Center for Tropical Plant Conservation – Peer-reviewed articles published in 2009 

Fairchild's Center for Tropical Plant Conservation is a world-wide leader in tropical botany, conservation and horticulture. In 2009 our scientists produced a large number of ground breaking, peer-reviewed scientific publications that are listed below.

Andrus, N., A. Tye, G. Nesom, D. Bogler, C. Lewis, R. Noyes, P. Jaramillo, and J. Francisco-Ortega.  2009.  Phylogenetics of   Darwiniothamnus (Asteraceae: Astereae) - Molecular evidence for multiple origins of the endemic flora of the Galapagos Islands.  Journal of Biogeography 36: 1055-1069.

Feeley, K. J. and Silman, M. R.  2009.  Extinction risks of Amazonian plant species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 12382-12387.

Fisher, J. B., A. Lindström, and T. E. Marler.  2009.  Tissue responses and solution movement after stem wounding in six Cycas species.  HortScience 44: 848-851.

Fourqurean, J. W., T. J. Smith, J. Possley, T. M. Collins, D. Lee and S. Namoff.  2009.  Are mangroves in the tropical Atlantic ripe for invasion? Exotic mangrove  trees in the forests of South Florida.  Biological Invasions Online First  DOI:10.1007/s10530-009-9660-8.

Francisco-Ortega, J., A. Santos-Guerra, and Bacallado, J. J.  2009.  Biology– Canary Islands. In: Gillespie, R. G. & Clague, D. A. (eds.).  Encyclopedia of Islands.  University of California Press.

Horn, J. W., J. B. Fisher, P. B. Tomlinson, C. E. Lewis, and K. Laubengayer.  2009.  Evolution of lamina anatomy in the palm family (Arecaceae).  American Journal of Botany 96: 1462-1486.

Knight, R. J., R. J. Campbell, and J. Maguire.  2009.  Important mango cultivars and their descriptors.  In: Litz, R. E. (ed.).  The Mango: Botany, Production and Uses.  CABI, U.K.

Liu, H., Y.-B. Luo, R. Pemberton, D. Luo, and S.-Y.Luo.  2009.  New Hope for Chinese Wild Orchids.  Oryx 43: 169-175.

Liu, H. and R. W. Pemberton.  2009.  Invasive orchid bee outperforms co-occurring native bees to promote an invasive Solanum. Oecologia 159: 515-525.

Namoff, S., Q. Luke, F. Jiménez, A. Veloz, C. E. Lewis, V. Sosa, M. Maunder, and J. Francisco-Ortega.  2009.  Phylogenetic analyses of nucleotide sequences confirm a unique plant intercontinental disjunction between tropical Africa, the Caribbean, and the Hawaiian Islands.  Journal of Plant Research 123: 57-65.

Ojeda, I., J. Francisco-Ortega, and Q. C. B. Cronk.  2009.  Evolution of petal epidermal micromorphology in Leguminosae and its use as a marker of petal identity.  Annals of Botany 104: 1099 - 1110.

Oleas, N. H., A. W. Meerow, and J. Francisco-Ortega.  2009.  Eight microsatellite loci in Phaedranassa schizantha Baker (Amaryllidaceae) and cross-amplification in other Phaedranassa species. Conservation Genetics 10: 1566-0621.

Pemberton, R. W. and H. Liu.  2009.  Marketing time determines naturalization rates of horticultural plants in Florida. Ecology. 90: 69-80.

Possley, J., J. Maschinski, C. Rodriguez, and J. Dozier.  2009.  Alternatives for reintroducing a rare ecotone species: manually thinned forest edge versus restored habitat remnant.  Restoration Ecology 17: 668-677.

Wang, Z., H. Liu, N. Wei, W. Xu, S. An, S. Liu.  2009.  Effects of stand regeneration management regimes and age on genetic structure of Quercus aquifolioides (sclerophyllous oak) in southwestern China. Forest Science 52: 142-148.

Wendelberger, K. S. and J. Maschinski.  2009.  Linking GIS, observational and experimental studies to determine optimal seedling microsites of an endangered plant in a subtropical urban fire-adapted ecosystem.  Restoration Ecology 17: 845-853.