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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Understanding Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future

Plant and Molecular Ecology

Principal Investigator

Melissa McCormick

mccormickm@si.edu

443-482-2433

Specialty

Molecular Ecologist

Publications

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
Whigham, Dennis F. ; Kettenring, Karin M. ; McCormick, Melissa K. ; Baron, Heather. (2010). The invasion of common reed (Phragmites australis) in Chesapeake Bay (USA) . Australian Plant Conservation, 18 (4) , 17-18.
Crow, Susan E. ; Filley, Timothy R. ; McCormick, Melissa K. ; Szlavecz, Katalin ; Stott, Diane E. ; Gamblin, David ; Conyers, Grace. (2009). Earthworms, stand age, and species composition interact to influence particulate organic matter chemistry during forest succession. Biogeochemistry, 92 (1-2) , 61-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10533-008-9260-1
McCormick, Melissa K. ; Whigham, Dennis F. ; O'Neill, John P. ; Becker, Janie J. ; Werner, Sarah ; Rasmussen, Hanne N. ; Bruns, Thomas D. ; Taylor, D. Lee. (2009). Abundance and distribution of Corallorhiza odontorhiza reflect variations in climate and ectomycorrhizae . Ecological Monographs, 79 (4) , 619-635. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/08-0729.1
(2008). Landscape patterns, nutrient discharges, and biota of the Rhode River estuary and its watershed: Contribution of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center to the Pilot Integrated Ecosystem Assessment . Smithsonian Environmental Research Center .
Filley, T. R. ; McCormick, Melissa K. ; Crow, S. E. ; Szlavecz, K. ; Whigham, Dennis F. ; Johnston, C. T. ; van den Heuvel, R. N. (2008). Comparison of the chemical alteration trajectory of Liriodendron tulipifera L. leaf litter among forests with different earthworm abundance . Journal of Geophysical Research. G. Biogeosciences, 113 , G01027.
Taylor, D. L. ; McCormick, Melissa K. (2008). Internal transcribed spacer primers and sequences for improved characterization of basidiomycetous orchid mycorrhizas . New Phytologist, 177 , 1020-1033.
Whigham, Dennis F. ; McCormick, Melissa K. ; O'Neill, John P. (2008). Specialized seedling strategies II: orchids, bromeliads, carnivorous plants and parasites . Seedling ecology and evolution (79-100) Cambridge Univ. Press .
Øien, D. I. ; O'Neill, John P. ; Whigham, Dennis F. ; McCormick, Melissa K. (2008). Germination ecology of the boreal-alpine terrestrial orchid Dactylorhiza lapponica (Orchidaceae) . Annales Botanici Fennici, 45 (3) , 161-172. http://dx.doi.org/10.5735/085.045.0301
Shefferson, R. P. ; Taylor, D. L. ; Weiss, M. ; Garnica, S. ; McCormick, Melissa K. ; Adams, S. ; Gray, H. M. ; McFarland, J. W. ; Kull, T. ; Tali, K. ; Yukawa, T. ; Kawahara, T. ; Miyoshi, K. ; Lee, Y. I. (2007). Evolutionary history of mycorrhizal specificity among lady's slipper orchids . Evolution, 61 , 1380-1390.
McCormick, Melissa K. ; Whigham, Dennis F. ; Sloan, D. ; O'Malley, K. ; Hodkinson, B. (2006). Orchid-fungus fidelity: a marriage meant to last? . Ecology, 87 , 903-911.

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