Christopher Stieha

Publications

1. Stieha, C.R., Abbott, K, and Poveda, K. 2016. The Effects of Plant Compensatory Regrowth and Induced Resistance on Herbivore Population Dynamics. American Naturalist. 187(2):167-181
2. Stieha, C.R., García-Ramos, G., McLetchie, D.N., and Crowley, P. In press. Maintenance of the sexes and persistence of a clonal organism in spatially complex metapopulations. Evolutionary Ecology
3. Cilles, S., Coy, G.*, Stieha, C.R., Cox, J., Crowley, P.H., Maehr, D. In press. Seed predation, seed dispersal, and seedling herbivory of oak and hickory in a Bluegrass savanna: implications for regeneration. The Northeastern Naturalist.
4. Moore, C.M., Stieha, C.R., Nolting, B.C., Cameron, M.K., and Abbott, K.C. In press. QPot: An R package for stochastic differential equation quasi-potential analysis. The R Journal.
5. Stieha, C.R. and Poveda, K. 2015. Tolerance responses to herbivory: implications for future management strategies in potato. Annals of Applied Biology. 166: 208-217.
6. Stieha, C., Montovan, K, and Castillo-Guajardo, D. 2014. A Field Guide To Programming: A Tutorial for Learning Programming and Population Models. CODEE Journal. URL: http://www.codee.org/ref/CJ14-0876
7. Stieha, C.R., Middleton, A.*, Stieha, J.*, Trott, S.*, and McLetchie, D.N. 2014. The dispersal process of asexual offspring and the contribution to population persistence. American Journal of Botany. 101(2): 348-56.
8. Rohr, J.R., Sesterhenn, T., Stieha, C. 2011. Will climate change reduce the effects of a pesticide on amphibians?: Partitioning effects on exposure and susceptibility. Global Change Biology. 17:657-666, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02301.x
9. Groen, K.E.*, Stieha, C., Crowley, P.H., and McLetchie, D.N. 2010a. Sex-specific plant responses to light and canopy openness: Implications for spatial segregation of the sexes. Oecologia. 162(3): 561-570.
10. Groen, K.E.*, Stieha, C., Crowley, P.H., and McLetchie, D.N. 2010b. Sex-specific plant responses to two light levels in the liverwort Marchantia inflexa. Bryologist. 113(1): 81-89.
11. García-Ramos, G., Stieha, C., McLetchie, D.N., and Crowley, P. 2007. Metapopulation Sex Ratio Dynamics and Coexistence of the Sexes under Asymmetrical Competition. Journal of Ecology. 95:937-950
12. Crowley, P.H., Stieha, C.R., and McLetchie, D.N. 2005. Overgrowth Competition, Fragmentation and Sex-Ratio Dynamics: A Spatially Explicit, Sub-Individual Based Model. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 233:25-42.

In revision or submitted, manuscript available upon request

• Barraquand, F., Louca, S., Abbott, K.C., Cobbold, C.A., Cordoleani, F., DeAngelis, D.L., Elderd, B.D., Fox, J.W., Greenwood, P., Hilker, F.M., Lutscher, F., Dennis Murray, D., Stieha, C.R., Taylor, R.A., Vitense, K., Wolkowicz, G., and Tyson, R.C. Review submitted to Ecology Letters. Current challenges in the modeling of population cycles.
• Brzyski, J.R., Stieha, C.R., McLetchie, D.N. Resubmitted to American Journal of Botany. Evidence of gene flow via sexual and asexual reproduction between small and large populations.
• Stieha, C.R., Mattei, N.S., and Wheelwright, N.T. In revision. Information about Relatedness Affects Mating Decisions and Facilitates Asymmetrical Incest Avoidance

In preparation, manuscript available upon request

• Kiesewetter, K.*, Stieha, C.R., Abbott, K.C., Burns, J. In prep. Phenological mismatch in ant- mediated seed dispersal: empirical and theoretical studies
• López-Uribe MM, Crawford J, Stieha C, Cardinal SC, Bogdanowicz SM, Soro A, Paxton R, Danforth BN. In prep. Transcriptome-wide SNP variation in a socially polymorphic sweat bee, Halictus rubicundus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), indicates substantial genetic differentiation among solitary and social populations.
• Stieha, C.R., Bowman, A.*, Crowley, P.H., and McLetchie, D.N. In prep. Maintenance of the sexes: a field test of the effects of population size and distance to nearest neighbor in a clonal plant.
• Stieha, C.R., Cilles, S., Garrido, E., Fry, W., and Poveda, K. In prep. Relationships between Colorado potato beetle resistance and late blight resistance in commercial potato varieties