Dr. Adler Publications Peer-Reviewed Publications:

* = undergraduate coauthor

Irwin, RE and LS Adler. 2008. Nectar secondary compounds affect self-pollen transfer: implications for female and male plant reproduction. Ecology 89(8): 2207-17.
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Hladun, K and LS Adler. 2008. Effects of perimeter trap crop pollen on crop reproduction in butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata). Hortscience 43(1): 276-78.

Elliott, SE, Irwin, RE, Adler, LS, and NM Williams. 2008. Nectar alkaloids do not affect offspring performance of a native solitary bee, Osmia lignaria (Megachilidae). Ecological Entomology 33(2): 298-304.
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Adler, LS. 2007. Selection by pollinators and herbivores on attraction and defense. Pages 162-173 in: Tilmon, K. J. (ed.), Specialization, speciation and radiation: The evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Andrews, ES*, Theis, N and LS Adler. 2007. Pollinator and herbivore attraction to Cucurbita floral volatiles. Journal of Chemical Ecology 33:1682-1691.PDF

Adler, LS; de Valpine, P; Harte, J and J Call*. 2007. Effects of long-term experimental warming on aphid density in the field. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 80(2): 156-168. PDF

Adler, LS; Wink, M; Distl, M and AJ Lentz. 2007. A reply to Baldwin: Critique does not weaken major conclusions. Ecology Letters 10(3): E2-E3. PDF

Preisser, EL; Gibson, SE*; Adler, LS and EE Lewis 2007. Underground herbivory and the costs of constitutive defense in tobacco. Acta Oecologica 31(2): 210-15. PDF

Adler, LS; Wink, M; Distl, M; and AJ Lentz 2006. Leaf herbivory and nutrients increase nectar alkaloids. Ecology Letters 9: 960-67. PDF

Irwin, RE and LS Adler 2006. Correlations among traits associated with herbivore resistance and pollination: implications for multispecies plant-animal interactions. American Journal of Botany. 93(1): 64-72. PDF

Adler, LS and RE Irwin 2006. Comparison of pollen transfer dynamics by multiple floral visitors: experiments with pollen and fluorescent dye. Annals of Botany 97: 141-50. PDF

Adler, LS and RE Irwin. 2005. Ecological costs and benefits of defenses in nectar. Ecology 86(11): 2968-2978. PDF ScienceNOW Science News

Gaimari, SD; Adler, LS and SJ Scheffer. 2004. Plant host affiliation and redescription of Phytomyza subtenella Frost (Diptera: Agromyzidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 106(3):501-507.

Adler, LS. 2004. Size-mediated performance of a generalist herbivore feeding on mixed diets. Southwestern Naturalist 49(2):189-196 PDF

Irwin, RE; Adler, LS; and AK Brody. 2004. The dual role of floral traits: pollinator attraction and plant defense. Ecology 85(6) 1503-1511 PDF

Adler, LS and J. L. Bronstein. 2004. Attracting antagonists: Does floral nectar increase leaf herbivory? Ecology. PDF

Adler, LS and Kittelson, PM. 2004. Variation in Lupinus arboreus alkaloid profiles and relationships with multiple herbivores. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. PDF

Adler, LS. 2003. Host species affects herbivory, pollination and reproduction in experiments with parasitic Castilleja. Ecology 84(8): 2083-91 PDF

Adler, LS. 2002. Host effects on herbivory and pollination in a hemiparasitic plant. Ecology 83(10): 2700-10. PDF

Adler, LS; Karban, R and SY Strauss. 2001. Direct and indirect effects of alkaloids on plant fitness via herbivory and pollination. Ecology 82(7): 2032-44. PDF

Adler, LS and M Wink. 2001. Transfer of quinolizidine alkaloids from hosts to hemiparasites in two Castilleja-Lupinus associations: analysis of floral and vegetative tissues. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 29(6): 551-61. PDF

Adler, LS. 2000. Alkaloid uptake increases fitness in a hemiparasitic plant via reduced herbivory and increased pollination. The American Naturalist 156: 92-99. PDF

Adler, LS. 2000. The ecological significance of toxic nectar. Oikos 91:409-420. PDF Review in TREE

Karban, R; Agrawal, AA; Thaler, JS and LS Adler. 1999. Induced plant responses and information content about risk of herbivory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14:443-47. PDF

Adler, LS; Schmitt, J and MD Bowers. 1995. Genetic variation in defensive chemistry in Plantago lanceolata (Plantaginaceae) and its effect on the specialist herbivore Junonia coenia (Nymphalidae). Oecologia 101:75-85.

Adler, LS; Wikler, K; Wyndham, FS; Linder, CR and J Schmitt. 1993. Potential for persistence of genes escaped from canola: germination cues in crop, wild and crop-wild hybrid Brassica rapa. Functional Ecology 7:736-745.



Edited Volumes and Other Publications:


Irwin, RE and LS Adler, editors. 2004. Nectar Ecology Special Feature. Ecology 85(6): 1477-1533.
Invited Authors: LS Adler, N Bluethgen, C Bonifray, A Brody, J Bronstein, K Fiedler, MC Gardener, RE Irwin, R Mitchell, R Raguso, JA Rudgers, and F Wäckers.

Agrawal, AA and LS Adler. 2003. Plant-animal interactions for the classroom. Review of C. Herrera & O. Pellmyr, Eds. Plant-animal interactions. In: Ecology 84(3): 807-808.