ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (USA;
NSF-DEB 1257833; PI Morrison); The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) for
Woldemariam’s laboratory start-up funds; and Academic Affairs at TCNJ
for reassigned time to Morrison and Woldemariam through the Support for
Scholarly Activity committee, and to Morrison through the Sabbaticals
Council and the Barbara Meyers Pelson ‘59 Chair in Faculty-Student
Engagement. Morrison is grateful to the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
for a sabbatical residency, which provided time and space to work on
this manuscript. Many thanks to Professor Georg Jander (Boyce Thompson
Institute) for mass spectrometric services. Finally, this work would not
have been possible without the terrific TCNJ undergraduate students who
contributed to the field work for this study: Alison Ball, Priya Dalal,
Amanda diBartolo, Andrew diBenedetto, Paul Fourunjian, Scott Eckert,
Brian Giacopelli, Gina Errico, Ryan Goolic, Marisa Grillo, Jenny Kafas,
Danielle Leng, Nicole Mallotides, Elizabeth Matthews, Devyani Mishra,
Tanisha Nair, Dave Nancaniano, Daniella Nattes, Elena Nattes, Elizabeth
Nemec, Claire Paul, Lucas Pick, Nicole Potter, Kiara Proano, Michael
Readinger, Joanna Sblendorio, Rachel Scalese, Olivia Sohn, John Speigel,
Cynthia Timko, Giovanna Tomat-Kelly, Mitchell Vaughn, Jennifer Wells,
Shane Wilkins, Anna Zauner.