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Lauren Carley

TitleAssistant Professor
InstitutionUniversity of Chicago
DepartmentEcology and Evolution
AddressChicago IL 60637
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    I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in how natural selection shapes intraspecific variation in plant traits, and how that variation influences processes like species interactions, adaptation, population dynamics, and speciation. Much of my work focuses on the evolution of plant defensive chemistry in the context of environmental change.

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    Reed College, Portland, ORBA2012Biology
    Duke University, Durham, NCPhD2020Ecology

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    1. Carley LN, Mitchell-Olds T, Morris WF. Increasing Aridity May Threaten the Maintenance of a Plant Defence Polymorphism. Ecol Lett. 2025 Jan; 28(1):e70039. PMID: 39737722; PMCID: PMC11687350.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Animals
    2. Kern BR, Carley LN, Moeller DA. Direct tracking of pollen with quantum dots reveals surprising uniformity in dispersal distance across 11 populations of an annual plant. Am J Bot. 2023 07; 110(7):e16201. PMID: 37306119.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    3. Carley LN, Morris WF, Walsh R, Riebe D, Mitchell-Olds T. Are genetic variation and demographic performance linked? Evol Appl. 2022 Nov; 15(11):1888-1906. PMID: 36426131; PMCID: PMC9679243.
      Citations: 6     
    4. Simha A, Pardo-De la Hoz CJ, Carley LN. Moving beyond the "Diversity Paradox": The Limitations of Competition-Based Frameworks in Understanding Species Diversity. Am Nat. 2022 07; 200(1):89-100. PMID: 35737981.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    
    5. Carley LN, Mojica JP, Wang B, Chen CY, Lin YP, Prasad KVSK, Chan E, Hsu CW, Keith R, Nuñez CL, Olson-Manning CF, Rushworth CA, Wagner MR, Wang J, Yeh PM, Reichelt M, Ghattas K, Gershenzon J, Lee CR, Mitchell-Olds T. Ecological factors influence balancing selection on leaf chemical profiles of a wildflower. Nat Ecol Evol. 2021 08; 5(8):1135-1144. PMID: 34140651; PMCID: PMC8325631.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    6. Carley LN, Letcher SG. Relaxation of putative plant defenses in a tropical agroecosystem. Ecol Evol. 2021 Jun; 11(11):5815-5827. PMID: 34141186; PMCID: PMC8207448.
      Citations: 1     
    7. Carley LN, Panchagavi R, Song X, Davenport S, Bergemann CM, McCumber AW, Gunsch CK, Simonin M. Long-Term Effects of Copper Nanopesticides on Soil and Sediment Community Diversity in Two Outdoor Mesocosm Experiments. Environ Sci Technol. 2020 07 21; 54(14):8878-8889. PMID: 32543178.
      Citations: 5     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsPHPublic Health
    8. Stinson K, Carley L, Hancock L, Donohue K. Effects of maternal source and progeny microhabitat on natural selection and population dynamics in Alliaria petiolata. Am J Bot. 2019 06; 106(6):821-832. PMID: 31162644.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    9. Vaidya P, McDurmon A, Mattoon E, Keefe M, Carley L, Lee CR, Bingham R, Anderson JT. Ecological causes and consequences of flower color polymorphism in a self-pollinating plant (Boechera stricta). New Phytol. 2018 04; 218(1):380-392. PMID: 29369384.
      Citations: 19     Fields:    Translation:Animals
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