Education History and Publications

Education History

Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, 2001
Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 1995-2000
B.S. magna cum laude, Brown University, 1989-1993

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Gaimari, SD; Adler, LS and SJ Scheffer. (in press) Plant host affiliation and redescription of Phytomyza subtenella Frost (Diptera: Agromyzidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.

 

Adler, LS. (in press) Size-mediated performance of a generalist herbivore feeding on mixed diets. Southwestern Naturalist.

 

Irwin, RE; Adler, LS; and AK Brody (Special Feature; in press) The dual role of floral traits: pollinator attraction and plant defense. Ecology.

 

Adler, LS and J. L. Bronstein. (Special Feature; in press) Attracting antagonists: Does floral nectar increase leaf herbivory? Ecology.

 

Adler, LS. 2003. Host species affects herbivory, pollination and reproduction in experiments with parasitic Castilleja. Ecology 84(8): 2083-91 PDF

 

Adler, LS. 2002.  Host effects on herbivory and pollination in a hemiparasitic plant. Ecology 83(10): 2700-10. PDF

Adler, LS; Karban, R and SY Strauss. 2001. Direct and indirect effects of alkaloids on plant fitness via herbivory and pollination. Ecology 82(7): 2032-44. PDF

Adler, LS and M Wink. 2001. Transfer of alkaloids from hosts to hemiparasites in two Castilleja-Lupinus associations: analysis of floral and vegetative tissues. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 29(6): 551-61. PDF

Adler, LS. 2000. Alkaloid uptake increases fitness in a hemiparasitic plant via reduced herbivory and increased pollination. The American Naturalist 156: 92-99. PDF

Adler, LS. 2000. The ecological significance of toxic nectar. Oikos 91:409-420. PDF Review in TREE

Karban, R; Agrawal, AA; Thaler, JS and LS Adler. 1999. Induced plant responses and information content about risk of herbivory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14:443-47. PDF

Adler, LS; Schmitt, J and MD Bowers. 1995. Genetic variation in defensive chemistry in Plantago lanceolata (Plantaginaceae) and its effect on the specialist herbivore Junonia coenia (Nymphalidae). Oecologia 101:75-85.

Adler, LS; Wikler, K; Wyndham, FS; Linder, CR and J Schmitt. 1993. Potential for persistence of genes escaped from canola: germination cues in crop, wild and crop-wild hybrid Brassica rapa. Functional Ecology 7:736-745.

 

Edited Volumes and Other Publications

Irwin, RE and LS Adler, editors (in press). Nectar Ecology Special Feature. Ecology.

Invited Authors: LS Adler, N Bluethgen, C Bonifray, A Brody, J Bronstein, K Fiedler, MC Gardener, RE Irwin, R Mitchell, R Raguso, JA Rudgers, and F Wäckers.

 

Agrawal, AA and LS Adler. 2003. Plant-animal interactions for the classroom. Review of C. Herrera & O. Pellmyr, Eds. Plant-animal interactions. In: Ecology 84(3): 807-808.

 

 

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