Publications

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. 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

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.

Gilbert GS, Ballesteros JO, Barrios‐Rodriguez CA, Bonadies EF, Cedeño‐Sánchez ML, Fossatti‐Caballero NJ, Trejos‐Rodríguez MM, Pérez‐Suñiga JM, Holub‐Young KS, Henn LA, Thompson JB. 2016. Use of sonic tomography to detect and quantify wood decay in living trees. Applications in Plant Sciences. 4(12):1600060.

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.