Mark Banik
Microbiologist
Biological and Environmental Influences on Forest Health and Productivity
One Gifford Pinchot Drive
Madison, WI 53726
United States
Madison, WI 53726
United States
Phone
608-231-9297
Featured Publications
- Lindner, Daniel L.; Banik, Mark T.. 2008. Molecular phylogeny of Laetiporus and other brown rot polypore genera in North America
- Lindner, Daniel L.; Banik, Mark T.. 2009. Effects of cloning and root-tip size on observations of fungal ITS sequences from Picea glauca roots
- Banik, Mark T.; Burdsall, Harold H.. 2000. Incompatibility groups among North American populations Laetiporus sulphureus sensu lato
- Banik, Mark T.; Burdsall, Harold H., Jr... 1998. Assessment of compatibility among Armillaria cepistipes, A. sinapina, and North American biological species X and XI, using culture morphology and molecular biology
Other Publications
- Jusino, Michelle A.; Banik, Mark T.; Palmer, Jonathan M.; Wray, Amy K.; Xiao, Lei ; Pelton, Emma ; Barber, Jesse R.; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Gratton, Claudio ; Peery, M. Zachariah; Lindner, Daniel L.. 2019. An improved method for utilizing high throughput amplicon sequencing to determine the diets of insectivorous animals
- Wray, Amy K.; Peery, M. Zachariah; Jusino, Michelle A.; Kochanski, Jade M.; Banik, Mark T.; Palmer, Jonathan M.; Lindner, Daniel L.; Gratton, Claudio. 2021. Predator preferences shape the diets of arthropodivorous bats more than quantitative local prey abundance
- Kout, Jiří ; Vlasák, Josef ; Lindner, Daniel L.; Banik, Mark T.. 2019. Laetiporus lobatus (Basidiomycota, Polyporales), a new fungal species from Costa Rica
- Wang, Weiwei ; Lindner, Daniel L.; Jusino, Michelle A.; Page-Dumroese, Deborah ; Palmer, Jonathan M.; Banik, Mark T.; Jurgensen, Martin ; Draeger, Kymberly ; Liu, Yong. 2020. Wood-colonizing fungal community response to forest restoration thinnings in a Pinus tabuliformis plantation in northern China
- Skelton, James ; Jusino, Michelle A.; Carlson, Paige S.; Smith, Katherine; Banik, Mark T.; Lindner, Daniel L.; Palmer, Jonathan M.; Hulcr, Jiri. 2019. Relationships among wood boring beetles, fungi, and the decomposition of forest biomass
- Palmer, Jonathan M.; Jusino, Michelle A.; Banik, Mark T.; Lindner, Daniel L.. 2018. Non-biological synthetic spike-in controls and the AMPtk software pipeline improve mycobiome data
- Wray, Amy K; Jusino, Michelle A; Banik, Mark T; Palmer, Jonathan M; Kaarakka, Heather; White, J Paul; Lindner, Daniel L; Gratton, Claudio; Peery, M Zachariah. 2018. Incidence and taxonomic richness of mosquitoes in the diets of little brown and big brown bats
- Jusino, Michelle A.; Lindner, Daniel L.; Banik, Mark T.; Rose, Kevin R.; Walters, Jeffrey R.. 2016. Experimental evidence of a symbiosis between red-cockaded woodpeckers and fungi
- Juzwik, Jennifer; Banik, Mark T.; Reed, Sharon E.; English, James T.; Ginzel, Matthew D.. 2015. Geosmithia morbida found on weevil species Stenominus pallidus in Indiana
- Jusino, Michelle A.; Lindner, Daniel L.; Banik, Mark T.; Walters, Jeffrey R.. 2015. Heart rot hotel: fungal communities in red-cockaded woodpecker excavations
- Banik, M.T.; Lindner, D.L.; Juzwik, J.; Glaeser, J.A.. 2013. Use of DNA sequencing to detect pathogenic, saprotrophic, and stain fungi in sapwood of declining red pine (Pinus resinosa) in the Upper Midwest
- Juzwik, Jennifer; Park, Hi-Hyun; Banik, Mark T.; Haugen, Linda. 2013. Biotic agents responsible for rapid crown decline and mortality of hickory in northeastern and north central USA
- Banik, Mark T.; Lindner, Daniel L.; Ortiz-Santana, Beatriz; Lodge, Deborah J.. 2012. A new species of Laetiporus (Basidiomycota, Polyporales) from the Caribbean basin
- Brazee, Nicholas J.; Ortiz-Santana, Beatriz; Banik, Mark T.; Lindner, Daniel L.. 2012. Armillaria altimontana, a new species from the western interior of North America
- Lindner, Daniel L.; Vasaitis, Rimvydas; Kubartova, Ariana; Allmer, Johan; Johannesson, Hanna; Banik, Mark T.; Stenlid, Jan. 2011. Initial fungal colonizer affects mass loss and fungal community development in Picea abies logs 6 yr after inoculation