Journal Articles

2013

Brandt, J. S., M. A. Haynes, T. Kuemmerle, D. M. Waller, and V. C. Radeloff. 2013. Regime shift on the roof of the world: Alpine meadows converting to shrublands in the southern Himalayas. Biological Conservation 158: 116 - 127.  DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.07.026.

Frerker, K., G. Sonnier, and D. M. Waller. 2013. Browsing rates and ratios provide reliable indices of ungulate impacts on forest plant communities. Forest Ecology and Management 291: 55 - 64. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.11.041.

2012

Bai, C., W. S. Alverson, A. Follansbee, and D. M. Waller. 2012. New reports of nuclear DNA content for 407 vascular plant taxa from the United States. Annals of Botany 110: 1623 - 1629. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs222.

Hansen, M., I. Olivieri, D. M. Waller, E. Nielsen et al. 2012. Monitoring adaptive genetic responses to environmental change. Molecular Ecology 21: 1305 - 1538. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05463.x

Waller, D. M., K. Amatangelo, S. Johnson, and D. A. Rogers. 2012. Wisconsin vegetation database - Plant community survey and resurvey data from the Wisconsin Plant Ecology Laboratory. Biodiversity and Ecology 4: 255 - 264. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00082.

Williams, Evelyn W. and Donald M. Waller. 2012. Phylogenetic Placement of Species within the Genus Botrychium s.s. (Ophioglossaceae) on the Basis of Plastid Sequences, Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms, and Flow Cytometry. International Journal of Plant Sciences Vol. 173, No. 5 (June 2012), pp. 516-531. DOI: 10.1086/664711

Alycia W. Crall, Rebecca Jordan, Kirstin Holfelder, Gregory J. Newman, Jim Graham, and Donald M. Waller. 2012. The impacts of an invasive species citizen science training program on participant attitudes, behavior, and science literacy Public Understanding of Science doi:10.1177/0963662511434894

2011

Waller, Donald M., Kathryn L. Amatangelo, Sarah Johnson & David A. Rogers. 2011. Plant community survey and resurvey data from the Wisconsin Plant Ecology Laboratory. Biodiversity and Ecology.

Klionsky, S.M., Amantangelo, K.L., Waller, D.M.. 2011. Above- and Belowground Impacts of European Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) on Four Native Forbs. Restoration Ecology Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 728–737. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00727.x

Crall, A.W. 2011. Developing and Evaluating a National Citizen Science Program for Invasive Species. PhD Dissertation.

Crall, A.W., G.J. Newman, T.J. Stohlgren, K.A. Holfelder, J. Graham, and D.M. Waller. 2011. Assessing citizen science data quality: An invasive species case study. Conservation Letters DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00196.x

Amatangelo Kathryn L., Mark R. Fulton, David A. Rogers and Donald M. Waller. 2011. Converging forest community composition along an edaphic gradient threatens landscape-level diversity. Diversity and Distributions 17: 201-213.

2010

Kuemmerle, Tobias, Kajetan Perzanowski, H. Resit Akc¸akaya, Frederic Beaudry, Timothy R. Van Deelen, Ivan Parnikoza, Pavlo Khoyetskyy, Donald M. Waller and Volker C. Radeloff. 2011. Cost-effectiveness of strategies to establish a European bison metapopulation in the Carpathians. Journal of Applied Ecology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01954.x.

Klionsky, Sarah M., Kathryn L. Amatangelo and Donald M. Waller. 2010. Above- and Belowground Impacts of European Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) on Four Native Forbs. Restoration Ecology. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00727.x

Kuemmerle, Tobias, Volker C. Radeloff, Kajetan Perzanowski, Piotr Kozlo, Taras Sipko, Pavlo Khoyetskyy, Andriy-Taras Bashta, Evgenia Chikurova, Ivan Parnikoza, Leonid Baskin, Per Angelstam, and Donald M. Waller. 2010. Predicting potential European bison habitat across its former range. Ecological Applications.

Kuemmerle, T., Perzanowski, O. Chaskovskyy, K. Ostapowicz, L. Halada, A-T. Bashta, I. Kruhlov, P. Hostert, D.M. Waller, and V.C. Radeloff. 2010. European bison habitat in the Carpathian mountains. Biological Conservation 143: 908-916.

Crall, A.W., G.J. Newman, C.S. Jarnevich, T.J. Stohlgren, D.M. Waller, and J. Graham. 2010. Improving and integrating data on invasive species collected by citizen scientists. Biological Invasions. DOI 10.1007/s10530-010-9740-9

Cole, C. T., J. E. Anderson, R. L. Lindroth and D. M. Waller. 2010. Rising concentrations of atmospheric CO2 ahve increased growth in natural stands of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides). Global Change Biology 16, 2186–2197, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02103.x.

2009

Laikre, L. F. Allendorf, L. Aroner, C.S. Baker, D. Gregovich, M. Hansen, J. Jackson, K. Kendall, K. McKelvey, M. Neel, I. Olivieri, N. Ryman, M. Schwartz, R. Short Bull, J. Stetz, D. Tallmon, B. Taylor, C. Vojta, D. Waller, Robin Waples. 2009. Genetic diversity is neglected in implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity. Conservation Biology 23: 1378-1381. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01425.x

Gibson, T.C., and D.M. Waller. 2009. Evolving Darwin's "most wonderful plant": An ecological scenario for evolving snap-traps. New Phytologist 183: 575–587. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02935.x.

Rogers, D.A., T.P. Rooney, T. Hawbaker, V. Radeloff, and D.M. Waller. 2009. Paying the extinction debt in southern Wisconsin forest understories. Conservation Biology 23: 1497-1506. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01256.x

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.

2008

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.

2007

Steven, J.C., and D. M. Waller. 2007. Isolation affects reproductive success in low-density but not high-density populations of two wind-pollinated Thalictrum species. Plant Ecology 190: 131-141. DOI 10.1007/s11258-006-9196-2

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.

2006

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.

2005

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.

2004

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.

2003

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.

2002

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.

2001

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.

2000

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.

1999

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.

1998

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.

1997

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. 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.

1995

Rooney, T. P. 1995. Restoring landscape diversity and old growth to Pennsylvania's northern hardwood forests. Natural Areas Journal 15: 274-278.

1994

Alverson, W. S., W. Kuhlmann and D. M. Waller. 1994. Wild forests: conservation biology and public policy. Washington, DC, Island Press.

1993

Waller, D. 1993. Wisconsin's Scientific Roundtable: Uniting research and management. Inner Voice 5(3): 13.

1992

Alverson, W. S. and D. M. Waller 1992. Is is un-biocentric to manage? Wild Earth 2(4): 9-10.

1991

Waller, D. M. 1991. Introduction. Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity. W. E. Hudson. Washington, D.C., Island Press: 3-13.

1989

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.

1988

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.

1987

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.

1986

Waller, D. M. 1986. Is there disruptive selection for self-fertilization? American Naturalist. 128: 421-426.

1985

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.

1984

Waller, D.M. 1984. Differences in fitness between seedlings derived from cleistogamous and chasmogamous flowers in Impatiens capensis. Evolution. 38: 427-440.

1983

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.

1981

Waller, D.M. & D. Green. 1981. Implications of sex for the analysis of life histories. The American Naturalist. 117: 810-813.