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Name: Colin Orians
Title: Professor of Biology
Departmental Affiliation: Biology Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University; B.A. Earlham College
Expertise: Ecology
Chemical Ecology
Plant-Herbivore Interactions
Hybridization
E-mail: colin.orians@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/faculty/orians
Scholarship & Research: Select Publications:

Fields, M.J. and C.M. Orians. 2006. Specificity of phenolic glycoside induction in willow seedlings (Salix sericea) in response to herbivory. J. Chem. Ecol., 32:2647-2656

Bledsoe, T.M. and C.M. Orians. 2006. Vascular pathways constrain 13C accumulation in large root sinks of Lycopersicon esculentum (Solanaceae), Amer. J. Bot., 93:884-890.

Zanne, A.E., K. Sweeney, M. Sharma and C.M. Orians. 2006. Patterns and consequences of differential vascular sectoriality in 18 temperate tree and shrub species. Functional Ecology, 20:200-206

Ellmore, G.S., A.E. Zanne and C.M. Orians. 2006. Comparative sectoriality in temperate hardwoods: hydraulics and xylem anatomy. Bot. J. Lin. Soc., 150:61-71

Orians, C.M. 2005. Herbivores, vascular pathways and systemic induction: facts and artifacts. J. Chem. Ecol., 31:2231-2242

Orians, C.M., S.D.P. Smith and L. Sack. 2005. How are leaves plumbed inside a branch? Differences in leaf-to-leaf hydraulic sectoriality among six temperate tree species. J. Exp. Bot., 56:2267-2273

Babst, B.A., R.A. Ferrieri, D.W. Gray, M. Lerdau, D.J. Schlyer, M. Schueller, M.R. Thorpe and C.M. Orians. 2005. Jasmonic acid induces rapid changes in carbon transport and partitioning in Populus. New Phytologist, 167:63-72

Orians, C.M., M.M.I. van Vuuren, N.L. Harris, B.B. Babst and G. Ellmore. 2004. Differential sectoriality in long-distance transport in temperate tree species: Evidence from dye flow, 15N transport, and vessel element pitting. Trees: Structure and Function, 18:501-509

Lower, S., S. Kirshenbaum and C.M. Orians. 2003. Soil nutrient availability influences adult leaf beetle preference but not larval performance. Oecologia, 136:402-411

Orians, C.M., S. Lower, B.M. Roche and R.S. Fritz. 2003. The effects of plant genetic variation and on secondary chemistry and growth in a shrubby willow, Salix sericea: Constraints on the evolution of resistance traits. Biochem. System. Ecol., 31:233-247

Orians, C.M., M. Ardon, and B.A. Mohammad. 2002. Vascular architecture and patchy nutrient availability generate within-plan heterogeneity in plant traits important to consumers. Amer. J. Bot., 82:270-278

Orians, C.M. and C.G. Jones. 2001. Plants as Resource Mosaics: Predicting Patterns of Within-Plant Resource Heterogeneity to Consumers from Vascular Architecture and Environmental Variability. Oikos, 94:493-504

Orians, C.M. 2000. The effects of hybridization in plants on secondary chemistry: Implications for the ecology and evolution of plants and herbivores. Amer. J. Bot., 87:1749-1756

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