Erin L. Kurten

erinkurten (at) gmail (dot) com

Publications

Kurten, E.L and Carson, W.P.2015 Effects of long-term vertebrate exclosure on plant diversity in a Neotropical forest. BioScience 65(9): 862-870. (Link)
Kurten, E.L, S.J.Wright, and W.P. Carson. 2015 Declines of seed dispersers and predators, but not herbivores, alter seedling functional trait composition in a hunted Neotropical forest. Ecology 96(7): 1923-1932. (Link)
Hirsch, B. T., D. Martinez, E.L. Kurten, D.D. Brown, W.P.Carson. 2014. Apex carnivores do not mitigate the top-down impact of a mammalian insectivore in an intact five level trophic system. Biotropica 46(4): 489-494. (Link)
Kurten, E.L.. 2013. Cascading effects of contemporaneous defaunation on tropical plant communities. Biological Conservation 163, 22-32. (Link)
Pringle, E.G., R. I. Adams, E. Broadbent, P.E. Busby, C.I. Donatti, E.L. Kurten, K. Renton, R. Dirzo. 2011. Distinct leaf-trait syndromes of evergreen and deciduous trees in a seasonally dry tropical forest. Biotropica, 43(3): 299-308. (Link)
Kurten, E.L., C.P. Synder, T. Iwata, and P.M. Vitousek. 2008. Morella cerifera invasion and nitrogen cycling on a lowland Hawaiian Lava Flow. Biological Invasions. 10(1): 19-24. (Link)
Wu, J., E.L. Kurten, G. Monhausen, G.M. Hummel, S. Gilroy, I.T. Baldwin. 2007. NaRALF, a peptide signal essential for the regulation of root hair tip apoplatic pH in Nicotiana attenuata, is required for root hair development and plant growth in native soils. The Plant Journal. 52(5): 877-890. (Link)
Rutkoski, T.J., E.L. Kurten, J.C. Mitchell, and R.T. Raines. 2005. Disruption of shape-complementarity markers to create cytotoxic variants of ribonuclease A. J. Mol. Biol. 354: 41-54. (Link)
Haigis, M.C., E.L. Kurten, and R.T. Raines. 2003. Ribonuclease inhibitor as an intracellular sentry. Nuc. Acid. Res. 31: 1024-1032. (Link)
Haigis, M.C., E.L. Kurten, R.L. Abel, and R.T. Raines. 2002. KFERQ sequence in ribonuclease A-mediated cytotoxicity. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 11576-11581. (Link)