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Hesperostipa spartea
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Platanthera praeclara
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Pollen addition & exclusion
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Heritability of flowering time
Heritability of fitness–qGen2 & qGen3
Heritability of fitness–qGen1
Inbreeding experiment–INB2
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Common garden experiment–1996 cohort
Ridley’s next generation rescue
Echinacea hybrids–exPt 6
Echinacea hybrids–exPt 7
Echinacea hybrids–exPt 9
Demographic census in remnants
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Fire & flowering at Staffanson Prairie Preserve
Hesperostipa common garden experiment
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Echinacea pallida flowering phenology
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Maureen Page
Cam Shorb
Allison Grecco
Keaton Holsinger
Elizabeth Mays
Claire Ellwanger
Jared Beck
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Lydia English
Andrew Kaul
Kelly Kapsar
Sarah Baker
Ilse Renner
Dayvis Blasini
Marie Schaedel
Pamela Kittelson
Sara Zufan
Reina Nielsen
Kory Kolis
Mike Howe
Lydia Kan
Jillian Gall
Shona Sanford-Long
Josh Drizin
Greg Diersen
Katherine Muller
Amber Eule-Nashoba
Nicholas Goldsmith
Amber Zahler
Callin Switzer
Lee Rodman
Maria Wang
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exPt 1 Core
exPt1 Aphid Abundance and Plant Damage 2004-2012
Kittelson’s Functional Traits
specialist aphid publication 2015
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Fire & fitness at Staffanson Prairie Preserve
Muller’s ants in prairie fragments
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Nordstrom’s Fire and Demography
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