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Peer-reviewed publications


  1. Albor, C., Eisen, K. E., Moore, E., Geber, M., Ashman, T.-L., Raguso, R. A., Arceo-Gómez, G. 2024. Co-flowering richness has variable effects on pollen quantity and quality limitation in four Clarkia species. Annals of Botany 134: 901-918. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcae136

  2. Thosteman, H. E., Eisen, K. E., Petrén, H., Boutsi, S., Pace, L., Halley, J. M., De Moraes, C. M., Mescher M. C., Buckley, J., and M. Friberg. 2024. Integration of attractive and defensive phytochemicals is unlikely to constrain chemical diversification in a perennial herb. New Phytologist 244: 249-264. doi: 10.1111/nph.20006

  3. Eisen, K. E., Boutsi, S., Halley, J. M., Pace, L., Petrén, H., Thosteman, H., and M. Friberg. 2023. Honest floral signalling traits vary across and within populations in an insect‐pollinated plant. Functional Ecology 37: 2511-2522. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14405

  4. Eisen, K. E., Powers, J. M., Raguso, R. A., and D. R. Campbell. 2022. An analytical pipeline to support robust research on the ecology, evolution, and function of floral volatiles. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: doi: fevo.2022.1006416 Research Topic: "Methods in Chemical Ecology.''

  5. Eisen, K. E., Ma, R., and R. A. Raguso. 2022. Among- and within-population variation in floral morphology and scent in a hawkmoth pollinated plant. American Jounal of Botany: doi: 10.1002/ajb2.16030 Special issue on "Approaches to the Study of Quantitative Fitness-Related Traits.''

  6. Eisen, K. E., Geber, M. A., and R. A. Raguso. 2021. Emission rates of species-specific volatiles vary across communities of Clarkia species: Evidence for multi-modal character displacement. The American Naturalist 199: 824-840. doi: 10.1086/715501

  7. Eisen, K. E., Siegmund, G.-F., Watson, M. A., and M. A. Geber. 2022. Variation in the location and timing of experimental severing demonstrates that the persistent rhizome serves multiple functions in a clonal forest understory herb. Functional Ecology 36: 356-367. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13970

  8. Godsoe, W., Eisen, K. E., Sirianni, K., and D. Stanton. 2021. Transmission bias's fundamental role in biodiversity change. Theoretical Ecology 14: 367-379. doi: 10.1007/s12080-020-00478-3

  9. Eisen, K. E., Wruck, A.C., and M. A. Geber. 2020. Floral density and co-occurring congeners alter patterns of selection in annual plant communities. Evolution 74: 1682-1698. doi: 10.1111/evo.13960; digest covering this paper, doi: 10.1111/evo.14055.

  10. Eisen, K. E., Campbell, D. R., Richards, E., and M. A. Geber. 2019. Differences in flowering phenology are likely not the product of competition for pollination in Clarkia communities. International Journal of Plant Sciences 180: 974-986. doi: 10.1086/705607 Special issue on floral trait evolution

  11. Caruso, C. M., Eisen, K. E., Martin, R. A., and N. Sletvold. 2019. A meta analysis of the agents of selection on floral traits. Evolution 73: 4-14. doi: 10.1111/evo.13639

  12. Eisen, K. E., and M. A. Geber. 2018. Ecological sorting and character displacement in communities of coexisting Clarkia species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31: 1440–1458. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13365

  13. Eisen, K. E., Case, A. L., and C. M. Caruso. 2017. Variation in pollen presentation in Lobelia siphilitica. International Journal of Plant Sciences 178: 79–84. doi: 10.1086/688961 Featured Cover Article

  14. Caruso, C. M., Eisen, K. E., and A. L. Case. 2016. A phylogenetic analysis of gynodioecy and its correlates in the flowering plants. International Journal of Plant Sciences 177: 115–121. doi: 10.1086/684260 Featured Cover Article

  15. Eisen, K. E. and A. Barker Plotkin. 2015. Forty years of forest measurements support steadily increasing aboveground biomass in a maturing, Quercus-dominant northeastern forest. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 142: 97-112. doi: 10.3159/TORREY-D-14-00027.1



Book reviews & digests


  1. Eisen, K. E. 2018. Digest: A new approach to an old question: using experimental evolution to investigate the evolution of generalized pollination. Evolution 72: 2825–2827.doi: 10.1111/evo.13638

  2. Eisen, K. E. 2017. Digest: Trait variation in Mimulus provides new evidence for the joint action of ecological sorting and character displacement. Evolution 71: 1425–1427. doi: 10.1111/evo.13233

  3. Petipas, R. H.* and Eisen, K. E.* 2016. The Roots and Shoots of Plant Evolutionary Ecology. A review of G. P. Cheplick 2015. Approaches to Plant Evolutionary Ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 31: 409-410. *Authors contributed equally. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.007