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Spear, Erin
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute staff
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Selected Publications
Article
Spear, Erin R. and Broders, Kirk D. 2021. "Host-generalist fungal pathogens of seedlings may maintain forest diversity via host-specific impacts and differential susceptibility among tree species ." New Phytologist , 231, (1) 460–474. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17379 .
2021
Farner, Johannah E., Spear, Erin R., and Mordecai, Erin A. 2020. "Habitat type and interannual variation shape unique fungal pathogen communities on a California native bunchgrass ." Fungal Ecology , 48 100983–100983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2020.100983 .
2020
Kendig, Amy E., Spear, Erin R., Daws, S. Caroline, Flory, S. Luke, and Mordecai, Erin A. 2020. "Native perennial and non-native annual grasses shape pathogen community composition and disease severity in a California grassland ." Journal of Ecology , https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13515 .
2020
Uricchio, Lawrence H., Daws, S. C., Spear, Erin R., and Mordecai, Erin A. 2019. "Priority Effects and Nonhierarchical Competition Shape Species Composition in a Complex Grassland Community ." The American Naturalist , 193, (2) 213–226. https://doi.org/10.1086/701434 .
2019
Spear, Erin R. and Mordecai, Erin A. 2018. "Foliar pathogens are unlikely to stabilize coexistence of competing species in a California grassland ." Ecology , 99, (10) 2250–2259. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2427 .
2018
Spear, Erin R. 2017. "Phylogenetic relationships and spatial distributions of putative fungal pathogens of seedlings across a rainfall gradient in Panama ." Fungal Ecology , 26 65–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2016.12.004 .
2017
Spear, Erin R., Coley, Phyllis D., and Kursar, Thomas A. 2015. "Do pathogens limit the distributions of tropical trees across a rainfall gradient?" Journal of Ecology , 103, (1) 165–174. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12339 .
2015