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KEITH CLAY
Indiana University, USA
clay@indiana.edu
http://www.bio.indiana.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/Clay.html
LECTURE TOPICS
Herbivory and Diversity of Plant Communities
Microbial Interactions and Plant Diversity I. Plant Pathogen Interactions
Microbial Interactions and Plant Diversity II. Plant Mutualist Interactions
Tri-trophic Interactions
DISCUSSION TOPICS
How do we evaluate the relative contributions of different interactions on diversity
Mutualism vs. parasitism, positive and negative interactions in plant communities
Does diversity matter?
Experimental design, correlational patterns, field vs. greenhouse
KEY REFERENCES
Belsky, A. J. 1987. The effects of grazing: confounding of ecosystem, community, and organism scales. American Naturalist 127:870-892.
Brown, V. K., and A. C. Gange. 1992. Secondary plant succession: how is it modified by insect herbivory. Vegetatio 101:3-13.
Clay, K., and J. Holah. 1999. Fungal endophyte symbiosis and plant diversity in successional fields. Science 285:1742-1744.
Packer, A., and K. Clay. 2000. Soil pathogens and spatial patterns of seedling mortality in a temperate tree. Nature 404:278-281.
Reynolds, H. L., Packer, A., Bever, J. D. and K. Clay. 2003. Grassroots ecology: Plant-microbe-soil interactions as drivers of plant community structure and dynamics. Ecology 84: 2281-2291.
van der Heijden, M. G. A., J. N. Klironomos, M. Ursic, P. Moutoglis, R. Streitwolf-Engel, T. Boller, A. Wiemken, and I. R. Sanders. 1998. Mycorrhizal fungal diversity determines plant biodiversity, ecosystem variability and productivity. Nature 396:69-72.
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