Rudgers & Whitney Labs

For PDF's of papers, follow links through "Lab Personnel" to the contributing author's page.

Kannadan, S. and J. A. Rudgers (in press) Endophyte symbiosis benefits a rare grass under low water availability. Functional Ecology.

Johnson, S. D., K. C. Horn, A. M. Savage, S. Windhager, M. T. Simmons, and J. A. Rudgers (in press) Timing of prescribed burns affects abundance and composition of arthropods in the Texas Hill Country. Southwestern Naturalist.

Mack, K. and J. A. Rudgers (in press) Balancing multiple mutualists: asymmetric interactions among plants, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and fungal endophytes. Oikos.

Rudgers, J. A. and A. L. Swafford (in press) Benefits of a fungal endophyte in Elymus virginicus decline under drought stress. Basic and Applied Ecology.

Whitney, K.D., and C. A. Gabler. (in press) Rapid evolution in introduced species, 'invasive traits' and recipient communities: challenges for predicting invasive potential. Diversity and Distributions.

Whitney, K.D., Ahern, J.R. & Campbell, L.G. (in press) Hybridization-prone plant families do not generate more invasive species. Biological Invasions.

Flory, S. L., J. A. Rudgers, and K. Clay (2007) Experimental light treatments affect invasion success and the impact of Microstegium vimineum on the resident community Natural Areas Journal 27:124-132

Rieseberg LH, Kim SC, Randell RA, Whitney KD, Gross BR, Lexer C and Clay K (2007) Hybridization and the colonization of novel habitats by annual sunflowers. Genetica 129: 149-165

Rudgers, J. A., K. Clay (2007) Endophyte symbiosis with tall fescue: How strong are the impacts on communities and ecosystems? Fungal Biology Reviews 21(2-3): 107-124

Rudgers, J. A., J. Holah, S. P. Orr, and K. Clay (2007) Forest succession suppressed by an introduced plant-fungal symbiosis Ecology. 88:18-25

Finkes, L. K., Cady, A. B., Mulroy, J. C., Clay, K., and Rudgers, J. A. 2006. Plant-fungus mutualism affects spider composition in successional fields Ecology Letters 9:347-356

Rudgers JA and Whitney KD (2006) Interactions between insect herbivores and a plant architectural dimorphism. Journal Of Ecology 94: 1249-1260

Tintjer, T. and J. A. Rudgers 2006. Grass-herbivore interactions altered by strains of a native endophyte. New Phytologist 170:513-521

Whitney KD, Randell RA and Rieseberg LH (2006) Adaptive introgression of herbivore resistance traits in the weedy sunflower Helianthus annuus. American Naturalist 167: 794-807