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Lab Publications
Books/Popular Publications
D.M. Waller & T.P. Rooney, eds. 2008. The
vanishing present: Wisconsin’s changing lands, waters, and
wildlife. Book manuscript for Univ. of Chicago Press. See Table of Contents Here.
Alverson, W. S., W. Kuhlmann and D. M. Waller. 1994.
Wild forests: conservation biology and public policy. Washington,
DC, Island Press. (link
to publisher)
Waller, D.M. & S.D. Wright. 2006. Trouble in the Understory. Woodland Management. Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association. 27 (2): 22-23
Colleague Book
Alverson, W. S. (In press). Rapid
Biological Inventory and Rapid Assessment Program Methods. Plant Conservation:
A Natural History Approach. G. Krupnick and J. Kress. Chicago,
IL, University of Chicago Press.
Journal Articles
Gibson, T. C. and D. M. Waller. 2009. Evolving Darwin's 'most wonderful' plant: ecological steps to a snap-trap. New Phytologist. 183. 575-587. We are pleased to acknowledge the Journal New Phytologist, the New Phytologist Trust, and Blackwell Publishing.
Rogers, D. A. , T. P. Rooney, T. J. Hawbaker, V. C. Radeloff and D. M. Waller. 2009. Paying the extinction debt in southern Wisconsin forest understories. Conservation Biology in press. Also see additional figure.
Mudrak, E. L., S. E. Johnson and D. M. Waller. 2009. Forty-seven year changes in vegetation at the Apostle Island: Effects of deer on forest understory. Natural Areas Journal 29:167-176.
Rogers, D. A., T. P. Rooney, D. Olson, and D. M. Waller. 2008. Shifts in southern Wisconsin forest canopy and understory richness, composition , and heterogeneity. Ecology 89(9) 2482-2492.
Rooney, T. P. 2008. Comparison of co-occurrence structure of temperate forest herb-layer communities in 1949 and 2000. Acta Oecologica.
Kraszewski, S. E. and D. M. Waller. 2008. Fifty-five year changes in species composition on dry prairie remnants in south-central Wisconsin. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 135(2), 235-243.
Waller, D. M., J Dole, and A. J. Bersch. 2008. Effects of stress and phenotypic variation on
inbreeding depression in Brassica rapa. Evolution 62-4: 917–931.
Johnson, S. E., E. L. Mudrak, E. A. Beever, S. Sanders and D. M. Waller. 2008. Comparing power among three sampling methods for monitoring forest vegetation. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 38: 143-156.
Stevens, M. T., D. M. Waller and R. L. Lindroth. 2007. Resistance and tolerance in Populus tremuloides: genetic variation, costs, and environmental dependency. Evolutionary Ecology. 21:829-847.
Olden,
J.D. and T.P. Rooney. 2006. On defining and quantifying
biotic homogenization. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 15:
113-120.
Waller,
D.M. 2006. Re-Visioning Conservation. Conservation
Biology. 20: 587-588.
Waller, D.M. 2006. White-tailed deer impacts and the challenge of
managing a hyperabundant herbivore. In Gaston, A.J.; Golumbia, T.E.;
Martin, J.-L.; Sharpe, S.T. (eds.), Lessons from the Islands: introduced
species and what they tell us about how ecosystems work. Proceedings from
the Research Group on Introduced Species 2002 Symposium, Queen Charlotte
City, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Canadian Wildlife Service
Special Publication, Environment Canada, Ottawa.
Weigmann, S.M. and D.M. Waller. 2006. Fifty years of change in in northern upland forest understories: Identity and traits of "winners" and "loser" plant species. Biological Conservation. 129:109-123.
Lu, Y., D.M. Waller, and P.
David. 2005. Genetic variability
is correlated with population size and reproduction in American wild-rice
(Zinzania palustris var. palustris, Poaceace) populations. 2005. American
Journal of Botany. 92: 990-997.
Waller, D.M. 2005. Tracking plant diversity across forest landscapes:
Indicators and drivers. Invited paper, UNESCO conference Biodiversity–Science
and Governance, Paris, Jan. 2005.
Côté, S. D.,
T. P. Rooney, J.-P. Tremblay, C. Dussault and D. M. Waller. 2004.
Ecological impacts of deer overabundance. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Evol. System. 35:
113-147.
Rooney, T. P., D. A. Rogers, S. M. Wiegmann and D. M. Waller. 2004.
Monitoring non-native plant invasions over 50 years in Wisconsin forests.
Weed Technology. 18:
1266-1268.
Rooney, T. P., S. M. Wiegmann,
D. A. Rogers and D. M. Waller. 2004. Biotic impoverishment
and homogenization in unfragmented forest understory communities. Conservation
Biology 18:
787-798.
Steven, J.C. and D.M. Waller. 2004. Reproductive alternatives to insect pollination
in four species of Thalictrum (Ranunculaceae). Plant Species Biology 19:73-80.
Waller, D. M. and
T. P. Rooney. 2004. Nature is changing in more ways than one.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19:
6-7.
Boyle, O.D., E.S. Menges,
and D.M. Waller. 2003. Dances with
Fire: Tracking metapopulations dynamics for Polygonella basiramia in
Florida scrub (USA). 2003. Folia Geobotanica. 38: 255-262.
Rooney, T. P. and K. Gross. 2003. A demographic study of
deer browsing impacts on Trillium grandiflorum. Plant
Ecology 168:
267-277.
Rooney, T. P. and D. M. Waller. 2003. Direct and indirect
effects of deer in forest ecosystems. Forest Ecology & Management 181:
165-176.
Stevens, J.C. T.P. Rooney,
O.D. Boyle, and D. M. Waller. 2003. Density-
dependent pollinator visitation and self-incompatibility in upper Great
Lakes populations of Trillium grandiflorum. Journal of the
Torrey Botanical Society. 130: 23-29.
Keller, L. & D.M.
Waller. 2002. Inbreeding effects in wild populations.
TREE 17: 230-241. (An ISI ‘hot new paper’ in 2003)
Rooney, T. P. and D. A. Rogers. 2002. The modified floristic quality
index. Natural
Areas Journal 22:
340-344.
Rooney, T. P., S. L.
Solheim and D. M. Waller. 2002. Factors
influencing the regeneration of northern white cedar in lowland forests
of the Upper Great Lakes region, USA. Forest Ecology & Management. 163:
119-130.
Barry G.R., T.P. Rooney, S.J. Ventura, and D.M. Waller. 2001. Evaluation
of biodiversity value based on wildness: A study of the western Northwoods,
Upper Great Lakes, USA. Natural Areas Journal 21: 229-242
Rooney, T., D. Waller and S. Wiegmann. 2001. Revisiting the Northwoods – a
lesson in biotic homogenization. Wild
Earth 11:
45-49.
Rooney, T. P. 2001. Deer impacts on forest ecosystems: a North
American perspective. Forestry 74:
201-208.
Rooney, T. P. and D. M. Waller. 2001. How experimental defoliation
and leaf height affect growth and reproduction in Trillium grandiflorum.
Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 128:
393-399.
Callahan, H.S. and
D.M. Waller. 2000. Phenotypic integration
and the plasticity of integration in an amphicarpic annual. Int.
J. Plant Sci. 161: 89-98.
Bennett, J.P., E. Chiriboga,
J. Coleman, D.M. Waller. 2000. Heavy
metals in wild rice from northern Wisconsin. The Science of the Total Environment. 246:
261-269.
Rooney, T. P., C. Antolik and M. D. Moran. 2000. The impact
of salamander predation on Collembola abundance. Proceedings
of the Entomological Society of Washington 102:
308-312.
Rooney, T.P., R. J. McCormick,
S. L. Solheim and D. M. Waller. 2000. Regional variation
in recruitment of eastern hemlock seedlings in the Southern Superior
Uplands Section of the Laurentian Mixed Forest Province, USA." Ecological
Applications 10:
1119-1132.
Byers, D. and D.M.
Waller. 1999. Do plant populations purge their
genetic load? Effects of population size and mating history on inbreeding
depression.
Ann. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst.
30: 479-513.
Schoennagel,
T. and D.M. Waller. 1999. Understory responses to high-intensity
fire and artificial seeding in an eastern Cascades grand fir forest,
USA. Canadian J. Forest Research 29: 1393-1401.
Meffe, G.K., P.D. Boersma,
D.D. Murphy, B.R. Noon, H.R. Pulliam, M.E. Soulé, D.M. Waller. 1998. Independent Scientific Review
in Natural Resource Management: A Statement by the Society for Conservation
Biology. Conservation Biology 12:268-270.
Rooney, T.P. 1998. The role of community conservation
in the Appalachian restoration campaign. 1996 Central Appalachian ecological
integrity conference. N. P. Hitt. Massanetta Springs, VA, The Appalachian
Restoration Campaign: 100-108.
Rooney, T. P. and
D. M. Waller. 1998. Local and regional variation
in hemlock seedling establishment in forests of the upper Great Lakes
region, USA. Forest
Ecology and Management 111:
211-224.
Waller, D. M. 1998. Getting back to the right nature: A reply
to Cronon’s ‘The trouble with wilderness’.
The Great New Wilderness Debate. J. B. Callicott and M. P. Nelson.
Athens, GA, Univ. of Georgia Press: 540-567.
Alverson, W. S. and D. M. Waller. 1997. Deer populations and the
widespread failure of hemlock regeneration in northern forests. The
Science of Overabundance: Deer Ecology and Population Management.
W. J. McShea, H. B. Underwood and J. H. Rappole. Washington DC, Smithsonian
Institution Press: 280-297.
Rooney, T. P. 1997. Escaping herbivory: refuge effects
on the morphology and shoot demography of the clonal forest herb, Maianthemum
canadense. Torrey
Bot. Club 124:
280-285.
Rooney, T. P. and W. Dress 1997. Patterns of plant diversity
in overbrowsed old growth and mature second growth hemlock-northern
hardwood forest stands. J.
Torrey Bot. Soc. 124:
43-51.
Rooney, T. P. and W. J. Dress 1997. Species loss over sixty
six years in the ground-layer vegetation of Heart's Content, an old
growth forest in Pennsylvania, USA. Nat.
Areas J. 17:
297-305.
Waller, D. M. and W. S. Alverson 1997. The white-tailed
deer: a keystone herbivore. Wildlife
Society Bulletin 25:
217-226.
Waller, D. M. 1996. Wilderness Redux: Can Biodiversity Play a Role? Wild Earth. Winter 1996/97 36-45.
Waller, D. M. 1996.
Biodiversity as a basis for conservation efforts. Biodiversity
and the law. W. Snape. Washington, D.C., Island Press: 16-32.
Rooney, T. P. 1995. Restoring landscape diversity and old growth
to Pennsylvania's northern hardwood forests. Natural
Areas Journal 15:
274-278.
Alverson, W. S., W. Kuhlmann and D. M. Waller. 1994. Wild forests: conservation
biology and public policy. Washington, DC, Island Press.
Waller, D. 1993. Wisconsin's Scientific Roundtable: Uniting
research and management. Inner Voice 5(3):
13.
Alverson, W. S. and D. M. Waller 1992. Is is un-biocentric to
manage? Wild
Earth 2(4):
9-10.
Waller, D. M. 1991. Introduction. Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity.
W. E. Hudson. Washington, D.C., Island Press: 3-13.
Waller, D.M. 1989. Evolution mechanisms. Science
243: 676-677.
Waller,
D.M. and S.E. Knight. 1989. Genetic consequences of outcrossing
in the Cleistogamous annual, Impatiens capensis. II. Outcrossing rates
and genotypic Correlations. Evolution. 43: 860-869.
Alverson, W. S., M.
W. Donald and S. L. Solheim. 1988. Forests too deer: Edge
Effects on northern Wisconsin. Conservation
Biology 2:
348-358.
Waller, D. M. 1988.
Sharing responsibility for conserving diversity: The
complementary roles of conservation biologists and public land agencies.
Cons. Biol. 2(4):
398-401.
Waller,
D.M., D.M. O’Malley,
and S.C. Gawler. 1987. Genetic
variation in the extreme endemic Pedicularis furbishiae (Scrophulariaceae).
Conservation Biology. 1: 335-340.
Waller, D. M. 1986. Is there disruptive selection for self-fertilization?
American Naturalist. 128:
421-426.
Mitchell-Olds, T & D.M.Waller. 1985. Relative performance of selfed and outcrossed progeny in Impatiens capensis. Evolution. 39: 533-344.
D.M.Waller. 1985. The genesis of size hierarchies in seedling populations of Impatiens capensis Meerb. New Phytologist. 100: 243-260.
Waller, D.M. 1984. Differences in fitness between seedlings derived from cleistogamous and chasmogamous flowers in Impatiens capensis. Evolution. 38: 427-440.
Madsen,
J.D. & D.M. Waller. 1983. A note on the evolution
of gamete dimorphism in algae. The American Naturalist. 121:
443-447.
Menges,
E.S. & D.M. Waller. 1983. Plant strategies in relation
to elevation and light in floodplain herbs. The American Naturalist.
122: 454-473.
Waller, D.M. & D. Green. 1981. Implications of sex for the analysis of life histories. The American Naturalist. 117: 810-813.
Forthcoming Papers
Rogers, D. A., T. P. Rooney, D. Olson & D. M. Waller. submitted. Fifty years of change in southern Wisconsin forests: Shifts in richness, composition and heterogeneity. Ecology.
Weigmann, S. M. and D. M. Waller (submitted). Effects of exotic earthworm invasion and deer browsing on understory plant diversity and community composition in Lake States Forests. Ecological Applications.
Techncial Reports
Waller, D.M., S. Johnson, R. Collins, E. Williams. 2009. Threats posed by ungulate herbivory to forest structure and plant diversity in the Upper Great Lakes Region with a review of methods to assess those threats. National Resource Report NPS/GLKN/NRR-2009/102. National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO. 57 pp.
Johnson, S. E., E.L. Mudrak,
and D.M. Waller. . 2006. A comparison of sampling methodologies for long-term forest vegetation
montioring in the Great Lakes Network National Parks. National Park Service,
Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network, Ashland, WI. 54806. Great Lakes Network
Technical Report: GLKN/2006/08. 140 pp.
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