M.S. 2013 (2010 B.A. in Biology, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, MD)

Currently: Amgen Fellow, Teach for America, Hartford CT

URI-related publications

• Rafter, J.L., Vendettuoli, J., Gonda-King, L., Niesen, D., Seeram, N.P., Rigsby, C.M., and E.L. Preisser. 2017. Pretty picky for a generalist: impacts of toxicity and nutritional quality on mantid prey processing. Environmental Entomology 46(3): 626-632. [PDF]
• Rafter, J.L., Gonda-King, L., Niesen, D., Seeram, N.P., Rigsby, C.M., and E.L. Preisser. 2017. Impact of consuming ‘toxic’ monarch caterpillars on adult Chinese mantid mass gain and fecundity. Insects 8: 23. [PDF]
• Soltis, N., Gómez, S., Gonda-King, L., Preisser, E.L., and C.M. Orians. 2015. Contrasting effects of two exotic hemipterans on whole-plant resource allocation in a declining conifer. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 187(1): 86-97. [PDF]
• Gómez, S., Gonda-King, L., Orians, C.M., Orwig, D.A., Panko, R., Radville, L., Soltis, N., Thornber, C.S., and E.L. Preisser. 2015. Interactions between invasive herbivores and their long-term impact on New England hemlock forests. Biological Invasions 17(2): 661-673 [PDF]
• Radville, L., Gonda-King, L., Gómez, S., Kaplan, I., and E.L. Preisser. 2014. Are exotic herbivores better competitors? A meta-analysis. Ecology 95(1): 30-36 [PDF]
• Gonda-King, L., Gómez, S., Martin, J., Orians, C.M., and E.L. Preisser. 2014. Tree responses to an invasive sap-feeding insect. Plant Ecology 215(3): 297-304 [PDF]
• Gómez, S., Gonda-King, L., Orians, C.M., and E.L. Preisser. 2014. Competitor avoidance drives within-host feeding site selection in a passively-dispersed herbivore. Ecological Entomology 39(1): 10-16 [PDF]
• Gonda-King, L., Radville, L., and E.L. Preisser. 2012. False ring formation in eastern hemlock branches: impacts of hemlock woolly adelgid and elongate hemlock scale. Environmental Entomology 41(3): 523-531 [PDF]