Publications and Presentations

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.

Wimp, G. M., and T. G. Whitham. 2007. Host plants mediate ant-aphid mutualisms and their effects on community structure and diversity. 275 - 305 in T. Ohgushi, Craig, T. P., and Price, P. W. Ecological communities: plant mediation in indirect interaction webs. Cambridge University PressNew York, NY, USA.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Patterson, A. M., L. Flores-Rentería, A. V. Whipple, T. G. Whitham, and C. A. Gehring. 2018. Common garden experiments disentangle plant genetic and environmental contributions to ectomycorrhizal fungal community structure.. New Phytologist 221.

Shuster, S. M., E. V. Lonsdorf, G. M. Wimp, J. K. Bailey, and T. G. Whitham. 2006. Community heritability measures the evolutionary consequences of indirect genetic effects on community structure.. Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 60:991 - 1003.

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.

Bridgeland, W. T., P. Beier, T. Kolb, and T. G. Whitham. 2010. A conditional trophic cascade: birds benefit faster growing trees with strong links between predators and plants.. Ecology 91:73 - 84.

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.

Woolbright, S. A., S. P. Difazio, T. Yin, G. D. Martinsen, X. Zhang, G. J. Allan, T. G. Whitham, and P. Keim. 2008. A dense linkage map of hybrid cottonwood (Populus fremontii x P. angustifolia) contributes to long-term ecological research and comparison mapping in a model forest tree.. Heredity 100:59 - 70.

Rehill, B. J., T. G. Whitham, G. D. Martinsen, J. A. Schweitzer, J. K. Bailey, and R. L. Lindroth. 2006. Developmental trajectories in cottonwood phytochemistry.. Journal of chemical ecology 32:2269 - 85.

Fischer, F. G., S. C. Hart, B. J. Rehill, R. L. Lindroth, P. Keim, and T. Gand Whitham. 2006. Do high-tannin leaves require more roots?. Oecologia 149:668 - 75.

Gehring, C. A., R. C. Mueller, and T. G. Whitham. 2006. Environmental and genetic effects on the formation of ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in cottonwoods.. Oecologia 149:158 - 64.

Whitham, T. G., S. P. DiFazio, J. A. Schweitzer, S. M. Shuster, G. J. Allan, J. K. Bailey, and S. A. Woolbright. 2008. Extending genomics to natural communities and ecosystems.. Science 320:492 - 5.

Whitham, T. G., J. K. Bailey, J. A. Schweitzer, S. M. Shuster, R. K. Bangert, C. J. LeRoy, E. V. Lonsdorf, G. J. Allan, S. P. DiFazio, B. M. Potts, D. G. Fischer, C. A. Gehring, R. L. Lindroth, J. C. Marks, S. C. Hart, G. M. Wimp, and S. C. Wooley. 2006. A framework for community and ecosystem genetics: from genes to ecosystems.. Nature reviews. Genetics 7:510 - 23.

Bailey, J. K., J. A. Schweitzer, F. Ubeda, J. Koricheva, C. J. LeRoy, M. D. Madritch, B. J. Rehill, R. K. Bangert, D. G. Fischer, G. J. Allan, and T. G. Whitham. 2009. From genes to ecosystems: a synthesis of the effects of plant genetic factors across levels of organization.. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 364:1607 - 16.

Schweitzer, J. A., M. D. Madritch, J. K. Bailey, C. J. LeRoy, D. G. Fischer, B. J. Rehill, R. L. Lindroth, A. E. Hagerman, S. C. Wooley, S. C. Hart, and T. G. Whitham. 2008. From genes to ecosystems: the genetic basis of condensed tannins and their role in nutrient regulation in a Populus model system .. Ecosystems 11:1005 - 1020.

Bangert, R. K., G. J. Allan, R. J. Turek, G. M. Wimp, N. Meneses, G. D. Martinsen, P. Keim, and T. G. Whitham. 2006. From genes to geography: a genetic similarity rule for arthropod community structure at multiple geographic scales.. Molecular ecology 15:4215 - 28.

Wymore, A. S., A. T. H. Keeley, K. M. Yturralde, M. L. Schroer, C. R. Propper, and T. G. Whitham. 2011. Genes to ecosystems: exploring the frontiers of ecology with one of the smallest biological units.. The New phytologist 191:19 - 36.

Marks, J. C., G. A. Haden, B. A. Harrop, E. G. Reese, J. L. Keams, M. E. Watwood, and T. G. Whitham. 2009. Genetic and environmental controls of microbial communities on leaf litter in streams .. Freshwater Biology 54:2616 - 2627.

Whitham, T. G., and R. K. Bangert. 2007. Genetic assembly rules and community phenotypes. Evolutionary Ecology 21:549 - 560.

Compson, Z. G., K. C. Larson, M. S. Zinkgraf, and T. G. Whitham. 2011. A genetic basis for the manipulation of sink-source relationships by the galling aphid Pemphigus batae.. Oecologia 167:711 - 21.

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 - 42.

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.

Keith, A. R., J. K. Bailey, and T. G. Whitham. 2010. A genetic basis to community repeatability and stability.. Ecology 91:3398 - 406.

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.