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J. A. Rosell. 2013. Vessel diameter–stem diameter scaling across woody
angiosperms and the ecological causes of xylem vessel diameter
variation. New Phytologist 197: 1204–1213. pdf Renton, K., P. Balvanera, M. E. Olson and A. Castillo (illustrations Mark Olson). 2012. ¿Por qué es importante el monte? UNAM Press ISBN 978-607-02-3733-1 (public outreach book on the importance of the dry tropical forest of the Mexican Pacific) pdf Méndez-Alonzo, R., H. Paz, J. A. Rosell, and M. E. Olson. 2012. Coordinated evolution of leaf and stem economics in tropical dry forest trees. Ecology 93: 2397–2406. pdf Rosell, J. A., M. E. Olson, R. Aguirre-Hernández, and F. J. Sánchez-Sesma. 2012. Ontogenetic modulation of branch size, shape, and biomechanics produces diversity across habitats in the Bursera simaruba clade of tropical trees. Evolution & Development 14: 437–449. pdf Trejo, L., M. E. Olson, P. Feria, K. M. Olsen, L. E. Eguiarte, B. Arroyo y J. A. Gruhn. 2012. Poinsettia’s wild ancestor in the Mexican dry tropics: historical, genetic, and environmental evidence. American Journal of Botany 99: 1146–1157. pdf Olson, M. E. 2012. The developmental renaissance in adaptationism. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27(5): 278–287. pdf Olson, M. E. 2012. Linear trends in botanical systematics and the Major Trends of Xylem Evolution. Botanical Review. 78: 154-183. pdf De-Nova, J. A., R. Medina, J. C. Montero, A. Weeks, J. A. Rosell, M. E. Olson, L. E. Eguiarte, and S. Magallón. 2012. Insights into the historical construction of species-rich Mesoamerican seasonally dry tropical forests: the diversification of Bursera (Burseraceae, Sapindales). New Phytologist 193(1): 276–287. pdf Olson, M. E. and J. W. Fahey. 2011. Moringa oleifera: un árbol multiusos para las zonas tropicales secas (Moringa oleifera: a multipurpose tree for the dry tropics). Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 82(4): 1071-1082. pdf Gernandt, D. S., C. León-Gómez, S. Hernández-León, and M. E. Olson. 2011. Pinus nelsonii and a cladistic analysis of Pinaceae ovulate cone characters. Systematic Botany 36(3): 583-594. pdf Rosell, J. A., M. E. Olson, A. Weeks, J. A. De-Nova, R. Medina Lemos, J. Pérez Camacho, T. P. Feria, R. Gómez-Bermejo, J. C. Montero, and L. E. Eguiarte. 2010. Diversification in species complexes: Tests of species origin and delimitation in the Bursera simaruba clade of tropical trees (Burseraceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57: 798–811. pdf Cacho, N. I., P. E. Berry, M. E. Olson, V. W. Steinmann, and D. A. Baum. 2010. Are spurred cyathia a key innovation? Molecular systematics and trait evolution in the slipper-spurges (Pedilanthus clade - Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae). American Journal of Botany 97(3): 493-510. pdf Olson, M. E. 2010. Moringaceae: Drumstick Family. Pp. 167-169 in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 15+ vols. New York and Oxford. Vol. 7. pdf Olson, M. E. and 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
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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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