Photo: Curator, Julian Miller Mycological Herbarium Contact Info DeborahJean.Lodge@uga.edu Education Education: Ph.D. Botany/Ecology, North Carolina State University, 1985 Research Research Interests: Areas of expertise: fungal ecology, nutrient cycling, forest pathology, beneficial fungal symbionts, fungal biogeography, macrofungal evolution, systematics of Hygrophoraceae & Mycenaceae, infectious plant disease ecology Selected Publications Selected Publications: Bibbo, S, Lodge, DJ. 2022. A preconditioning paradox: contrasting effects of initial phyllosphere and early leaf decomposer microfungi on subsequent colonization by leaf decomposing non‐unit‐restricted Basidiomycetes. J. Fungi 2022, 8, 903. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8090903. Lodge DJ, Van Beusekom AE, González G, Sánchez‐Julia M, Stankavich S. 2022. Disturbance reduces fungal white-rot litter mat cover in a wet subtropical forest. Ecosphere 13: http://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3936 Koch RA, Jean Lodge D, Sourell S, Nakasone K, McCoy AG, Catherine Aime. 2018. Tying up loose threads: revised taxonomy and phylogeny of an avian-dispersed Neotropical rhizomorph-forming fungus. Mycological Progress 17(9):989-998 Sep 2018. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-018-1411-8. Lodge, D.J, Winter, D., González, G., Clum, N. 2016. Effects of hurricane-felled tree trunks on soil carbon, nitrogen, microbial biomass, and root length in a wet tropical forest. Forests 7, 264. 10.3390/f7110264. Lodge D.J., Padamsee, M., Matheny, P.B., Aime, M.C., Cantrell, S.A., Boertmann, D., Kovalenko, A., Vizzini, A., Dentinger, B.T.M., Kirk, P.M., Ainsworth, A.M., Moncalvo, J.-M., Vilgalys, R., Larsson, E., Lücking, R., Griffith, G.W., Smith, M.E., Norvell, L.L., Desjardin, D.E., Redhead, S.A., Ovrebo, C.L., Lickey, E.B., Ercole, E., Hughes, K.W., Courtecuisse, R., Young, A., Binder, M., Minnis, A.M., Lindner, D.L., Ortiz-Santana, B., Haight, J., Læssøe, T., Baroni, T.J., Geml, J., Hattori, T. 2014. Molecular phylogeny, morphology, pigment chemistry and ecology in Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales). Fungal Diversity 64:1-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13225-013-0259-0.
