Research
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17379
Forrister, D.L., Endara, M., Soule, A.J., Younkin, G.C., Mills, A.G., Lokvam, J., et al. 2022. Diversity and Divergence: Evolution of secondary metabolism in the tropical tree genus Inga. New Phytol., 631–642.
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.
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Camille Delavaux
My Journey to Barro Colorado Island (Part 3 of 3)
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