Tag: Biogeography

Ickert-Bond Lab: systematics meets ecology, paleontology, and genomics

The Arctic’s polyploid haven in Arabidopsis kamchatica

Back at the Boise Botany meeting 11 years ago, I first met Alison Scott, then a PhD student at UW Madison presenting her poster on polyploidy in Sequioa. Fast forward to today- she is at ALA, furiously sampling hundreds of Arabidopsis kamchatica specimens to explore ploidy level changes in Beringian populations. It was great reconnecting…
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Sunrise near Denali NP

Systematic Botany – BIOL331 – Delivered asynchronously again this semester

Due to COVID restriction BIOL331 Systematic Botany will be offered as an online option again this year at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Are you interested in learning about the Flora of Alaska as well as getting familiar with some unique approaches to delivering a systematic botany course online, this might be the one for…
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Biogeographic importance of the Bering land bridge from the Cretaceous to the Neogene

by Jun Wen, Ze-Long Nie and Stefanie M. Ickert-Bond DOI: 10.1111/jse.12222