The Campbell lab has a new article to come out in American Naturalist “Selection of floral traits by pollinators and seed predators during sequential life history stages”. This article examines directional, quadratic, and correlational selection on a variety of traits including floral volatiles.

Former PhD student Dr. Wilnelia Recart has published “Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant” in Biological Invasions

Diane just returned from visiting University of Puerto Rico to give lectures and see field sites. So much fun to see my former student Elvia Melendez-Ackerman and all of her students!

25 years of data on Ipomopsis allowed us to determine the influence of a long-term trend towards early snow melt on population persistence. Campbell, D.R. 2019. Early snow melt projected to cause population decline in a subalpine plant. PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820096116  

Wilnelia Recart successfully defended her PhD dissertation on May 23

Heather Briggs joined the lab in May 2018. Heather received her PhD in 2016 from UCSC and was most recently a postdoc at Harvard University. Heather is now working on an experiment examining how snowmelt date and summer precipitation influence natural selection on floral traits. Xinyu Li (Cindy) joined the lab in September 2018. Cindy Read More…

We have published the first paper with data collected on the new RMBL GC-MS! Campbell, D.R., P. Sosenski, and R.A. Raguso. 2018. Plasticity of floral volatiles in response to increasing drought stress. Annals of Botany, in press. We also published a paper showing predictable evolution in natural plant populations over 25 years! Campbell, D.R., A. Read More…

Rob Raguso and I taught a course at RMBL on using GCMS to analyze plant volatiles to 12 graduate students, postdocs, and faculty

The new GC-MS at RMBL is allowing us to do lots of work on floral volatiles this summer