page_title: Arturo Gómez-Pompa
section_title: Publications
hierarchical_section_title: Arturo Gómez-Pompa / Publications
caption_attribution_description: English: The file illustrates a root tuber colonized by an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. The animation has been extracted from a film on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZVniNFTWh4).
context_page_description: Arturo Gómez-Pompa is a tropical biologist, a scientific advisor for the Tropical Research Center of the Universidad Veracruzana, and a professor emeritus of botany at the University of California, Riverside. He made various contributions to the field of tropical ecology through the creation of databases used in botanical research, and he contributed to the research on the domestication of tropical trees.
  Gómez-Pompa has received numerous awards and recognition, including medals and elected positions into various academies. He continues to contribute to biology as an advisor and retired professor, and dividing his time between Irving, Texas and Xalapa, Veracruz. He is from Mexico City.
context_section_description: Gómez-Pompa, A., M. F. Allen and S, Fedick. 2003. Future Challenges in Research: Summary of Recommendations for Research. In: Gómez-Pompa, A. et al. (eds.). The Lowland Maya Area: three millennia at the human-wildland interface. The Haworth Press. New York.
  In this book, Gómez-Pompa and his colleagues use history, biodiversity, ethnobotany, geology, ecology, archaeology, anthropology, and other fields of study to create a guide for the Lowland Mayan Area that highlights the unique relationship between man and nature in the Yucatán peninsula.
  Allen, E. B., M. F. Allen, L. Egerton-Warburton, L. Corkidi, A. Gomez-Pompa, Arturo. Impacts of early- and late-seral mycorrhizae during restoration in seasonal tropical forest, Mexico. Ecological Applications. 13(6): 1701-1717.
  Gómez-Pompa and his colleagues looked at how disturbance may change the species composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and the plant species that are affected by them. Their results suggested that when seedlings are infused, early-seral AMF should be used for restoration.
  Anaya, A. L., R. Mata, J. Sims, A. Gonzalez-Coloma, R. Cruz-Ortega, A. Guadano, B. E. Hernandez-Bautista, S. L. Midland, G. Rios, A. Gomez-Pompa, Allelochemical potential of Callicarpa acuminata. Journal of Chemical Ecology 29(12): 2761-2776.
  In this paper, Gómez-Pompa and various other scientists discuss the allelopathic roles that metabolites of M. yucatanesis play and the ecological interactions it has with its host plant and other organisms.
  Gomez-Pompa, A. and A. Kaus. 1999. From prehispanic to future conservation alternatives: lessons from Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96: 5982-5986.
  In this paper, Gómez-Pompa and Andrea review past and current trends in biodiversity conservation in Mexico and search for possible reasons on how ecosystems manage to cope from a long history of depredation and inefficient conservation policies.
  Heaton, H. J., R. Whitkus, and A. Gomez-Pompa. 1999. Extreme ecological and phenotypic differences in the tropical tree chicozapote (Manilkara zapota (L.) van Royen) are not matched by genetic divergence: A RAPD analysis. Molec. Ecol. 8: 627-632.
  In this paper, Gómez-Pompa and his colleagues perform a RAPD analysis on four different populations of two morphologically distinct populations of chicozapote (Manilkara zapota) to test for any genetic components that contributed to its variation between their forest and swamp habitats.
  Gomez-Pompa, A. 1999. La conservacion de la biodiversidad en Mexico: mitos y realidades: mitos y realidades. Bol. Soc. Bot. Mexico. 63: 33-41.
  Gómez-Pompa writes a reflection on the problems of conservation in Mexico and what changes need to be done to better the system.
  Whikus, R., M. de la Cruz, L. Mota-Bravo, A. Gomez-Pompa. 1998. Genetic diversity and relationships of wild cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) in southern Mexico. Theoret. And Appl. Genet. 96: 621-627.
  In this paper, by running a RAPD analysis, Gómez-Pompa and his colleagues found that the Maya possibly maintained plants out of their native habitats as it correlates with their early agroforestry practices. They suggest modern attempts to increase cacao germplasms should refer to ancient cultivation sites to look at their earlier genetic diversity.
caption: In this animation, a root tuber is being colonized by an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF). Arturo and his colleagues studied the allelopathic roles played by these same fungi in terms of ecological disturbance.[3]