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A. Arroyo-Santos. 2009. Thinking in continua: beyond the "adaptive
radiation" metaphor. BioEssays 31
(12): 1337 - 1346. article
pdf • highlights from this issue • supplementary Fig. 1 • supplementary
Tab. 1 • supplementary Tab. 2 Feria A., T. P, M. E. Olson, A. García-Mendoza, and E. Solano. 2009. A GIS-based comparison of the Mexican national and IUCN criteria for determining extinction risk. Conservation Biology 23: 1156-1166. pdf   Olson,
M. E., R.
Aguirre-Hernández, and J. A. Rosell. 2009. Universal
crown-stem scaling in dicot trees: plasticity, biomechanics, and
Corner's Rules. Ecology Letters
12(3):
210-219. article pdf
• dataset • dataset header key
• R code for fitting
multiple mixed model and per-species models • comparisons
between multiple models and per-species modelsRosell, J. A. and M. E. Olson. 2007. Testing implicit assumptions regarding the age vs. size dependence of stem biomechanics using Pittocaulon (~Senecio) praecox (Asteraceae). American Journal of Botany 94(2): 161-172. pdf Olson, M. E. 2007. Wood ontogeny as a model for studying heterochrony, with an example of paedomorphosis in Moringa (Moringaceae). Systematics and Biodiversity 5(2): 145–158. pdf Rosell J. A., M. E. Olson, R. Aguirre Hernandez, and S. Carlquist. 2007. Logistic regression in comparative wood anatomy: tracheid types, wood anatomical terminology, and new inferences from the Carlquist and Hoekman southern Californian data set. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 154(3): 331-351. pdf Olson, M. E. and J. Rosell. 2006. Using heterochrony to infer modularity in the evolution of stem diversity in Moringa (Moringaceae). Evolution 60 (4): 724–734. pdf Olson, M. E. 2006. Powered paragliders in biodiversity exploration. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 77: 297-305. pdf Olson, M. E., J. A. Lomelí S. and N. Ivalú Cacho. 2005. Extinction threat in the Pedilanthus clade (Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae), with special reference to the recently-rediscovered E. conzattii (P. pulchellus). American Journal of Botany 92 (4): 634-641. article pdf supplement 1 supplement 2 supplement 3 Olson, M. E. 2005. Typology, homology, and homoplasy in comparative wood anatomy. International Association of Wood Anatomists Journal 26 (4): 507-523. pdf Olson, M. E. 2005. Wood, bark, and pith anatomy in Pittocaulon (Senecio, Asteraceae): water storage and systematics. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 132(2): 173-186. pdf Olson, M. E. 2003. Stem and leaf anatomy of the arborescent Cucurbitaceae Dendrosicyos socotrana, with comments on the evolution of pachycauls from lianas. Plant Systematics and Evolution 239 (3 and 4): 199-214. pdf Olson, M. E., Gaskin, J.F., Ghahremani-nejad, F. 2003. Wood anatomy is congruent with molecular phylogenies placing Hypericopsis persica in Frankenia (Frankeniaceae); comments on vasicentric tracheids. Taxon 52(3): 525-532. pdf Olson, M. 2003. Developmental origins of floral bilateral symmetry in Moringaceae. American Journal of Botany 90(1): 49-71. pdf App. 1 Olson, M. E. 2002. Intergeneric relationships within the Caricaceae-Moringacecae clade (Brassicales), and potential morphological synapomorphies of the clade and its families. International Journal of Plant Sciences 163(1):51-65. pdf Olson, M. E. 2002. Combining data from DNA sequences and morphology for a phylogeny of Moringaceae. Systematic Botany 27(1): 55-73. pdf Olson, M. E., and S. Carlquist. 2001. Stem and root anatomical correlations with life form diversity, ecology, and systematics in Moringa (Moringaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 135(4): 315-348. pdf  Olson, M. 2001. Stem and root anatomy of Moringa (Moringaceae). Haseltonia 8: 56-96. Lianli, L., and M. E. Olson. 2001. Moringaceae. in Raven, P. H., I. Al-Shehbaz, and G. Zhu, eds. Flora of China vol. 8: 196. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Olson, M. E., and S. G. Razafimandimbison. 2000. Moringa hildebrandtii: A tree extinct in the wild but preserved by indigenous horticultural practices in Madagascar. Adansonia sér. 3 22(2) 217-221. pdf Berry, P., and M. E. Olson. 1998. Eucaerea rhaeophytica, a new rheophyte from the Guayana region of Venezuela. Brittonia 50: 493-496. pdf Olson, M. E., P. Berry, and G. Aymard. 1998. Flacourtiaceae. in Steyermark, J. A., P. E. Berry, and B. K. Holst, eds. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana vol. 5. Timber Press, Portland. |
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