The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates approximately 40 vascular plant specimens collected by Richard J. Reader while he was a doctoral student in the Ecology Curriculum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most specimens are trees and were collected on the grounds of the North Carolina Botanical Garden or on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Reader earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. He then earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada. In 1973 he completed his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Curriculum in Ecology. The title of his doctoral thesis was, “Leaf emergence, leaf coloration, and photosynthetic period-productivity models for the eastern deciduous forest biome”.
He spent his academic career at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He was Chair of the Botany Department at that institution in 2002-2003.
PUBLICATIONS (incomplete list):
Hart, Miranda M. and Richard J. Reader. 2004. Do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi recover from soil disturbance differently? Tropical Ecology 45 (1): 97-111.
Stevens, Kevin J., R. Larry Peterson, and Richard J. Reader. 2002. The aerenchymatous phellem of Lythrum salicaria (L.): a pathway for gas transport and its role in flood tolerance. Annals of Botany 89 (5): 621-625. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcf088
Hart, M.M., Reader, R.J. 2002. Host plant benefit from association with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: variation due to differences in size of mycelium. Biol Fertil Soils 36: 357–366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-002-0539-4
Hart, Miranda M. and Richard J. Reader. 2002. Taxonomic basis for variation in the colonization strategy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 153 (2): 335-344. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.0028-646X.2001.00312.x
Hart, M.M., Reader, R.J. 2002. Does percent root length colonization and soil hyphal length reflect the extent of colonization for all AMF?. Mycorrhiza 12: 297–301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-002-0186-5
Thurston, Eden and Richard J. Reader. 2001. Impacts of experimentally applied mountain biking and hiking on vegetation and soil of a deciduous forest. Environmental Management 27 (3): 397-409. DOI:10.1007/s002670010157
. 2001. Life-history strategies of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in relation to their successional dynamics. Mycologia, 93 (6): 1186-1194. DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2001.12063251
Rachich, J. and Richard J. Reader. 1999. Interactive effects of herbivory and competition on blue vervain (Verbena hastata L.: Verbenaceae). Wetlands 19: 156–161. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03161744
.1998. Species and biomass dependence of an indirect effect of vegetation on seedling recruitment, Écoscience, 5:2, 207-212. DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1998.11682462
Reader, Richard J., John S. Radford and Helmut Lieth. 1974. Modeling Important Phytophenological Events in Eastern North America. In: Lieth, H. (eds) Phenology and Seasonality Modeling. Ecological Studies, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51863-8_27
Reader, Richard Joel. 1973. Leaf emergence, leaf coloration, and photosynthetic period-productivity models for the eastern deciduous forest biome. Curriculum in Ecology doctoral thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
SOURCES:
1. Graduate Calendar 2002-2003. Botany. University of Guelph. https://www.uoguelph.ca/registrar/calendars/graduate/2002-2003/programs/bota.html accessed on 8 May 2023.