THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

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Authorship notes: ⁼equal contribution; *current or former mentee

 

latest

L. N. Carley, T. Mitchell-Olds, and W. F. Morris. Increasing aridity may threaten the maintenance of a plant defense polymorphism. In review at Ecology Letters.

L. N. Carley, M. A. Geber, W. F. Morris, V. Eckhart, and D. A. Moeller. Long-term population stability predicts the magnitude of local adaptation. In revision at Ecology Letters.

A. Simha, A. James, J. D. Monk, H.-X. Zou, P.-J. Ke, A. Wright, M. D. Bimler, C. M. Moore, S. Pierre, L. N. Carley, and G. Kandlikar. When the window is a mirror: How do dominant theories limit our understanding of nature? (ESA 2023 INS23). In press at Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.

 

 

2023

B. R. Kern, L. N. Carley, and D. A. Moeller. Direct tracking of pollen with quantum dots reveals surprising uniformity in dispersal distance across eleven populations of an annual plant. American Journal of Botany. doi pdf dataset

 

2022

L. N. Carley, W. F. Morris, D. Riebe, R. Walsh, and T. Mitchell-Olds. Are genetic variation and demographic performance linked? Evolutionary Applications. doi pdf dataset

A. Simha*, C. Pardo de la Hoz, and L. N. Carley. Moving beyond the “diversity paradox”: the limitations of competition-based frameworks in understanding species diversity. The American Naturalist. doi pdf dataset

 

2021

L. N. Carley, J. P. Mojica, B. Wang, C.-Y. Chen, Y.-P. Lin, K. V. S. K. Prasad, E. Chan, C.-W. Hsu, R. Keith, C. L. Nuñez, C. F. Olson-Manning, C. Rushworth, M. R. Wagner, J. Wang, P.-M. Yeh, M. Reichelt, K. Ghattas, J. Gershenzon, C.-R. Lee, and T. Mitchell-Olds. Ecological factors influence balancing selection on leaf chemical profiles of a wildflower. Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi pdf dataset blog

L. N. Carley and S. G. Letcher. Relaxation of putative plant defenses in a tropical agroecosystem. Ecology & Evolution. doi pdf dataset blog

 

earlier

L. N. Carley, R. Panchagavi, X. Song, S. Davenport, C. M. Bergemann, A. W. McCumber, C. K. Gunsch, and M. Simonin (2020) Long-term effects of copper nano-pesticides on soil and sediment microbiomes in two outdoor mesocosm experiments. Environmental Science & Technology. doi pdf

K. A. Stinson, L. N. Carley, L. Hancock, and K. Donohue (2019) Effects of maternal source and microhabitat on natural selection and population dynamics in Allaria petiolata. American Journal of Botany. doi pdf

P. Vaidya, A. McDurmon, E. Mattoon, M. Keefe*, L. Carley, C.-R. Lee, R. Bingham, and J. T. Anderson (2018) Ecological causes and consequences of flower color polymorphism in a self-pollinating plant (Boechera stricta). New Phytologist. doi pdf dataset