Sharon Y. Strauss

The paper shows that gene flow benefits F2 progeny more than F1 in a plant species at its cold range edge, suggesting long-term fitness advantages from hybridization.

The paper shows mutualistic fungal endophytes increase grass population persistence but decline under high climate variability, threatening long-term species survival.

The paper uses herbarium specimens to show that closely related wildflower species, despite occupying diverse annual climates, track similar seasonal climate conditions through phenological shifts and spatial refugia.

The paper uses herbarium specimens to reconstruct climate conditions and assess their impact on phenology and reproduction across a plant clade, finding precipitation onset and amount best predict phenology but weakly predict reproduction.

The study examines how delayed rain onset affects germination timing and fitness in ten wildflower species, finding species-specific responses to climate change.

This paper presents a chromosome-level genome assembly of Streptanthus diversifolius, revealing a recent whole genome duplication in the Thelypodieae tribe.

The paper investigates how drought affects microbial communities in eight Streptanthus species and finds that drought reduces microbial dissimilarity across species.