Curriculum Vitae
Peter Andrew Van Zandt
Department of Biology
Washington University
Box 1137
St. Louis, MO 63130
tel (314)935-6242
E-mail:
vanzandt at biology.wustl.edu
Employment
Post-doctoral Researcher – 2003-present. Washington University,
Department of Biology.
Supervisor: Jonathan Chase.
Post-doctoral Fellow – 2001-2003. University of Toronto, Department
of Botany.
Supervisor: Anurag Agrawal.
Publications
Van Zandt, P. A., and A. A. Agrawal. 2004. Community-wide impacts of herbivore-induced plant responses in milkweed
(Asclepias syriaca). Ecology 85:2616-2629.
pdf.
Van Zandt, P. A., and S. Mopper. 2004. The influence of salinity and maternal environment on germination and growth in
Iris hexagona.
Evolutionary Ecology 6:813-832.
pdf.
Van Zandt, P. A., and A. A. Agrawal. 2004. Specificity of
induced plant responses to specialist herbivores of the common milkweed,
Asclepias syriaca. Oikos 104:401-409.
pdf
Agrawal, A. A., and P. A. Van Zandt. 2003. Ecological play
in the coevolutionary theater: Genetic and environmental determinants
of attack by a specialist weevil on milkweed. Journal of Ecology
91:1049-1059.
pdf
Van Zandt, P. A., E. Mouton, M. A. Tobler, K. H. Hasenstein,
and S. Mopper. 2003. Positive and negative consequences of salinity
stress for the growth and reproduction of the clonal plant,
Iris
hexagona. Journal of Ecology 91:837-846.
pdf
Van Zandt, P. A., V. R. Townsend, C. E. Carlton, M. Blackwell,
and S. Mopper. 2003. The lizard beetle
Loberus impressus (Coleoptera,
Languriidae) and its association with the seed capsules of
Iris
hexagona Coleopterist’s Bulletin.
pdf
Van Zandt, P. A., and S. Mopper. 2002. Delayed and carryover
effects of salinity on flowering in
Iris hexagona (Iridaceae).
American Journal of Botany 89:1847-1851.
pdf
Mopper, S., P. Stiling, K. Landau, D. Simberloff, and P. A.
Van Zandt. 2000. Spatiotemporal variation in leafminer population
structure and adaptation to individual oak trees. Ecology 81:1577-1587.
pdf
Carlton, C. E., V. R. Townsend, Jr., P. A. Van Zandt, and S.
Mopper. 2000. Description of the larva of
Loberus impressus
LeConte with notes on its natural history (Languriidae: Xenoscelinae).
Annals of the Entomological Society of America
. 93(3):356-361.
pdf
Belovsky, G. E., C. Mellison, C. Larsen, and P. Van Zandt.
1999. Experimental studies of extinction dynamics. Science
286:1175-1177.
pdf
Van Zandt, P.A. and S. Mopper. 1998. A meta-analysis of adaptive
deme formation in phytophagous insect populations. The American
Naturalist 152:597-606.
pdf
Book Chapters and Unrefereed Publications
Agrawal, A. A., and P. A. Van Zandt. 2002. The community
ecology of live long and prosper. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
17:62.
Belovsky, G. E., C. Mellison, C. Larsen, and P. Van Zandt.
2002. How good are PVA models: testing their predictions with experimental
data. Quantitative validation of minimum viable population models:
experiments on demographic stochasticity, in: D. R. McCullough and
S. Beissinger, eds.,
Population Viability Analysis: Assessing Models
for Recovering Endangered Species. Island Press, Covelo, CA.
Mopper, S., K. Landau, and P.A. Van Zandt. 2000. Evolution
in small spaces: adaptive and stochastic structure in a wild leafminer
population, pages 116 – 138
in T. Mousseau, B. Sinervo, and
J. Endler, eds.,
Adaptive Genetic Variation in the Wild. Oxford
University Press, New York.
Gandon, S. and P.A. Van Zandt. 1998. Local adaptation and
host-parasite interactions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
13:1-3.
Manuscripts in Review
Van Zandt, P. A., E. Collins, and J. M. Chase. Central place foraging lizards,
Sceloporus undulatus,
reduce herbivory and may facilitate restoration of Missouri glade habitats. (Restoration Ecology).
Grants/Awards
Monsanto/Washington University Plant Science Research
Grant - Ecological costs of genetically engineered drought resistance. $158,880. Co-PI with Jon Chase.
American Iris Society Scholarship for Graduate Study
of the Iridaceae. 2000. $2,000.
Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research - Mechanisms of salinity-induced
maternal effects in the native Louisiana perennial,
Iris hexagona. 2000. $700.
Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research - Salinity stress
and population genetics of a native Louisiana iris. 1999. $650.
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