From Death Comes Life
Integrating disease ecology, mycology, and community ecology, our lab explores the nature and outcomes of plant-microbe interactions, as well as the ecology and epidemiology of fungal pathogens of tropical trees, using a combination of surveys and experiments in the forest, greenhouse, and lab.
Featured publications
Spear, E. R. and K. D. Broders. 2021. Host-generalist fungal pathogens of seedlings may maintain forest diversity via host-specific impacts and differential susceptibility among tree species. New Phytologist 231: 460-474.
Spear, E. R. 2017. Phylogenetic relationships and spatial distributions of putative fungal pathogens of seedlings across a rainfall gradient in Panama. Fungal Ecology 26: 65-73.
Spear, E. R., P. D. Coley, and T. A. Kursar. 2015. Do pathogens limit the distributions of tropical trees across a rainfall gradient? Journal of Ecology 103: 165-174.
Featured story
Camille Delavaux
My Journey to Barro Colorado Island (Part 3 of 3)
STRI from Myth to Reality: Working on Barro Colorado Island as Part of a Community.
