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84
Citations
25533
World Ranking
676
National Ranking
245

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Keith Clay is affiliated with Tulane University in the United States and focuses their research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their scholarly contributions address a range of subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's research covers multiple interconnected topics. Key areas of focus include:

  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant and fungal interactions
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Viral Infections and Vectors

Keith Clay has collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors, with whom they have published multiple works. Frequent collaborators include Quynh N. Quach, Erica M. Goss, Ashish Adhikari, Robert D. Holt, and Philip F. Harmon.

The scientist's publications appear repeatedly in certain venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Communications Biology, Plant and Soil, Molecular Ecology, and Taxon, reflecting a consistent presence in these journals.

Among recent papers are:

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Plant-Microbial Symbioses in Coastal Systems: Their Ecological Importance and Role in Coastal Restoration, 2022, Estuaries and Coasts
  • Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity, 2023, Communications Biology
  • Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities, 2024, Nature
  • Release from below- and aboveground natural enemies contributes to invasion success of a temperate invader, 2020, Plant and Soil

Keith Clay was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Evolutionary origins and ecological consequences of endophyte symbiosis with grasses.

    Keith Clay;Christopher L Schardl

  • Fungal Endophytes of Grasses: A Defensive Mutualism between Plants and Fungi

    Keith Clay

  • Soil pathogens and spatial patterns of seedling mortality in a temperate tree

    Alissa Packer;Keith Clay

  • GRASSROOTS ECOLOGY: PLANT-MICROBE-SOIL INTERACTIONS AS DRIVERS OF PLANT COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS

    Heather L. Reynolds;Alissa Packer;James D. Bever;Keith Clay

  • Fungal endophytes of grasses.

    Keith Clay

  • Fungal endophyte symbiosis and plant diversity in successional fields.

    Keith Clay;Jenny Holah

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Plant-soil biota interactions and spatial distribution of black cherry in its native and invasive ranges

    K.O. Reinhart;A. Packer;W.H. Van der Putten;K.A. Clay

  • Hybridization and the colonization of novel habitats by annual sunflowers.

    Loren H. Rieseberg;Seung Chul Kim;Rebecca A. Randell;Kenneth D. Whitney

  • Conspecific negative density dependence and forest diversity.

    Daniel J. Johnson;Wesley T. Beaulieu;James D. Bever;Keith Clay

  • Effects of fungal endophytes on the seed and seedling biology of Lolium perenne and Festuca arundinacea

    K. Clay

  • The incidence and effects of hybridization between cultivated rice and its related weed red rice (Oryza sativa L.).

    Susan A. Langevin;Keith Clay;James B. Grace

  • Clavicipitaceous endophytes of grasses: their potential as biocontrol agents.

    Keith Clay

  • Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale.

    Joseph A. LaManna;Scott A. Mangan;Alfonso Alonso;Norman A. Bourg;Norman A. Bourg

  • Effects of insect herbivory and fungal endophyte infection on competitive interactions among grasses.

    Keith Clay;Susan Marks;Gregory P. Cheplick

  • Interactions between infection by endophytic fungi and nutrient limitation in the grasses lolium perenne and festuca arundinacea

    G. P. Cheplick;K. Clay;S. Marks

  • THE RED QUEEN HYPOTHESIS AND PLANT/PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS

    Keith Clay;Paula X. Kover

  • Fungal planet description sheets: 154-213

    P W Crous;M J Wingfield;J Guarro;R Cheewangkoon

  • SOIL PATHOGENS AND PRUNUS SEROTINA SEEDLING AND SAPLING GROWTH NEAR CONSPECIFIC TREES

    Alissa Packer;Keith Clay

Frequent Co-Authors

S. Luke Flory
S. Luke Flory University of Florida
Jennifer A. Rudgers
Jennifer A. Rudgers University of New Mexico
Clay Fuqua
Clay Fuqua Indiana University
Richard P. Phillips
Richard P. Phillips Indiana University
James D. Bever
James D. Bever University of Kansas
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
William J. McShea
William J. McShea Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

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