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Krista McGuire
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Krista McGuire, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, joined Barnard’s faculty in 2009. Her primary research interests include determining the factors that structure microbial communities, how mycorrhizal fungi influence plant community structure, the impacts of global change on microbes, and tropical ecology. She has spent a significant amount of time studying microbes in the tropical rain forests of Central and South America, but she is also interested in microbial communities from temperate and boreal ecosystems.
Professor McGuire’s research has been supported by a Kearney Foundation grant for research in California ecosystems, and a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. She has taught at the University of Michigan and in Bluefields, Nicaragua. At Barnard she teaches courses on Microbiology.
Publications
“The common ectomycorrhizal net may maintain monodominance in a tropical rain forest,” Ecology 88 (2007)
“Recruitment dynamics and ectomycorrhizal colonization of Dicymbe corymbosa, a monodominant tree in the Guiana Shield,” Journal of Tropical Ecology 23 (2007)
“Dual mycorrhizal colonization of forest-dominating tropical trees and the mycorrhizal status of non-dominant tree and liana species,” (with T.W. Henkel, I. Granzow de la Cerda, G. Villa, F. Edmund, C. Andrew) Mycorrhiza 18 (2008)
“Ectomycorrhizal Associations Function to Maintain Tropical Monodominance,” in Z.A. Siddiqui, M.S. Akhtar, K. Futai (eds), Mycorrhizae: Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Springer, Netherlands (2008)
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kmcguire@barnard.edu
EDUCATION:
BA, Muhlenberg College
Ph.D., University of Michigan
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Microbial ecology
Mycorrhizal fungi
Tropical forest ecology