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Karen E. Mock is affiliated with Utah State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. The scientist has a significant focus on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Global and Planetary Change as key subfields within their work.

The scientist's research encompasses a range of main topics including:

  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Bioenergy crop production and management

Karen E. Mock has contributed to a number of publications in various scientific journals. Selected recent papers include:

  • Genotyping-by-sequencing and ecological niche modeling illuminate phylogeography, admixture, and Pleistocene range dynamics in quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • Coping with environmental constraints: Geographically divergent adaptive evolution and germination plasticity in the transcontinental Populus tremuloides, 2022, Plants People Planet
  • Translocation experiment reveals capacity for mountain pine beetle persistence under climate warming, 2020, Ecological Monographs
  • Detection of 4 imperiled western North American freshwater mussel species from environmental DNA with multiplex qPCR assays, 2020, Freshwater Science
  • Provenance Variation in Early Survival, Growth, and Carbon Isotope Discrimination of Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Growing in Three Common Gardens across an Elevational Gradient, 2021, Forests

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable coauthors including:

  • Torrey W. Rodgers
  • James A. Walton
  • Owen T. Burney
  • Richard L. Lindroth
  • Bernardo R. Gonzalez

Karen E. Mock publishes regularly in journals such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Freshwater Science
  • Journal of Chemical Ecology
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Plants People Planet

Best Publications

  • Clonal dynamics in western North American aspen (Populus tremuloides)

    Karen E. Mock;C. A. Rowe;Mevin B. Hooten;J. DeWoody

  • Phylogeny of the most species-rich freshwater bivalve family (Bivalvia: Unionida: Unionidae): Defining modern subfamilies and tribes.

    Manuel Lopes-Lima;Elsa Froufe;Van Tu Do;Mohamed Ghamizi

  • Landscape‐scale genetic variation in a forest outbreak species, the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae)

    Karen E. Mock;B. J. Bentz;E. M. O'Neill;J. P. Chong

  • Genetic variation across the historical range of the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

    Karen E. Mock;T. C. Theimer;O. E. Rhodes Jr.;D. L. Greenberg

  • Genetic diversity, reproductive mode, and dispersal differ between the cryptic invader, Phragmites australis, and its native conspecific

    Karin M. Kettenring;Karen E. Mock

  • “Pando” Lives: Molecular Genetic Evidence of a Giant Aspen Clone in Central Utah

    Jennifer DeWoody;Carol A. Rowe;Valerie D. Hipkins;Karen E. Mock

  • Assessing losses of genetic diversity due to translocation: long-term case histories in Merriam's turkey (Meleagris gallopavo merriami)

    Karen E. Mock;E.K. Latch;O.E. Rhodes

  • Imaging spectroscopy links aspen genotype with below-ground processes at landscape scales.

    Michael D. Madritch;Clayton C. Kingdon;Aditya Singh;Karen E. Mock

  • Widespread triploidy in Western North American aspen (Populus tremuloides).

    Karen E. Mock;Colin M. Callahan;M. Nurul Islam-Faridi;John D. Shaw

  • Changing perspectives on regeneration ecology and genetic diversity in western quaking aspen: implications for silviculture

    James N. Long;Karen E. Mock

  • Continental-scale assessment of genetic diversity and population structure in quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)

    Colin M. Callahan;Carol A. Rowe;Ronald J. Ryel;John D. Shaw

  • Genetic diversity and divergence among freshwater mussel (Anodonta) populations in the Bonneville Basin of Utah

    Karen E. Mock;J. C. Brim-Box;J. C. Brim-Box;M. P. Miller;M. E. Downing

  • Are the same bears repeatedly translocated from corn crops in Wisconsin

    John A. Shivik;David Ruid;Robert C. Willging;Karen E. Mock

  • Spatial genetic structure of the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreak in western Canada: historical patterns and contemporary dispersal.

    G. D. N. Gayathri Samarasekera;Nicholas V. Bartell;B. Staffan Lindgren;Janice E. K. Cooke

  • Genetic architecture and phenotypic plasticity of thermally-regulated traits in an eruptive species, Dendroctonus ponderosae

    Barbara J. Bentz;Ryan R. Bracewell;Karen E. Mock;Michael E. Pfrender

  • Defense traits in the long-lived Great Basin bristlecone pine and resistance to the native herbivore mountain pine beetle

    Barbara J. Bentz;Sharon M. Hood;E. Matthew Hansen;James C. Vandygriff

  • Nonnative Phragmites australis Invasion into Utah Wetlands

    Andrew Kulmatiski;Karen H. Beard;Laura A. Meyerson;Jacob R. Gibson

  • Detection of individual ploidy levels with genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) analysis.

    Zachariah Gompert;Karen E. Mock

  • Drinking water as a source of environmental DNA for the detection of terrestrial wildlife species

    Torrey W. Rodgers;Karen E. Mock

  • Tamm Review: Seedling-based ecology, management, and restoration in aspen (Populus tremuloides)

    Simon M. Landhäusser;Bradley D. Pinno;Karen E. Mock

  • Life on the edge: reproductive mode and rate of invasive Phragmites australis patch expansion

    Karin M. Kettenring;Karen E. Mock;Bushra Zaman;Bushra Zaman;Mac McKee

  • Quantitative-Genetic Variation in Morphological and Physiological Traits Within a Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) population

    Megan K. KanagaM.K. Kanaga;Ronald J. RyelR.J. Ryel;Karen E. MockK.E. Mock;Michael E. PfrenderM.E. Pfrender

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara J. Bentz
Barbara J. Bentz US Forest Service
Michael E. Pfrender
Michael E. Pfrender University of Notre Dame
Paul G. Wolf
Paul G. Wolf University of Alabama in Huntsville
Karin M. Kettenring
Karin M. Kettenring Utah State University
Ronald J. Ryel
Ronald J. Ryel Utah State University
James N. Long
James N. Long Utah State University
Matthew E. Gompper
Matthew E. Gompper New Mexico State University
Iain J. Gordon
Iain J. Gordon James Hutton Institute
Todd E. Katzner
Todd E. Katzner United States Geological Survey
Stephen M. Redpath
Stephen M. Redpath University of Aberdeen

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