Thomas A. Kursar

University of Utah — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant and animal studies(51), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(37), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(21), Plant Parasitism and Resistance(15), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis(11)

Publications135 total

Continuous colonization of the Atlantic coastal rain forests of South America from Amazônia
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Diversity and divergence: evolution of secondary metabolism in the tropical tree genus <i>Inga</i>
New Phytologist·2022· 44 citedOpen Access
Impacts of Plant Defenses on Host Choice by Lepidoptera in Neotropical Rainforests
Fascinating life sciences·2022· 5 cited
Diversity and Divergence: Evolution of defense chemistry in the tropical tree genus <i>Inga</i>
2021Open Access
The role of plant secondary metabolites in shaping regional and local plant community assembly
Journal of Ecology·2021· 34 citedOpen Access
Author response for "The role of plant secondary metabolites in shaping regional and local plant community assembly"
2021Open Access
A Common But Overlooked New Species in the Hyper-Diverse Genus <i>Inga</i> Mill. from the Northwestern Amazon
Systematic Botany·2019· 4 cited
Phenolics lie at the centre of functional versatility in the responses of two phytochemically diverse tropical trees to canopy thinning
Journal of Experimental Botany·2019· 15 citedOpen Access
Macroevolutionary patterns in overexpression of tyrosine: An anti‐herbivore defence in a speciose tropical tree genus, <i>Inga</i> (Fabaceae)
Journal of Ecology·2019· 36 citedOpen Access
Herbivores as drivers of negative density dependence in tropical forest saplings
Science·2019· 130 cited
Tracking of Host Defenses and Phylogeny During the Radiation of Neotropical Inga-Feeding Sawflies (Hymenoptera; Argidae)
Frontiers in Plant Science·2018· 25 citedOpen Access
Chemocoding as an identification tool where morphological‐ and<scp>DNA</scp>‐based methods fall short:<i>Inga</i>as a case study
New Phytologist·2018· 24 citedOpen Access
Consequences of interspecific variation in defenses and herbivore host choice for the ecology and evolution of Inga, a speciose rainforest tree
Oecologia·2018· 67 cited
Coevolutionary arms race versus host defense chase in a tropical herbivore–plant system
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2017· 168 citedOpen Access
Dispersal assembly of rain forest tree communities across the Amazon basin
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2017· 140 citedOpen Access
Does resource competition or pest pressure drive negative density dependence? Evidence from the tree genus <i>Inga</i> (Fabaceae) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama
Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd·2017Open Access
Current ambient concentrations of ozone in Panama modulate the leaf chemistry of the tropical tree Ficus insipida
Chemosphere·2016· 14 citedOpen Access
Chemocoding as an identification tool where morphological- and DNA-based taxonomic methods fall short: Inga as a case study
101st ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2016)·2016
High herbivore pressure favors constitutive over induced defense
Ecology and Evolution·2016· 76 citedOpen Access
Does leaf shedding protect stems from cavitation during seasonal droughts? A test of the hydraulic fuse hypothesis
New Phytologist·2016· 211 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Phyllis D. Coley(28), Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht(7), Melvin T. Tyree(7), A. Elizabeth Arnold(4), R. Toby Pennington(4), Phyllis D. Coley(4), María‐José Endara(4), Omar R. López(4), Kyle G. Dexter(3), Todd L. Capson(3), Randall S. Alberte(3), Tania Brenes‐Arguedas(3), Ivone R. Diniz(2), John T. Lill(2), Robert J. Marquis(2), Robert E. Ricklefs(2), Michael S. Singer(2), John O. Stireman(2), David L. Wagner(2), Lee A. Dyer(2)