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  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Candace Galen is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States. Their academic focus spans several areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a notable concentration on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Genetics, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics of their research encompass plant and animal studies, insect and pesticide research, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, plant parasitism and resistance, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, animal ecology and behavior studies, and plant tissue culture and regeneration.

Galen's recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities, 2022, published in Global Change Biology
  • Sexual and natural selection on pollen morphology in Taraxacum, 2020, published in American Journal of Botany
  • Unintended Consequences? Lethal Specimen Collection Accelerates with Conservation Concern, 2022, published in American Entomologist
  • The cost of self-promotion: ecological and demographic implications of the mentor effect in natural plant populations, 2022, published in New Phytologist
  • The cost of self-promotion: Ecological and demographic implications of the mentor effect in natural Taraxacum populations, 2020, published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The venues where Galen frequently publishes demonstrate a variety of platforms within biological and ecological sciences. These include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, American Journal of Botany, American Entomologist, and New Phytologist.

Throughout their career, Galen has collaborated regularly with several researchers. Their frequent coauthors include Austin M. Lynn, Lauren L. Sullivan, Nicole E. Miller-Struttmann, Zachary Miller, and Emelyn Piotter.

In recognition of their professional contributions, Galen was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004.

Best Publications

  • MEASURING POLLINATOR-MEDIATED SELECTION ON MORPHOMETRIC FLORAL TRAITS: BUMBLEBEES AND THE ALPINE SKY PILOT, POLEMONIUM VISCOSUM

    Candace Galen

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  • Functional mismatch in a bumble bee pollination mutualism under climate change.

    Nicole E. Miller-Struttmann;Nicole E. Miller-Struttmann;Jennifer C. Geib;James D. Franklin;Peter G. Kevan

  • Drought stress, plant water status, and floral trait expression in fireweed, Epilobium angustifolium (Onagraceae).

    Amy B. Carroll;Stephen G. Pallardy;Candace Galen

  • Down the tube: pollinators, predators, and the evolution of flower shape in the alpine skypilot, Polemonium viscosum.

    Candace Galen;Jessica Cuba

  • High and Dry: Drought Stress, Sex‐Allocation Trade‐offs, and Selection on Flower Size in the Alpine Wildflower Polemonium viscosum (Polemoniaceae)

    Candace Galen

  • BUMBLE BEE POLLINATION AND FLORAL MORPHOLOGY: FACTORS INFLUENCING POLLEN DISPERSAL IN THE ALPINE SKY PILOT, POLEMONIUM VISCOSUM (POLEMONIACEAE)

    Candace Galen;Candace Galen;Maureen L. Stanton;Maureen L. Stanton

  • Are flowers physiological sinks or faucets? Costs and correlates of water use by flowers of Polemonium viscosum

    Candace Galen;Rabecca A. Sherry;Amy B. Carroll

  • RATES OF FLORAL EVOLUTION: ADAPTATION TO BUMBLEBEE POLLINATION IN AN ALPINE WILDFLOWER, POLEMONIUM VISCOSUM.

    Candace Galen

  • Bumble bee behavior and selection on flower size in the sky pilot, Polemonium viscosum.

    C. Galen;M. E. A. Newport

  • RESPONSES OF SNOWBED PLANT SPECIES TO CHANGES IN GROWING-SEASON LENGTH'

    Candace Galen;Maureen L. Stanton

  • Interspecific pollen transfer as a mechanism of competition: Consequences of foreign pollen contamination for seed set in the alpine wildflower, Polemonium viscosum

    Candace Galen;Teresa Gregory

  • Regulation of Seed-Set in Polemonium viscosum: Floral Scents, Pollination, and Resources

    Candace Galen

  • POLLINATION IN FLORAL SCENT MORPHS OF POLEMONIUM VISCOSUM: A MECHANISM FOR DISRUPTIVE SELECTION ON FLOWER SIZE

    Candace Galen;Krystyn A. Zimmer;Mary Ellen Newport

  • FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SELECTION AND ADAPTIVE SURFACES FOR FLORAL CHARACTER COMBINATIONS: THE POLLINATION OF POLEMONIUM VISCOSUM

    James E. Cresswell;Candace Galen

  • CONSEQUENCES OF EMERGENCE PHENOLOGY FOR REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN RANUNCULUS ADONEUS (RANUNCULACEAE)

    Candace Galen;Maureen L. Stanton

  • ECOTYPIC DIVERGENCE IN ALPINE POLEMONIUM VISCOSUM: GENETIC STRUCTURE, QUANTITATIVE VARIATION, AND LOCAL ADAPTATION.

    Candace Galen;Joel S. Shore;Hudson Deyoe

  • The effects of nectar level and flower development on pollen carry-over in inflorescences of fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) (Onagraceae)

    C. Galen;R. C. Plowright

  • Carpels as leaves: meeting the carbon cost of reproduction in an alpine buttercup

    Candace Galen;Todd E. Dawson;Maureen L. Stanton

  • Life on the edge: adaptation versus environmentally mediated gene flow in the snow buttercup, Ranunculus adoneus.

    Maureen L. Stanton;Candace Galen

  • Short-Term Responses of Alpine Buttercups to Experimental Manipulations of Growing Season Length

    Candace Galen;Maureen L. Stanton

Frequent Co-Authors

Maureen L. Stanton
Maureen L. Stanton University of California, Davis
Peter G. Kevan
Peter G. Kevan University of Guelph
Rebecca E. Irwin
Rebecca E. Irwin North Carolina State University
Ricardo M. Holdo
Ricardo M. Holdo University of Georgia
John T. Rotenberry
John T. Rotenberry University of Minnesota
James E. Cresswell
James E. Cresswell University of Exeter
Stephen L. Buchmann
Stephen L. Buchmann University of Arizona
Todd E. Dawson
Todd E. Dawson University of California, Berkeley
Robert A. Raguso
Robert A. Raguso Cornell University
Stephen G. Pallardy
Stephen G. Pallardy University of Missouri

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