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Shane Heschel
Plant Ecophysiologist
Education 1991 BS University of Illinois, Urbana 1994 MS University of Illinois, Urbana 2000 PhD Brown University Research Interests Physiological ecology of plant
populations, particularly in stressful environments; local adaptation and the
evolution of physiological mechanisms; factors driving the local extinction of
plant populations; population genetics and inbreeding depression theory.
Personal Interests Hiking, blues guitar, baseball, and pie. Publications Heschel, M.S., C.M.
Butler, D. Barua, G.C.K. Chiang, A. Wheeler, R.A. Sharrock, G.C.
Whitelam, and K. Donohue. 2008. New roles of phytochromes during
seed germination. International Journal of Plant Sciences
169:531-540. Heschel, M.S., J. Selby, C. Butler, G.C. Whitelam, R.A. Sharrock, and K. Donohue. 2007. A new role for for phytochromes in temperature-dependent germination. New Phytologist - 174:735-741. Donohue, K., M.S. Heschel, G.C.K. Chiang, C.M. Butler, and D. Barua. 2007. Phytochrome mediates germination responses to multiple seasonal cues. Plant, Cell and Environment 30:202-212
Schmidt,
P.S., A.B. Paaby, and M.S. Heschel. 2005.
Correlations of reproductive diapause and life history tradeoffs in Drosophila
melanogaster. Evolution
59:2616-2625.
Heschel,
M.S., N.J. Hausmann, and J. Schmitt. 2005.
Testing for stress-dependent inbreeding depression in Impatiens
capensis (Balsaminaceae). American
Journal of Botany 92:1322-1329.
Heschel,
M.S. and C. Riginos. 2005.
Mechanisms of selection for drought stress tolerance and avoidance in Impatiens
capensis. American Journal of
Botany 92:37-44.
Heschel,
M.S., S.E. Sultan, S. Glover, and D. Sloan.
2004. Population differentiation and plastic responses to drought stress in the
generalist annual, Polygonum persicaria.
International Journal of Plant Sciences 165:817-824.
Heschel,
M.S., J.R. Stinchcombe, K.E. Holsinger, and J. Schmitt.
2004.
Natural
selection on light response curve parameters in the herbaceous annual, Impatiens
capensis.
Oecologia
139:487-494.
Huber,
H., N. Kane, M.S. Heschel, J. Banta, A. Leuck, and J. Schmitt.
2004. Frequency and
microenvironmental pattern of selection on plastic shade avoidance traits in a
natural population of Impatiens capensis.
American Naturalist 163:548-563.
Schmitt,
J., J.R. Stinchcombe, M.S. Heschel, and H. Huber. 2003. The
adaptive evolution of plasticity: phytochrome-mediated shade avoidance
responses. Integrative and Comparative Biology 43:459-469.
Heschel,
M.S., K. Donohue, N.J. Hausmann, and J. Schmitt. 2002. Population
differentiation and natural selection for water-use efficiency in Impatiens
capensis (Balsaminaceae). International
Journal of Plant Sciences 163:907-912.
Heschel,
M.S. and N.J. Hausmann. 2001.
Population differentiation for abscisic acid responsiveness in Impatiens
capensis (Balsaminaceae). International
Journal of Plant Sciences 162:1253-1260.
Donohue,
K., E. Hammond Pyle, D. Messiqua, M.S. Heschel, and J. Schmitt.
2001. Adaptive divergence in
plasticity in natural populations of Impatiens capensis and its
consequences for performance in novel habitats. Evolution 55:692-702.
Donohue,
K., D. Messiqua, E. Hammond Pyle, M.S. Heschel, and J. Schmitt.
2000. Evidence of adaptive
divergence in plasticity: density- and site- dependent selection on shade
avoidance responses in Impatiens capensis.
Evolution 54:1956-1968.
Donohue,
K., D. Messiqua, E. Hammond Pyle, M.S. Heschel, and J. Schmitt.
2000. Density dependence and
population differentiation of genetic architecture in Impatiens capensis
in natural environments. Evolution
54:1969-1981.
Paige,
K. N. and M. S. Heschel. 1996.
Inbreeding depression in scarlet gilia: a reply to Ouborg and Van
Groenendael. Conservation Biology
10:1292-1294.
Heschel,
M. S. and K. N. Paige. 1995.
Inbreeding depression, environmental stress and population size variation
in scarlet gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata.
Conservation Biology 9:126-133.
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