Email: a-b-dykstra@bethel.edu
Job Titles
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Professor of Biological Sciences, Department Chair
Biological Sciences , College of Arts and Sciences
Highlight
Dykstra's research interests include the ecology, conservation, and population genetics of native plants. She collaborates with the Echinacea Project to study narrow-leaved purple coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia), a native prairie plant. Recently, Dykstra's students have been studying the use of goats to control invasive buckthorn.
Started at Bethel
2011
Education
- University of Colorado - B.A. in Biology, 1985
- University of Wyoming - B.S. in Secondary Education, 1987
- University of Wyoming - M.S. in Botany, 1995
- University of Minnesota - Ph.D. in Plant Biological Sciences, 2013
Courses Taught
- Human Biology
- General Biology
- Introduction to Organismic Biology
- Integrative Biology: Metabolism, Energy, Biodiversity
- Human Anatomy and Physiology
- Clinical Anatomy
- Environment and Humanity
- Environmental Plant Biology
- Plant Taxonomy and Ecology
- Ecology in the Tropics
- Introduction to Research
- Biology Seminar
Publications
- Nordstrom S, Dykstra AB, Wagenius S. 2021. Fires slow population declines of a long-lived prairie plant through multiple vital rates. Oecologia 196(3): 679-681. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-04955-2.
- Wagenius S, Dykstra AB, Ridley CE, Shaw RG. 2012. Seedling recruitment in the long-lived perennial, Echinacea angustifolia: a ten year experiment. Restoration Ecology, 20:352-359.
- Dykstra AB and Shaw RG. 2011. No evidence of local adaptation in seedling recruitment of narrow-leaved purple coneflower. In D. Williams, B. Butler and D. Smith (eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd North American Prairie Conference, held August 1-5, 2010. University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.
- Dykstra AB, Brock MT, Delph LF, Weinig C. 2009. Sex-specific trade-offs and responses to foliar shade in the gynodioecious species Silene vulgaris (Caryophyllaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 170(5): 575-583.
Professional Organizations, Committees, and Boards
Chief Reader, Advanced Placement Biology
Research interests
Dr. Dykstra's research interests include the ecology and population genetics of native plants in fragmented prairie habitat.