ResearchGate & Google Scholar profiles

2016

Stepien, CC, Pfister, CA, Wooton, JT. Functional traits for carbon access in macrophytes. PloS one 11 (7), e0159062. PDF

2015

Stepien, CC. Impacts of geography, taxonomy and functional group on inorganic carbon use patterns in marine macrophytes. Journal of Ecology. 103:1371-1383.

Sequeira, AS, Stepien, CC, CT Tran, A Stuckert, and W Guo. Exploring the legacy of goat grazing: signatures of habitat fragmentation on genetic patterns of endemic weevil populations in Northern Isabela Island, Galápagos. Conservation Genetics, 1-18.

2014

Mok, HF, Stepien, CC, ME Kaczmarek, L Roque-Albelo, and AS Sequeira. Genetics of a weevil introduction to Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos. Journal of Heredity. 105(3):365-380.

2012

Sequeira, AS, Stepien, CC, M Sijapati, and L Roque-Albelo. Past and present of genetic exchange: comparative genetic structure, variability and demographic history in introduced and endemic populations of Galápagos weevils. Journal of Heredity. 103(2):206-220. PDF

2010

Stepien, CC, ME Kaczmarek, HF Mok, A Stuckert, P Chen, S Downer, and AS Sequeira. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci for the introduced weevil Galapaganus howdenae in the Galápagos archipelago. Molecular Ecology Resources Notes 10(3):576-579. Permanent Genetic Resources Note available online on Molecular Ecology Resources Primer Database. PDF

2009

Buchholtz, EA and Stepien, CC. Anatomical transformation in mammals: developmental origin of aberrant cervical anatomy in tree sloths. Evolution & Development. 11(1):69-79. PDF

Manuscripts

McCoy, SJ, Stepien, CC and JT Wootton. Local movement of the intertidal chiton Katharina tunicata varies with grazer density among nearby populations.