Name
Jutta Burger
Ph.D. Student
Institution
University of California, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
Riverside, CA 92521-0124, USA
E-Mail
jburg002@student.ucr.edu
Keywords
plant and insect population and community ecology, population genetics, molecular genetics, study of gene flow and hybridization

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Name
Carla D'Antonio

Institution
University of California-Santa Barbara, Departments of Environmental Studies and Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9610, USA
E-Mail
dantonio@es.ucsb.edu
Keywords
context specificity of factors controlling invasions, Experimental community and ecosystem ecology, impacts of invaders on species interactions and on soils, legacy effects of species removals, restoration ecology, studies of ecological resistance

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Name
Norman C. Ellstrand
Professor of Genetics and Director, Biotechnology Impacts Center,
Institution
University of California, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
Riverside, CA 92521-0124, USA
E-Mail
norman.ellstrand@ucr.edu
Keywords
Evolution of invasiveness, extinction by hybridization, gene flow, hybridization, transgene flow
Beta, Raphanus, Secale, Sorghum
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Name
Marcel Holyoak

Institution
University of California, Davis
2148 Wickson Hall University of California Davis, CA 95616
E-Mail
maholyoak@ucdavis.edu
Keywords
annual plants, argentina ants, beetles, bird communities, community ecology, conservation biology, dispersal/movement, fish populations, food webs, landscape ecology, metacommunity, metapopulation, microbial ecology, microcosms, neutral theory, population ecology, predator-prey interactions, riparian systems, source-sink dynamics, spatial dynamics, time series analysis, urbanization and urban ecology

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Name
Ingrid M. Parker
Associate Professor
Institution
University of California-Santa Cruz, Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Santa Cruz, CA  95064, USA
E-Mail
parker@biology.ucsc.edu
Keywords
Bottlenecks, Evolution, Genetics, Impacts: generalizations, Matrix models, Plant-pathogen interactions, Pollination biology, Reproductive ecology, Spatial models
Ammophila arenaria, Cytisus scoparius, Genista monspessulana, Hypericum canariense, Verbascum thapsus
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Name
Kevin Rice

Institution
University of California Davis, Department of Plant Sciences
4326 Storer Hall , University of California Davis, CA 95616
E-Mail
kjrice@ucdavis.edu
Keywords
adaptation, demography, ecological genetics, evolutionary dynamics of invasions, grasslands, igert goatgrassplant competition, plant population biology, rangelands, restoration ecology, Serpentine
Aegilops
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Name
Caroline Ridley
Candidate for PhD/EPA STAR Fellow
Institution
University of California-Riverside, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
Riverside, CA  92521
E-Mail
caroline.ridley@email.ucr.edu
Keywords
California wild radish, evolution of invasiveness, gene flow, fitness studies- common garden and reciprocal, Hybridization, local adaptation, phenotypic evolution, SSR markers, transplant experiments
Raphanus raphanistrum, Raphanus sativus
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Name
Sharon Strauss

Institution
University of California, Davis
2148 Wickson Hall University of California Davis, CA 95616
E-Mail
systrauss@ucdavis.edu
Keywords
allelopathy, biocontrol efficacy, California flora, California grasses, collaborative teams, evolutionary ecology, IGERT, interdisciplinary approaches to invasions, internships outside academia, mycorrhizal interactions, phylogenetic perspectives, plant demography, plant-herbivore interactions, plant-pollinator interactions, seed limitation, training, yellow star thistle
Centaurea solstitialis, Holcus lanatus
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