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| Fierer,
N., C.L. Lauber, K.S. Ramirez, J. Zaneveld, M.A. Bradford, R. Knight. In Press. Comparative metagenomic,
phylogenetic, and physiological analyses of soil microbial communities
across nitrogen gradients.
ISME Journal. |
| Gray,
C.M., N. Fierer. In Press.
Impacts of nitrogen fertilization on volatile organic compound
emissions from decomposing plant litter. Global Change Biology. |
| McGuire,
K.L., N. Fierer, B.L. Turner, C. Bateman, K.K. Treseder. In
Press. Fungal community composition is more correlated with
precipitation than tree diversity in a tropical rain forest. Microbial
Ecology. |
| Jones,
R.T., A. Bressan, A.M. Greenwell., N. Fierer. In Press.
Bacterial communities of two parthenogenetic aphid species
co-colonizing two host plants across the Hawaii Islands. Applied and
Environmental Microbiology. |
| Barberan,
A., S.T. Bates, E.O. Casamayor, N. Fierer. In Press. Using network analysis to
explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities. ISME
Journal. [pdf] |
| McKenzie,
V.J., R.M. Bowers, N. Fierer, R. Knight, C. Lauber. In Press. Co-habiting amphibian
species harbor nique skin bacterial communities in wild populations.
ISME Journal. [pdf] |
| Bowers,
R.M., A.P. Sullivan, E.K. Costello, J.L. Collett, R. Knight, N.
Fierer. 2011. Sources
of bacteria in outdoor air across cities in the midwestern United
States. Applied & Environmental Microbiology. 77:6350-6356. [pdf] |
| Bates,
S.T., W.A. Walters, R. Knight, N. Fierer. In Press. A pyrosequencing survey
of lichen associated eukaryotes. The Lichenologist. |
| Bergmann,
G.T., S.T. Bates, K.G. Eilers, C.L. Lauber, J.G. Caporaso, W.A.
Walters, R. Knight. N. Fierer. 2011. The under-recognized dominance of
Verrucomicrobia in soil bacterial
communities. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 43: 1450-1455 [pdf] |
| Caporaso,
J.G., C.L. Lauber, E.K. Costello, D. Berg-Lyons, A. Gonzalez, J.
Stombaugh, D. Knights, P. Gajer, J. Ravel, N. Fierer, J.I. Gordon, R.
Knight. 2011. Moving pictures of the human microbiome. Genome Biology.
12: R50. [pdf] |
| Keiser,
A.D., M.S. Strickland, N. Fierer, M.A. Bradford. 2011. The effect of
resource history on the functioning of soil microbial communities is
maintained across time. Biogeosciences. 8: 1477-1486. [pdf] |
| Bradford,
M.A., N. Fierer. In Press.The
biogeography of microbial communities and ecosystem processes:
Implications for soil and ecosystem models. Oxford
Handbook of
Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services. eds.: D. Wall, D. Strong, V.
Behan-Pelletier. |
| Fierer,
N., J. Lennon. 2011.
The generation and maintenance of diversity in microbial communities.
American Journal of Botany. 98: 439-448 (special issue – invited
review). [pdf]
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| Bates,
S., G. Cropsey, G. Caporaso, R. Knight, N. Fierer. 2011.
Bacterial communities associated with the lichen symbiosis. Applied
Environ.
Microbiol. 77: 1309-1314 [pdf] |
| Fierer, N., C.M.
McCain, P. Meir, M. Zimmermann, J.M.
Rapp, M.R. Silman, R. Knight. 2011.
Microbial elevational diversity does not follow the biogeographical
trends of
plants and animals. Ecology. 92: 797-804. [pdf]
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| Walters,
W.A., J.G. Caporaso, C.L. Lauber, D. Berg-Lyons, N. Fierer, R. Knight.
2011. PrimerProspector: de
novo
design and taxonomic analysis of barcoded PCR primers. Bioinformatics.
27(8): 1159-1161 [pdf] |
| Bowers,
R.M., S.
McLetchie, R. Knight, N. Fierer. 2011. Spatial variability in airborne
bacterial communities across
land-use types and their relationship to potential sources. ISME
Journal. 5: 601-612 [pdf] |
| Craine,
J.M., K. McLauchlan, N. Fierer. 2010. Widespread
coupling between the rate and temperature
sensitivity of organic matter decay. Nature Geosciences.
doi:10.1038/NGEO1009 [pdf] |
| Bates, S.,
J.G. Caporaso, W.A. Walters, R. Knight, N. Fierer. 2010. Examining the
global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil. ISME
Journal. doi:10.1038/ismej.2010.171 [pdf] |
| Ramirez,
K.S., C.L. Lauber, R. Knight, M. A.
Bradford, N. Fierer. 2010. Consistent effects of
nitrogen
fertilization on the phylogenetic composition of soil bacterial
communities in
contrasting systems. Ecology. 91: 3463-3470. [pdf] |
| Kuczynski,
J., Z. Liu, C. Lozupone, D.
McDonald, N. Fierer, R. Knight. 2010. Microbial
community
resemblance methods differ in their ability to detect biologically
relevant
patterns. Nature Methods. 7: 813-819. [pdf] |
| Ramirez,
K.S., J.M. Craine, N. Fierer. 2010. Nitrogen
fertilization inhibits soil microbial
respiration regardless of the form of nitrogen applied. Soil Biology
&
Biochemistry. 42: 2336-2338. [pdf] |
| Rousk,
J., E. Bååth, P.C.
Brookes, C.L. Lauber, C. Lozupone, J.G.
Caporaso, R. Knight, N. Fierer. 2010. Soil
bacterial and fungal communities across
a pH gradient in an arable soil. ISME Journal. doi:10.1038/ismej.2010.58 [pdf] |
- Nemergut,
D.R., E.K.
Costello, M. Hamady, C. Lozupone, L. Jiang, L. Stanish, S. Schmidt, N.
Fierer, C. Cleveland, A. Townsend,
R. Knight. 2010. Global patterns in the biogeography of bacterial taxa.
Environmental
Microbiology. 13: 135-144. [pdf]
|
| Fierer, N., D.R.
Nemergut, R. Knight, J.M. Craine. 2010. Changes
through time: integrating microorganisms into the study of succession.
Research
in Microbiology. 161: 635-642. [pdf] |
| Dominguez-Bello,
M.G., E.K. Costello, M.
Contreras, M. Magris, G. Hidalgo, N.
Fierer, R. Knight. 2010.
Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the founder
microbiota
across multiple body habitats in newborns. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.
107:11971-11975. [pdf] |
| Caporaso,
J.G., C.L. Lauber, W.A. Walters, D.
Berg-Lyons, C.A. Lozupone, P. Turnbaugh, N.
Fierer, R. Knight. 2010. Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a
depth
of millions of sequences per sample. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 108: 4516-4522. [pdf] |
| Chu, H.,
N.
Fierer, C.L. Lauber, J.G. Caporaso, R. Knight, P. Grogan. 2010. Soil
bacterial diversity in
the Arctic is not fundamentally different from that found in other
biomes.
Environmental Microbiology. DOI: 0.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02277.x
[pdf] |
| Caporaso,
J.G., J. Kuczynski, J. Stombaugh, K.
Bittinger, F. D. Bushman, E. K. Costello, N.
Fierer, A. Gonzalez Peña, J. K. Goodrich, J. I. Gordon, G. A.
Huttley, S.
T. Kelley, D. Knights, J. E. Koenig, R. E. Ley, C.A. Lozupone, D.
McDonald, B.
D. Muegge, M. Pirrung, J. Reeder, J. R. Sevinsky, P. J. Turnbaugh, W.
van
Treuren, W.A. Walters, J. Widmann, T. Yatsunenko, J. Zaneveld and R.
Knight. 2010. QIIME allows integration and analysis
of high-throughput community sequencing data. Nature Methods. 7:
335-336. |
- Redford,
A.*, R.
Bowers*, R. Knight, Y. Linhart, N.
Fierer. 2010. The ecology of the phyllosphere: geographic and
phylogenetic
variability in the distribution of bacteria on tree leaves.
Environmental
Microbiology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02258.x [pdf]
|
| Gray,
C.M.*, R.K. Monson, N. Fierer. 2010. Emissions
of volatile organic compounds during the decomposition of plant litter.
JGR-Biogeosciences. doi:10.1029/2010JG001291 [pdf] |
| Meier,
C.L., J.
Rapp, R.M. Bowers, M. Silman, N.
Fierer. 2010. Fungal growth
on a common wood substrate across a tropical elevation gradient:
temperature
sensitivity, community composition, and potential for above-ground
decomposition. Soil Biology & Biochemistry.42:11083-1090. [pdf] |
| Lauber,
C.L., N. Zhou, R. Knight, J. Gordon, N. Fierer. 2010.
Effect of storage conditions on the assessment of
bacterial community structure in soil and human-associated samples.
FEMS
Microbiology Letters.. DOI:
10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01965.x [pdf] |
| Fisk,
M.C., R.D. Yanai. N. Fierer. 2010. A molecular approach to quantify
root community
composition in a northern hardwood forest: testing effects of root
diameter and
species. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 40: 836-841. [pdf] |
| Kuczynski,
J., E.K.
Costello, D.R. Nemergut, J. Zaneveld, C.L. Lauber, D. Knights, O.
Koren, N. Fierer, S.T. Kelley, R.E. Ley, J.I.
Gordon, R. Knight. 2010. Direct
sequencing of the human microbiome readily reveals community
differences. Genome Biology.doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-5-210 [pdf] |
| Eilers,
K.G., C.L. Lauber, R. Knight, N. Fierer. 2010.
Shifts in bacterial community structure associated with
inputs of low molecular weight carbon compounds to soil. Soil Biology
&
Biochemistry. 42: 896-903. [pdf] |
| Hofmockel,
K.S., N. Fierer, B.P. Colman, R.B.
Jackson. 2010. Amino acid
abundance and proteolytic potential in North American soils. Oecologia. doi:
10.1007/s00442-010-1601-9 [pdf] |
| Ramirez,
K., C.L.
Lauber, N. Fierer. 2010. Microbial
consumption and production of volatile organic compounds at the
soil-litter interface. Biogeochemistry. 99:97-107.
[pdf] |
| Fierer, N., C.L.
Lauber, N. Zhou, D. McDonald, E.K.
Costello, R. Knight. 2010.
Forensic identification using skin bacterial communities. Proc. Natl.
Acad.
Sci. USA. 107: 6477-6481. [pdf] |
| Craine,
J.M., R. Spurr, K. McLauchlan, N.
Fierer. 2010. Landscape-level
variation in the temperature
sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition. Soil Biology &
Biochemistry. 42: 373-375. [pdf] |
| Strickland,
M.S., M.A. Callaham, C.A. Davies,
C.L. Lauber, K. Ramirez, D.D. Richter, N.
Fierer, M.A. Bradford. 2010.
Rates of in situ carbon mineralization in relation to land-use,
microbial
community and edaphic characteristics. Soil Biology & Biochemistry.
42:260-269. [pdf] |
| Costello,
E.K., C.L. Lauber, M. Hamady, N. Fierer, J.I. Gordon, R. Knight. 2009.
Bacterial variation in human body habitats across space and
time. Science. 326: 1694-1697. [pdf] |
| Fierer, N., M.S.
Strickland, D. Liptzin, M.A. Bradford, C.C.
Cleveland. 2009. Global
patterns in
belowground communities. Ecology Letters. 12: 1238-1249. [pdf] |
| Wiedinmyer,
C., R. Bowers, N. Fierer, E. Horanyi, M. Hannigan, A.G. Hallar, I.
McCubbin, K.
Baustian.2009. The contribution
of biological particles to observed particulate organic carbon at a
remote high
altitude site. Atmospheric Environment. 43: 4278-4282. [pdf] |
| Bowers,
R., C.L.
Lauber, M. Hamady, R. Knight, C. Wiedinmyer, R. Fall, G. Hallar, N.
Fierer.
2009. Characterization
of airborne microbial communities at
a high elevation site and their potential to act as atmospheric ice
nuclei.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75: 5121-5130. [pdf] |
| Fierer, N., A.S.
Grandy, J.
Six, E.A. Paul. 2009. Searching
for unifying principles in soil ecology.
Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 41: 2249-2256. [pdf] |
| Lauber,
C.L., R.
Knight, M. Hamady, N. Fierer. 2009.
Soil pH as a predictor of soil bacterial community structure at the
continental
scale: a pyrosequencing-based assessment. Applied and Environmental
Microbiology. 75: 5111-5120 [pdf] |
| Hamilton,
H.C., M.S. Strickland, K. Wickings,
M.A. Bradford, N. Fierer. 2009.
Surveying soil faunal communities using a direct molecular approach.
Soil
Biology & Biochemistry. 41:1311-1314. [pdf] |
| Strickland, M., C.L. Lauber, N.
Fierer , M.A. Bradford. 2009. Testing
the functional significance of microbial community composition.
Ecology. 90: 441-451 [pdf]
|
| Fierer, N., K.
Carney, M.C.
Horner-Devine, J.P. Megonigal. 2009. The
biogeography of
ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities in soil.
Microbial Ecology. DOI
10.1007/s00248-009-9517-9 [pdf] |
| Grandy,
A.S., M.S. Strickland, C.L. Lauber, M.A. Bradford, N. Fierer. 2009. The
influence of microbial communities, management, and soil
texture on soil organic matter chemistry. Geoderma. 150: 278-286. [pdf] |
| Redford,
A.J., N.
Fierer. 2009. Bacterial succession on the leaf surface: a novel
system for studying
successional dynamics. Microbial Ecology.58: 189-198. [pdf] |
|
| Jones,
R.T., M.S. Robeson, C.L.. Lauber, M. Hamady, R. Knight,
N. Fierer. 2009. A comprehensive survey
of soil acidobacterial
diversity using pyrosequencing and clone library analyses. The ISME
Journal. doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.127
[pdf] |
| Colman,
B.P., N. Fierer, J.P. Schimel. 2008. Abiotic nitrate
incorporation, anaerobic microsites, and the ferrous wheel.
Biogeochemistry.DOI
10.1007/s10533-008-9281-9 [pdf] |
| Strickland,
M., E. Osbourn, C.L. Lauber, N. Fierer, M.A. Bradford. 2009.
Litter quality is in the eye of the beholder: initial decomposition
rates as a
function of inoculum characteristics. Functional Ecology. doi:
10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01515.x [pdf] |
| Fierer, N. M. Hamady, C.L.
Lauber, R.
Knight. 2008. The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the
diversity of
hand surface bacteria. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA. 105: 17994-17999. [pdf] |
| Lauber, C.L., M.S. Strickland, M.A. Bradford, N.
Fierer. 2008. The
influence of soil properties on the structure of bacterial and fungal
communities across land-use types. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 40:
2407-2415. [pdf]
|
| Nemergut,D.R., A.R.
Townsend, S.R.
Sattin, K.R. Freeman, N. Fierer, J.C. Neff, W.D. Bowman, C.W. Schadt,
M. N. Weintraub, S.K. Schmidt.2008. The effects of chronic nitrogen
fertilization on alpine tundra soil microbial communities: implications
for
carbon and nitrogen cycling. Environmental Microbiology.10:
3093-3105 [pdf] |
| M.A.
Bradford, N. Fierer, R.B. Jackson, T.R. Maddox, J.F. Reynolds. 2008.
Nonlinear root-derived carbon sequestration across a gradient of
nitrogen and
phosphorous deposition in experimental mesocosms. Global Change
Biology. 14: 1113-1124. [pdf] |
| J.W. Leff, N.
Fierer. 2008. Volatile organic
compound (VOC) emissions from soil and litter samples. Soil Biology
&
Biochemistry. 4o: 1629-1636. [pdf] |
|
M.A. Bradford, N.
Fierer, J.F. Reynolds. 2008.
Soil carbon stocks in experimental mesocosms are dependent on the rate
of labile carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous inputs to soils. Functional Ecology.
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01404.x [pdf]
|
| N. Fierer 2008. Microbial biogeography:
patterns in microbial diversity across space and time. In: Accessing
Uncultivated Microorganisms: from the Environment to Organisms and
Genomes and
Back. K. Zengler (editor). ASM
Press, Washington
DC pgs. 95-115. [pdf]
|
| N. Fierer, Z.
Liu, M. Rodríguez-Hernández, R. Knight,
M. Henn, M. T. Hernandez. 2008. Short-term temporal variability in
airborne bacterial and fungal populations. Applied & Environmental
Microbiology. 74:200-207. [pdf] |
| N.
Fierer, M. Breitbart, J. Nulton, P. Salamon, C. Lozupone, R. Jones, M.
Robeson, R. Edwards, B. Felts, S. Rayhawk, R. Knight, F. Rohwer, R. B.
Jackson. 2007. Metagenomic and small-subunit RNA analyses reveal the
genetic diversity of
bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses in soil. Applied &
Environmental
Microbiology. 73: 7059-7066. [pdf] |
| N. Fierer, J. Morse, S.
Berthrong,
E.S. Bernhardt, R.B. Jackson. 2007. Environmental controls on the
landscape-scale
biogeography of stream bacterial communities. Ecology. 88: 2162-2173. [pdf] |
| N.
Fierer. 2007. Tilting at windmills: A response to a recent critique
of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) data
[letter to the editor]. Applied & Environmental Microbiology. 73:
8041-8042. [pdf] |
| J.M.
Craine, C. Morrow. N. Fierer. 2007. Microbial N limitation increases
decomposition. Ecology. 88: (8): 2105-2113. [pdf] |
| N. Fierer. 2007. Finding a place for
microorganisms in the field of ecology [book review] Ecology 88 (5):
1336-1337 [pdf] |
| R.B.
Jackson, N. Fierer, J.P. Schimel. 2007. New directions in microbial
ecology. Ecology 88 (6): 1343-1344. |
| N. Fierer, M.A.
Bradford, R.B. Jackson. 2007. Toward an ecological
classification of soil bacteria. Ecology 88 (6): 1354-1364 [pdf] |
| B.P.
Colman, N. Fierer, J.P. Schimel. 2007. Abiotic nitrate incorporation in
soil: is it real? Biogeochemistry. 84: 161-169 [pdf] |
| N.
Fierer, B.P. Colman, J.P. Schimel, R.B.
Jackson. 2006. Predicting the temperature dependence of microbial
respiration in soil: A continental-scale analysis. Global
Biogeochemical Cycles. 20, GB3026, doi: 10.1029/2005GB002644. [pdf] |
| N. Fierer, R.B.
Jackson. 2006. The diversity and
biogeography of soil bacterial communities. PNAS. 103 (3):
626-631. [pdf] |
| E.J. Gabet, N.
Fierer, O.A. Chadwick. 2005.
Prediction of sediment-bound nutrient delivery from semi-arid California
watersheds. J. Geophysical Research.
110, G02001, doi: 10.1029/2005JG000032. |
| N. Fierer, O.A. Chadwick, S.E.
Trumbore. 2005. Production of CO2 in soil profiles of a California
annual
grassland. Ecosystems. 8: 412-429. [pdf] |
| N. Fierer, J.A. Jackson, R. Vilgalys,
R.B. Jackson. 2005. Assessment of soil microbial community structure by
use of
taxon-specific quantitative PCR assays. Applied & Environmental
Microbiology. 71 (7): 4117-4120. [pdf] |
| N. Fierer, J. Craine, K. McLauchlan, J.P. Schimel.
2005. Litter quality and the temperature sensitivity of
decomposition. Ecology. 86 (2): 320-326. [pdf] |
|
| P.A.
Holden, N. Fierer. 2005. Microbial processes
in the vadose zone. Vadose Zone Journal. 4: 1-21. [pdf] |
| J.P. Schimel, J.
Bennett, N. Fierer. 2005. Microbial
community composition and soil N cycling: Is
there really a connection? In: Biological Diversity and Function in
Soils, R.D.
Bardgett, D.W. Hopkins, M.B. Usher (Editors). Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, UK.
pp. 171-188. |
| P.A. Holden, N. Fierer. 2004. Vadose
Zone Microbial Ecology. In: Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment,
D. Hillel
(Editor). p 216-224. Elsevier Press, Oxford, UK. |
|
N. Fierer, J.P.
Schimel, P.A. Holden. 2003. Controls on microbial CO2
production in surface and
subsurface soil horizons of a California grassland. Global Change
Biology. 9: 1322-1332. [pdf]
|
| N. Fierer, J.P. Schimel. 2003.
A
proposed mechanism for the pulse in CO2 production commonly observed following
the rapid rewetting of a dry soil. Soil Science Society of America
Journal. 67: 798-805. [pdf] |
| N. Fierer, J.P. Schimel, P.A. Holden.
2003. Variation in microbial community
composition through two soil depth profiles. Soil Biology &
Biochemistry. 35: 167-176. [pdf] |
| N. Fierer, J.P. Schimel, P.A. Holden.
2003. Influence of drying-rewetting
frequency on soil bacterial community structure. Microbial Ecology. 45:
63-71. [pdf] |
N. Fierer, E.J. Gabet. 2002. Carbon and
nitrogen losses by surface runoff
following changes in vegetation. Journal of Environmental Quality. 31:
1207-1213. [pdf]
|
| N. Fierer, J.P. Schimel. 2002. Effects
of drying-rewetting frequency on soil
carbon and nitrogen transformations. Soil Biology & Biochemistry.
34:
777-787.[pdf] |
| N. Fierer, J.P. Schimel, R.G. Cates, J.
Zou. 2001. The influence of balsam
poplar tannin fractions on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in Alaskan
taiga
floodplain soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 33: 1827-1839. [pdf] |
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