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  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Susan Kalisz is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. The research focus centers on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant work in environmental science. The subfields of study include plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, and ecological modeling.

The primary research topics Susan Kalisz explores involve plant and animal studies, plant parasitism and resistance, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions, species distribution and climate change, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, and mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Susan Kalisz include:

  • Allelopathy is pervasive in invasive plants (2020, Biological Invasions)

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Susan Kalisz include Stephanie N. Kivlin, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Morgan D. Roche, Robert M. McElderry, and Alexandra S. Faidiga.

The venues in which Susan Kalisz has published multiple articles are:

  • Biological Invasions
  • American Journal of Botany
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • New Phytologist
  • Evolution

An award received by Susan Kalisz is the Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, awarded in 2020.

Best Publications

  • The Evolutionary Enigma of Mixed Mating Systems in Plants: Occurrence, Theoretical Explanations, and Empirical Evidence

    Carol Goodwillie;Susan Kalisz;Christopher G. Eckert

  • Plant mating systems in a changing world.

    Christopher G. Eckert;Susan Kalisz;Monica A. Geber;Risa Sargent

  • THE CAUSES OF NATURAL SELECTION.

    Michael J. Wade;Susan Kalisz

  • LONGEVITY CAN BUFFER PLANT AND ANIMAL POPULATIONS AGAINST CHANGING CLIMATIC VARIABILITY

    William F. Morris;Catherine A. Pfister;Shripad Tuljapurkar;Chirrakal V. Haridas

  • Evolutionary consequences of self- fertilization in plants

    Stephen I. Wright;Susan Kalisz;Tanja Slotte

  • Context-dependent autonomous self-fertilization yields reproductive assurance and mixed mating.

    Susan Kalisz;Donna W. Vogler;Donna W. Vogler;Kristen M. Hanley

  • VARIABLE SELECTION ON THE TIMING OF GERMINATION IN COLLINSIA VERNA (SCROPHULARIACEAE).

    Susan Kalisz

  • Sex among the flowers: the distribution of plant mating systems.

    Donna W. Vogler;Susan Kalisz

  • BENEFITS OF AUTONOMOUS SELFING UNDER UNPREDICTABLE POLLINATOR ENVIRONMENTS

    Susan Kalisz;Donna W. Vogler

  • Correlated evolution of mating system and floral display traits in flowering plants and its implications for the distribution of mating system variation.

    Carol Goodwillie;Risa D. Sargent;Christopher G. Eckert;Elizabeth Elle

  • Relationship between soil enzyme activities, nutrient cycling and soil fungal communities in a northern hardwood forest

    David J. Burke;Michael N. Weintraub;Charlotte R. Hewins;Susan Kalisz

  • Demography of an Age-Structured Annual: Resampled Projection Matrices, Elasticity Analyses, and Seed Bank Effects

    Susan Kalisz;Mark A. McPeek

  • Biological invasions in forest ecosystems

    Andrew M. Liebhold;Eckehard G. Brockerhoff;Susan Kalisz;Martin Andres Nuñez

  • Epialleles via DNA methylation: consequences for plant evolution

    Susan Kalisz;Michael D. Purugganan

  • Deer Facilitate Invasive Plant Success in a Pennsylvania Forest Understory

    Tiffany M. Knight;Tiffany M. Knight;Jessica L. Dunn;Lisa A. Smith;JoAnn Davis

  • Spatial population genetic structure in Trillium grandiflorum: the roles of dispersal, mating, history, and selection.

    Susan Kalisz;John D. Nason;Frances M. Hanzawa;Stephen J. Tonsor;Stephen J. Tonsor

  • Comparative analysis of late floral development and mating-system evolution in tribe Collinsieae (Scrophulariaceae s.l.)

    W. Scott Armbruster;W. Scott Armbruster;Christa P. H. Mulder;Bruce G. Baldwin;Susan Kalisz

  • The scope of Baker's law

    John R Pannell;Josh R Auld;Yaniv Brandvain;Martin Christopher Burd

  • ANALYSIS OF INBREEDING DEPRESSION IN MIXED-MATING PLANTS PROVIDES EVIDENCE FOR SELECTIVE INTERFERENCE AND STABLE MIXED MATING

    Alice A. Winn;Elizabeth Elle;Susan Kalisz;Pierre-Olivier Cheptou

  • A LIFE-HISTORY BASED STUDY OF POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE: SEED BANK TO ADULTS IN PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA.

    Stephen J. Tonsor;Susan Kalisz;Jill Fisher;Timothy P. Holtsford

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher G. Eckert
Christopher G. Eckert Queen's University
Pierre-Olivier Cheptou
Pierre-Olivier Cheptou Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Richard H. Ree
Richard H. Ree Field Museum of Natural History
W. Scott Armbruster
W. Scott Armbruster University of Portsmouth
David A. Moeller
David A. Moeller University of Minnesota
Elizabeth Elle
Elizabeth Elle Simon Fraser University
Monica A. Geber
Monica A. Geber Cornell University
Tiffany M. Knight
Tiffany M. Knight Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle Umeå University
Stephen I. Wright
Stephen I. Wright University of Toronto

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