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Overview

Brenda B. Casper is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. The scientist's research spans several interconnected fields within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on plant and ecological studies.

The main areas of research include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Aeolian Processes and Effects, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases.

Brenda B. Casper has published scientific work in the following venues:

  • New Phytologist
  • Geomorphology
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Oecologia
  • Pedosphere

Recent publications illustrate the scientist's diverse research interests and include:

  • "Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi" (2021, New Phytologist)
  • "Vegetation effects on coastal foredune initiation: Wind tunnel experiments and field validation for three dune-building plants" (2021, Geomorphology)
  • "Challenging Global Waste Management - Bioremediation to Detoxify Asbestos" (2020, Frontiers in Environmental Science)
  • "Leaf trait plasticity reveals interactive effects of temporally disjunct grazing and warming on plant communities" (2024, Oecologia)
  • "Metagenetics of fairy rings reveals complex and variable soil fungal communities" (2022, Pedosphere)

Frequent co-authors contributing to Brenda B. Casper's work include:

  • Argo Ronk
  • John Davison
  • Mari Moora
  • Marina Semchenko
  • Sakeenah Adenan

The scientist's research draws from various subfields of study such as Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Insect Science. This multidisciplinary approach supports studies that cover ecological interactions, environmental dynamics, and organismal biology.

Best Publications

  • Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges

    Wim H. van der Putten;Richard D. Bardgett;James D. Bever;T. Martijn Bezemer

  • PLANT COMPETITION UNDERGROUND

    Brenda B. Casper;Robert B. Jackson

  • Diversity of ageing across the tree of life

    Owen Jones;Alexander Scheuerlein;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Carlo Giovanni Camarda

  • MORPHOGENETIC CONSTRAINTS ON PATTERNS OF CARBON DISTRIBUTION IN PLANTS

    Maxine A. Watson;Brenda B. Casper

  • Coordinated distributed experiments: An emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Hugh Al Henry;Cameron N. Carlyle;Cameron N. Carlyle;Shannon R. White

  • DEFINING A PLANT'S BELOWGROUND ZONE OF INFLUENCE

    Brenda B. Casper;H. Jochen Schenk;Robert B. Jackson

  • Evaluating plant–soil feedback together with competition in a serpentine grassland

    Brenda B. Casper;Jeffrey P. Castelli;Jeffrey P. Castelli

  • Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    John Davison;Mari Moora;Marina Semchenko;Marina Semchenko;Sakeenah Binte Adenan

  • The effects of defoliation on carbon allocation: can carbon limitation reduce growth in favour of storage?

    Erin Wiley;Sarah Huepenbecker;Brenda B Casper;Brent R Helliker

  • Plant response to climate change varies with topography, interactions with neighbors, and ecotype.

    Pierre Liancourt;Laura A. Spence;Daniel S. Song;Ariuntsetseg Lkhagva

  • Keeping plant shrinkage in the demographic loop

    Roberto Salguero‐Gómez;Brenda B. Casper

  • Seed bank formation during early secondary succession in a temperate deciduous forest.

    Laura A. Hyatt;Brenda B. Casper

  • A demographic approach to study effects of climate change in desert plants.

    Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Wolfgang Siewert;Brenda B. Casper;Katja Tielbörger

  • Fixed rates of random ovule abortion in Cryptantha flava (Boraginaceae) and its possible relation to seed dispersal

    Brenda Bowers Casper;Delbert Wiens

  • Nonflying mammal pollination of southern african proteas: A non-coevolved system

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  • INTRASPECIFIC AM FUNGAL VARIATION CONTRIBUTES TO PLANT-FUNGAL FEEDBACK IN A SERPENTINE GRASSLAND

    Jeffrey P. Castelli;Brenda B. Casper

  • The herbivory uncertainty principle : Visiting plants can alter herbivory

    James F. Cahill;Jeffrey P. Castelli;Brenda B. Casper

  • Differential host plant performance as a function of soil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities: experimentally manipulating co-occurring Glomus species

    Danny J. Gustafson;Danny J. Gustafson;Brenda B. Casper

  • Demographic consequences of drought in the herbaceous perennial Cryptantha flava: effects of density, associations with shrubs, and plant size

    Brenda B. Casper

  • Shading by shrubs in a desert system reduces the physiological and demographic performance of an associated herbaceous perennial

    I. N. Forseth;D. A. Wait;B. B. Casper

  • Soil microbial communities and extracellular enzyme activity in the New Jersey Pinelands

    Richard W. Lucas;Brenda B. Casper;John K. Jackson;Teri C. Balser

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter S. Petraitis
Peter S. Petraitis University of Pennsylvania
Pierre Liancourt
Pierre Liancourt University of Tübingen
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Roberto Salguero-Gómez University of Oxford
James F. Cahill
James F. Cahill University of Alberta
Brent R. Helliker
Brent R. Helliker University of Pennsylvania
Alain F. Plante
Alain F. Plante University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Kulmatiski
Andrew Kulmatiski Utah State University
T. Martijn Bezemer
T. Martijn Bezemer Leiden University
Ladislav Mucina
Ladislav Mucina Murdoch University
Robert B. Jackson
Robert B. Jackson Stanford University

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