Helen J. Young

Associate Professor, Biology Department , Middlebury College

Areas of Interest
Courses taught

Schedule
Links

Contact me by:

  • Phone - (802) 443-2556
  • Email - hjyoung@middlebury.edu
  • Fax - (802) 443-2072
  • Mail - Biology Department, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 05753
  • Office hours, spring 2003: Wed 1:30-2:30 and Thurs 10:00-12:00


 


 

Courses Taught


 

Areas of Interest


Selected publications

Young, H.J. and L. Gravitz. 2002. The effects of stigmatic age on receptivity in Silene latifolia (Caryophyllaceae). American Journal of Botany 89: 1237-1241.

Young, H.J. 2002. Diurnal and nocturnal pollination of Silene latifolia (Caryophyllaceae). American Journal of Botany 89: 433-440.

Young, H.J. and T.P. Young. 2002. A hands-on exercise to demonstrate evolution by natural selection and genetic drift. In press. American Biology Teacher.

Stanton, M.L. and H.J. Young. 1994. Selecting for floral character associations in wild radish, Raphanus sativus L. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 7:271-285.

Young, H.J., M.L. Stanton, N.C. Ellstrand and J.M. Clegg. 1994. Temporal and spatial variation in heritability and genetic correlations among floral traits in Raphanus sativus, wild radish. Heredity 73:298-308.

Goldwasser, L., G.E. Schatz, and H.J. Young. 1993. A new method for marking Scarabaeidae and other Coleoptera. Coleopterists' Bulletin 47:21-26.

Young, H.J. 1992. Environmental effects on pollen characters and paternity. In E. Ottaviano, D.L. Mulcahy, M. Sari Gorla, and G. Bergamini Mulcahy (Eds.), Angiosperm Pollen and Ovules. Springer-Verlag, NY pp. 445-450.

Young, H.J. and T.P. Young. 1992. Alternate outcomes of natural and experimental high pollen loads. Ecology 73:639-647.

Stanton, M.L., T.L. Ashman, L.F. Galloway, and H.J. Young. 1992. Estimating male fitness of plants in natural populations. In R. Wyatt (Ed.) Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction. Chapman and Hall, NY. pp. 62-90.

Stanton, M.L., H.J. Young, N.C. Ellstrand, and J.M. Clegg. 1991. Consequences of floral variation for male and female reproduction in experimental populations of wild radish, Raphanus sativus L. Evolution 45:268-279.

Young, H.J. and M.L. Stanton. 1990. Influence of environmental quality on pollen competitive ability in wild radish. Science 248:1631-1633

Young, H.J. and M.L. Stanton. 1990. Influence of floral variation on pollen removal and seed production in wild radish. Ecology 71:536-547

Young, H.J. and M.L. Stanton. 1990. Temporal patterns of gamete production within individuals of Raphanus sativus (Brassicaceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 68:480-486.

Young, H.J. 1990. Pollination and reproductive biology of an understory neotropical aroid. In K.S. Bawa and M. Hadley (Eds.) Reproductive Ecology of Tropical Forest Plants. Man and the Biosphere Series. Unesco, Paris and Parthenon Publishing, Carnforth. pp. 151-164.

Young, H.J. 1988. Differential importance of beetle species pollinating Dieffenbachia longispatha. Ecology 69:832-844.

Young, H.J. 1988. Neighborhood size in a tropical beetle-pollinated aroid: effects of low density and asynchronous flowering. Oecologia 76:461-466.

Young, H.J. 1986. Beetle pollination of Dieffenbachia. American Journal of Botany 73:931-944.

Marquis, R.J., H.J. Young, and H.E. Braker. 1986. The influence of understory canopy cover on seedling establishment in a tropical lowland rainforest. Biotropica 18:273-278.

Young, H.J. and T.P. Young. 1983. Local distribution of C3 and C4 grasses in sites of overlap on Mt. Kenya. Oecologia 58:373-377.

 


Summer field crew 2000 Summer field crew 2001

 

Andrea St. John, Jo Lin, Elizabeth Harper, Jessica Gigot, Cyndi Scott, Johannes Adomako-Mensah, Dalton Cox

(missing: Caitlin Hicks, Jen Sisemore, Katherine Barr, Kate Shick, Apple Snider)


Teaching schedule:

Spring 2003: Genetics and Evolution (BI195)

Fall 2003: Plant Biology (BI203), Advanced Evolution (BI395)


Syllabi

Advanced Evolution

Plant Biology


 

Links of interest

Web of Species (from Wellesley)

Kippewa Gardens (ethnobotany)

The Globe's Here

Maps of college-owned property

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