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Rebecca W. Dolan

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The Friesner Herbarium (But) Of Butler University, Rebecca Dolan Jan 2016

The Friesner Herbarium (But) Of Butler University, Rebecca Dolan

Rebecca W. Dolan

The Friesner Herbarium (BUT) of Butler University is a collection of over 100,000 specimens built from the personal herbarium of Ray C. Friesner. He and other botanists at Butler amassed one of the largest and most complete collections of Indiana plants. Active exchange from the 1920’s through the 1940’s increased the holdings of plants from other states. Although the collection does not contain many type specimens, it is rich in vouchers from floristic and ecological studies conducted in the first half of the 20th century and published in the scientific journal,Butler University Botanical Studies.


Hypericum Cumulicola Demography In Unoccupied And Occupied Florida Scrub Patches With Different Time-Since-Fire, Pedro Quintana-Ascencio, Rebecca Dolan, Eric Menges Jan 2016

Hypericum Cumulicola Demography In Unoccupied And Occupied Florida Scrub Patches With Different Time-Since-Fire, Pedro Quintana-Ascencio, Rebecca Dolan, Eric Menges

Rebecca W. Dolan

1 Metapopulation models predict that unoccupied, but suitable, patches will exist for species subject to extinction and colonization dynamics. We compared the demographic responses of Hypericum cumulicola, a rare herbaceous species almost entirely restricted to Florida rosemary scrub, when transplanted to occupied or unoccupied patches. 2 Seedlings were transplanted and seeds buried into Florida rosemary scrub patches differing in time since last fire, and in the presence or absence of H. cumulicola. We used a replicated, factorial design to place the transplants and seeds in the field, and monitored their performance for 18 months. 3 Neither time-since-fire nor prior H. …