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Peter G. Kennedy is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields within biological and environmental sciences, focusing primarily on fungal ecology and plant interactions. Their work encompasses Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with particular emphasis on subfields such as Plant Science, Insect Science, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics addressed in their research include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Lichen and Fungal Ecology, and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

Peter G. Kennedy has contributed to a range of scientific publications, including numerous studies in venues such as New Phytologist, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Ecology, Molecular Ecology, and Nature Communications. The frequent appearance of their work in these journals indicates active engagement in research communities focused on plant-fungal interactions and broader ecological systems.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter G. Kennedy include:

  • Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: From experimental design to results, 2022, Molecular Ecology
  • Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Comparative genomics reveals dynamic genome evolution in host specialist ectomycorrhizal fungi, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Mature Andean forests as globally important carbon sinks and future carbon refuges, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Substrate quality drives fungal necromass decay and decomposer community structure under contrasting vegetation types, 2020, Journal of Ecology

Their collaborative efforts include frequent co-authorship with several researchers, notably François Maillard (26 publications), Lang C. DeLancey (9 publications), Nhu Nguyen (8 publications), Katilyn V. Beidler (7 publications), and Sarah E. Hobbie (7 publications). These partnerships reflect interdisciplinary and sustained research networks.

Best Publications

  • FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild

    Nhu H. Nguyen;Zewei Song;Scott T. Bates;Sara Branco

  • The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications.

    Rolf Henrik Nilsson;Karl Henrik Larsson;Andy F.S. Taylor;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Johan Bengtsson-Palme

  • Dimensions of biodiversity in the Earth mycobiome

    Kabir G. Peay;Peter G. Kennedy;Jennifer M. Talbot

  • Revisiting the 'Gadgil effect': do interguild fungal interactions control carbon cycling in forest soils?

    Christopher W. Fernandez;Peter G. Kennedy

  • A strong species–area relationship for eukaryotic soil microbes: island size matters for ectomycorrhizal fungi

    Kabir G. Peay;Thomas D. Bruns;Peter G. Kennedy;Sarah E. Bergemann

  • Fungal Community Ecology: A Hybrid Beast with a Molecular Master

    Kabir G. Peay;Peter G. Kennedy;Thomas D. Bruns

  • Parsing ecological signal from noise in next generation amplicon sequencing

    Nhu H. Nguyen;Dylan Smith;Kabir Peay;Peter G Kennedy

  • Root tip competition among ectomycorrhizal fungi: Are priority effects a rule or an exception?

    Peter G. Kennedy;Kabir G. Peay;Thomas D. Bruns

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils

    Ylva Lekberg;Carlos A. Arnillas;Elizabeth T. Borer;Lorinda S. Bullington

  • Preserving accuracy in GenBank

    Thomas D. Bruns;Meredith Blackwell;Ivan Edwards;Andy F.S. Taylor

  • Fungal functional ecology: bringing a trait-based approach to plant-associated fungi.

    Amy E. Zanne;Kessy Abarenkov;Michelle E. Afkhami;Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros

  • Genome-based estimates of fungal rDNA copy number variation across phylogenetic scales and ecological lifestyles.

    Lotus A Lofgren;Jessie K Uehling;Sara Branco;Thomas D Bruns

  • Biogeography of ectomycorrhizal fungi associated with alders (Alnus spp.) in relation to biotic and abiotic variables at the global scale

    Sergei Põlme;Sergei Põlme;Mohammad Bahram;Takashi Yamanaka;Kazuhide Nara

  • There is high potential for the formation of common mycorrhizal networks between understorey and canopy trees in a mixed evergreen forest

    Peter G Kennedy;A. D. Izzo;T. D. Bruns

  • Ectomycorrhizal fungi and interspecific competition: species interactions, community structure, coexistence mechanisms, and future research directions

    Peter G Kennedy

  • Rethinking ectomycorrhizal succession: are root density and hyphal exploration types drivers of spatial and temporal zonation?

    Kabir G. Peay;Kabir G. Peay;Peter G. Kennedy;Thomas D. Bruns

  • Potential link between plant and fungal distributions in a dipterocarp rainforest: community and phylogenetic structure of tropical ectomycorrhizal fungi across a plant and soil ecotone

    Kabir G. Peay;Peter G. Kennedy;Stuart James Davies;Sylvester Tan

  • Priority effects determine the outcome of ectomycorrhizal competition between two Rhizopogon species colonizing Pinus muricata seedlings

    Peter G. Kennedy;Thomas D. Bruns

  • Global patterns in fine root decomposition: climate, chemistry, mycorrhizal association and woodiness.

    Craig R. See;Michael Luke McCormack;Michael Luke McCormack;Sarah E. Hobbie;Habacuc Flores-Moreno

  • Ectomycorrhizal fungal response to warming is linked to poor host performance at the boreal-temperate ecotone.

    Christopher W. Fernandez;Nhu H. Nguyen;Nhu H. Nguyen;Artur Stefanski;Ying Han

  • Preserving accuracy in GenBank

    M. I. Bidartondo;Thomas D. Bruns;Meredith Blackwell;Ivan Edwards

  • SUPPLY-SIDE ECOLOGY IN MANGROVES: DO PROPAGULE DISPERSAL AND SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT EXPLAIN FOREST STRUCTURE?

    Wayne P. Sousa;Peter G. Kennedy;Betsy J. Mitchell;Benjamín M. Ordóñez L

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas D. Bruns
Thomas D. Bruns University of California, Berkeley
Kabir G. Peay
Kabir G. Peay Stanford University
Sarah E. Hobbie
Sarah E. Hobbie University of Minnesota
Urmas Kõljalg
Urmas Kõljalg University of Tartu
Leho Tedersoo
Leho Tedersoo University of Tartu
Ian A. Dickie
Ian A. Dickie University of Canterbury
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Jason E. Stajich
Jason E. Stajich University of California, Riverside
Thomas W. Kuyper
Thomas W. Kuyper Wageningen University & Research
Andy F. S. Taylor
Andy F. S. Taylor University of Aberdeen

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