Biological Sciences strives to provide students with broad training in biology and a solid foundation of core courses in the liberal arts. With a strong emphasis on student research, the department provides students with lab and field opportunities where they may explore at the molecular, cellular, organismal and population levels of biological organization.
Below you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in the Biological Sciences.
Documents from 2013
Trials of the urban ecologist, Rebecca W. Dolan
Submissions from 2011
Living More Than Just Enough for the City: Persistence of High-Quality Vegetation in Natural Areas in an Urban Setting, Rebecca W. Dolan, Jessica D. Stephens, and Marcia E. Moore
Documents from 2010
Genetic Variation in Past and Current Landscapes: Conservation Implications Based on Six Endemic Florida Scrub Plants, Eric S. Menges, Rebecca W. Dolan, Robert Pickert, Rebecca Yahr, and Doria R. Gordon
Documents from 2009
Basking behavior of Emydid turtles (Chysemys picta marginata, Graptemys geographica, and Trachemys scripta elegans) in an urban landscape, W. E. Peterman and Travis J. Ryan
Documents from 2008
Capturing Genetic Variation during Ecological Restorations: An Example from Kankakee Sands in Indiana, Rebecca W. Dolan, Deborah L. Marr, and Andrew Schnabel
Genetic change following fire in populations of a seed-banking perennial plant, Rebecca W. Dolan, Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, and Eric S. Menges
Movement and habitat use of two aquatic turtles, Travis J. Ryan, C A. Conner, B A. Douthitt, S C. Sterrett, and Carmen M. Salsbury
Movement and habitat use of two aquatic turtles, Travis J. Ryan, C A. Conner, B A. Douthitt, S C. Sterrett, and Carmen M. Salsbury
Documents from 2006
Endothelial Cell Cortactin Phosphorylation by Src Contributes to Polymorphonuclear Leukocyte Transmigration In Vitro, L. Yang, Jennifer R. Kowalski, X. Zhan, S. M. Thomas, and F. W. Luscinskas
Documents from 2005
Descriptive ecology of a turtle assemblage in an urban landscape, Conner C. A, B A. Douthitt, and Travis J. Ryan
A new species of Streptanthus (Brassicaceae) from Three Peaks in Lake County, California, Rebecca W. Dolan and Richard O'Donnell
Cortactin regulates cell migration via activation of N-WASP, Jennifer Kowalski, C. Egile, S. Gil, S. B. Snapper, R. Li, and S. M. Thomas
Documents from 2004
Population genetic structure in Nolina brittoniana, a plant endemic to the central ridges of Florida, Rebecca W. Dolan, Rebecca Yahr, and Eric S. Menges
The Distribution of Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) Leaf Nests within Forest Fragments in Central Indiana, Carmen M. Salsbury, Rebecca W. Dolan, and Emily B. Pentzer
Documents from 2003
Seasonal Body Temperature Fluctuations and Energetic Strategies in Free-Ranging Eastern Woodchucks, Carmen M. Salsbury
Varriation of growth rates in yellow-bellied marmots, Carmen M. Salsbury
Documents from 2000
Genetic diversity and reproductive biology in Warea carteri (Brassicaceae), a narrowly endemic Florida scrub annual, Margaret E., K. Evans, Rebecca W. Dolan, Eric Menges, and Doria Gordon
Documents from 1999
Conservation implications of genetic variation in three rare species endemic to Florida rosemary scrub, Rebecca W. Dolan, Rebecca Yahr, Eric S. Menges, and Matthew Halfhill
Documents from 1997
Floristic Investigation of Crooked Creek Community of Juan Solomon Park, Indianapolis Indiana, Raelene M. Crandall and Rebecca W. Dolan
Documents from 1995
The rare, serpentine endemic Streptanthus morrisonii (Brassicaceae) species complex, revisited using isozyme analysis, Rebecca W. Dolan
The Royal Catchfly (Silene Regia; Caryophyllaceae) In Indiana, Rebecca W. Dolan
Reproductive energetics of adult male yellow- bellied marmots, Carmen M. Salsbury and K. B. Armitage
Documents from 1994
Effects of a Prescribed Burn on Tree- and Herb-layer Vegetation in a Post Oak (Quercus Stellata) Dominated Flatwoods., Rebecca W. Dolan
Patterns of isozyme variation in relation to population size, isolation, and phytogeographic history in royal catchfly, Rebecca W. Dolan
The Clute holotypes and the herbarium of Willard Nelson Clute in the Friesner Herbarium of Butler University, Rebecca W. Dolan
Documents from 1992
A Complete Index to the Butler University Botanical Studies, a Journal of Original Research Published by Butler University 1929-1964, Rebecca W. Dolan
Documents from 1989
Vegetation and environment in an adjacent post oak flatwoods and barrens in Indiana, Rebecca W. Dolan and Eric S. Menges
Documents from 1984
The effects of seed size and maternal origin on the distribution of individual plant size in Ludwigia leptocarpa (Onagraceae), Rebecca W. Dolan
