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Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
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Elizabeth Borer

Associate Professor, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Joining the EEB Dept Spring 2010

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002

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Phone: 541-737-3701
Fax: 541-737-0501
E-mail: borer@science.oregonstate.edu

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Research Interests

Community ecology and trophic interactions; ecology of infectious disease; effects of fertilization on communities and ecosystems

Selected Publications


2009

Borer, E. T., C. E. Mitchell, A. G. Power, and E. W. Seabloom. 2009. Consumers indirectly increase infection risk in grassland food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 106(2):503-506.

Borer, E. T., V. Adams*, G. A. Engler, A. Adams, C.B. Schumann*, and E. W. Seabloom. In press. Aphid fecundity and grassland invasion: invader life history is the key. Ecological Applications.

Borer, E. T. and D. S. Gruner. In press. Top-down and bottom-up regulation of ecosystems. In: Princeton Guide to Ecology, S.A. Levin, editor. Princeton University Press.

Bakker, E.G., K. Eide, B. Montgomery, T. Nguyen, J. Chang, T. Mockler, A. Liston, E. W. Seabloom, and E. T. Borer. 2009. Strong population structure and worldwide selective sweeps characterize weediness gene evolution in the invasive grass species Brachypodium distachyon. Molecular Ecology.

Cebrian, J., J.B. Shurin, E.T. Borer, B. Cardinale, J. Ngai, M.D. Smith, and W. Fagan. 2009. Producer nutritional quality controls ecosystem trophic structure. PLoS ONE 4(3): e4929. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004929.

Hillebrand, H., E.T. Borer, M. E. S. Bracken, B. J. Cardinale, J. Cebrian, E. E. Cleland, J. J. Elser, D. S. Gruner, W. S. Harpole, J. T. Ngai, S. Sandin, E. W. Seabloom, J. B. Shurin, J. E. Smith, and M. D. Smith. 2009. Herbivore metabolism and stoichiometry each constrain herbivory at different organizational scales across ecosystems. Ecology Letters 12: 516-527.

Moore, S.M., E.T. Borer, and P.R. Hosseini. 2009. Predators can indirectly control vector-borne disease: linking predator-prey and host-pathogen models. Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Seabloom, E.W., E.T. Borer, C.E. Mitchell, and A.G. Power. In press. Effects of host identity, environment, and community context on pathogen prevalence and within-host diversity. Ecology.

Seabloom, E. W., E. T. Borer, B.A. Martin, J. L. Orrock. 2009. Effects of long-term consumer manipulations on invasion in oak savannah communities. Ecology 90(5):1356-1365.

Seabloom, E. W., P. R. Hosseini, A. G. Power, E. T. Borer. 2009. Diversity and composition of viral communities: coinfection of barley and cereal yellow dwarf viruses in California grasslands. The American Naturalist 173(3):E79-E98.


2008

Gruner, D.S., J.E. Smith, E.W. Seabloom, S.A. Sandin, J.T. Ngai, H. Hillebrand, W.S. Harpole, J.J. Elser, E.E. Cleland, M.E. Bracken, E.T. Borer, B.M. Bolker. 2008. A cross-system synthesis of consumer and nutrient resource control on autotrophic biomass.

2007

Borer, E. T., C. J. Briggs, and R. D. Holt. 2007. Predators, parasitoids, and pathogens: a cross-cutting examination of intraguild predation theory. Ecology 88(11): 2681-2688. This paper is part of an Ecology Special Feature. Read Jay Rosenheim's introduction to this Special Feature.

Borer, E. T., P. R. Hosseini, E. W. Seabloom, A. P. Dobson. 2007. Pathogen-induced reversal of native perennial dominance in a grassland community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(13): 5473-5478.

Hillebrand, H., D.S. Gruner, E.T. Borer, M.E. Bracken, E.E. Cleland, J.J. Elser, W.S. Harpole, J.T. Ngai, E.W. Seabloom, J.B. Shurin, and J.E. Smith. 2007. Community structure and ecosystem productivity mediate the intrinsic control of producer diversity across major ecosystem types. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(26): 10904-10909.

2006

Borer, E. T. 2006. Does adding biological detail increase coexistence in an intraguild predation model? Ecological Modelling 196: 447-461.

Borer, E. T., B. S. Halpern, and E. W. Seabloom. 2006. Asymmetry in community regulation: effects of predators and productivity. Ecology 87(11): 2813-2820.

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