Gregory S. Gilbert publications

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2009 Méndez, V. E., E. N. Shapiro, and G.S. Gilbert.  Cooperative management and its effects on shade tree diversity, soil properties and ecosystem services of coffee plantations in western El Salvador.  Agroforestry Systems 76:111-126 PDF
2009 Bergemann, S.E., M.A. Smith, J.L. Parrent, G.S. Gilbert, and M. Garbelotto. Genetic population structure and distribution of a fungal polypore, Datronia caperata (Polyporaceae), in mangrove forests of Central America. Journal of Biogeography. 36: 266-279 PDF
2008 Bradley, D.J., G.S. Gilbert, and J.B.H. Martiny.  Pathogens promote plant diversity through a compensatory response.  Ecology Letters 11:461-469 PDF
2008 Gilbert, G.S. and I.M. Parker. Porroca: an emerging disease of coconut in Central America.  Plant Disease 92:826-830 PDF    version en Español
2008 Gilbert, G.S., J. Gorospe, and L. Ryvarden. Host and habitat preferences of polypore fungi in Micronesian tropical flooded forests. Mycological Research 112:674-680. PDF

2007

Parker, I.M. and G.S. Gilbert. When there is no escape: the effects of natural enemies on native, invasive, and noninvasive plants.  Ecology 88: 1210-1224 PDF

2007

Morris, W.F., R.A. Hufbauer, A.A. Agrawal, J.D. Bever, V.A. Borowicz, G.S. Gilbert, J.L. Maron, C.E. Mitchell, I.M. Parker, A.G. Power, M.E. Torchin, D.P. Vázquez.  Direct and interactive effects of enemies and mutualists on plant performance: a meta-analysis. Ecology 88:1021-1029 PDF

2007

Gilbert, G.S. and C.O. Webb. Phylogenetic signal in plant pathogen-host range. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 104:4979-4983 PDF

2007

Gilbert, G.S., D.R. Reynolds and A. Bethancourt. The patchiness of epifoliar fungi in tropical forests: host range, host abundance, and environment. Ecology 88:575-581 PDF   (appendices) PDF

2007

Gilbert, G.S. and D.R. Strong. Fungal symbionts of tropical trees. Ecology 88:539-540. PDF

2007

Mendez, V., E., Gliessman, S., R., Gilbert, G.S.  Tree biodiversity of a shade coffee landscape in western El Salvador. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 119:145-159  PDF

2006

Webb, C.O., G.S. Gilbert, and M. J. Donoghue.  Phylodiversity dependent seedling mortality, size structure, and disease in a Bornean rain forest.  Ecology 87(7): S123-S131 PDF

2006

Mitchell, C., Agrawal, A., Bever, J., Gilbert, G., Hufbauer, R., Klironomos, J., Maron, J., Morris, W., Parker, I., Power, A., Seabloom, E., Torchin, M., Vázquez, D.  Biotic interactions and plant invasions. Ecology Letters 9:726-740 PDF

2006

Reynolds, D.R. and G.S. Gilbert.  Epifoliar fungi from Panama.  Cryptogamie Mycologie 27:249-270. .

2006

Springer, Y., B.A. Hardcastle, and G.S. Gilbert. Soil calcium and plant disease in serpentine ecosystems: A test of the pathogen refuge hypothesis.  Oecologia 151 (1): 10-21 PDF

2006

Gilbert, G. S. and I. M. Parker. Invasions and the regulation of plant populations by pathogens. Pages 289-305 in: M.W. Cadotte, S. M. McMahon, and T. Fukami (Eds.) Conceptual ecology and invasion biology: reciprocal approaches to nature. Springer.

2005

Gilbert, G. S. The dimensions of plant disease in tropical forests. Pp. 141-164.  in D.R.F.P. Burslem, M.A. Pinard and S. Hartley (eds.) Biotic Interactions in the Tropics. Cambridge University Press.

2005

Gilbert, G.S. and D.R. Reynolds. Nocturnal fungi: Airborne spores in the canopy and understory of a tropical rain forest.  Biotropica 37(3): 461-463 PDF

2005

Reynolds, D. R. and G. S. Gilbert. Epifoliar fungi from Queensland, Australia. Australian Systematic Botany. 18: 265-289. PDF   (appendix) PDF

2005

CenTREAD Working Group. Farmers and the forest: Can agroforestry actually conserve biodiversity?  Review of Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes. Schroth, G., G. A. B. da Fonseca, C. A. Harvey, C. Gascon, H. L. Vasconcelos, and A-M. N. Izac, (eds.). 2004 Island Press.  Conservation Biology 19: 2043-2044 PDF

2005

CenTREAD Working Group.  Making Parks Work: a thought provoking argument but not a guide. Review of  Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature (2002) by Terborgh, J., C. Van Schaik, L. Davenport, and M. Rao, (Eds.)  Conservation Biology 19:279-281 PDF

2004

Parker, I.M. and G.S. Gilbert.  The evolutionary ecology of novel plant-pathogen interactions.  Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics.  35: 675-700 PDF

2004

Parrent, J.L., M. Garbelotto, and G. S. Gilbert.  Population genetic structure of the polypore fungus Datronia caperata in fragmented mangrove forests.  Mycological Research 108:403-410 PDF

2003

Ferrer, A. and G. S. Gilbert. Effect of tree host species on fungal community composition in a tropical rain forest in Panama. Diversity and Distributions 9:455-468 PDF

2003

Bradley, D. J., G. S. Gilbert, and I. M. Parker.  Susceptibility of clover species to fungal infection: the interaction of leaf surface traits and environment.  American Journal of Botany 90:857-864 PDF

2003

Reynolds, D.R., G.S. Gilbert, & A. Bethancourt.  Canopy fungi.  Pages 144-145 in Y. Basset, V. Horlyck, & S.J. Wright (eds.) Studying Forest Canopies from Above: The International Canopy Crane Network.  Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and UNEP.

2003 Carman, J. & G. Gilbert. 2003. Mosquitoes and West Nile Virus. Organically allowable control methods and the need for an organically allowable adulticide. California Certified Organic Farmers Magazine, Fall 2003: 10-11 PDF

2002

Gilbert, G.S. Interacciones entre microorganismos y plantas (Interactions between microorganisms and plants)  Pages 435-463 in M. Guariguata and G. Kattan (eds.), Ecología y Conservación de Bosques Tropicales (Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Forests, in Spanish). Libro Universitario Regional, Cartago, Costa Rica.

2002

Gilbert, G.S. Evolutionary ecology of plant diseases in natural ecosystems.  Annual Review of Phytopathology 40:13-43 PDF

2002

Gilbert, G.S. and W.P. Sousa. Host specialization among wood-decay fungi in Caribbean mangrove forests Biotropica 34:396-404. PDF

2002

Gilbert, G.S., M. Mejía-Chang, and E. Rojas.  Fungal diversity and plant disease in mangrove forests: salt excretion as a possible defense mechanism. Oecologia 132:278-285. PDF

2002

Gilbert, G.S., A. Ferrer, and J. Carranza.  Polypore fungal diversity and host density in a moist tropical forest. Biodiversity and Conservation 11: 947-957. PDF

2002 Proyecto Porroca.  Mapa de la Comarca de Kuna Yala (Map of the Indigenous Reserve of Kuna Yala).  First complete, published map of the islands and towns of the Kuna people, in Kuna Yala, Panama.  Produced by Proyecto Porroca (G.S. Gilbert, I.M. Parker, and E. Soo). PDF

2001

Arnold, A.E., Z. Maynard, and G. Gilbert. Fungal endophytes in dicotyledonous neotropical trees: patterns of abundance and diversity. Mycological Research 105:1502-1507. PDF

2001

Gilbert, G.S.,  K. E. Harms, D. N. Hamill,  S. P. Hubbell, and R. B. Foster. Effects of seedling size, weather, seedling density, and distance to nearest conspecific adult on 6-year survival of Ocotea whitei seedlings in Panamá. Oecologia 127: 509-516. PDF

2000

Arnold, A.E., Z. Maynard, G.S. Gilbert, P.D. Coley, and T.A. Kursar.  Are tropical fungal endophytes hyperdiverse?  Ecological Letters 3:267-274. PDF

2000

Goodell, K., I.M. Parker, and G.S. Gilbert.  Biological impacts of species invasions: Implications for policy makers.  Pages 87-117 in Caswell, J. (ed.), Incorporating Biological, Natural, and Social Sciences in Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards in International Trade.  Washington DC: Nation Academy Press.

1999 Gilbert, G.G., E. Soo, and I.M. Parker.  La Porroca.  Una nueva enfermedad del cocotero en Kuna Yala y Panama (Technical bulletin in Spanish and Kuna on an emerging disease of coconut in Panama) (technical brochure).

1999

Patiño, S., G.S. Gilbert, G. Zotz, and M.T. Tyree.  Growth and survival of aerial roots of hemiepiphytes in a lower montane tropical moist forest in Panama. Journal of Tropical Ecology 15:651-665. PDF

1998

Travers, S.E., G.S. Gilbert, and E.F. Perry.  The effect of rust infection on reproduction in a tropical tree (Faramea occidentalis). Biotropica 30:438-443. PDF

1997

Gilbert, G.S., N. Talaro, C. A. Howell, and A. Symstad.  Multiple-scale spatial distribution of the fungal epiphyll Scolecopeltidium on Trichilia spp. in two lowland moist tropical forests. Canadian Journal of Botany 75: 2158-2164. PDF

1996

Gilbert, G.S. and D. De Steven.  A canker disease of seedlings and saplings of Tetragastris panamensis (Burseraceae) caused by Botryosphaeria dothidea in a lowland tropical forest.  Plant Disease 80: 684-687. PDF

1996

Gilbert, G.S., J.L. Parke, J. Handelsman, and M.K. Clayton.  Use of cluster and discriminant analyses to compare rhizosphere bacterial communities following biological perturbation. Microbial Ecology 32:123-147. PDF

1996

Gilbert, G.S. and M. Mejía Ch. (editors). Manual para las Investigaciones de Biología de Campo (Manual of Biological Field Research) (2nd edition), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá. 107 pp.

1996

Gilbert, G.S. and S.P. Hubbell.  Plant diseases and the conservation of tropical forests.  Bioscience 46: 98-106 PDF

1995

Gilbert, G.S.  Rain forest plant diseases: the canopy - understory connection.  Selbyana 16:75-77 PDF.

1995

Guariguata, M. and G.S. Gilbert.  Interspecific variation in rates of trunk wound closure in a Panamanian lowland forest.  Biotropica 28: 23-29 PDF.

1994

Gilbert, G.S., S.P. Hubbell, and R.B. Foster.  Density and distance-to-adult effects of a canker disease of trees in a moist tropical forest.  Oecologia 98: 100-108 PDF.

1994

Gilbert, G.S., J. Handelsman, and J.L. Parke.  Root camouflage and disease control.  Phytopathology 84:222-225. PDF

1993

Gilbert, G.S., J.L. Parke, M.K. Clayton, and J. Handelsman.  Effects of an introduced bacterium on bacterial communities on roots.  Ecology 74:840-854 PDF

1992

Griffin, D.H., K.E. Quinn, G.S. Gilbert, C.J.K. Wang, and S. Rosemarin.  The role of ascospores and conidia as propagules in the disease cycle of Hypoxylon mammatumPhytopathology 82:114-119 PDF.

1992

Wetterer, J., S. Shafir, L. Morrison, K. Lips, G. Gilbert, M. Cipollini, and C. Blaney.  On- and off-trail orientation in the leaf-cutting ant, Atta cephalotes (L.) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).  J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 65:96-98.

1990

Gilbert, G.S., J. Handelsman, and J.L. Parke.  Role of ammonia and calcium in lysis of zoospores of Phytophthora cactorum by Bacillus cereus strain UW85.  Exper. Mycol. 14: 1-8.

1986

Gilbert, G.S. and F.E. Kurczewski.  Soil nutrient effects on goldenrod galls formed by Eurosta solidaginis (Diptera: Tephritidae).  Ent. News 97: 28-32.