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M. Strickland. C. Lauber, N. Fierer , M.A. Bradford. In Press. Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition. Ecology.
C.L. Lauber, M.S. Strickland, M.A. Bradford, N. Fierer. In Press. The influence of soil properties on the structure of bacterial and fungal communities across land-use types. Soil Biology & Biochemistry.
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. In Press. 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]