Steve Travers
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Email: steven.travers@ndsu.edu
Phone: Email Only
Office: Stevens 316
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Research Interests
My research focuses on understanding the ecology and evolution of natural plant populations. In particular I am interested in the evolution of plant reproductive traits, the role of local adaptation and the ecological genomics and population genetics of plant responses to environmental change.
Recent Publications
Chandler, E.K. and S.E. Travers. 2024. Intraspecific variation in responses to extreme and moderate temperature stress in the wild species, Solanum carolinense (Solanaceae), AoB PLANTS, plae030. https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plae030
Steve Travers, & Cynthia Sagers. (2023). Feral populations of GE Canola (Brassica napus) in North Dakota. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity. urn:uuid:1d13c9ae-4caf-46e9-942d-fc1c7418b4d9.
Travers SE, Bishop DB, Sagers CL (2024) Persistence of genetically engineered canola populations in the U.S. and the adventitious presence of transgenes in the environment. PLoS ONE 19(5): e0295489. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295489
Chandler, E.K., Travers, S.E., 2021. The timing of snowmelt and amount of winter precipitation have limited influence on flowering phenology in a tallgrass prairie. Botany. doi:10.1139/cjb-2021-0102
Dennhardt, L.A., L. Aldrich-Wolfe, K.L. Black, W.G. Shivega and S.E. Travers. 2021. Forty years of increasing precipitation is correlated with loss of forbs in a tallgrass prairie. Natural Areas Journal 41:195-202.