{"id":1289,"date":"2017-11-08T20:43:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T20:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/biological-sciences\/?page_id=1289"},"modified":"2023-11-15T09:49:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T16:49:28","slug":"deaver-herbarium-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-biological-sciences\/deaver-herbarium-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaver Herbarium Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deaver Herbarium research<\/h1>\n

Floristic inventories at the Deaver Herbarium<\/h4>\n

Floristic inventories are catalogs of biological diversity <\/span>at<\/span> specific localities. These inventories are compilations of all historical botanical explorations combined with intensive multiyear collecting expeditions designed to discover all plants that occur in a particular area. Besides <\/span>determining<\/span> a total number of species for an area, floristic inventories result in the discovery of new state records, geographical distributions, and species new to science. Floristic inventories record non-native species <\/span>and often track populations of rare, endemic species.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Christie, K. 2009.<\/a> Phytogeography and floristics of pinyon-juniper woodlands in northern Arizona.\u00a0Western North American Naturalist<\/em> 69(2):155-164.<\/p>\n

Christie, K. 2008.<\/a> Vascular flora and floristic analysis of the lower San Francisco Volcanic Field, Coconino County, Arizona.\u00a0Madrono<\/em> 55:1-14.<\/p>\n

Rink, G. 2005.<\/a> A checklist of the vascular flora of Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Apache County, Arizona.\u00a0The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society<\/em> 132(3): 510-532.<\/p>\n

Vascular flora of the San Francisco Peaks<\/h4>\n

Will Moir compiled more than 800 species records for vascular plants of the San Francisco Peaks in northern Arizona. These historical collections include specimens collected by Elbert Little, James Morefield, the late Jim Rominger, and many NAU graduate students, including Clark Schaack and Laurie Paulik.<\/p>\n

Deaver Herbarium staff members are still actively hunting the San Francisco Peaks for species that have not been found in the past 20 to 80 years, to revise the floristic inventory of the area created by Will, who is now living in northern California. Vascular Flora of the San Francisco Peaks<\/a> \u00a0 (3rd edition), an online resource, provides the most current inventory of the vascular plants of the San Francisco Peaks, including life zones, environments, and species list.<\/p>\n

Ethnobotany of the San Francisco Peaks<\/h4>\n

The ethnobotanical flora of Arizona\u2019s San Francisco Peaks was documented by Kristin Kampe in her master\u2019s thesis, which focused on medicinal and ceremonial plants used by 13 Native American Tribes that find the area sacred. <\/span>This medicinal flora provides a comparative analysis of plant usage by these Tribes on the basis of application as well as by distribution of species.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Henningsen, K., T. Ayers, R. Scott, and P. Hogan. 2011<\/a>.\u00a0Medicinal flora of the San Francisco Peaks in northern Arizona: a historical compilation. Journal of the American Herbalists Guild<\/cite> 10(2): 18.22.<\/p>\n

Discovery of\u00a0new biodiversity<\/h4>\n

Sometimes botanical research leads to the discovery of species new to science. Student and staff members affiliated with the Deaver Herbarium have described new species that have been discovered as the result of floristic inventories, general collecting, or while doing revisions and monographs, which are intensive studies of a single genus of plants.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

P\u00e9rez-P\u00e9rez, M. A.<\/span><\/span>, Ayers, T. J.<\/span><\/span><\/a>, & Amith, J. D. 2022.\u202f<\/span><\/span>A new species of Lobelia (<\/span>Campanulaceae<\/span>: <\/span>Lobelioideae<\/span>) from the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico<\/span><\/span>.\u202f<\/span><\/span>Phytotaxa<\/span><\/span>,\u202f<\/span><\/span>568<\/span><\/span>(1), 1-7.<\/span><\/span>\u202f<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnson, <\/span>E.<\/span><\/a> and T. Ayers. 2022.\u00a0 Molecular phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the genus <\/span><\/span>Diastatea<\/span> <\/span>(<\/span>Campanulaceae<\/span>: <\/span>Lobelioideae<\/span>). Systematic Botany 47: 61-84.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Allen, M.L. and T.J. Ayers. 2021<\/a>. A revised classification of <\/span>Glossopetalon<\/span> (<\/span>Crossomataceae<\/span>) based on restriction site-associated DNA sequencing. Systematic Botany 46(3):562-572.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Morin, <\/span>N.<\/span><\/a> and T. Ayers. 2020. Seven new species and a new variety of <\/span><\/span>Nemacladus<\/span> <\/span>(<\/span>Campanulaceae<\/span>, <\/span>Nemacladoideae<\/span>). <\/span>Madro\u00f1o<\/span>. 67: 35-60.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ayers, T., P. Sklen\u00e1\u0159 and D. Fern\u00e1ndez. 2017<\/a>. A new species of <\/span><\/span>Lysipomia<\/span> <\/span>(<\/span>Campanulaceae<\/span>) from Ecuador. <\/span>Phytotaxa<\/span> 297: 97-100.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Crawford, R., and T. Ayers. 2017.<\/a> A new species of <\/span><\/span>Loeseliastrum<\/span> <\/span>from the Little Colorado River, Arizona. <\/span>Madro\u00f1o<\/span> 64: 51-58.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rhodes, S. L., & Ayers, T. J. 2010<\/a>. Two new taxa of Scutellaria section Resinosa (Lamiaceae) from Northern Arizona. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 4(1):19-26.<\/cite><\/p>\n

Taylor, R. M., & Ayers, T. J. 2006<\/a>. Systematics of Salvia pachyphylla (Lamiaceae).\u00a0Madrono<\/cite> 53 (1):11-24.<\/p>\n

Understanding the\u00a0evolutionary history of plants<\/h4>\n

Phylogenetic studies help researchers understand how plants are related to each other and how morphology, or the form and structure of organisms, evolves in response to changing environments or pollinators. These studies are important to understanding the biogeography, or distribution, of a species, including where it evolved and how its geographical area has changed through time.<\/p>\n

Becklund, <\/span>E.<\/span> and T. Ayers<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/a>2022. The phylogeny of <\/span><\/span>Errazurizia<\/span> <\/span>(Fabaceae: <\/span>Amorpheae<\/span>) and the new monotypic genus <\/span><\/span>Eremopicta<\/span><\/span>. Systematic Botany 47: 1012-1024.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnson, <\/span>E.<\/span><\/a> and T. Ayers. 2022.\u00a0 Molecular phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the genus <\/span><\/span>Diastatea<\/span> <\/span>(<\/span>Campanulaceae<\/span>: <\/span>Lobelioideae<\/span>). Systematic Botany 47: 61-84.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Allen, M.L. and T.J. Ayers. 2021.<\/a> A revised classification of <\/span>Glossopetalon<\/span> (<\/span>Crossomataceae<\/span>) based on restriction site-associated DNA sequencing. Systematic Botany 46:462-572.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Koopman, M. M., & Ayers, T. J. 2005.<\/a>\u00a0Nectar spur evolution in the Mexican lobelias (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae). A<\/em>me<\/em>rican Journal of Botany<\/cite> 92(3): 558-562.<\/p>\n

Rare plant ecology<\/h4>\n

Deaver Herbarium staff and students study plants that are globally rare and of conservation concern. These studies often include collecting ecological data, common garden experiments, pollination biology, and\/or molecular genetics.<\/p>\n

Silva, <\/span>S.<\/span><\/a> and T. Ayers. 2016. Plant Endemism on Mancos Shale Barrens. Natural Areas Journal 36(2):166-173.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnson, E. and T. Ayers. 2015<\/a>. Hybridization of a globally rare plant, the San Francisco Peaks Groundsel (Packera franciscana<\/em>) with a lower elevation congener: evidence from morphometric and molecular data. Southwestern Naturalist<\/cite> 60(1): 56-60.<\/p>\n

Palmquist, E., T. Ayers, and G. Alan<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/a>2014.\u00a0 Genetic and Morphometric Assessment of the Origins and Taxonomic Status of <\/span><\/span>Anticlea <\/span>vaginata<\/span> <\/span>(<\/span>Melanthiaceae<\/span>)<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span>Systematic Botany 40(1):56-68.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jabis<\/span>, M., and T. Ayers<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/a>2014.\u00a0 Causes of endemism in a federally listed species, <\/span><\/span>Abronia <\/span>alpina<\/span><\/span>: 1 Dispersal limitation or habitat constraints<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span>Western American Naturalist 74:185-200.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jabis, M. D., Ayers, T. J., & Allan, G. J. 2011.<\/a> Pollinator-mediated gene flow fosters genetic variability in a narrow alpine endemic Abronia alpine(Nyctaginaceae). American Journal of Botany<\/cite> 98:1583-1594.<\/p>\n\n

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