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Diane Wagner
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Diane Wagner
Research Interests:
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

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Diane Wagner
Diane
Wagner
Professor of Biology
Chair, Biology and Wildlife Department
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., 2004. Microsite variation in soil nutrient storage, microbial biomass, and soil erosion in the Mojave Desert: the contribution of harvester ants. Environmental Entomology, 33, pp.599–607.
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.
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- 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
In the News
- When Moths Turn Away Moose
(26 October 2018) Alaska Native News - Making its predators tremble: Multiple defenses act synergistically in aspen
(23 April 2010) Physorg.com