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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
2013
Wagner, D., 2013. Long term impact of a leaf miner outbreak on the performance of quaking aspen. D. P. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 43, pp.563-568.
2012
Wagner, D. et al., 2012. Overwintering Physiology and Microhabitat Use of Phyllocnistis populiella (Lepidoptera: Gracilliariidae) in Interior Alaska. Environmental Entomology, 41, pp.180–187.
2011
Mortensen, B., 2011. Defensive effects of extrafloral nectaries in quaking aspen differ with scale D. Wagner. Oecologia, 165, pp.983-993.
2010
Wagner, D. & W. Nicklen, F., 2010. Ant nest location, soil nutrients and nutrient uptake by ant-associated plants: does extrafloral nectar attract ant nests and thereby enhance plant nutrition?. Journal of Ecology, 98, pp.614–624.
Young, B. et al., 2010. Within-plant distribution of phenolic glycosides and extrafloral nectaries in trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides; Salicaceae). American Journal of Botany, 97, pp.601–610.
Young, B. et al., 2010. Induction of Phenolic Glycosides by Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) Leaves in Relation to Extrafloral Nectaries and Epidermal Leaf Mining. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 36, pp.369–377.
2008
Wagner, D. et al., 2008. Impact of epidermal leaf mining by the aspen leaf miner (Phyllocnistis populiella) on the growth, physiology, and leaf longevity of quaking aspen. Oceologia, 157, pp.259–267.
2007
Doak, P., Wagner, D. & Watson, A., 2007. Variable extrafloral nectary expressioin and its consequences in quaking aspen. Canadian Journal of Botany, 85, pp.1–9.
2006
Nicklen, E.F. & Wagner, D., 2006. Conflict resolution in an ant-plant interaction: Acacia constricta traits reduce ant costs to reproduction. Oecologia, 148, pp.81–87.
Wagner, D. & Jones, J.B., 2006. The impact of harvester ants on decomposition, N mineralization, litter quality, and the availability of N to plants in the Mojave Desert. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 38, pp.2593–2601.
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