Publications

Grunberg, R.L., F.W. Halliday, R.W. Heckman, B.N. Joyner, K.R. O’Keeffe, C.E. Mitchell, accepted 2023 pending final revision.  Disease decreases variation in host community structure in an old-field grassland.  PLOS-ONE.  (Pre-review preprint published in 2022 on bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.15.503989).

Grunberg, R.L., B.N. Joyner, C.E. Mitchell, 2023. Historical contingency in parasite community assembly: Community divergence results from early host exposure to symbionts and ecological drift. PLOS-ONE. (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285129).

Heckman, R.W., 2023.  Consumers and nutrients alter colonization of an old field community independently and by distinct mechanisms.  Journal of Ecology 00:1–12 Early View.  (https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14204).

O’Keeffe, K.R., B.T. Wheeler, C.E. Mitchell, 2022. A microbial mutualist within host individuals increases parasite transmission between host individuals: Evidence from a field mesocosm experiment. Frontiers in Microbiology 13:824211. (https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.824211)

Ebeling, A., A.T. Strauss, and 34 additional authors including C.E. Mitchell, 2022. Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands. Journal of Ecology 110(2): 327-339. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13801). 

Heckman, R.W., F.W. Halliday, P.A. Wilfahrt, 2022.  Nutrients and consumers impact tree colonization differently from performance in a successional old field.  Oecologia 198:219–227.  (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05096-2).

O’Keeffe, K.R., A. Simha, C.E. Mitchell, 2021. Indirect interactions among co-infecting parasites and a microbial mutualist impact disease progression. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 288(1956):20211313 (https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1313).

O’Keeffe, K.R., F.W. Halliday, C.D. Jones, I. Carbone, C.E. Mitchell, 2021. Parasites, niche modification, and the host microbiome: A field survey of multiple parasites. Molecular Ecology 30:2404-2416. (https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15892).

Welsh, M.E., J.P.Cronin, C.E. Mitchell, 2020. Trait-based variation in host contribution to pathogen transmission across species and resource supplies. Ecology 101(11):e03164. (https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3164).
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F.W. Halliday, R.W. Heckman, P.A. Wilfahrt, C.E. Mitchell, 2020. Eutrophication, biodiversity loss, and species invasions modify the relationship between host and parasite richness during host community assembly. Global Change Biology 26(9):4854-4867. (https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15165).

Heckman, R.W., F.W. Halliday, C.E. Mitchell, 2019. A growth-defense trade-off is general across native and exotic grasses. Oecologia 191(3):609-620. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04507-9).

O’Keeffe, K.R., and C.D. Jones, 2019. Challenges and solutions for analysing dual RNA-seq data for nonmodel host–pathogen systems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10(3):401-414. (https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13135).

F.W. Halliday, R.W. Heckman, P.A. Wilfahrt, C.E. Mitchell, 2019. Past is prologue: Host community assembly and the risk of infectious disease over time. Ecology Letters 22(1):138-148. (https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13176).

F.W. Halliday, J. Umbanhowar, C.E. Mitchell, 2018. A host immune hormone modifies parasite species interactions and epidemics: insights from a field manipulation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285(1890):20182075 (https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2075).

F.W. Halliday, R.W. Heckman, P.A. Wilfahrt, C.E. Mitchell, 2017. A multivariate test of disease risk reveals conditions leading to disease amplification. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284(1865): 20171340. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1340).

F.W. Halliday, J. Umbanhowar, C.E. Mitchell, 2017. Interactions among symbionts operate across scales to influence parasite epidemics. Ecology Letters 20(10):1285–1294. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12825). (Winner of the 2018 Outstanding Student Paper Award from the Disease Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America).

Kendig, A.E., E.T. Borer, C.E. Mitchell, A.G. Power, E.W. Seabloom, 2017. Characteristics and drivers of plant virus community spatial patterns in U.S. West Coast grasslands. Oikos 126(9):1281-1290. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.04178).

Heckman, R.W., F.W. Halliday, P.A. Wilfahrt, C.E. Mitchell, 2017. Effects of native diversity, soil nutrients, and natural enemies on exotic invasion in experimental plant communities. Ecology 98(5):1409–1418. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1796).

O’Keeffe, K.R., I. Carbone, C.D. Jones, C.E. Mitchell, 2017. Plastic potential: how the phenotypes and adaptations of pathogens are influenced by microbial interactions within plants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 38:78–83. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2017.04.014).

Heckman, R.W., J.P. Wright, C.E. Mitchell, 2016. Joint effects of nutrient addition and enemy exclusion on exotic plant success. Ecology 97(12):3337-3345. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1585).

Welsh, M.E., J.P.Cronin, C.E. Mitchell, 2016. The role of habitat filtering in the leaf economics spectrum and plant susceptibility to pathogen infection. Journal of Ecology 104(6):1768–1777. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12632).

Tredennick, A.T., P.B. Adler, and 39 additional authors including C.E. Mitchell, 2016. Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness” [Fraser et al. 2015]. Science 351:457. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aad6236). (Technical Comment).

Mordecai, E.A., K. Gross, C.E. Mitchell, 2016. Within-host niche differences and fitness tradeoffs promote coexistence of plant viruses. The American Naturalist 187(1):E13-E26. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/684114).

Mordecai, E.A., M. Hindenlang, C.E. Mitchell, 2015. Differential impacts of virus diversity on biomass production of a native and an exotic grass host. PLoS ONE 10(7):e0134355 (12 journal pages). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134355).

Seabloom, E.W. and 64 additional authors including C.E. Mitchell, 2015. Plant species’ origin determines dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. Nature Communications 6:7710 (8 journal pages). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8710).

Whitaker, B.K., M.A. Rúa, C.E. Mitchell, 2015. Viral pathogen production in a wild grass host driven by host growth and soil nitrogen. New Phytologist 207(3):760–768 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.13369).

Fay, P.A. and 38 additional authors including R.W. Heckman and C.E. Mitchell, 2015. Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients. Nature Plants 1:15080 (5 journal pages). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.80).

Seabloom, E.W., E.T. Borer, K. Gross, A.E. Kendig, C. Lacroix, C.E. Mitchell, E.A. Mordecai, A.G. Power, 2015. The community ecology of pathogens: coinfection, coexistence, and community composition. Ecology Letters 18(4):401–415 (Reviews and Syntheses section) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12418).

Prober, S.M. and 26 additional authors including C.E. Mitchell, 2015. Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide. Ecology Letters 18(1):85-95 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12381).

Rúa, M.A., and J. Umbanhowar, 2015. Resource availability determines stability for mutualist–pathogen– host interactions. Theoretical Ecology 8(1): 133–148. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12080-014-0237-5).

Cronin, J.P., M.A. Rúa, C.E. Mitchell, 2014. Why is living fast dangerous? Disentangling the roles of resistance and tolerance of disease. The American Naturalist 184(2):172-187 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/676854).

Borer, E.T. and 53 additional authors including R.W. Heckman and C.E. Mitchell, 2014. Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. Nature 508:517–520 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13144).

Rúa, M.A., R.L. McCulley, C.E. Mitchell, 2014. Climate drivers, host identity, and fungal endophyte infection determine virus prevalence in a grassland ecosystem. Journal of Ecology 102(3):690–699 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12238).

Borer, E.T., E.W Seabloom, C.E. Mitchell, J.P. Cronin, 2014. Multiple nutrients and herbivores interact to govern diversity, productivity, composition, and infection in a successional grassland. Oikos 123(2):214-224 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00680.x).

Lacroix, C, A. Jolles, E.W. Seabloom, A.G. Power, C.E. Mitchell, E.T. Borer, 2014. Non-random biodiversity loss underlies predictable increases in viral disease prevalence. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 11(92) (10 journal pages). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0947).

Seabloom, E.W. and 61 additional authors including C.E. Mitchell, 2013. Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? Global Change Biology 19(12):3677–3687 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12370).

Rúa, M.A., R.L. McCulley, C.E. Mitchell, 2013. Fungal endophyte infection and host genetic background jointly modulate host response to an aphid-transmitted viral pathogen. Journal of Ecology 101(4): 1007-1018 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12106).

Rúa, M.A., J. Umbanhowar, S. Hu, K.O. Burkey, C.E. Mitchell, 2013. Elevated CO2 spurs reciprocal positive effects between a plant virus and an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. New Phytologist 199(2): 541–549, with corrigendum 199(4):1109 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.12273).

Seabloom, E.W., E.T. Borer, C. Lacroix, C.E. Mitchell, A.G. Power, 2013. Richness and composition of niche-assembled viral pathogen communities. PLoS-ONE 8(2):e55675 (9 journal pages). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0055675).

Adler, P.B. and 57 additional authors including C.E. Mitchell, 2011. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science 333(6050):1750-1753 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1204498).

Power, A.G., E.T. Borer, P. Hosseini, C.E. Mitchell, E.W. Seabloom, 2011. The community ecology of barley/cereal yellow dwarf viruses in Western US grasslands. Virus Research 159:95-100 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.virusres.2011.05.016).

Rúa, M.A., E.C. Pollina, A.G. Power, C.E. Mitchell, 2011. The role of viruses in biological invasions: friend or foe? Current Opinion in Virology 1(1):68-72 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coviro.2011.05.018).

Rúa, M.A. and C.E. Mitchell, 2011. Pathogens, Plant. pp. 520-525 in The Encyclopedia of Invasive Introduced Species, edited by Daniel Simberloff and Marcel Rejmánek. The University of California Press, Berkeley.

Keesing, F., L.K. Belden, P. Daszak, A. Dobson, C.D. Harvell, R.D. Holt, P. Hudson, A. Jolles, K.E. Jones, C.E. Mitchell, S.S. Myers, T. Bogich, R.S. Ostfeld, 2010. Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases. Nature 468:647-652 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09575). (Covered internationally by NPR, BBC, etc).

Mitchell, C.E., D. Blumenthal, V. Jarošík, E.E. Puckett, P. Pyšek, 2010. Controls on pathogen species richness in plants’ introduced and native ranges: roles of host biological traits, range size, and residence time. Ecology Letters 13(12):1525-1535 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461- 0248.2010.01543.x).

Cronin, J.P., M.E. Welsh, M.G. Dekkers, S.T. Abercrombie, C.E. Mitchell, 2010. Host physiological phenotype explains pathogen reservoir potential. Ecology Letters 13(10): 1221–1232 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01513.x). (A Research Highlight in the 22 July 2010 issue of Nature).

Dickson, T.L. and C.E. Mitchell, 2010. Herbivore and Fungal Pathogen Exclusion Affects the Seed Production of Four Common Grassland Species. PLoS-ONE 5(8): e12022 (6 journal pages). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012022).

E.T. Borer, Seabloom, E.W., C.E. Mitchell, A.G. Power, 2010. Local context drives infection of grasses by vector-borne generalist viruses. Ecology Letters 13(7):810-818 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461- 0248.2010.01475.x).

Seabloom, E.W., E.T. Borer, C.E. Mitchell, A.G. Power, 2010. Viral diversity and prevalence gradients in North American Pacific Coast grasslands. Ecology 91(3):721-732.

Fabiszewski, A.M., J. Umbanhowar, C.E. Mitchell, 2010. Modeling landscape-scale pathogen spillover between domesticated and wild hosts: Asian soybean rust and kudzu. Ecological Applications 20(2):582-592.

Seabloom, E.W., E.T. Borer, A. Jolles, C.E. Mitchell, 2009. Direct and indirect effects of viral pathogens and the environment on invasive grass fecundity in Pacific Coast grasslands. Journal of Ecology 97:1264-1273.

Blumenthal, D., C.E. Mitchell, P. Pysek, V. Jarosik, 2009. Synergy between pathogen release and resource availability in plant invasion. PNAS 106:7899-7904. (Covered in a Nature News & Views article by Tim Seastedt on 11 June 2009).

Borer, E.T., C.E. Mitchell, A.G. Power, E.W. Seabloom, 2009. Consumers indirectly increase infection risk in grassland foodwebs. PNAS 106:503-506.

Wilby, A., C.E. Mitchell, D. Blumenthal, P. Daszak, C.S. Friedman, P. Jutro, A. Mazumder, A-H PrieurRichard, M-L Desprez-Loustau, M. Sharma, M.B. Thomas, 2009. Biodiversity, food provision, and human health. pp. 13-39 in Biodiversity Change and Human Health: From ecosystem services to spread of disease, edited by O.E. Sala, L.A. Meyerson, C. Parmesan. Island Press, Washington D.C..

Costanza, J.L., S.E. Marcinko, A.E. Goewert, C.E. Mitchell, 2008. Potential geographic distribution of atmospheric nitrogen deposition from intensive livestock production in North Carolina, USA. The Science of the Total Environment 398:76-86. (Product of ECOL/ENST 199, Spring 2005).

Morris, W.F., R.A. Hufbauer, A.A. Agrawal, J.D. Bever, V.A. Borowicz, G.S. Gilbert, J.L. Maron, Mitchell, C.E., I.M. Parker, A.G. Power, M.E. Torchin, D.P. Vázquez, 2007. Direct and interactive effects of enemies and mutualists on plant performance: a meta-analysis. Ecology 88(4):1021-1029.

Mitchell, C.E., A.A. Agrawal, J.D. Bever, G.S. Gilbert, R.A. Hufbauer, J.N. Klironomos, J.L. Maron, W.F. Morris, I.M. Parker, A.G. Power, E.W. Seabloom, M.E. Torchin, D.P. Vázquez, 2006. Biotic interactions and plant invasions. Ecology Letters 9(6):726-740. (Invited; Reviews and Syntheses section).

Mitchell, C.E. and A.G. Power, 2006. Disease dynamics in plant communities. pp. 58-72 in Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics, edited by S.K. Collinge and C. Ray. Oxford University Press.

Díaz, S., D. Tilman, J. Fargione, F.S. Chapin III, R. Dirzo, T. Kitzberger, B. Gemmill, M. Zobel, M. Vilá, C. Mitchell, A. Wilby, G.C. Daily, M. Galetti, W.F. Laurance, J. Pretty, R. Naylor, A. Power, D. Harvell, 2006. Biodiversity regulation of ecosystem services. pp. 297-329 in Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current state and trends, edited by The Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, commissioned by the United Nations, published by Island Press, Washington D.C..

Agrawal, A.A., P.M. Kotanen, C.E. Mitchell, A.G. Power, W. Godsoe, J. Klironomos, 2005. Enemy release? An experiment with congeneric plant pairs and diverse above- and belowground enemies. Ecology 86(11):2979-2989.

Power, A.G. and C.E. Mitchell, 2004. Pathogen spillover in disease epidemics. The American Naturalist 164:S79-S89. (Invited).

Torchin, M.E. and C.E. Mitchell, 2004. Parasites, pathogens, and invasions by plants and animals. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2(4):183-190. (Invited).

Mitchell, C.E., P.B. Reich, D. Tilman, and J.V. Groth, 2003. Effects of elevated CO2, nitrogen deposition, and decreased species diversity on foliar fungal plant disease. Global Change Biology 9:438-451.

Mitchell, C.E. and A.G. Power, 2003. Release of invasive plants from fungal and viral pathogens. Nature 421:625-627. (Covered internationally by print, radio, and web media.)

Mitchell, C.E., 2003. Trophic control of grassland production and biomass by pathogens. Ecology Letters 6(2):147-155

Harvell, C.D., C.E. Mitchell, J.R. Ward, S. Altizer, A.P. Dobson, R.S. Ostfeld, M.D. Samuel, 2002. Climate warming and disease risks for terrestrial and marine biota. Science 296: 2158-2162. (Featured by NPR, the BBC, The LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets).

Mitchell, C.E., D. Tilman, and J.V. Groth, 2002. Effects of plant species diversity, abundance, and composition on foliar fungal disease. Ecology 83(6): 1713-1726. (Results highlighted in Science, in The New York Times, and on Minnesota public television).

Knops, J.M.H. D. Tilman, N.M. Haddad, S. Naeem, C.E. Mitchell, J. Haarstad, M.E. Ritchie, K.M. Howe, P.B. Reich, E. Siemann, J. Groth, 1999. Effects of plant diversity on invasion dynamics, disease outbreaks, insect abundances and diversity. Ecology Letters 2(5):286-293.