Biological Sciences Department faculty research and scholarly activities reflect the social and cultural relevance of their work. Faculty are continuously engaged in projects funded by private, state and federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research and the National Institutes of Health. Robust faculty research programs provide opportunities for co-authorship with colleagues, domestically and internationally, and with Cal Poly graduate and undergraduate students.
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Submissions from 2015
Herbivory and the Resilience of Caribbean Coral Reefs: Knowledge Gaps and Implications for Management, Thomas C. Adam, Deron E. Burkepile, Benjamin I. Ruttenberg, and Michelle J. Paddack
Resource Partitioning Along Multiple Niche Axes Drives Functional Diversity in Parrotfishes on Caribbean Coral Reefs, Thomas C. Adam, Megan Kelley, Benjamin I. Ruttenberg, and Deron E. Burkepile
Complete mitochondrial genome of the speckled dace Rhinichthys osculus, a widely distributed cyprinid minnow of western North America, Samantha J. Bock, Morgan M. Malley, and Sean Lema
Temperatures experienced by fresh-cut leafy greens during retail storage and display, W. Brown, E. Ryser, L. Gorman, Scott J. Steinmaus, and Keith Vorst
Ecotypic Differentiation of Mid-Atlantic Quercus Species in Response to Ultramafic Soils, Jerry Burgess, Katalin Szlavecz, Nishanta Rajakaruna, and Christopher Swan
Vegetation Dynamics and Mesophication in Response to Conifer Encroachment Within an Ultramafic System, J. Burgess, K. Szlavecz, N. Rajakaruna, S. Lev, and C. Swan
Growth and Nickel Uptake by Serpentine and Non-Serpentine Populations of Fimbristylis ovata (Cyperaceae) From Sri Lanka, P. K. D. Chathuranga, S. K. A. T. Dharmasena, Nishanta Rajakaruna, and M.C.M. Iqbal
Transfer of Heavy Metals Through Terrestrial Food Webs: A Review, Jillian E. Gall, Robert Boyd, and Nishanta Rajakaruna
Calcium : Magnesium Ratio Affects Environmental Stress Sensitivity in the Serpentine-Endemic Alyssum inflatum (Brassicaceae), Rasoul Ghasemi, Zohreh Zare Chavoshi, Robert S. Boyd, and Nishanta Rajakaruna
Immobilization and Phytotoxicity Reduction of Heavy Metals in Serpentine Soil Using Biochar, I. Herath, P. Kumarathilaka, A. Navarantne, N. Rajakaruna, and M. Vithanage
Role of Bacterial-Fungal Interactions on Heavy Metal Phytotoxicity in Serpentine Soil, Mihiri Seneviratne, Gamini Seneviratne, H. M. S. P. Madawala, M.C.M. Iqbal, Nishanta Rajakaruna, Tharanga Bandara, and Meththika Vithanage
Protemic identification of Germline Proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans, B Elizabeth Turner, Sophia M. Basecke, Grace E. Bazan, Eric S. Dodge, Cassy M. Haire, Dylan J. Heussman, Chelsey L. Johnson, Chelsea K. Mukai, Adrianna M. Naccarati, Sunny-June Norton, Jennifer R. Sato, Chihara O. Talavera, Michael V. Wade, and Kenneth J. Hillers
Global Research on Ultramafic (Serpentine) Ecosystems (8th International Conference on Serpentine Ecology in Sabah, Malaysia): A Summary and Synthesis, Antony van der Ent, Nishanta Rajakaruna, Robert Boyd, Guillaume Echevarria, Rimi Repin, and Dick Williams
INTRODUCTION Next Contents Vol 63(4) Global Research on Ultramafic (Serpentine) Ecosystems (8th International Conference on Serpentine Ecology in Sabah, Malaysia), Antony van der Ent, Nishanta Rajakaruna, Robert Boyd, Guillaume Echevarria, Rimi Repin, and Dick Williams
A Preliminary Survey of the Diversity of Soil Algae and Cyanoprokaryotes on Mafic and Ultramafic Substrates in South Africa, Arthurita Venter, Anatoliy Levanets, Stefan Siebert, and Nishanta Rajakaruna
Submissions from 2014
Little Evidence for Local Adaptation to Soils or Microclimate in the Post-Fire Recruitment of Three Californian Shrubs, Annette Bieger, Nishanta Rajakaruna, and Susan Harrison
A preliminary study of the role of nickel in enhancing flowering of the nickel hyperaccumulating plant Alyssum inflatum Nyár. (Brassicaceae), R. Ghasemi, Z. Zare Chavoshi, R.S. Boyd, and Nishanta Rajakaruna
Diversity and soil-tissue elemental relations of vascular plants of Callahan Mine, Brooksville, Maine, U.S.A., Margaret R. Mansfield, Nathaniel S. Pope, Glen H. Mittelhauser, and Nishanta Rajakaruna
Additional lichen records and mineralogical data from metal-contaminated sites in Maine, Ian D. Medeiros, Alan M. Fryday, and N. Rajakaruna
The Role of Elevation and Soil Chemistry in the Distribution and Ion Accumulation of Floral Morphs of Streptanthus polygaloides Gray (Brassicaceae), a Californian Nickel Hyperaccumulator, Nathaniel S. Pope, Michael Fong, Robert S. Boyd, and Nishanta Rajakaruna
Using Crossword Puzzles to Enhance Students' Learning of Technical Biological Terms, William D. Stansfield
Metal Release From Serpentine Soils in Sri Lanka, Meththika Vithanage, Anushka Upamali Rajapaksha, Christopher Oze, Nishanta Rajakaruna, and C. B. Dissanayake
Submissions from 2013
Assessing Coral Reef Fish Population and Community Changes in Response to Marine Reserves in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, USA, Jerald S. Ault, Steven G. Smith, James A. Bohnsack, Jiangang Luo, Natalia Zurcher, David B. McClellan, Tracy A. Ziegler, David E. Hallac, Matt Patterson, Michael W. Feeley, Benjamin I. Ruttenberg, John Hunt, Dan Kimball, and Billy Causey
Achieving the triple bottom line in the face of inherent trade-offs among social equity, economic return, and conservation, Benjamin S. Halpern, Carissa J. Klein, Christopher J. Brown, Maria Beger, Hedley S. Grantham, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Mary Ruckelshaus, Vivitskaia J. Tulloch, Matt Watts, Crow White, and Hough P. Possingham
Marine Protected Areas and Resilience to Sedimentation in the Solomon Islands, B. S. Halpern, K. A. Selkoe, Crow White, S. Albert, S. Aswani, and M. Lauer