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Overview

Charles E. Mitchell is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily falls within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cell Biology, and Genetics.

The scientist's main research topics include Plant and Fungal Interactions, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Nematode Management and Characterization Studies, Plant Virus Research Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Charles E. Mitchell include:

  • Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • Eutrophication, biodiversity loss, and species invasions modify the relationship between host and parasite richness during host community assembly, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Parasites, niche modification and the host microbiome: A field survey of multiple parasites, 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • Indirect interactions among co-infecting parasites and a microbial mutualist impact disease progression, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Trait-based variation in host contribution to pathogen transmission across species and resource supplies, 2020, Ecology

They have frequently collaborated with co-authors including Kayleigh R. O'Keeffe, Fletcher W. Halliday, Rita L. Grunberg, Robert W. Heckman, and Erin Schuster.

Charles E. Mitchell has published extensively in venues such as UNC Libraries, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and PLoS ONE.

In addition to journal articles, Mitchell has contributed to book publications with Cambridge University Press, including a forthcoming work titled What Does Graptolite Origination and Extinction Reveal about the Cause of the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction? expected in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Climate Warming and Disease Risks for Terrestrial and Marine Biota

    C. Drew Harvell;Charles E. Mitchell;Charles E. Mitchell;Jessica R. Ward;Sonia Altizer;Sonia Altizer

  • Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

    Felicia Keesing;Lisa K. Belden;Peter Daszak;Andrew P. Dobson

  • Release of invasive plants from fungal and viral pathogens

    Charles E. Mitchell;Alison G. Power

  • Effects of plant species richness on invasion dynamics, disease outbreaks, insect abundances and diversity

    Johannes M.H. Knops;David Tilman;Nick M. Haddad;Shahid Naeem

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Biotic interactions and plant invasions

    Charles E. Mitchell;Anurag A. Agrawal;James D. Bever;Gregory S. Gilbert

  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

    Suzanne M. Prober;Jonathan W. Leff;Scott T. Bates;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Pathogen spillover in disease epidemics

    Alison G. Power;Charles E. Mitchell

  • Parasites, pathogens, and invasions by plants and animals

    Mark E. Torchin;Charles E. Mitchell

  • Effects of grassland plant species diversity, abundance, and composition on foliar fungal disease

    Charles E. Mitchell;David Tilman;James V. Groth

  • ENEMY RELEASE? AN EXPERIMENT WITH CONGENERIC PLANT PAIRS AND DIVERSE ABOVE- AND BELOWGROUND ENEMIES

    Anurag A. Agrawal;Peter M. Kotanen;Charles E. Mitchell;Alison G. Power

  • Environmental changes in the Late Ordovician–early Silurian: Review and new insights from black shales and nitrogen isotopes

    Michael J. Melchin;Charles E. Mitchell;Chris Holmden;Petr Štorch

  • DIRECT AND INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF ENEMIES AND MUTUALISTS ON PLANT PERFORMANCE: A META-ANALYSIS

    William F. Morris;Ruth A. Hufbauer;Anurag A. Agrawal;James D. Bever

  • African Wild Ungulates Compete with or Facilitate Cattle Depending on Season

    Wilfred O. Odadi;Moses K. Karachi;Shaukat A. Abdulrazak;Truman P. Young

  • Effects of elevated CO2, nitrogen deposition, and decreased species diversity on foliar fungal plant disease

    Charles E. Mitchell;Peter B. Reich;David Tilman;James V. Groth

  • Synergy between pathogen release and resource availability in plant invasion.

    Dana Blumenthal;Charles E. Mitchell;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Vojtěch Jarošík;Vojtěch Jarošík

  • Biodiversity Regulation of Ecosystem Services

    S. Díaz;D. Tilman;J. Fargione;F. S. Iii Chapin

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Controls on pathogen species richness in plants' introduced and native ranges: roles of residence time, range size and host traits.

    Charles E. Mitchell;Dana Blumenthal;Vojtěch Jarošík;Vojtěch Jarošík;Emily E. Puckett

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Rebecca L. McCulley
Rebecca L. McCulley University of Kentucky
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
Alison G. Power
Alison G. Power Cornell University
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Johannes M. H. Knops
Johannes M. H. Knops Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Suzanne M. Prober
Suzanne M. Prober Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Peter B. Adler
Peter B. Adler Utah State University

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