens. Chemoecology 21:161 - 169.

Michalet, R., S. Xiao, B. Touzard, D. S. Smith, L. A. Cavieres, R. M. Callaway, and T. G. Whitham. 2011. Phenotypic variation in nurse traits and community feedbacks define an alpine community.. Ecology letters 14:433 - 43.

Whitham, T. G., C. A. Gehring, L. J. Lamit, T. Wojtowicz, L. M. Evans, A. R. Keith, and D. Solance Smith. 2012. Community specificity: life and afterlife effects of genes.. Trends in plant science 17:271 - 81.

Bailey, J. K., J. A. Schweitzer, B. M. Fitzpatrick, M. A. Genung, C. C. Pregitzer, M. Zinkgraf, T. G. Whitham, A. Keith, J. M. Reilly-Wapstra, B. M. Potts, B. J. Rehill, C. J. LeRoy, D. G. Fischer, G. R. Iason, M. Dicke, and S. E. Hartley. 2012. From genes to ecosystems: emerging concepts bridging ecological and evolutionary dynamics.. 269 - 286 (G. R. Iason, Dicke, M., and Hartley, S. E., Eds.). Cambridge University PressNew York.

Lojewski, N. R., D. G. Fischer, J. K. Bailey, J. A. Schweitzer, T. G. Whitham, and S. C. Hart. 2012. Genetic components to belowground carbon fluxes in a riparian forest ecosystem: a common garden approach.. The New phytologist 195:631 - 9.

Holeski, L. M., M. L. Hillstrom, T. G. Whitham, and R. L. Lindroth. 2012. Relative importance of genetic, ontogenetic, induction, and seasonal variation in producing a multivariate defense phenotype in a foundation tree species.. Oecologia 170:695 - 707.

Evans, L. M., J. S. Clark, A. V. Whipple, and T. G. Whitham. 2012. The relative influences of host plant genotype and yearly abiotic variability in determining herbivore abundance.. Oecologia 168:483 - 9.

Smith, D. S., J. A. Schweitzer, P. Turk, J. K. Bailey, S. C. Hart, S. M. Shuster, and T. G. Whitham. 2012. Soil-mediated local adaptation alters seedling survival and performance .. Plant and Soil 352:243 - 251.

Grady, K. C., D. C. Laughlin, S. M. Ferrier, T. E. Kolb, S. C. Hart, G. J. Allan, and T. G. Whitham. 2013. Conservative leaf economic traits correlate with fast growth of genotypes of a foundation riparian species near the thermal maximum extent of its geographic range .. Functional Ecology 27:427 - 438.

Busby, P. E., G. Newcombe, R. Dirzo, and T. G. Whitham. 2013. Genetic basis of pathogen community structure for foundation tree species in a common garden and in the wild .. Journal of Ecology 101:867 - 877.

Compson, Z. G., K. J. Adams, J. A. Edwards, J. M. Maestas, T. G. Whitham, and J. C. Marks. 2013. Leaf litter quality affects aquatic insect emergence: contrasting patterns from two foundation trees.. Oecologia 173:507 - 19.

Gehring, C. A., D. Flores-Rentería, C. M. Sthultz, T. M. Leonard, L. Flores-Renteria, A. V. Whipple, and T. G. Whitham. 2013. Plant genetics and interspecific competitive interactions determine ectomycorrhizal fungal community responses to climate change .. Molecular Ecology 23:1379 - 1391.

Ikeda, D. H., H. M. Bothwell, M. K. Lau, G. A. O’Neill, K. C. Grady, and T. G. Whitham. 2014. A genetics-based universal community transfer function for predicting the impacts of climate change on future communities.. Functional Ecology 28:65 - 74.

Evans, L. M., S. Kaluthota, D. W. Pearce, G. J. Allan, K. Floate, S. B. Rood, and T. G. Whitham. 2016. Bud phenology and growth are subject to divergent selection across a latitudinal gradient in Populus angustifolia and impact adaptation across the distributional range and associated arthropods.. Ecology and evolution 6:4565 - 81.

Hultine, K. R., K. C. Grady, T. E. Wood, S. M. Shuster, J. C. Stella, and T. G. Whitham. 2016. Climate change perils for dioecious plant species.. Nature Plant 16109 109.

Zinkgraf, M. S., N. Meneses, T. G. Whitham, and G. J. Allan. 2016. Genetic variation in NIN1 and C/VIF1 genes is significantly associated with Populus angustifolia resistance to a galling herbivore, Pemphigus betae.. Journal of insect physiology 84:50 - 59.

Ikeda, D. H., T. L. Max, G. J. Allan, M. K. Lau, S. M. Shuster, and T. G. Whitham. 2016. Genetically informed ecological niche models improve climate change predictions. Global Change Biology.

Lau, M. K., A. R. Keith, S. R. Borrett, S. M. Shuster, and T. G. Whitham. 2016. Genotypic variation in foundation species generates network structure that may drive community dynamics and evolution.. Ecology 97:733 - 42.

Fischer, D. G., E. Wimp, R. K. Hersch-Green, C. J. Bangert, J. K. LeRoy, J. A. Bailey, C. Schweitzer, S. C. Dirks, G. J. Hart, and T. G. Whitham. 2016. G.M. Allan, and Tree genetics strongly effect forest productivity, but intraspecific diversity-productivity relationships do not.. FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY DOI 1011111365243512733 31:520 - 529.

Floate, K. D., J. Godbout, M. K. Lau, N. Isabel, and T. G. Whitham. 2016. Plant-herbivore interactions in a trispecific hybrid swarm of Populus: assessing support for hypotheses of hybrid bridges, evolutionary novelty and genetic similarity.. The New phytologist 209:832 - 44.

Redmond, M., P. Weisberg, N. S. Cobb, C. A. Gehring, A. V. Whipple, and T. G. Whitham. 2016. A robust method to determine historical annual cone production among slow-growing conifers.. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 398:1 - 6.

Lamit, L. J., L. M. Holeski, L. Flores-Renteria, T. G. Whitham, and C. A. Gehring. 2016. Tree genotype influences ectomycorrhizal fungal community structure: Ecological and evolutionary implications. FUNGAL ECOLOGY 24:124 - 134.

Lamit, L. J., L. M. Holeski, L. Flores-Rentería, T. G. Whitham, and C. A. Gehring. 2016. Tree genotype influences ectomycorrhizal fungal community structure: ecological and evolutionary implications. . Fungal Ecology 24.

Jarvis, K. J., G. J. Allan, A. J. Craig, R. K. Beresic-Perrins, G. Wimp, C. A. Gehring, and T. G. Whitham. 2017. Arthropod communities on hybrid and parental cottonwoods are phylogenetically structured by tree type: Implications for conservation of biodiversity in plant hybrid zones.. Ecology and evolution 7:5909 - 5921.

Jarvis, K. J., G. J. Allan, A. J. Craig, R. K. Beresic-Perrins, G. Wimp, C. A. Gehring, and T. G. Whitham. 2017. Arthropod communities on hybrid and parental cottonwoods are phylogenetically structured by tree type: Implications for conservation of biodiversity in plant hybrid zones. . Ecology and Evolution 7.

Keith, A. R., J. K. Bailey, M. K. Lau, and T. G. Whitham. 2017. Genetics-based interactions of foundation species affect community diversity, stability and network structure.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological .. 284.

Whitham, T. G., C. A. Gehring, H. M. Bothwell, H. F. Cooper, J. B. Hull, G. J. Allan, K. C. Grady, L. Markovchick, S. M. Shuster, J. Parker, A. E. Cadmus, D. H. Ikeda, and R. K. Bangert. 2017. IN PRESS: Using the Southwest Experimental Garden Array to enhance riparian restoration in response to global change: Identifying and deploying genotypes and populations for current and future environments. . in In Riparian research and management: Past, present, future. . Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-inpress Fort Collins U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.Fort Collins, CO, USA.

Grady, K. C., T. E. Wood, T. E. Kolb, E. Hersch-Green, S. M. Shuster, C. A. Gehring, S. C. Hart, G. J. Allan, and T. G. Whitham. 2017. Local biotic adaptation of trees and shrubs to plant neighbors. . Okios 126.

Whitham, T. G. 2017. The reality of climate change and the need for genetics approaches in riparian, river and watershed restoration to maintain biodiversity in changing environments.. 22 - 27 in B. E. Ralston and Sarr, D. A.. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1091.