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Diane Wagner

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Diane Wagner
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Work in my lab focuses on the evolutionary ecology of insect-plant interactions. Current research projects include:

  • Impact of outbreak herbivores on aspen and willow
  • Population biology of outbreak leaf miners
  • Invasion biology of Vicia cracca in interior Alaska
  • Causes and consequences of extrafloral nectar secretion by aspen
D Wagner
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Diane Wagner
Diane Wagner
Professor of Biology
Chair, Biology and Wildlife Department
diane.wagner@alaska.edu
Office: 
101D Murie Bldg and 260 Arctic Health Research Bldg
907-474-5227
Lab: 
257 Arctic Health Research Bldg
Postal Address: 
  • PhD, Princeton University 1994
  • AB, University of California Berkeley 1986
  • Professor, UAF Department of Biology & WIldlife
  • 2018 - 2020: Chair, UAF Department of Biology & Wildlife
  • 2016 - 2018: Chair, Biological Sciences Undergraduate Program
  • 2013 - 2016:  Chair, UAF Biology & Wildlife Department
  • 2007 - 2020: Associate Professor of Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
  • 2002 - 2007: Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
  • 1998 - 2002: Assistant Professor, University of Nevada Las Vegas
  • 1996 - 1998: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Stanford University
  • 1996: Visiting Assistant Professor, Mills College
  • 1994 - 1996 - USDA Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 1994: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington State Univeristy

2004

Wagner, D., Jones, J.B. & Gordon, D.M., 2004. Development of harvester ant colonies alters soil chemistry. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 36, pp.797–804.

2003

Sanders, N.J., Moss, J. & Wagner, D., 2003. Patterns of ant species richness along elevation gradients in an arid ecosystem. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 12, pp.93–102.

2002

Wagner, D. & Kay, A., 2002. Do extrafloral nectaries distract ants from visiting flowers? An experimental test of an overlooked hypothesis. Evolutionary Ecology Research,, pp.293–305.

Pages

  • Impacts of polyandry and mate limitation on female fecundity and the population dynamics of the aspen leaf miner (NSF, 2016-2018, co-PI)
  • LTER: Cross-scale controls over responses of the Alaskan boreal forest to changing disturbance regimes (NSF LTER, 2017-2022, senior investigator)
  • Bird vetch invasion ecology (USFS, 2014-2018, PI)
  • LTER: Regional consequences of changing climate-disturbance interactions for the resilience of Alaska's boreal forest (NSF, 2006-2010, senior investigator)
  • Impact of the willow leaf blotch miner (Micrurapteryx salicifoliella) on willow performance in interior Alaska (USFS, 2010-2012, PI)
  • The functional significance of variation in the production of extrafloral nectaries by aspen (NSF, 2006-2010, PI)
  • The effect of ant nests on plant nutrition and selection for extrafloral nectaries (NSF, 2003-2005, PI)
  • Principles of Ecology, BIOL F271
  • Research Design, BIOL F602
  • Animal-Plant Interactions, BIOL F693
  • Fundamentals of Biology I and II, BIOL F115X and 116X 
Current Graduate Students (More info)
  • Martha Cummings
  • Giovanni Tundo
Past Graduate Students

Alexandria Wenninger

Brian Allman

Jonathon Newman

Brent Mortensen

Brian Young

E. Fleur Nicklen

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