Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Understanding Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future

Molecular Ecology

Principal Investigator

Melissa McCormick

mccormickm@si.edu

443-482-2433

Specialty

Molecular Ecologist

Publications

Krupnick, Gary A. ; McCormick, Melissa K. ; Mirenda, Thomas ; Whigham, Dennis F. (2013). The Status and Future of Orchid Conservation in North America . Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 99 (2) , 180-198. http://dx.doi.org/10.3417/2011108
Ma, Yini ; Filley, Timothy R. ; Johnston, Cliff T. ; Crow, Susan E. ; Szlavecz, Katalin ; McCormick, Melissa K. (2013). The combined controls of land use legacy and earthworm activity on soil organic matter chemistry and particle association during afforestation . Organic Geochemistry, 58 , 56-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.02.010
McCormick, Melissa K. ; Parker, Kenneth L. ; Szlavecz, Katalin ; Whigham, Dennis F. (2013). Native and exotic earthworms affect orchid seed loss. AoB Plants, 5 , plt018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plt018
Szlavecz, Katalin ; Pitz, Scott L. ; Bernard, Michael J. ; Xia, Lijun ; O'Neill, John P. ; Chang, Chih-Han ; McCormick, Melissa K. ; Whigham, Dennis F. (2013). Manipulating earthworm abundance using electroshocking in deciduous forests . Pedobiologia, 56 (1) , 33-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2012.08.008
McCormick, Melissa K. ; Lee Taylor, D. ; Juhaszova, Katarina ; Burnett, Robert K. ; Whigham, Dennis F. ; O'Neill, John P. (2012). Limitations on orchid recruitment: not a simple picture . Molecular Ecology, 21 (6) , 1511-1523. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05468.x
McCormick, Melissa K. ; Whigham, Dennis F. (2012). Using the complexities of orchid life histories to target conservation efforts . The Native Orchid Conference Journal, 9 (4) , 14-23.
Meyerson, L. A. ; Lambertini, C. ; McCormick, Melissa K. ; Whigham, Dennis F. (2012). Hybridization of common reed in North America? The answer is blowing in the wind . AoB Plants, 2012 , pls022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/pls022
Innis, Anne F. ; Forseth, Irwin N. ; Whigham, Dennis F. ; McCormick, Melissa K. (2011). Genetic diversity in the invasive Rubus phoenicolasius as compared to the native Rubus argutus using inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers . Biological Invasions, 13 (8) , 1735-1738. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-011-0012-0
Kettenring, Karin M. ; McCormick, Melissa K. ; Baron, Heather M. ; Whigham, Dennis F. (2011). Mechanisms of Phragmites australis invasion: feedbacks among genetic diversity, nutrients, and sexual reproduction . Journal of Applied Ecology, 48 (5) , 1305-1313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02024.x
Shefferson, Richard P. ; McCormick, Melissa K. ; Whigham, Dennis F. ; O'Neill, John P. (2011). Life history strategy in herbaceous perennials: inferring demographic patterns from the aboveground dynamics of a primarily subterranean, myco-heterotrophic orchid . Oikos, 129 (9) , 1291-1300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19130.x
Szlavecz, Katalin ; McCormick, Melissa K. ; Xia, Lijun ; Saunders, Jaclyn ; Morcol, Taylan ; Whigham, Dennis F. ; Filley, Timothy ; Csuzdi, Csaba. (2011). Ecosystem effects of non-native earthworms in Mid-Atlantic deciduous forests. Biological Invasions, 13 (5) , 1165-1182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-011-9959-0
Kettenring, Karin M. ; McCormick, Melissa K. ; Baron, Heather M. ; Whigham, Dennis F. (2010). Phragmites australis (Common Reed) Invasion in the Rhode River Subestuary of the Chesapeake Bay: Disentangling the Effects of Foliar Nutrients, Genetic Diversity, Patch Size, and Seed Viability. Estuaries and Coasts, 33 (1) , 118-126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12237-009-9241-1
McCormick, Melissa K. ; Kettenring, Karin M. ; Baron, H. M. ; Whigham, Dennis F. (2010). Spread of invasive Phragmites australis in estuaries with differing degrees of development: genetic patterns, Allee effects and interpretation . Journal of Ecology, 98 (6) , 1369-1378. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01712.x
McCormick, Melissa K. ; Kettenring, Karin M. ; Baron, Heather M. ; Whigham, Dennis F. (2010). Extent and Reproductive Mechanisms of Phragmites australis Spread in Brackish Wetlands in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland (USA). Wetlands, 30 (1) , 67-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13157-009-0007-0
Shefferson, Richard P. ; Cowden, Charles C. ; McCormick, Melissa K. ; Yukawa, Tomohisa ; Ogura-Tsujita, Yuki ; Hashimoto, Toshimasa. (2010). Evolution of host breadth in broad interactions: mycorrhizal specificity in East Asian and North American rattlesnake plantains (Goodyera spp.) and their fungal hosts . Molecular Ecology, 19 (14) , 3008-3017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04693.x

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