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Gordon G McNickle

Assistant Professor, Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University
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Synthesis and modeling perspectives of rhizosphere priming

…, R Phillips, S Asao, GG McNickle… - New …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The rhizosphere priming effect ( RPE ) is a mechanism by which plants interact with soil
functions. The large impact of the RPE on soil organic matter decomposition rates (from 50% …

The behavioral ecology of nutrient foraging by plants

JF Cahill Jr, GG McNickle - Annual review of ecology, evolution …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Foraging for resources influences ecological interactions among individuals and species,
regardless of taxonomic affiliation. Here we review studies of nutrient foraging in plants, with …

Focusing the metaphor: plant root foraging behaviour

GG McNickle, CCS Clair, JF Cahill - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2009 - cell.com
Many authors assert that plants exhibit complex behaviours which are analogous to animal
behaviour. However, plant ecologists rarely root these studies in a conceptual foundation as …

Plants integrate information about nutrients and neighbors

JF Cahill Jr, GG McNickle, JJ Haag, EG Lamb… - Science, 2010 - science.org
Animals regularly integrate information about the location of resources and the presence of
competitors, altering their foraging behavior accordingly. We studied the annual plant …

Game theory and plant ecology

GG McNickle, R Dybzinski - Ecology letters, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The fixed and plastic traits possessed by a plant, which may be collectively thought of as its
strategy, are commonly modelled as density‐independent adaptations to its environment. …

Changes in benthic invertebrate communities of South Bay, Lake Huron following invasion by zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha), and potential effects on lake …

GG McNickle, MD Rennie, WG Sprules - Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2006 - Elsevier
In this study we evaluated changes in benthic invertebrate communities of South Bay, Lake
Huron following the invasion of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) and considered the …

SegRoot: A high throughput segmentation method for root image analysis

…, M Rostamza, Z Song, L Wang, G McNickle… - … and electronics in …, 2019 - Elsevier
The measurement of root growth over time, without destructive excavation from soil is important
to understanding the development of plants, communities and ecosystems. However, …

Plant root growth and the marginal value theorem

GG McNickle, JF Cahill Jr - Proceedings of the National …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
All organisms must find and consume resources to live, and the strategies an organism uses
when foraging can have significant impacts on their fitness. Models assuming optimality in …

Life history variation is maintained by fitness trade-offs and negative frequency-dependent selection

MR Christie, GG McNickle… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The maintenance of diverse life history strategies within and among species remains a
fundamental question in ecology and evolutionary biology. By using a near-complete 16-year …

An ideal free distribution explains the root production of plants that do not engage in a tragedy of the commons game

GG McNickle, JS Brown - Journal of Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Below‐ground competition is intense and may dramatically reduce plant performance.
However, there is still no consensus on the best strategies plants should use to maximize …