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Department of Biology

Publications

• McGraw, J. B., M. C. Vavrek, and C. C. Bennington. 1991.Ecological genetic variation in seed banks.I.Establishment of a time-transect. Journal of Ecology 79: 617-625.
• Bennington, C. C., J. B. McGraw, and M. C. Vavrek. 1991. Ecological genetic variation in seed banks.II.Phenotypic differentiation of plants from young and old subpopulations of Luzula parviflora.Journal of Ecology 79: 627-643.
• Vavrek, M. C., J. B. McGraw, and C. C. Bennington. 1991.Ecological genetic variation in seed banks.III.Phenotypic differentiation of plants from young and old subpopulations of Carex bigelowii.Journal of Ecology 79: 645-662.
• Bennington, C. C. and W. V. Thayne. 1994. Use and misuse of mixed model analysis of variance in ecological studies. Ecology 75:717-722.
• Bennington, C. C. and J. B. McGraw.1995.Phenotypic selection in an artificial population of Impatiens pallida: the importance of the invisible fraction.Evolution 49(2):317-324.
• Bennington, C. C. and J. B. McGraw.1995.Natural selection and ecotypic differentiation in Impatiens pallida.Ecological Monographs 65(3):303-323.
• Bennington, C. C.1996. Environment-dependence of quantitative genetic parameters in Impatiens pallida.Evolution 50:1083-1097.
• Stratton, D. A. and C. C. Bennington.1996.Measuring spatial variation in natural selection using randomly-sown seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana.Journal of Evolutionary Biology 9:215-228.
• Bennington, C. C. and D. A. Stratton. 1998.Field tests of density- and frequency-dependent selection in Erigeron annuus. American Journal of Botany 85(4): 540-544.
• Stratton, D. A. and C. C. Bennington. 1998. Fine-grained spatial and temporal variation in selection does not maintain genetic variation in Erigeron annuus.Evolution 52(3): 678-691.
• Wheeler, H. C. and C. C. Bennington. 2001. Effects of light availability on herbivory and defense chemistry in Passiflora incarnata. Florida Scientist 64(4): 237-245.
• Konstantinidis, N., J. Duffy, and C. C. Bennington. 2010. Biological defense in Passiflora incarnata: Evidence for a chemical defense against ant defenders. Florida Scientist 73: 1-9.
• Mondo, P., K. D. Marshall Mattson, and C. C. Bennington. 2010. The effect of shrubs on the establishment of an endangered perennial (Asclepias curtissii) endemic to Flroida scrub. Southeastern Naturalist 9(2): 259-274.
• Bennington, C. C. and T. M. Farrell. in review. Common ground for three cultures: Concordance among students, non-science faculty, and science faculty on perceptions of science course goals. For: MountainRise: The International Journal for Teaching and Learning.
• Peterson, C. A., N. Fetcher, J. B. McGraw, and C. C. Bennington. in review. Clinal variation in stomatal characteristics of an Arctic sedge, Eriophorum vaginatum L. (Cyperaceae). For: American Journal of Botany.
• Bennington, C. C., N. Fetcher, M. C. Vavrek, G. R. Shaver, K. Cummings, and J. B. McGraw. in review. Home site advantage in two long-lived arctic plant species: Results from two thirty-year reciprocal transplant studies. For: Journal of Ecology.