David Gonthier

Doctoral Track: 
Resource Ecology Management (REM)
Entering year: 
2010
Email: 
gonthier@umich.edu
Primary Office Address: 

3531 Dana Building

Committee Chair/Advisor: 

Ivette Perfecto

Educational Background: 

2010 Current PhD Candidate, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
2010 M.S. Biology, University of Toledo
2007 B.S. Biology, Hope College

Publications: 

 Philpott SM, Pardee GL, Gonthier DJ. In press. Cryptic biodiversity effects: Importance of functional redundancy revealed through addition of food web complexity. Ecology. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/11-1431.1

Gonthier DJ. 2012. Do herbivores eavesdrop on ant chemical communication to avoid predation? PLoS ONE 7: e28703.

Gonthier DJ, Witter J, Spongberg AL, and Philpott SM. 2011. Effect of nitrogen fertilization on caffeine production in coffee (Coffea arabica L.). Chemoecology 21:123-130.

Gonthier, D. J., Pardee, G. L., and Philpott, S. M. 2010. Azteca instabilis ants and the defence of a coffee shade tree: an ant-plant association without mutual rewards in Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Tropical Ecology 26(3): 343-346.

Gonthier, D. J. 2009. Notes on seeds deposited in elephant dung at Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology 47(2):252-256.

Swarthout, D., Harper, E., Judd, S., Gonthier, D., Shyne, R., Stowe, T., and Bultman, T. 2009. Measures of leaf-level water-use efficiency in drought stressed endophyte infected tall fescue grasses. Environmental and Experimental Botany 66:88-93

Gonthier, D. J., Sullivan, T. J., Brown, K. L., Wurtzel, B., Lawal, R., VandenOever, K., Buchan, Z. and Bultman, T. L. 2008. Stroma-forming endophyte Epichloë glyceriae provides wound-inducible herbivore resistance to its grass host. Oikos 117:629-633

Philpott SM, Pardee GL, Gonthier DJ. In press. Cryptic biodiversity effects: Importance of functional redundancy revealed through addition of food web complexity. Ecology. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/11-1431.1

Gonthier DJ. 2012. Do herbivores eavesdrop on ant chemical communication to avoid predation? PLoS ONE 7: e28703.

Gonthier DJ, Witter J, Spongberg AL, and Philpott SM. 2011. Effect of nitrogen fertilization on caffeine production in coffee (Coffea arabica L.). Chemoecology 21:123-130.

 

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Research, publications, and CV
Research: 

Community ecology, tropical ecology, agroecology, conservation biology, ant-plant associations