Amy Dykstra

Job Titles

• Professor of Biological Sciences
  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.

Website

http://echinaceaproject.org/people/amy-dykstra-2/