Kabir Peay

Work Address: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology 321 Koshland Hall University of California Berkeley California 94720-3102 (510) 643-5483 (510) 642-4995 fax email: kpeay@berkeley.edu Kabir's personal home page

Kabir completed his dissertation in December of 2008 with Prof. Matteo Garbelotto in UC Berkeley’s Deptartment of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, and is now a post-doc in the Bruns lab. His dissertation and post-doctoral research are focused on the ecological controls of diversity and community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi in forest ecosystems. In particular he is interested in the role of dispersal and habitat size in determining the assembly of fungal communities across the landscape.

Publications

• Kabir G. Peay, Peter G. Kennedy, Stuart J. Davies, Sylvester Tan and Thomas D. Bruns. 2009. Potential link between plant and fungal distributions in a dipterocarp rainforest: community and phylogenetic structure of tropical ectomycorrhizal fungi across a plant and soil ecotone. New Phytologist doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03075.x.
  
  
• Kabir G. Peay. 2009. Getting the dirt on roots: an overview of mycorrhizal symbiosis. MANZANITA Fall 2009.
  
  
• Kabir G. Peay, Thomas D. Bruns and Matteo Garbelotto. 2009. Testing the ecological stability of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis: effects of heat, ash and mycorrhizal colonization on Pinus muricata seedling performance. Plant Soil DOI 10.1007/s11104-009-0200-1.
  
  
• Peter G. Kennedy, Kabir G. Peay and Thomas D. Bruns. 2009. Root tip competition among ectomycorrhizal fungi: Are priority effects a rule or an exception? Ecology 90(8): 2098 –2107.
  
  
• Kabir G. Peay, Matteo Garbelotto and Thomas D. Bruns. 2009. Spore heat resistance plays an important role in disturbance-mediated assemblage shift of ectomycorrhizal fungi colonizing Pinus muricata seedlings. Journal of Ecology DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01489.x.
  
  
• Thomas D. Bruns, Kabir G. Peay, Primrose J. Boynton, Lisa C. Grubisha, Nicole A. Hynson, Nhu H. Nguyen, Nicholas P. Rosenstock. 2008. Inoculum potential of Rhizopogon spores increases with time over the first 4 yr of a 99-yr spore burial experiment. New Phytologist DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02652.x.
  
  
• Kabir G. Peay, Peter G. Kennedy and Thomas D. Bruns. 2008. Fungal community ecology: a hybrid beast with a molecular master. BioScience 58(9): 799-810.
  
  
• Kabir G. Peay, Thomas D. Bruns, Peter G. Kennedy, Sarah E. Bergemann and Matteo Garbelotto. 2007. A strong species–area relationship for eukaryotic soil microbes: island size matters for ectomycorrhizal fungi. Ecology Letters 10: 470–480. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01035.x. [view cover photo]
  
  
• Kennedy, P. G. and K. G. Peay. 2007. Different soil moisture conditions change the outcome of the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis between Rhizopogon species and Pinus muricata. Plant and Soil 291: 155–165. doi 10.1007/s11104-006-9183-3.

Publications in newsletters

• Kabir G. Peay. 2008. MycoDigest: Radioactive fungi: A new extreme.  Mycena News 59(04): 1 & 7.
  
  
• Kabir G. Peay. 2007. MycoDigest: Area all fungi everywhere?  Mycena News 58(06): 1 & 4.
  
  
• Kabir G. Peay. 2007. MycoDigest: How Plants Colonized the Land. Mycena News 58(04): 1 & 4.

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