Publications
Specht, C.D. and Stevenson, D.W. 2002. Easy Trees? - Review of "Phylogenetic trees made easy: a how-to manual for molecular biologists" by Barry Hall. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution in press.

Specht, Chelsea D., W. John Kress, Dennis W. Stevenson and Rob DeSalle. "A Molecular Phylogeny of the Costaceae (Zingiberales)" Mol. Phylog. Evol. 21(3):333-345

Stevenson, Dennis W., J.D. Davis, J.V. Freudenstein, C.R. Hardy, M.P. Simmons, and C.D. Specht. 2000. "A Phylogenetic analysis of the Monocotyledons based on Morphological and Molecular character sets, with comments on the placement of Acorus and Hydetellaceae." In: Monocots: Systematics and Evolution. K.L. Wilson and D. A. Morrison (Eds.)

Lim, Jun, Yrjo Heliarutta, Chelsea D. Specht, Jee Jung, Lynne Sims, Wesley B. Bruce, Scott Diehn, and Phillip N. Benfey. 2000. "Molecular Analysis of the SCARECROW gene in Maize Reveals a Common Bais for Radial Patterning in Diverse Meristems." The Plant Cell 12:1307-1318.

Specht, CD. 2000. "Ecoregional-Based Conservation for the Southwestern Amazon Moist forests: A biodiversity vision." World Wildlife Fund.

Specht, CD and Caffrey, P. 1999. "Manejo Sostenible de Recursos y Conservación de la Biodiversidad." BOLFOR 17: 1-3.

Goldstein, P.Z. and Specht, C.D. 1997. "Pitfalls in phylogenetic analysis of Large Molecular Data. In Molecular Ecology and Evolution. B. Schierwater et al. (Eds.) Berlin: Birkhauser Verlag.

Scientific Presentations and Abstracts
Specht, C.D. “Species level phylogenetics in the monocot family Costaceae: rapid radiation and floral evolution” Presentation at the conference "Plant species-level systematics: patterns, processes and new applications." 2002. Leiden, The Netherlands.

Specht, C.D. and Stevenson, D.W. “Untangling complex characters: the use of combined morphological and molecular analysis to determine relationships in the Costaceae” Botany2002 Abstracts, American Journal of Botany Madison, Wisconsin.

Specht, C.D. and Stevenson, D.W. “Systematics and floral evolution of Costaceae (Zingiberales).” Botany2001 Abstracts, American Journal of Botany 2001. Albuquerque, NM.

Davis, J.D., Stevenson, D.W., Campbell, L., Goldman, D., Hardy, C., Michelangeli, F., Simmons, M.P., and Specht, C.D. “Phylogenetic relationships among the monocots as inferred from morphology and nucleotide sequence variation in three genes.” Botany2001 Abstracts American Journal of Botany, 2001. Albuquerque, NM.

Specht, C.D. “Combined data analysis aids in interpreting the systematic relationships in a family of tropical monocots undergoing rapid molecular and morphological evolution.” Presentation at the Willi Hennig Society, 2001. Corvallis, OR.

Specht, C.D. “A Molecular Phylogeny of Costaceae (Zingiberales): implications on floral evolution and tropical biogeography.” Presentation at the meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology, 2001. Bangalore, India.

Specht, C.D., Powell, G.W., Riveros, J.C., Ferriera, L., Lemos, R., Vasquez, P., Cavalier, J. “Conservation planning for a species-rich, data-poor landscape” Presentation at the meetings of the Society for Conservation Biology, 2001. Hilo, HI.

Specht, C.D. "Phylogenetics of Costaceae: Insight into floral morphology and speciation mechanisms." Poster presentation at Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, Washington DC.

Specht, C.D. 1997. "Root apices and Quiescence: the point of doing nothing" Presentation at joint meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and Botanical Society of America (BSA). Montreál, Canada. 1997.

Specht, C.D. 1996. "Medicinal Plants of the Chácobo de Alto Ivon, Beni, Bolivia." Presentation at the congress "Plants for food and medicine," Joint meeting of the Society for Economic Botany and the International Society for Ethnopharmacology. London.

Specht, C.D. 1996. "Ethnocladistics: using cladistics to analyze ethnobotanical data." Presentation at the congress "Plants for food and medicine," Joint meeting of the Society of Economic Botany and the International Society for Ethnopharmacology. London.