Publications
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Anderson, J. T., DeMarche, M. L., Denney, D. A., Breckheimer, I., Santangelo, J., and Wadgymar, S. M. (2025) Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient for persistence of an alpine plant under climate change. Science 388, 525-531.
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adr1010


Marquardt, M. C.*, Reed, J. L.*, and Wadgymar, S. M. Patterns of Extrafloral Nectar Production in Chamaecrista fasciculata (Fabaceae: Caesalpinoideae). microPublication Biology. 10.17912/micropub.biology.001534
        *Undergraduate coauthor
        DOI: doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.001534


Cryan, T.*, Musselman, O., Baumgardner, A., Osborn, S., Beuscher, C. J., Stehn, C.*, Bert, A.*, Chaaban, R.*, Lopez, A.*, Lewis, G.*, Mata, G.*, Rothenberg, M.*, Plascencia-Marquez, A.*, Greer, R., Stremlau, R., Murphy, H., Newman, L., Merrill, A., and Wadgymar, S. M. (2024) Yield, growth, and labor demands of growing maize, beans, and squash in monoculture vs. the Three Sisters. Plants, People, Planet. 1-11. http://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10576
        *Undergraduate coauthor
        DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10576


Wadgymar, S. M., Sheth, S. N., DeMarche, M. L., Josephs, E. B., and Anderson, J. T. (2024) Defining fitness in evolutionary ecology. International Journal of Plant Sciences 185, 211-308.
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/729360


Arenas-Castro, H., … Wadgymar, S.M., ... Amano, T. (2024) Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 291:20232840.
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2840


Wadgymar, S.M., Austen, E. J., and Ison, J. L. (2024) Primers in the Plant Sciences: Accessible reviews for learning at all career stages. International Journal of Plant Sciences 185, 1-107.
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/728305


Cocciardi, J. M., … Wadgymar, S.M., ... Avolio, M. L. (2024) The value of long-term ecological research for evolutionary insights. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-9.
        DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02464-y


Scott, E., Almeida, R., McKlin, S., Lippert, A. L., Clary, J., Vargas, C., Hidell, W., Wadgymar, S. M., and Smith, K. G. (2024) Habitat loss and simplification lower arthropod richness but not diversity. Ecosphere 15, e4914.
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4914


Kostur, N.* and Wadgymar, S. M. (2023) Sex allocation plasticity in response to resource and pollination availability in the annual plant Brassica rapa (Brassicaceae). International Journal of Plant Science 184
        *Undergraduate coauthor
        DOI: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/725386


Nolde-Lopez, B.*, Bundus, J., Arenas-Castro, H., Román, D., Chowdhury, S., Amano, T., Berdejo-Espinola, V., and Wadgymar, S. M. (2023) Language Barriers in Organismal Biology: What Can Journals Do Better? Integrative Organimsal Biology 5, obad003.
        *Undergraduate coauthor
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obad003


Wadgymar, S. M.*, DeMarche, M. L., Josephs, E. B., Sheth, S. N., and Anderson, J. T.* (2022) Local Adaptation: Causal agents of selection and adaptive trait divergence. Annual Review in Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 53.
        *Co-first authors
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012722-035231

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Santangelo, J., Ness, R. W.,  ..... Wadgymar, S. M., .... Johnson, M. T. J. (2022) Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science 375, 1275-1281.
        DOI: 10.1126/science.abk0989


Hamann, E., Wadgymar, S. M., and Anderson, J. T. (2021) Costs of reproduction under experimental climate change across elevations in the perennial forb Boechera stricta. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288(1948), 20203134.
          DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.3134

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Anderson, J.T. and Wadgymar, S. M. (2020) Climate change disrupts local adaptation and favors upslope migration. Ecology Letters 23, 181-192.
           DOI: doi.org/10.1111/ele.13427

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Wadgymar, S. M. and Austen, E. J. (2019) Shifting perspectives on the impacts of phenotypic plasticity. New Phytologist 224, 1009-1011.
           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16210


Wadgymar, S. M., MacTavish, R., & Anderson, J. T. (2019) Evolutionary consequences of climate change. Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming: Microbes, Vegetation, Fauna, and Soil Biogeochemistry (29-59), Academic Press, Cambridge, MA.
           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813493-1.00003-X


​Mohan, J. E., Wadgymar, S. M., Winkler, D. E., Anderson, J. T., Frankson, P. T., Hannifin, R., Benavides, K. Kueppers, L. M., & Melillo, J. M. (2019) Plant reproductive fitness and phenology responses to climate warming: results from native populations, communities, and ecosystems. Chapter 3 in: Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming: Microbes, Vegetation, Fauna, and Soil Biogeochemistry (61-102), Academic Press, Cambridge, MA.
           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813493-1.00004-1


Wadgymar, S. M., MacTavish, R., & Anderson, J. T. (2018) Transgenerational and within-generation plasticity in response to climate change: insights from a manipulative field experiment conducted across an elevational gradient. The American Naturalist 192, 698-714. 
           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/700097
           Forthcoming announcement:  www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/DecWadgymar.html

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Wadgymar, S. M., Ogilvie, J. E., Inouye, D. W., Weis, A. E., & Anderson, J. T. (2018) Phenological responses to multiple environmental drivers under climate change: insights from a long-term observational study and a manipulative experiment. New Phytologist 218, 517-529. 
           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15029


Wadgymar, S. M., Daws, S. C., & Anderson, J. T. (2017) Integrating viability and fecundity selection to illuminate the adaptive nature of genetic clines. Evolution Letters 1, 26-39.
           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.3


Wadgymar, S. M., Lowry, D. B., Gould, B. A., Byron, C. N., Mactavish, R. M., & Anderson, J. T. (2017) Identifying targets and agents of selection: innovative methods to evaluate the processes that contribute to local adaptation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8, 738-749.
           All authors contributed equally.
           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12777


Wadgymar, S. M. & Weis, A. E. (2016) Phenological mismatch and the effectiveness of assisted gene flow. Conservation Biology 31, 547-558.
           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12877


Becklin, K. M., Anderson, J. T., Gerhart, L. M., Wadgymar, S. M., Wessinger, C. A., & Ward, J.K. (2016) Examining plant physiological responses to climate change through an evolutionary lens. Plant physiology 172, 635-649. All authors contributed equally.
           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.16.00793


Wadgymar, S. M., Cumming, M. N., & Weis, A. E. (2015) The success of assisted colonization and assisted gene flow depends on phenology. Global Change Biology 21, 3786-3799.
           *Featured on the Daily Planet on the Discovery Channel and by A Greener York on Rogers TV.
           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12988

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Wadgymar, S. M., Cumming, M. N., Austen, A. E., & Weis, A. E. (2015) Simultaneous pulsed flowering in a temperate legume:  causes and consequences of multimodality in the shape of flowering schedules. Journal of Ecology, 103, 316-327.
           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12362


Weis, A. E., Turner, K. M., Petro, B., Austen, E. J., & Wadgymar, S. M. (2015) Hard and soft selection on phenology through seasonal shifts in the general and social environments: a study on plant emergence time. Evolution, , 69, 1361-1374.
           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12677


Weis, A. E., Wadgymar, S. M., Sekor, M., & Franks, S. J. (2014) The shape of selection: using alternative fitness functions to test predictions for selection on flowering time. Evolutionary Ecology 28, 885-904.
           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-014-9719-6