Gary Laursen
	Telephone (primary): (907) 474-5393 Telephone (secondary): (907) 474-6294 Fax: (907) 474-6185 E-mail1 (primary): ffgal@uaf.edu E-mail2 (secondary): Web URL: http://mercury.bio.uaf.edu/~glaursen.faculty/ Address: Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 757000 Fairbanks, AK 99775 United States

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Publications (14)

Journal Articles:

Moore, D.L., S.L. Stephenson, G.A. Laursen and W.A. Woodgate. 2000. Protostelids from boreal forest and tundra ecosystems in Alaska. Mycologia 92:390-393.

Zhurbenko, M. and G. Laursen. 2003. Lichenicolous fungi from Central Alaska: New Records and Range Extensions. The Bryologist 106(3):460-464.

Glawe, D.A., and Laursen, G.A. 2005. First Report of powdery mildew on Caragana arborescens and Caragana grandiflora in Alaska caused by Microsphaera (Erysiphe) palczewskii. Online. Plant Health Progress doi:10.1094/PHP-2005-1017-01-BR.

Laursen, G.A., H.H. Burdsall and R.D. Seppelt. 2005 Wood Inhabiting Fungi: Their Diversity, Roles and Uses. Alaska Park Science: Connection to Natural and Cultural Resource Studies in Alaska's National Parks. June 2005.Volume 4 Issue 1:18-25

Geml, J., G.A. Laursen, K. O'Neill, H.C. Nusbaum and D.L. Taylor. 2006 Beringian origins and cryptic speciation events in the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria). Molecular Ecology, 15(1): 225-239.

Lichvar, R.W., G.A. Laursen, R.D. Seppelt and W.R. Ochs. 2007. Selecting and Testing Cryptogam Species for Use in Wetland Delineation in Alaska. To appear in Arctic (2009).

Novozhilov, Y.K., S.L. Stephenson, M. Overking, J.C. Landolt, G.A. Laursen. 2007. Studies of Frostfire Myxomycetes Including a Description of a New Species of Diderma. Mycological Progress, 6: 45-51.

Geml, J., G.A. Laursen, and D.L. Taylor. 2008 Molecular diversity assessment of arctic and boreal Agaricus taxa. Mycologia, 100(4), 2008, pp. 577-589. DOI: 10.3852/07-042R1

Geml, J., R.E. Tulloss, G.A. Laursen, N.A. Sazanova, and D.L. Taylor. 2008 Evidence for strong inter- and intracontinental phylogeographic structure in Amanita muscaria, a wind-dispersed ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(2):694-701. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.04.029.

Geml, J., G.A. Laursen, I. Timling, J.M. McFarland, M.G. Booth, N. Lennon, C. Nusbaum, and D.L. Taylor. 2009. Molecular phylogenetic biodiversity assessment of arctic and boreal ectomycorrhizal Lactarius Pers. (Russulales; Basidiomycota) in Alaska, based on soil and sporocarp DNA. Molecular Ecology. In Press. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04192.x

Books:

Laursen, Gary A. and Rodney D. Seppelt. 2009. Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams: Fungi, Lichenicolous Fungi, Lichenized Fungi, Slime Molds, Mosses, and Liverworts. University of Alaska Press, 256p.

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Conference Proceedings:

Mowrey, R.A., G.A. Larsen and T.A. Moore. 1981. Hypogeous fungi and small mammal mycophagy in Alaskan taiga. In Life Sciences in the Service of Alaska: Proceedings, 32nd Alaska Science Conference, Fairbanks, AK, 1981 August 25-27. (American Association for the Advancement of Science, Alaska Division, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA). pp. 120-121.

Report:

Laursen, G.A., S.R. MacDonald and T.A. Moore. 1985. Susceptability of fire-damaged white spruce and paper birch to fungal infection in interior Alaska. Pages 22-25 in G.P. Juday and C.T. Dyrness, editors. Early Results of the Rosie Creek Fire Research Project. University of Alaska, Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.

Seppelt, R.D., G.A. Laursen and R.W. Lichvar. 2006. Wetland Indicator Bryophytes of Interior and South Central Alaska. 43-Pp. ERDC-CRREL publ.

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