Stephen J. Novak   Associate Professor Department of Biology
Year arrived at BSU: 1993 Mailing Address: Department of Biology, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725 Office Location: Science Nursing Building 208 Office phone: 208-426-3548 FAX: 208-426-4267 e-mail address: snovak@boisestate.edu

 

Academic Degrees and Postdoctoral Work

B.S. in Environmental Science, Johnson State College, 1978
M.S. Plant in Pathology, University of Massachusetts, 1981

Ph.D. in Botany, Washington State University, 1990 (under R.N. Mack),

Dissertation Title: Multiple Introduction and Founder Effects in Bromus

tectorum L.:An Analysis of Eurasian and North American Populations

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Botany, Washington State University

(under P.S. Soltis) 1990-1992

Recent Teaching

BIOL 323 General Ecology

          BIOL 401 Organic Evolution

BIOL 409/509 Molecular Ecology and Phylogeography

          BIOL 422/522 Conservation Biology

BOT 424/524 Plant Community Ecology

   

Current Research Interests

Plant population ecology and evolutionary biology; investigations of the factors that influence the level and structure of genetic variation: introduction events, founder effects, gene flow, and mating systems; polyploid speciation and ecological consequences of polyploidy.

Selected Publications

Soltis, P.S., and S.J. Novak. 1996. Polyphyly of the tuberous Lomatiums: cpDNA evidence for morphological convergence. Systematic Botany, In Press.

Soltis, P.S., D.E. Soltis, S.J. Novak, J.L. Schultz, and R.K. Kuzoff. 1995. Fossil DNA: its potential for biosystematics. Experimental and Molecular Approaches to Plant Biosystematics, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, pp. 1-13.

Novak, S.J., and R.N. Mack. 1995. Allozyme diversity in the apomictic vine Bryonia alba (Cucurbitaceae): potential consequences of multiple introductions. American Journal of Botany 82: 1153-1162.

Soltis, P.S., G.M. Plunkett, S.J. Novak, and D.E. Soltis. 1995. Genetic variation in Tragopogon species: additional origins of the allotetraploids T. mirus and T. miscellus (Compositae). American Journal of Botany 82: 1329-1341.

Novak, S.J. 1994. Quantitative variation within and among cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) populations: the role of multiple introductions. Proceedings-- Ecology and Management of Annual Rangelands, Intermountain Research Station, General Technical Report INT-GTR-313. pp. 103-108.

Pyke, D.A., and S.J. Novak. 1994. Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) demography - establishment attributes, recruitment, ecotypes, and genetic variability. Proceedings--Ecology and Management of Annual Rangelands, Intermountain Research Station, General Technical Report INT-GTR-313. pp. 12-21.

Novak, S.J., and R.N. Mack. 1993. Genetic variation in Bromus tectorum (Poaceae): A comparison between native and introduced populations. Heredity: 71: 167-176.

Novak, S.J., R.N. Mack, and P.S. Soltis. 1993. Genetic variation in Bromus tectorum (Poaceae): Introduction dynamics in North America. Canadian Journal of Botany: 71: 1441-1448.

Novak, S.J., R.N. Mack, and D.E. Soltis. 1991. Genetic variation in Bromus tectorum L.: Population differentiation in its North American range. American Journal of Botany 78: 1150-1161.

Novak, S.J., D.E. Soltis, and P.S. Soltis. 1991. Ownbey's Tragopogons: Forty years later. American Journal of Botany 78: 1586-1600.

In preparation--

Novak, S.J., and P.S. Soltis. Intraspecific cpDNA variation in four widespread species of Lomatium (Umbelliferae). (to be submitted to the American Journal of Botany).

Novak, S.J. Genetic variation in Bromus tectorum (Poaceae): multilocus associations in native and introduced populations of a selfing annual. (to be submitted to Heredity).

Novak, S.J. Genetic variation in Bromus tectorum (Poaceae): gene flow among introduced populations (to be submitted to Evolution).

Novak, S.J. Allozyme diversity in the apomictic vine Bryonia alba (Cucurbitaceae): clonal structure within and among introduced populations. (to be submitted to American Journal of Botany).

Novak, S.J., and G. Radamaker. Genetic variation in Bromus tectorum (Poaceae): quantitative genetics of native and introduced populations. (to be submitted to Evolution).