selected publications
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academic article
- Specialized soil types affect host acceptability and performance of weed biocontrol candidates: implications for host specificity assessments. Biocontrol. 66:601-611. 2021
- Locomotory Responses to Olfactory cues During Host-finding can Inform Environmental Safety Assessments of Biological Weed Control Agents. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 2021
- A global review of target impact and direct nontarget effects of classical weed biological control. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 38:48-54. 2020
- How Safe Is Weed Biological Control? A Global Review of Direct Nontarget Attack. Quarterly Review of Biology. 94:01-27. 2019
- A simple approach to evaluate behavioral responses of insect herbivores to olfactory and visual cues simultaneously: the double stacked y-tube device and portable volatile collection system. Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 13:139-149. 2019
- Feeding intensity of insect herbivores is associated more closely with key metabolite profiles than phylogenetic relatedness of their potential hosts. PeerJ. 7:e8203. 2019
- Geographic population structure in an outcrossing plant invasion after centuries of cultivation and recent founding events. AoB PLANTS. 10:ply020. 2018
- Successes We May Not Have Had: A Retrospective Analysis of Selected Weed Biological Control Agents in the United States. Invasive Plant Science and Management. 7:565-579. 2014
- Extreme differences in population structure and genetic diversity for three invasive congeners: knotweeds in western North America. Biological Invasions. 16:2127-2136. 2014
- Density dependence, precipitation and biological control agent herbivory influence landscape-scale dynamics of the invasive Eurasian plant Linaria dalmatica. Journal of Applied Ecology. 51:825-834. 2014
- Propagule Pressure, Genetic Structure, And Geographic Origins Of Chondrilla Juncea (Asteraceae): An Apomictic Invader On Three Continents. American Journal of Botany. 100:1871-1882. 2013
- Genetic Identity and Diversity of Perennial Pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium) in Its Native and Invaded Ranges. Invasive Plant Science and Management. 6:268-280. 2013
- Impact of Mecinus janthinus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on the growth and reproduction of Linaria dalmatica (Scrophulariaceae). Great Lakes Entomologist. 46:90-98. 2013
- Biogeographical comparison of the invasive Lepidium draba in its native, expanded and introduced ranges. Biological Invasions. 14:1999-2016. 2012
- Hybrid vigor in the biological control agent, Longitarsus jacobaeae. Evolutionary Applications. 5:489-497. 2012
- Native and Exotic Grass Competition with Invasive Hoary Cress (Cardaria draba). Invasive Plant Science and Management. 4:38-49. 2011
- Reevaluating establishment and potential hybridization of different biotypes of the biological control agent Longitarsus jacobaeae using molecular tools. Biological Control. 58:44-52. 2011
- Endophytes influence protection and growth of an invasive plant. Communicative and Integrative Biology. 2:249-251. 2009
- No evidence for an 'evolution of increased competitive ability' for the invasive Lepidium draba. Basic and Applied Ecology. 10:103-112. 2009
- Inference of allelopathy is complicated by effects of activated carbon on plant growth. New Phytologist. 178:412-423. 2008
- Induced chemical defenses in invasive plants: a case study with Cynoglossum officinale L.. Biological Invasions. 10:1373-1379. 2008
- Effect of generalist insect herbivores on introduced Lepidium draba (Brassicaceae): implications for the enemy release hypothesis. Journal of Applied Entomolog. 132:519-529. 2008
- Minimal genetic diversity in the facultatively outcrossing perennial pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium) invasion. Biological Invasions. 14:1797-1807. 2008
- The occurrence and potential relevance of post-release, nontarget attack by Mogulones cruciger, a biocontrol agent for Cynoglossum officinale in Canada. Biological Control. 46:304-311. 2008
- No difference in competitive ability between invasive North American and native European Lepidium draba populations. Plant Ecology. 193:293-303. 2007
- Winter mortality of Aceria chondrillae, a biological control agent released to control rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea) in the western United States. Journal of Applied Entomolog. 130:473-479. 2006
- Winter mortality of Aceria chondrillae, a biological control agent released to control rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea) in the western United States. Journal of Applied Entomolog. 130:473-479. 2006
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conference paper