Jana Vamosi
Positions
Assistant Director (Herbarium)
Contact information
Web presence
Phone number
Office: +1 (403) 210-9594
Location
Office: BI355
Background
Educational Background
B.S. Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 1996
Doctor of Philosophy Ecology and Evolution, University of British Columbia, 2001
Research
Areas of Research
Jana Vamosi is a biodiversity scientist involved in the conservation of Canada's plant species. Her lab is leading initiatives to pinpoint hotspots of threatened species in Canada and determine how climate change accelerates extinction risk. Her research programme emerged from broad interests in the macroevolution and community ecology of plants, and often brings evolutionary perspectives to questions pertaining to the study of plant–insect interactions and the phylogenetic distribution of flowering plants at risk of extinction in Canada.
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| PLBI 541 | Taxonomy of Seed Plants | Fall 2022 |
| PLBI 327 | Systematics and Diversity of Plants | Winter 2023 |
In the News
- Why I became a botanist. New Phytologist. (2017)
More Information
Publications
- Adderley, LJ and JC Vamosi. 2015. Species and phylogenetic heterogeneity in visitation affects reproductive success in an island system. Inter- national Journal of Plant Sciences 176: 186-196.
- McEwen JR, Vamosi JC, Rogers SM (2013) Natural selection and neutral evolution jointly drive population divergence between alpine and lowland ecotypes of the allopolyploid plant Anemone multifida (Ranunculaceae). PLoS ONE 8(7): e68889. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068889
- Rae JM & JC Vamosi (2013) UV reflectance mediates pollinator visitation in Mimulus guttatus. Plant Species Biology, 28:177-184.
- Vamosi JC & SM Vamosi. 2010. Key innovations within a geographical context: towards resolving Darwin's abominable mystery. Ecology Letters 13: 1270–1279
- McEwen JR & JC Vamosi. 2010. Floral colour versus phylogeny in structuring subalpine flowering communities. Proc. R. Soc. B 277: 2957-2965
- Alonso C, JC Vamosi, TM Knight, J Steets & T-L Ashman. 2010. Is reproduction of endemic plant species particularly pollen limited in biodiversity hotspots? Oikos 119: 1192-1200
- Schuett, EM & JC Vamosi. 2010. Phylogenetic community context influences pollen delivery to Allium cernuum. Evolutionary Biology 37:19-28
- Burd M, Ashman T-L, Campbell DR, Dudash MR, Johnston MO, Knight TM, Mazer SJ, Mitchell RJ, Steets JA & Vamosi JC. 2009. Ovule number per flower in a world of uncertain pollination. Am. J. Bot. 96:1159-1167
- Vamosi JC & Vamosi SM. 2008. Extinction risk escalates in the tropics. PLoS ONE 3(12): e3886.
- Vamosi JC & Wilson JRU. 2008. Nonrandom extinction leads to elevated loss of angiosperm evolutionary history. Ecology Letters 11: 1047-1053.
- Proches S, Wilson JRU, Vamosi JC & Richardson DM. 2008. Plant diversity in the human diet: weak phylogenetic signal indicates breadth. BioScience 58:151-159.
- Sargent RD & Vamosi JC. 2008. The influence of canopy position, pollinator syndrome, and region on evolutionary transitions in pollinator guild size. International Journal of Plant Sciences 169:39-47.
- Vamosi JC, Zhang Y & Wilson WG. 2007. Animal dispersal dynamics favoring dioecy over hermaphroditism. American Naturalist 170:485-491.
- Vamosi JC & Dickinson TA. 2006. Polyploidy and diversification: a phylogenetic investigation in Rosaceae. International Journal of Plant Sciences 167: 349-358.
- Vamosi JC, Knight TM, Steets J, Mazer SJ, Burd M & Ashman T-L. 2006. Pollination decays in biodiversity hotspots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 103: 956-961.
- Knight TM, Steets JA, Vamosi JC, Mazer SJ, Burd M, Campbell DR, Dudash MR, Johnston MO, Mitchell RJ & Ashman T-L. 2005. Pollen limitation of plant reproduction: pattern and process. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 36: 467-497.
- Vamosi JC, Otto SP & Barrett SCH. 2003. Phylogenetic analysis of the ecological correlates of dioecy in angiosperms. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 1006-1018.
- Vamosi JC & Otto SP. 2002. When looks can kill: the evolution of sexually-dimorphic floral display and the extinction of dioecious plants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 269: 1187-1194.
- Heilbuth JC, Ilves K & Otto SP. 2001. The consequences of dioecy on seed dispersal: modeling the seed-shadow handicap. Evolution 55: 880-888.
- Heilbuth JC. 2000. Lower species richness in dioecious clades. American Naturalist 156: 221-241..
- Vamosi JC, S Magallon, I Mayrose, SP Otto, H Sauquet. 2018. Macroevolutionary patterns of flowering plant speciation and exctinction. Annual Review of PlanyBiology 69:685-706.
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