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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. 2011Sources 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]
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]
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]