Joy Ward - Plant Physiological Ecology and Plant Genomics
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Duke University
Phone: (785) 864-5218
Fax: (785) 864-5860
Ward Lab Webpage
Biol 408 - Physiology of Organisms
Biol 409 - Physiology of Organisms Laboratory
Biol 420 - Topics in Global Change and Ecology
Biol 701 - Topics in Global Change: Ecological, Physiological, and Isotopic Approaches
Inaugural Edward and Thelma Wohlgemuth Faculty Scholar. University of Kansas, 2006 - Present
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Post-doctoral Fellowship. 1998-1999
Perry Prize awarded by the faculty of the Department of Botany, Duke University for the outstanding Ph.D. dissertation of 1997
National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Award. The potential for evolution of Arabidopsis thaliana under low and elevated carbon dioxide partial pressure. 1995–1997
My laboratory is interested in understanding how global change factors influence the physiology, population structure, and evolution of plant species. We seek to understand the effects of global change drivers that alter plant resource availability, such as changing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, changing precipitation regimes, and rising temperatures. In addition to studying how these global change factors affect the population structure of plants in future ecosystems, we are also investigating how plants have responded to previous global changes, such as during glacial periods. The tools that we use span from those used in ecosystem ecology to modern molecular biology, and include both laboratory and field approaches. Furthermore, we also apply stable isotope techniques in order to make long-term linkages between resource-use by plants and climate.
Springer CJ and JK Ward. (in press). Flowering time and elevated CO2. New Phytologist. Invited Tansley Review
Marchin RM, EL Sage and JK Ward. (in press). Population-level variation of Fraxinus americana L. (white ash) is influenced by precipitation differences across the native range. Tree Physiology
Ward JK, CJ Springer, C Martin. (in press). Merging plant physiological ecology and gene expression studies in CO2 research: Controlled environmental studies take the stage. In: Seeking Ecological Mechanisms: Controlled Environments in Global Change Research, eds: Reynolds JF and TH Jones. Springer-Verlag
Ward JK, JM Harris, TE Cerling, A Wiedenhoeft, MJ Lott, M-D Dearing, JB Coltrain, JR Ehleringer. 2005. Carbon starvation in glacial trees recovered from the La Brea tar pits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102: 690-694
Ward JK. 2005. Evolution and growth of plants in a low CO2 world. In: A History of Atmospheric CO2 and Its Effects on Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems, eds: Ehleringer J, T Cerling and D Dearing. Springer-Verlag, pp. 232-257
Ward JK and J Kelly. 2004. Scaling up evolutionary responses to elevated CO2: Lessons from Arabidopsis. Ecology Letters 7: 427-440
Dawson TE, JK Ward and JR Ehleringer. 2004. Temporal Scaling of physiological responses from gas exchange to tree rings: a gender-specific study with boxelder. Functional Ecology 18: 212-222
Coltrain JB, JM Harris, TE Cerling, JR Ehleringer, M-D Dearing, JK Ward and J Allen. 2004. Rancho La Brea stable isotope biogeochemistry and its implications for the paleoecology of late Pleistocene, coastal southern California. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 205: 199-219
Ward JK, TE Dawson and JR Ehleringer. 2002. Responses of Acer negundo genders to inter-annual differences in water availability determined from carbon isotope ratios of tree ring cellulose. Tree Physiology 22: 339-346
Ward JK, J Antonovics, RB Thomas and BR Strain. 2000. Is atmospheric CO2 a selective agent on model C3 annuals? Oecologia 123: 330-341
DeLucia EH, RB Thomas and JK Ward. 1999. Critical assessment of the response of forest ecosystems to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide. Tree Physiology 19: Preface
Ward JK and BR Strain. 1999. Elevated CO2 Studies: Past, present and future. Tree Physiology 19: 211-220
Ward JK, DT Tissue, RB Thomas and BR Strain. 1999. Comparative responses of model C3 and C4 plants to drought in low and elevated CO2. Global Change Biology 5: 857-867
Ward JK and BR Strain. 1997. Effects of low and elevated CO2 partial pressure on the growth and reproduction of Arabidopsis thaliana from different elevations. Plant, Cell and Environment 20: 254-260
Dippery JK (maiden name), DT Tissue, RB Thomas and BR Strain. 1995. Effects of low and elevated CO2 on C3 and C4 annuals. I. Growth and biomass allocation. Oecologia 101: 13-20
Scholarship and Research Committee - designated the research megathemes for the University of Kansas for the next decade. 2004-2005
Editor for the Faculty of 1000, Physiological Ecology Section. June 2005-present
Plant Responses to the Environment grant panel, United States Department of Agriculture. Washington D.C., April 2005
Chair of the Diversity Enhancement Committee for the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. August 2005-present
University Athletic Committee - 2004-2007 term
Undergraduate Education and Research Committee. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. 2003-2004
Faculty mentor for the REU program (EEB), Bioscience Initiative Program (NIH), and the Haskell Bridge Program (KU and Haskell Indian Nations University) 2004-present
Laci Gerhart
Renee Marchin
Debosree Samanta Roy
Dr. Jesse Nippert
Dr. Clint Springer
Bristlecone Pine, Bryce Canyon, UT. Approximately 2,000 year-old tree.
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