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Catherine A. Gehring is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The scientist has a substantial publication record, contributing notably to subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Ecology, and Insect Science.

Their work extensively covers main topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Tree-ring Climate Responses, and Forest Ecology and Management.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Catherine A. Gehring include:

  • Thomas G. Whitham (29 publications)
  • Gerard J. Allan (18 publications)
  • Kevin R. Hultine (18 publications)
  • Hillary F. Cooper (13 publications)
  • Kevin C. Grady (12 publications)

They have contributed to multiple publications in several prominent venues with the highest numbers of publications recorded in:

  • Restoration Ecology (4 publications)
  • Nature Communications (3 publications)
  • New Phytologist (3 publications)
  • Journal of Ecology (3 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 publications)

Among their recent papers are:

  • The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis, 2022, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Adaptive trait syndromes along multiple economic spectra define cold and warm adapted ecotypes in a widely distributed foundation tree species, 2020, Journal of Ecology

Best Publications

  • A meta-analysis of context-dependency in plant response to inoculation with mycorrhizal fungi

    Jason D. Hoeksema;V. Bala Chaudhary;Catherine A. Gehring;Nancy Collins Johnson

  • A framework for community and ecosystem genetics: from genes to ecosystems

    Thomas G. Whitham;Joseph K. Bailey;Joseph K. Bailey;Jennifer A. Schweitzer;Jennifer A. Schweitzer;Stephen M. Shuster

  • COMMUNITY AND ECOSYSTEM GENETICS: A CONSEQUENCE OF THE EXTENDED PHENOTYPE

    Thomas G. Whitham;William P. Young;Gregory D. Martinsen;Catherine A. Gehring

  • Differential tree mortality in response to severe drought: evidence for long‐term vegetation shifts

    Rebecca C. Mueller;Crescent M. Scudder;Marianne E. Porter;R. Talbot Trotter

  • Complex Species Interactions and the Dynamics of Ecological Systems: Long-Term Experiments

    James H. Brown;Thomas G. Whitham;S. K. Morgan Ernest;Catherine A. Gehring

  • The promise and the potential consequences of the global transport of mycorrhizal fungal inoculum.

    Mark W. Schwartz;Jason D. Hoeksema;Catherine A. Gehring;Nancy C. Johnson

  • Mycorrhizae-Herbivore Interactions: Population and Community Consequences

    Catherine A. Gehring;Thomas G. Whitham

  • Ectomycorrhizal fungal community structure of pinyon pines growing in two environmental extremes

    Catherine A. Gehring;Tad C. Theimer;Thomas G. Whitham;Paul Keim

  • Mycorrhizal fungal-plant-insect interactions: the importance of a community approach.

    Catherine Gehring;Alison Bennett

  • Interactions between aboveground herbivores and the mycorrhizal mutualists of plants

    Catherine A. Gehring;Thomas G. Whitham

  • FungiQuant: a broad-coverage fungal quantitative real-time PCR assay.

    Cindy M. Liu;Cindy M. Liu;Sergey Kachur;Michael G. Dwan;Michael G. Dwan;Alison G. Abraham

  • Home-field advantage? evidence of local adaptation among plants, soil, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through meta-analysis

    Megan A. Rua;Megan A. Rua;Anita Antoninka;Pedro M. Antunes;V. Bala Chaudhary

  • The role of locally adapted mycorrhizas and rhizobacteria in plant–soil feedback systems

    Daniel Revillini;Catherine A. Gehring;Nancy Collins Johnson

  • Tree genetics defines fungal partner communities that may confer drought tolerance

    Catherine A. Gehring;Christopher M. Sthultz;Lluvia Flores-Rentería;Amy V. Whipple

  • Shifts from competition to facilitation between a foundation tree and a pioneer shrub across spatial and temporal scales in a semiarid woodland.

    Christopher M. Sthultz;Catherine A. Gehring;Thomas G. Whitham

  • The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis

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  • Host plant genetics affect hidden ecological players: links among Populus, condensed tannins, and fungal endophyte infection

    Joseph K Bailey;Ron Deckert;Ron Deckert;Jennifer A Schweitzer;Brian J Rehill;Brian J Rehill

  • Environmental and genetic effects on the formation of ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in cottonwoods

    Catherine A. Gehring;Rebecca C. Mueller;Thomas G. Whitham

  • Community specificity: life and afterlife effects of genes

    Thomas G. Whitham;Catherine A. Gehring;Louis J. Lamit;Todd Wojtowicz

  • ECTOMYCORRHIZAL ABUNDANCE AND COMMUNITY COMPOSITION SHIFTS WITH DROUGHT: PREDICTIONS FROM TREE RINGS

    Randy L. Swaty;Ron J. Deckert;Thomas G. Whitham;Catherine A. Gehring

  • Herbivore-driven mycorrhizal mutualism in insect-susceptible pinyon pine

    Catherine A. Gehring;Thomas G. Whitham

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas G. Whitham
Thomas G. Whitham Northern Arizona University
Nancy Collins Johnson
Nancy Collins Johnson Northern Arizona University
Gerard J. Allan
Gerard J. Allan Northern Arizona University
Jennifer A. Schweitzer
Jennifer A. Schweitzer University of Tennessee at Knoxville
James D. Bever
James D. Bever University of Kansas
Stephen M. Shuster
Stephen M. Shuster Northern Arizona University
Carolyn Hull Sieg
Carolyn Hull Sieg US Forest Service
Joseph K. Bailey
Joseph K. Bailey University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Gail W. T. Wilson
Gail W. T. Wilson Oklahoma State University
Stephen C. Hart
Stephen C. Hart University of California, Merced

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