Mopper Publications

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

Pathikonda S, Ackleh AA, Hasenstein KH, and Mopper S.  In review.  Invasion, disturbance, and competition: modeling the fate of coastal plant populations.  Conservation Biology.

Ruan C, Mopper S, Teixeira da Silva JA, Qin P and Shan Y.  In review.  Context-dependent style curvature within flowers offers reproductive assurance under unpredictable pollinator environments.  New Phytologist.

Wang HG and S Mopper.  In review.  Induced responses to deer florivory in Iris hexagona and their effects on insects and herbivores.  OIKOS.

Ruan C, L He, S Mopper.  2008. The impact of pollen tube growth on stigma lobe curvature in Kosteletzkya virginica: The best of both worlds.  South African Journal of Botany. 74:65-70.

Tobler M., Van Zandt, P., Hasenstein, K., and S. Mopper.  2006. Growth and reproduction of a clonal plant in response to salinity and florivory. Wetlands 26:803-812.

Schile, L. and S. Mopper.  2006.  Negative effects of salinity stress on a leafmining insect and its host plant.  Ecological Entomology 31:1-7.

Geddes, N. and S. Mopper.  2006.  Effects of environmental salinity on vertebrate florivory and wetland communities. COVER, Natural Areas Journal 26.

Geddes, N. and S. Mopper.  2006.  Effects of environmental salinity on vertebrate florivory and wetland communities. Natural Areas Journal 26:31-37.

Mopper, S.  2005.  Phenology - The role of time in structuring space for herbivorous insect populations.  Annales Zoologici Fennici 42:327-333.

Van Zandt, P., S. Mopper.  2004.  The effects of maternal salinity and seed environment on germination and growth in Iris hexagona.  Evolutionary Ecology Research 6:813-832.

Mopper, S., Y. Wang, C. Criner, K. Hasenstein.  2004.  Iris hexagona hormonal response to salinity stress, leafminer herbivory, and phenology.  Ecology 85:38-47.

Van Zandt, P., M. Tobler, E. Mouton, K. Hasenstein, S. Mopper.  2003. Positive and negative consequences of salinity stress for the growth and reproduction of the clonal plant, Iris hexagona.  Journal of Ecology 91:837-846.

Van Zandt, P., V. Townsend Jr., C. Carlton, M. Blackwell, S. Mopper.  2003.  Loberus impressus (LeConte) (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) fungal associations and presence in the seed capsules of Iris hexagona.  The Coleopterists Bulletin 57:281-288.

Van Zandt, P., S. Mopper.  2002.  Delayed and carryover effects of salinity on flowering in Iris hexagona (Iridaceae).  American Journal of Botany 89:364-383.

Gorham, L., S. King, B. Keeland, S. Mopper.  2002.  Effects of canopy gaps and flooding on homopterans of a bottomland hardwood forest.  Wetlands 22:541-549.

Wang, Y., S. Mopper, K. Hasenstein.  2001.  Effects of salinity on endogenous levels of ABA, IAA, JA, and SA in Iris hexagona.  Journal of Chemical Ecology 27:327-342.

Carlton, C., V. Townsend, Jr., P. Van Zandt, S. Mopper.  2000.  Description of the larvae of Loberus impressus Leconte with notes on its natural history (Languriidae: Xenoscelinae).  Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93:356-361.

Mopper, S., P. Stiling, K. Landau, D. Simberloff, P. Van Zandt.  2000.  Spatiotemporal variation in leafminer population structure and adaptation to individual oak trees.  Ecology 81:1577-1587.

Mopper, S., K. Landau, P. Van Zandt.  2000.  Adaptive evolution and neutral variation in a wild leafminer metapopulation.  Pages 116-138 in Mousseau, T., Sinervo, B., Endler, T., eds., Adaptive Genetic Variation in the Wild.  Oxford University Press, New York

Van Zandt, P., S. Mopper.  1998.  A meta-analysis of adaptive deme formation in phytophagous insect populations.  American Naturalist 152:597-606.

Boecklen, W., S. Mopper.  1998.  Local adaptation in specialist herbivores:  Theory and evidence.  Pages 64-90 in Mopper, S. and S. Strauss, eds., Genetic Structure and Local Adaptation in Natural Insect Populations: Effects of Ecology, Life History, and Behavior.  Chapman & Hall, New York.

Mopper, S.  1998. Local adaptation and stochastic events in an oak leafminer population.  Pages 139-155 in Mopper, S. and S. Strauss, eds., Genetic Structure and Local Adaptation in Natural Insect Populations: Effects of Ecology, Life History, and Behavior.  Chapman & Hall, New York.

Cobb, N., S. Mopper, K. Ghering, M. Caouette, K. Christensen, T. Whitham.  1997.  Increased moth herbivory associated with environmental stress of pinyon pine at local and regional levels.  Oecologia 109:389-397.

Mopper, S.  1996.  Adaptive genetic structure in phytophagous insect populations.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11:235-238.

Auerbach, M., E. Connor, S. Mopper.  1995.  Major miners and minor miners:  population dynamics of latent and eruptive leaf-mining insects.  Pages 83-110 in Cappuccino and P. Prices, eds., Novel Approaches to the Population Dynamics of Insect Herbivores.  Academic Press, New York.

Mopper, S., M. Beck, D. Simberloff, P. Stiling.  1995.  Local adaptation and agents of mortality in a mobile insect.  Evolution 49:810-815.

Mopper, S., D. Simberloff.  1995.  Differential herbivory in an oak population:  the role of plant phenology and insect performance.  Ecology 76:1233-1241.

Boecklen, W., S. Mopper, P. W. Price.  1994.  Sex-biased herbivory in Salix lasiolepis:  Are there general patterns among herbivores?  Oikos 71:267-272

Craig, T., S. Mopper.  1993.  Sex ratio regulation by sawflies.  Pages 61-92 in M. R. Wagner and K. F. Raffa, eds., Sawfly Adaptations to Woody Plants. Academic Press, NY

Mopper, S., T. Whitham.  1992.  The plant stress paradox:  Effects on pinyon sawfly fecundity and sex ratios.  Ecology 73:515-525.

Mopper, S., J. Maschinski, N. Cobb, T. Whitham.  1991.  A new look at habitat structure:  consequences of herbivore-modified plant architecture.  Pages 260-280 in S. Bell, E. McCoy, and H. Mushinsky, eds., Habitat Complexity:  the Physical Arrangement of Objects in Space.  Chapman & Hall, New York.

Mopper, S., J. Mitton, T. Whitham, N. Cobb, K. Christensen.  1991.  Genetic differentiation and heterozygosity in pinyon pine associated with herbivory and environmental stress.  Evolution 45:989-999.

Boecklen, W., S. Mopper, P. Price.  1991.  Size and shape of micronutrients of arroyo willow (Salix lasiolepis) in relation to herbivore attack.  Ecological Research 6:317-331.

Price, P., N. Cobb, T. Craig, G. Fernandes, J. Itami, S. Mopper, and R. Preszler.  1990.  Insect herbivore population dynamics on trees and shrubs:  new approaches relevant to latent and eruptive species and life table development.  Pages 1-38 in E. A. Bernays, ed., Insect-plant Interactions, Vol. II. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida USA.

Boecklen, W., P. Price, S. Mopper.  1990.  Sex and drugs and herbivores:  sex-biased herbivory in arroyo willow (Salix lasiolepis).  Ecology 71:581-588.

Mopper, S., T. Whitham, P. Price.  1990.  Plant phenotype and interspecific competition determine sawfly performance and density.  Ecology 71:2135-2144.

Whitham, T., S. Mopper.  1985.  Chronic herbivory:  impacts on architecture and sex expression of pinyon pine.  Science 228:1089-1091.

Mopper, S., S. Faeth, W. Boecklen, D. Simberloff.  1984.  Host specific variation in leaf miner population dynamics:  effects on density, natural enemies and behavior of Stilbosis quadricustatella (Chambers).  Ecological Entomology 9:169-177.

Faeth, S., S. Mopper, D. Simberloff.  1981.  Abundance and diversity of leaf mining insects on three oak species:  effects of host plant phenology and nitrogen content of leaves.  Oikos 32:238-251.

Edited publications

Special Feature:  Mopper, S. and A. Agrawal (eds.)  2004.  Phytohormonal Ecology. Ecology 85:3-77.

Book:  Mopper, S., S. Strauss (eds.) 1998.  Genetic Structure and Local Adaptation in Natural Insect Populations: Effects of Ecology, Life History, and Behavior.  Chapman & Hall, New York. 449 pages.

 Popular or non-refereed publications

 Gorham, L., B. Keeland, S. Mopper, S. King, D. Johnson. 1996. Effects of canopy gap dynamics on arthropod abundance in a bottomland forest in northeast Arkansas. Pp 165-169 in K. M. Flynn, ed. Proc. Southern Forested Wetlands Ecology and Management Conference.

Mopper, S.  1996.  The vital synergy of teaching and research in the university environment. In L. Pyenson, ed., Teaching and Research in the University, Center for Louisiana Studies Press, Louisiana.

Mopper, S.  1996.  Temporal variability and local adaptation: a reply to Y Michalakis.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11 (10): 431-432.

Mopper, S., T. G. Whitham.  1986.  Natural Bonsai of Sunset Crater.  Natural History 95:42-47.