Edward Allen Herre

Biologist

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Unit 0948

APO AA 34002-0948

herrea@gamboa.si.edu

Research Interests

Co-evolution of figs and their pollinator wasps, general host- parasite co-evolution; the evolutionary effects of population structure on sex ratio, sexual selection and parasite virulence, the effects of plant pathogens on population and genetic structure if hosts, interactions between tropical host plants and both mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi.

Current Research Projects

Interactions between tropical host plants and both mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi.

Recent Publications

Herre, E.A. and S.A. West. (1997) Conflict of interest in a mutualism: documenting the elusive fig wasp / seed trade-off. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. vol. 264, 1501-1507..

West, S.A. and E.A.Herre. (1998) Stabilizing selection and variance in fig wasp sex ratios. Evolution 52, 475-485.

Nason, J.D., Herre, E.A., and J.L. Hamrick. (1998) The Breeding Structure of a Tropical Keystone Plant Resource Nature 391, 685-687.

Herre, E.A., N.Knowlton, U. Mueller, and, S. Rehener (1999) The Evolution of Mutualisms: exploring the paths between conflict and cooperation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14, 49-53.

Herre, E.A. (1999) Laws Governing Species Interactions? Encouragement and Caution from Figs and their Associates. in Levels of Selection. ed. Laurent Keller. Princeton Press.

Kiers, E.T., C.E. Lovelock, E.L. Krueger, and E.A. Herre (2000). Differential effects of tropical arbuscular mycorrhizal inocula on root colonization and tree seedling growth: implications for tropical forest diversity. Ecology Letters, 3, 106-113.

Harms, K., S. J. Wright, O. Calderon, A. Hernandez, and E.A. Herre. (2000) Pervasive density-dependent recruitment enhances seedling diversity in a tropical forest. Nature 404, 493-495.

Herre, E.A., C.A. Machado, and S.A. West. (2000) Fig Wasp Sex Ratios: sorting rigor from pseudo-rigor in tests of adaptation. in Adaptation and Optimality. eds. S.H. Orzack and E. Sober. Cambridge Press.

Davidson, J.M., S.A. Rehner, M. Santana, E. Lasso, and E.A. Herre. (2000), Plant Disease) First report of Phytophthora hevae and Pythium spp. on native tropical tree seedlings in Panama. (in press)

Korine, C., E.K.V. Kalko, and E.A. Herre (2000) Fruit characteristics and factors affecting dispersal in a Panamanian fig community. Oecologia (in press).