[ECOLOG-L] Job: Tenure-line Macroecology

2014-11-08 Thread Kirk Moloney
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Macroecology As part of a major interdisciplinary hiring initiative in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University (ISU), a new joint initiative by the Departments of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences; Ecology,

[ECOLOG-L] Evolutionary Biologist - University of Louisiana at Monroe

2014-11-08 Thread Joydeep Bhattacharjee (Biology)
The Biology Program in the School of Sciences at the University of Louisiana at Monroe invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning Fall 2015. The successful applicant must have a Ph.D., a commitment to teaching excellence, and demonstrated potential for

[ECOLOG-L] life history of medicinal plants?

2014-11-08 Thread David Inouye
I'm wondering whether it's possible to generalize about the life histories of medicinal plants. My guess is that annual plants in general don't invest much in secondary plant compounds, so that most medicinal plants would be perennial (herbs or shrubs). Do you know of any annuals that are

Re: [ECOLOG-L] life history of medicinal plants?

2014-11-08 Thread David L. McNeely
For whatever Wickipedia is worth, this article lists some 200 plants used in traditional and modern medicine. Most listed are perennial, but a few are annual or biennial. Among the annuals is the opium poppy. David Inouye ino...@umd.edu wrote: I'm wondering whether it's possible to

Re: [ECOLOG-L] life history of medicinal plants?

2014-11-08 Thread Don Dean
David, I wouldn’t necessarily associate a secondary bioactive compound with one that can be considered medicinal for humans. Nicotine and urushiol are among the many that can be produced in short order, so I would argue that a plant’s secondary compounds can be produced rapidly and not

Re: [ECOLOG-L] life history of medicinal plants?

2014-11-08 Thread Malcolm McCallum
Some of these are considered medicinal, but I don't know if they REALLY qualify as sources of anything or not. BTW, might try a seed catalog! ;) Poppies produce opium. Borango officinalis Arctium lappa Calendula officinalis Matricaria recutita Stellaria media Coriandrum sativum Hibiscus

Re: [ECOLOG-L] life history of medicinal plants?

2014-11-08 Thread Malcolm McCallum
prussic acid is widely produced when under stress by annual grasses like sudan grass, sorghrum and others. However, I began to realize this question was further complicated by issues with plants that are perennial in some parts of their range but annual in others. Then there are those plants that

Re: [ECOLOG-L] life history of medicinal plants?

2014-11-08 Thread Charles Talhelm
I would attempt to obtain the complete list of plants from the University of Michigan ethnobotanical database, determine how many are not used for fibers or other non medicinal purposes, and then determine how many are annual. Nightshades, Milkweeds, Foxglove and Castor beans are all used