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Publications e-mail:sandra.lindstrom@botany.ubc.ca
office phone: (604) 822-2340
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Botany
B.A. Reed College (1971);
M.Sc. UBC (1973);
Ph.D. UBC (1985);
Post-graduate studies, Osaka Univ. Foreign Studies, Hokkaido
Univ., Univ. Michigan;
Post-doctoral Fellow, Huntsman Marine Science Centre;
Director of Research, Nori Aquafoods; Research Associate
UBC;
Visiting Lecturer, Simon Fraser University, Bamfield Marine
Station, Friday Harbor Labs, Shannon Point Marine Center;
Research Fellow, University of Groningen, The Netherlands;
Associate Professor (Affiliate), University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
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Research Interests:
One of the world's most complex coasts extends from Puget Sound, Washington, through British Columbia and around the coast of Alaska. Repeated glaciation has acted like a species pump, creating a more diverse marine benthic seaweed flora than one would expect in a region so recently covered by ice. Although this area has been studied by phycologists at U.B.C. since the 1950s, only recently have we had the molecular tools to address unequivocally questions of species limits and relationships and the biogeography of speciation in this environment. These tools have allowed us to recognize species that had previously been confused with other species, to hypothesize the existence of refugia that allowed species to persist within the glacial boundary through the Pleistocene, and to identify geographic boundaries that may have played a role in speciation.
These studies highlight the need for further systematic investigation of North Pacific species. More intensive collections are revealing not just additional cryptic diversity, but also concordant patterns of genotype diversity distributions and a strong signal for a Pacific origin of many Atlantic species. Culture studies have identified novel patterns of development and vegetative proliferation. These studies serve to further our knowledge of seaweed phylogeny, systematics and biogeography. |
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Teaching
Marine Plant Aquaculture
Scientific Writing
Seaweed Workshops |
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Research
Team:
Work-study students
M. Sc. student
Colleagues at various facilities |
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Selected
Publications:
Adey, W. H., Lindstrom, S. C., Hommersand, M. H., &
Müller, K. M. 2008. The biogeographic origin of Arctic
endemic seaweeds: a thermogeographic view. J. Phycol.
44: 1384-1394.
Lindstrom, S. C. 2008. Cryptic diversity and phylogenetic
relationships within the Mastocarpus papillatus
species complex (Rhodophyta, Phyllophoraceae). J. Phycol.
44: 1300-1308.
Kawai, H., Hanyuda, T., Lindeberg, M., & Lindstrom,
S. C. 2008. Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Aureophycus
aleuticus gen. et sp. nov. (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae)
from the Aleutian Islands. J. Phycol. 44: 1013-1021.
Lindstrom, S. C. 2008. Cryptic diversity, biogeography
and genetic variation in Northeast Pacific species of Porphyra
sensu lato (Bangiales, Rhodophyta). J. Appl. Phycol.
20: 951-962.
Hanic, L. A., & Lindstrom, S. C. 2008. Life history
and systematic studies of Pseudothrix borealis
gen. et sp. nov. (=North Pacific Capsosiphon groenlandicus,
Ulotrichaceae, Chlorophyta). Algae 23: 119-133.
Lindstrom, S. C. 2006. Biogeography of Alaskan seaweeds.
J. Appl. Phycol. 18: 637-641.
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