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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

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

Google Scholar Profile

2019

Boyd, M.A., 2019. Impacts of climate and insect herbivory on productivity and physiology of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) in Alaskan boreal forests. Environmental Research Letters, In press. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab215f.

Wenninger, A., 2019. Predatory hymenopteran assemblages in boreal Alaska: associations with forest composition and post-fire succession T. N. Hollingsworth. Ecoscience. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/11956860.2018.1564484.

2018

Allman, B.P., 2018. Leaf herbivory by insects during summer reduces overwinter browsing by moose K. Kielland. BMC Ecology, 18. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6161349/.

Wagner, D., 2018. The effect of an outbreak by the leaf miner Micrurapteryx salicifoliella on the performance of multiple Salix species in interior Alaska P. Doak. Botany, in press.

2017

Wagner, D., 2017. Oviposition, larval survival and leaf damage by the willow leaf blotch miner, Micrurapteryx salicifoliella, in relation to leaf trichomes across 10 Salix species P. Doak. Ecological Entomology, 42, pp.629-635.

2016

Newman, J., 2016. Impact of extrafloral nectar availability and plant genotype on ant visitation to quaking aspen D. Wagner. Canadian Entomologist, 148, pp.36-42.

2015

Dennis, R., 2015. Aspen leaf miner (Phyllocnistis populiella) oviposition site choice mediated by aspen (Populus tremuloides) extrafloral nectaries P. Doak. Arthopod-Plant Interactions, 9, pp.405-413.

Doak, P., 2015. The role of interference competition in a sustained population outbreak of the aspen leaf miner in Alaska D. Wagner. Basic and Applied Ecology, 16, pp.434-442.

2013

Mortensen, B., 2013. Parental resource and offspring liability: The influence of extrafloral nectar on oviposition by a leaf mining moth D. Wagner. Oecologia, 172, pp.767-777.

Newman, J., 2013. The influence of defoliation and water availability on extrafloral nectar secretion in quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx) D. Wagner. Botany, 91, pp.761-767.

Pages

Principles of Ecology, BIOL F271
Research Design, BIOL F602
Animal-Plant Interactions, BIOL F693
Fundamentals of Biology I and II, BIOL F115X and 116X

Past Graduate Students

Alexandria Wenninger

Brian Allman

Jonathon Newman

Brent Mortensen

Brian Young

E. Fleur Nicklen