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Faculty Publications - Biology

Books

Steven Oppenheimer, Cancer a Biological and Clinical Introduction, Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River New Jersey, 2004.

Steven Oppenheimer and Edward Carroll, Jr., Introduction to Embryonic Development, Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2004.

Steven Oppenheimer, Editor, Journal of Student Research Abstracts,Volume 8, Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River New Jersey, 2003.

Steven Oppenheimer, Editor, Journal of Student Research Abstracts, Volume 9, Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River New Jersey, 2004.

 

Articles/Papers

Larry AllenDeniel PondellaJanna Cobb, and Brook Gintert. 2004. The Biogeography of Nearshore Rocky-Reef Fishes at Southern and Baja California Islands. Journal of Biogeography.

Petraitis, P. S. and Dudgeon S. R. 2004. Detection of alternative stable states in marine communities. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 300: 343-371

Petraitis, P. S., and Dudgeon S. R. 2004. Do alternative stable states exist in the Gulf of Maine rocky intertidal zone? A comment. Ecology 85: 1160-1165

Petraitis, P.S., E. C. Rhile and Dudgeon S. R. 2003. Survivorship of juvenile barnacles and mussels: spatial dependence and the origin of alternative communities. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 293: 217-236.

Amanda Izzo and David Gray. 2004. Cricket song in sympatry: species specificity of song without reproductive character displacement in gryllus rubens. Annals of the Entomological Society of America.

Kimball, S. and Schiffman P. M. 2003. Differing effects of cattle grazing on native and alien plants in a California grassland. Conservation Biology 17:1681-1693.

Steven Oppenheimer (with 4 students and lecturer Cathy Coyle Thompson). Carbohydrate Involvement in Sea Urchin Gastrula Cellular Interactions, Acta Histochemica, vol. 106, pp. 97-106 (2004).

Steven Oppenheimer (with 4 students and lecturer Cathy Coyle Thompson). The Charged Milieu: A Major Player in Fertilization Reactions, Acta Histochemica 106, pp. 3-10 (2004).

Steven Oppenheimer (with 4 students). A New Histochemical Approach for Studying Sperm Cell Surfaces, Acta Histochemica 105, pp. 21-28 (2003).

Kimball S., Wilson P., and Crowther J. 2004. Local ecology and geographic ranges of plants in the Bishop Creek watershed of the eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA. Journal of Biogeography 31: 1637-1657.

Castellanos M. C., Wilson P., and Thomson J. D. 2004. 'Anti-bee' and 'pro-bird' changes during the evolution of hummingbird pollination in Penstemon flowers. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17: 876-885.

Motzkin G., Foster D., Allen A., Donohue K, and Wilson P. 2004. Forest landscape patterns, structure, and composition. Pp. 171-188 in DR Foster and JD Aber (eds.) Forests in time: the environmental consequences of 1,000 years of change in New England. Yale University Press, New Haven.

Wilson P., Castellanos M. C., Hogue J. N., Thomson J. D., and Armbruster W. S. 2004. A multivariate search for pollination syndromes among penstemons. Oikos 104: 345-361.

Castellanos M. C., Wilson P., and Thomson J. D. 2003. Pollen transfer by hummingbirds and bumblebees, and the divergence of pollination modes in Penstemon. Evolution 57: 2742-2752.