Distance- and phylogeny-based pathogen transmission in forest communities

These projects are supported by NSF and CTFS

Collaborators on these projects include:

Karen Garrett, Kansas State University
Greg Gilbert, UC Santa Cruz
Cam Webb

Relevant Publications

In review. M. R. Cheatham, M. N. Rouse, P. D. Esker, S. Ignacio, W. Pradel, R. Raymundo, A. H. Sparks, G. A. Forbes, T. R. Gordon, and K. A. Garrett. Beyond yield: Plant disease in the context of ecosystem services.

In review. G. L. Gadbury, K. A. Garrett, and D. B. Allison. Challenges and approaches to statistical design and inference in high dimensional investigations.

In review. K. A. Garrett, L. N. Zúñiga, E. Roncal, G. A. Forbes, C. C. Mundt, Z. Su, and R. J. Nelson. The effects of host biodiversity on disease across a climatic gradient.

In review. M. L. Margosian, K. A. Garrett, J. M. S. Hutchinson, and K. A. With. Connectivity of the American agricultural landscape: Assessing the national risk of crop pest and disease spread.

K. A. Garrett and C. M. Cox. 2008. Applied biodiversity science: Managing emerging diseases in agriculture and linked natural systems using ecological principles. Pages 368-386 in Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems. R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner, editors. Princeton University Press. [preprint PDF]

K. A. Garrett, P. D. Esker, and A. H. Sparks. 2007. An introduction to the R programming environment. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2007-1226-02.
Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc0

A. H. Sparks, P. D. Esker, M. Bates, W. Dall'Acqua, Z. Guo, V. Segovia, S. D. Silwal, S. Tolos, and K. A. Garrett. 2008. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Disease progress over time. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2008-0129-02. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc1

P. D. Esker, A. H. Sparks, G. Antony, M. Bates, W. Dall'Acqua, E. E. Frank, L. Huebel, V. Segovia, and K. A. Garrett. 2007. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Modeling dispersal gradients. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2007-1226-03. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc2

A. H. Sparks, P. D. Esker, G. Antony, L. Campbell, E. E. Frank, L. Huebel, M. N. Rouse, B. Van Allen, and K. A. Garrett. 2008. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Spatial pattern analysis. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2008-0129-03. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc3

P. D. Esker, A. H. Sparks, L. Campbell, Z. Guo, M. N. Rouse, S. D. Silwal, S. Tolos, B. Van Allen, and K. A. Garrett. 2008. Ecology and epidemiology in R: Disease forecasting and validation. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2008-0129-01. Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/AdvancedPlantPath/Topics/RModules/doc4

K. A. Garrett, P. D. Esker, A. H. Sparks, and L. Scharmann. 2007. Writing teaching documents as a class project. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI: 10.1094/PHI-T-2007-1226-01.
Available at http://www.apsnet.org/education/InstructorCommunication/TeachingArticles/Garrett

K. A. Garrett, S. H. Hulbert, J. E. Leach, and S. E. Travers. 2006. Ecological genomics and epidemiology. European Journal of Plant Pathology 115:35-51. [PDF]

C. C. Mundt, C. Cowger, and K. A. Garrett. 2002. Relevance of integrated disease management to resistance durability. Euphytica 124:245-252. [PDF]

K. A. Garrett and C. C. Mundt. 1999. Epidemiology in diverse host populations. Phytopathology 89:984-990. [PDF]

Kansas State University

Department of Plant Pathology

Ecological Genomics Institute

PI: Karen A. Garrett