About the Lab
The primary focus of our lab is to better understand how disturbance can impact mutualistic & pathogenic interactions among plants, fungi, bacteria, & animals.
Many lab members use microbial, amphibian, & plant models to answer questions about forest communities.
Currently, much of the Lewis Lab’s work focuses on responses to disturbance in the eastern redback salamander.
Research Opportunities
We have research opportunities for graduate, undergraduate, and high school students broadly interested in plant ecology, microbial ecology, and forest ecology.
If you are interested, please feel free to contact me directly (jdlewis (at) fordham.edu).
More information on Fordham’s graduate program in biological sciences can be found here.
Lab News
New Lab Publications
Kutos, S., E.M. Barnes, J.D. Lewis. 2022. Soil fungal communities vary more with soil characteristics than tree diversity at a local scale. Canadian Journal of Forest Research doi: 10.1139/cjfr-2021-0360
Butcher, C.L., B.Y. Rubin, S.L. Anderson, J.D. Lewis. 2022. Long-distance pollen dispersal in urban green roof and ground-level habitats. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:790464. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.790464
Kutos, S., E.M. Barnes, A. Bhutada, J.D. Lewis. 2022. Preferential associations of soil fungal taxa under mixed compositions of eastern American tree species. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 98(6). doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiac056
Aloisio, J.M., S.-J. Roberts, R. Becker-Klein, S. Dunifon, J.D. Lewis, J.A. Clark, J. Munshi-South, K. Tingley. 2022. Impacts of a near-peer urban ecology research mentoring program on undergraduate mentors. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:803210. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.803210
Beauchamp, A.L., S.-J. Roberts, J.M. Aloisio, D. Wasserman, J.E. Heimlich, J.D. Lewis, J. Munshi-South, J.A. Clark, K. Tingley. 2021. Effects of research and mentoring on underrepresented youths’ STEM persistence into college. Journal of Experiential Education 45(3): 316-336. doi: 10.1177/10538259211050098
Barnes, E.M., S. Kutos, N. Naghshineh, M. Mesko, Q. You, J.D. Lewis. 2021. Assembly of the amphibian microbiome is influenced by the effects of land-use change on environmental reservoirs. Environmental Microbiology 23(8):4595-4611. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15653
Barnes, E.M., E.L. Carter, J.D. Lewis. 2020. Predicting microbiome function across space is confounded by strain-level differences and functional redundancy across taxa. Frontiers in Microbiology 11:101. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00101
Aloisio, J.M., M.I. Palmer, A.R. Tuininga, J.D. Lewis. 2019. Plant colonization of green roofs is affected by composition of established native plant communities. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6:238. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00238
Aloisio, J., B. Johnson, J.D. Lewis, J.A. Clark, J. Munshi-South, D. Wasserman, J. Heimlich, S-J Roberts, K. Tingley. 2018. Pre-college urban ecology research mentoring: promoting broader participation in ecology. Journal of Urban Ecology.
Adam L. Essene, Katherine L. Shek, J. D. Lewis, Kabir G. Peay, Krista L. McGuire. Soil Type Has a Stronger Role than Dipterocarp Host Species in Shaping the Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Community in a Bornean Lowland Tropical Rain Forest. Frontiers in Plant Science 8(1828).
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