Terry Henkel
General Information
Associate
Professor
Ecology and systematics of fungi
Phone: (707) 826-4841
Office: Science B 123A
Email: twh5@humboldt.edu
Personal Website: http://www.humboldt.edu/~twh5/
Academic background
- BA (1983) Ohio University
- MS (1988) University of Wyoming
- PhD (2001) Duke University
Courses
- General Botany
- Tropical Biology
- Mycology (3 courses)
- Forest Pathology
- Plants and Civilization
Summary of research
My current research in the Neotropics involves macrofungal surveys and alpha-taxonomic description of basidiomycetes and ascomycetes, the development of local myco-florulas, and comparison of the structure and functional roles of fungal communities in forests of the Guiana Shield. Also under investigation are the roles that ectomycorrhizal associations have in structuring tree communities in tropical rain forests. Additionally, I am documenting uses of fungi by indigenous peoples of northeastern Amazon region, including Guyana and Brazil. Closer to the home front we are currently developing projects investigating the effects of land management practices on macrofungal communities in coastal forests of Northern California.
Recent publications
- Woolley, L.P., T.W. Henkel, and S. Sillett. 2007. Reiteration in the tropical monodominant tree Dicymbe corymbosa (Caesalpiniaceae) and its potential adaptive significance. Biotropica doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00348.x (PDF)
- Fulgenzi, T.D., T.W. Henkel, and R.E. Halling. 2007. Tylopilus orsonianus sp. nov. and Tylopilus eximius from Guyana. Mycologia 99: 622-627. (PDF)
- Aime, M.C, L. Ryvarden, and T.W. Henkel. 2007. Studies in Neotropical polypores 22. Additional new and rare species from Guyana. Synopsis Fungorum 23: 15-31.
- Henkel, T.W., M.C. Aime, H.K. Mehl, and S.L. Miller. 2006. Cantharellus pleurotoides, a new and unusual basidiomycete from Guyana. Mycological Research 110: 1409-1412.
- Henkel, T.W., T.Y. James, S.L. Miller, M.C. Aime, and O.K. Miller, Jr. 2006. The mycorrhizal status of Pseudotulostoma volvata (Elaphomycetaceae, Eurotiales, Ascomycota). Mycorrhiza 16: 241-244.
- Henkel, T.W., R. Meszaros, M.C. Aime, and A. Kennedy. 2005. New species of Clavulina from the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana. Mycological Progress 4: 342-350.
- Mayor, J.R.,and T.W. Henkel. 2005. Ectomycorrhizal influence on leaf litter decomposition in a monodominant Dicymbe corymbosa forest in Guyana. New Phytologist 169: 579-588. (PDF)
- Henkel, T.W., J.R. Mayor, and L.P. Woolley. 2005. Mast fruiting and seedling survival the ectomycorrhizal, monodominant Dicymbe corymbosa (Caesalpiniaceae) in Guyana. New Phytologist 167: 543-556. (PDF)
- Hernandez, J.R., M.C. Aime, and T.W. Henkel. 2005. The rust fungi (Uredinales) of Guyana. Sydowia 57: 189-222.
- Henkel, T.W. 2005. Parakari, an indigenous fermented cassava beverage utilizing amylolytic Rhizopus in Guyana. Mycologia 97: 1-11. (PDF)
Graduate students
Wendell Bedell
Incidence and potential impact of Heterobasidion annosum on redwood stumps in the Northern California Coast Range.
Tara Fulgenzi
Systematic studies on Boletaceae (Basidiomycota) of Guyana.
Nobukatsu Hasebe
Diversity and microhabitat associations of Myxomycota from the Guiana Shield.
Ashley Hawkins
Forest pathogen dynamics in old-growth mixed coniferous forests of the Coast Range, Northern California.
Former students:
Jordan Mayor
Ectomycorrhizal influence on leaf litter decomposition in monodominant tropical forests of Guyana.
Lance Woolley
Reiteration in the monodominant tropical tree Dicymbe corymbosa (Caesalpiniaceae) and its potential adaptive significance.