Special Topics-Organisms in Extreme Environments

BIOLOGY 4490/5490

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Reading List

1. Engel DW and Angelovic JW. 1968.  The influence of salinity and temperature upon the respiration of brine shrimp nauplii. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 26: 749-752. (from Google Scholar)

2. Brix KV, Gerdes, RM, Adams WJ and Grosell, M. 2006. Effects of copper, cadmium and zinc on the hatchling success of brine shrimp (Artemiafranciscana). Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 51: 580-583. (from Web of Science)

3. Wurtsbaugh WA and Gliwicz M. 2001. Limnological control of brine shrimp population dynamics and cyst production in the Great Salt Lake, Utah.Hydrobiologia 466: 119-132. (from Web of Science) (Look specifically at Figures 2, 3 and 4.)

4. Cole GA and Brown RJ. 1967. The chemistry of Artemia habitats. Ecology 48: 858-861. (from JSTOR)

5. Harris GP.  1971.  The ecology of corticolous lichens. II. The relationship between physiology and the environment. J. Ecol. 59: 441-452 (from JSTOR)

6. Harris GP.  1972. The ecology of corticolous lichens. III. A simulation model of productivity as a function of light intensity and water availability. J. Ecol 60: 19-40. (from JSTOR)

7. Palmqvist K and B Sundberg. 2000. Light use efficiency of dry matter gain in five macro-lichens: relative impact of microclimate conditions and species-specific traits. Plant, Cell and Environ. 23: 1-14. (from Web of Science)

8. Lebkuecher JG and Eickmeier WG. 1993. Physiological benefits of stem curling for resurrection plants in the field. Ecology 74: 1073-1080. (from JSTOR)

9. Potts R and Penfound WT. 1948. Water relations of the polypody fern, Polypodium polypodioides (L.) A.S. Hitchcock. Ecology 29: 43-53. (from JSTOR)

10. Wang X, Chen S, Zhang H, Shi L, Cao F, Guo L, Xie Y, Wang T, Yan X and Dai S. 2010. Desiccation tolerance mechanism in resurrection fern ally Selaginella tamariscina revelaed by physiological and proteomic analysis. J. Proteome Research 9: 6561-6577. (from Web of Science)

11. Jackson EF, Echlin HL and Jackson CR. 2006. Changes in the phyllosphere community of the resurrection fern, Polypodium polypodioides, associated with rainfall and wetting. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 58: 236-246. (from Web of Science)