California State University Bakersfield
Welcome to the Webpage of
Dr. Anna L. Jacobsen
Assistant Professor
Plant Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant Structure-Function
Contact Information:
Department of Biology
California State University Bakersfield
61 SCI
9001 Stockdale Highway
Bakersfield, CA 93311
USA
661-654-2572
Teaching:
Current Courses [Spring 2013]:
Biology 203 Introductory Biology--Plants
Other Courses:
Biology 100 Perspectives in Biology
Biology 203 Introductory Biology--Plants
Biology 490: Senior Seminar
Biology 505: Current Topics in Biology
Biology 540 Graduate Practicum in the Teaching of Biology
Science 355E California Natural History
Research:
Selected Publications:
2013:
Tobin MF, Pratt RB, Jacobsen AL, De Guzman M. 2013. Xylem vulnerability to cavitation can be accurately characterized in species with long vessels using a centrifuge method. Plant Biology, in press.
Jacobsen AL, Pratt RB. 2013. Vulnerability to cavitation of central California Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae): A new analysis. Oecologia 171:329-334.
2012:
Jacobsen AL, Pratt RB, Tobin MF, Hacke UG, Ewers FW. 2012. A global analysis of xylem vessel length in woody plants. American Journal of Botany 99: 1583-1591.
Choat B, Jansen S, Brodribb TJ, Cochard H, Delzon S, Bhaskar R, Bucci SJ, Feild TS, Gleason SM, Hacke UG, Jacobsen AL, Lens F, Maherali H, Martínez-Vilalta J, Mayr S, Mencuccini M, Mitchell PJ, Nardini A, Pittermann J, Pratt RB, Sperry JS, Westoby M, Wright IJ, Zanne AE. 2012. Global convergence in the vulnerability of forest to drought. Nature 491: 752-756.
Hacke UG, Jacobsen AL, Pratt RB, Maurel C, Lachenbruch B, Zwaizek J. 2012. New research on plant-water relations examines the molecular, structural, and physiological mechanisms of plant responses to their environment. New Phytologist 196: 345-348.
Pratt RB, Jacobsen AL, Hernandez J, Ewers FW, North GB, Davis SD. 2012. Allocation tradeoffs among chaparral shrub seedlings with different life history types (Rhamnaceae). American Journal of Botany 99: 1464-1476.
Jacobsen AL, Pratt RB. 2012. No evidence for an open vessel effect in centrifuge-based vulnerability curves of a long-vesselled liana (Vitis vinifera). New Phytologist 194: 982-990.
Ramirez AR, Pratt RB, Jacobsen AL, Davis SD. 2012. Exotic deer diminish post-fire resilience of native shrub communities on Santa Catalina Island, southern California. Plant Ecology 213: 1037-1047.
Pratt RB, Jacobsen AL, Jacobs SM, Esler KJ. 2012. Xylem transport safety and efficiency differs among fynbos shrub life history types and between two sites differing in mean rainfall. Int. J. Plant Sci. 173: 474-483.
Jacobsen AL, Roets F, Jacobs SM, Esler KJ, Pratt RB. 2012. Dieback and mortality of South African fynbos shrubs is likely driven by a novel pathogen and pathogen-induced hydraulic failure. Austral Ecology 37: 227-235.
2010:
Pratt RB, North GB, Jacobsen AL, Ewers FW, Davis SD. 2010. Xylem root and shoot hydraulics is linked to life history type in chaparral seedlings. Functional Ecology 24: 70-81.
2009:
Jacobsen AL, Pratt RB, Moe LM, Ewer FW. 2009 Plant community water use and invasibility of semi-arid shrublands by woody species in southern California. Madroño 56: 213-220.
Hacke UG, Jacobsen AL, Pratt RB. 2009. Xylem function of arid-land shrubs from California, USA: an ecological and evolutionary analysis. Plant, Cell & Environment 32: 1324-1333.
Jacobsen AL, Esler KJ, Pratt RB, Ewers FW. 2009. Water stress tolerance of shrubs in Mediterranean-type climate regions: Convergence of fynbos and succulent karoo communities with California shrub communities. American Journal of Botany 96: 1445-1453.
2008:
Pratt RB, Jacobsen AL, Mohla R, Ewers FW, Davis SD. 2008. Linkage between water stress tolerance and life history type in seedlings of nine chaparral species (Rhamnaceae). Journal of Ecology 96: 1252-1265.
Jacobsen AL, Pratt RB, Davis SD, Ewers FW. 2008. Comparative community physiology: non-convergence in water relations among three semi-arid shrub communities. New Phytologist 180: 100-113.
Pratt RB, Jacobsen AL, North GB, Sack L, Schenk HJ. 2008. Plant hydraulics: new discoveries in the pipeline. New Phytologist 179: 590-593.
2007:
Ewers FW, Ewers JM, Jacobsen AL, López-Portillo J. 2007. Vessel redundancy: modeling safety in numbers. IAWA Journal 28: 373-388.
Jacobsen AL, Pratt RB, Davis SD, Ewers FW. 2007. Cavitation resistance and seasonal hydraulics differ among three arid Californian plant communities. Plant, Cell and Environment 30: 1599-1609.
Davis SD, Pratt RB, Ewers FW, Jacobsen AL. 2007. Freezing tolerance impacts chaparral species distribution in the Santa Monica Mountains. (In Flora and Ecology of the Santa Monica Mountains. Ed. Knapp DA. Southern California Botanists Special Publication No. 4, Fullerton, CA). pp. 159-172.
Pratt RB, Jacobsen AL, Ewers FW, Davis SD. 2007. Relationships among xylem transport, biomechanics, and storage in stems and roots of nine Rhamnaceae species of the California chaparral. New Phytologist 174: 787-798.
Pratt RB, Jacobsen AL, Golgotiu KA, Sperry JS, Ewers FW, Davis SD. 2007. Life history type coupled to water stress tolerance in nine Rhamnaceae species of the California chaparral. Ecological Monographs 77: 239-253.
Jacobsen AL, Pratt RB, Ewers FW, Davis SD. 2007. Cavitation resistance among twenty-six chaparral species of southern California. Ecological Monographs 77: 99-115.
Jacobsen AL, Agenbag L, Esler KJ, Pratt RB, Ewers FW, Davis SD. 2007. Xylem density, biomechanics, and anatomical traits correlate with water stress in seventeen evergreen shrub species of the Mediterranean-type climate region of South Africa. Journal of Ecology 95: 171-183.
2005:
Jacobsen AL, Ewers FW, Pratt RB, Paddock WA III, Davis SD. 2005. Do xylem fibers affect vessel cavitation resistance? Plant Physiology 139: 546-556.
Pratt RB, Ewers FW, Lawson MC, Jacobsen AL, Brediger M, and Davis SD. 2005. Mechanisms for tolerating freeze-thaw stress of two evergreen chaparral species: Rhus ovata and Malosma laurina (Anacardiaceae). American Journal of Botany 92: 1102-1113.
2004:
Jacobsen AL, Fabritius SL and Davis SD. 2004. Fire frequency impacts non-sprouting chaparral shrubs in the Santa Monica Mountains of southern California. (In Ecology, Conservation and Management of Mediterranean Climate Ecosystems. Eds. Arianoutsou M and Papanastasis VP. Millpress, Rotterdam, Netherlands).
Links:
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