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Author and Reviewer Pledge It is with great sadness about the current state of scientific publishing that I make this resolve.
As of 1 January 2012, I will not submit research papers to, or review research papers for, any journal or book published by those organizations whose efforts have come to my attention either: to reduce the current level of public access to the fruits of publicly funded research for their own profit or to use harsh "journal bundling" contracts to extract exorbitant fees from libraries.
These organizations include: Ecological Society of America (web site), Elsevier B. V. (web site), Springer (Part of Springer Science+Business Media) Some relevant links: Blog by Mike Taylor about Springer Images wrongly claiming copyright that they do not own Letter from Ecological Society of America (dated 20th December 2011 in response to the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy ), with its bizarre suggestion that authors write a second version of each abstract Interview by Josh Fischman, published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, with Alicia Wise, Elsevier's Director of Universal Access. Ms Wise is quoted as claiming that the metadata added to articles by Elsevier, have "changed the way research is done today" and made it "more efficient", and that this justifies their journal prices. I would suggest to Ms Wise that the efficiency that scientists need is the antithesis of that offered by Elsevier's Hub/Sciverse. What we urgently need is: fewer papers to read that are higher in quality, i.e., improvements to the editorial and reviewing processes simple easy-to-learn bibliographic software that students are willing to learn early in their studies Protest: "The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier" Appel pour des négociations équilibrées avec les éditeurs de revues scientifiques Open Access Directory: a wiki of simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship Scholarly Open Access: Jeffrey Beall is a professional librarian who blogs about predatory "open-access" publishers

Sexually reproducing
diploid Crataegus (C. punctata)

Male-sterile, facultatively apomictic
triploid Crataegus (C. ?grandis)

Near-obligate apomictic
tetraploid Crataegus (C. chrysocarpa s.l.)

Apomictic
pentaploid Crataegus (aff. C. gaylussacia)

Selected Publications

Christensen, Knud Ib and Nadia Talent 2013. Crataegus laevigata or C. levigata — a Paleographic Analysis. Phyton: Annales Rei Botanicae 52(2): 195-201. Available from the second author upon request.

Edwards, Jennifer E., Paula N. Brown, Nadia Talent, Timothy A. Dickinson, and Paul R. Shipley 2012. A review of the chemistry of the genus Crataegus. Phytochemistry 79: 5-26. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2012.04.006. Abstract | Abstract at PubMed.

Talent, Nadia 2009. Evolution of gametophytic apomixis in flowering plants: an alternative model from Maloid Rosaceae. Theory in Biosciences 128(2): 121-138. Published online 5 Mar 2009. doi:10.1007/s12064-009-0061-4 Abstract | PDF (pre-publication version, author's copyright) | Supplementary material (PDF)

Dickinson, Timothy A., Eugenia Y.Y. Lo, Nadia Talent, and Rhoda M. Love 2008. Black-fruited hawthorns of Western North America -- one or more agamic complexes? Botany 86(8), 846-865. Abstract | PDF from journal | HTML from journal

Talent, Nadia, James E. Eckenwalder, Eugenia Lo, Knud Ib Christensen, and Timothy A. Dickinson 2008. (1847) Proposal to conserve the name Crataegus against Mespilus (Rosaceae). Taxon 57(3), 1007-1008.

Talent, Nadia and Timothy A. Dickinson 2007. The potential for ploidy level increases and decreases in Crataegus (Rosaceae, Spiraeoideae, tribe Pyreae). Canadian Journal of Botany 85(6), 570-584. doi:10.1139/B07-028. Abstract | PDF from journal
Erratum to this paper: Page 577 Caption to figure 2 should read: Open circles, pollen from the tetraploid was used; solid circles, pollen from the diploid was used.

Talent, Nadia and Timothy A. Dickinson 2007. Apomixis and hybridization in Rosaceae subtribe Pyrineae Dumort.: a new tool promises new insights. In Apomixis: Evolution, Mechanisms and Perspectives, edited by E. Hörandl, U. Grossniklaus, P. J. Van Dijk, and T. Sharbel. Regnum Vegetabile 147, International Association for Plant Taxonomy and Koeltz Scientific Books, Vienna, pp. 301-316. (Copyright © 2007, International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, A-1030 Vienna, Austria. E-mail: office@iapt-taxon.org)

Talent, Nadia and Timothy A. Dickinson 2007. Endosperm formation in aposporous Crataegus (Rosaceae, Spiraeoideae, tribe Pyreae): parallels to Ranunculaceae and Poaceae. New Phytologist, 173(2): 231-249. Abstract | PDF | Definitive version at Blackwell Synergy (doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01918.x)
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO), and the AGORA initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Dickinson, Timothy A., Eugenia Lo, and Nadia Talent 2007. Polyploidy, reproductive biology, and Rosaceae: understanding evolution and making classifications. Plant Systematics and Evolution. 266(1-2): 59-78. Abstract

Talent, Nadia and Timothy A. Dickinson 2005. Polyploidy in Crataegus and Mespilus (Rosaceae, Maloideae): evolutionary inferences from flow cytometry of nuclear DNA amounts. Canadian Journal of Botany 83(10): 1268-1304. Abstract | PDF
Erratum to this paper: Crataegus okennonii is in series Douglasianae sens. str., not series Purpureofructi; see: Phipps, J.B., O'Kennon, R.J. 1998. Three new species of Crataegus (Rosaceae) from Western North America: C. okennonii, C. okanaganensis, and C. phippsii. Sida Contributions to Botany 18(1): 169-191.

Theses

Talent, Nadia 2006. Gametophytic apomixis, hybridization, and polyploidy in Crataegus (Rosaceae), PhD thesis, University of Toronto, Department of Botany. (Supervisor: Timothy A. Dickinson.) Abstract.

Talent, Nadia 1998. Quantitative traits from leaf morphology in some North American species and hybrids of Populus sections Aigeiros and Tacamahaca (Salicaceae). MSc thesis, University of Toronto, Department of Botany. (Supervisor: James E. Eckenwalder.).