Dale L. Forrister

eCOMET integrates metabolomics tools and provides statistical analysis for ecological studies, enabling researchers to assess metabolic diversity and test ecological hypotheses.

The paper investigates how prior-year drought affects leaf chemical defenses and microbial communities in aspen, finding persistent changes in phenolic compounds and fungal associations.

The paper shows that baseline mortality and growth rates, not just sensitivity to crowding, drive variation in conspecific negative density dependence across species and environments.

This study shows hybridisation enables Amazonian trees to rapidly evolve chemical defences against herbivores, driving diversification in response to shifting herbivore communities.

The paper examines insect seasonality in an ever-wet tropical forest, finding seasonal peaks in leaf production and herbivore abundance linked to climate and host phenology.

The paper shows gadusol, a maternal compound in zebrafish, protects embryos from UV damage by reducing DNA damage markers, and its biosynthesis pathway is conserved in teleosts but lost in species without UV exposure.