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| Dunn,
R.R., N. Fierer, J.B. Henley, J.W. Leff, H.L. Menninger. In Press. Home life: factors
structuring the bacterial diversity found within and between homes.
PLoS One. |
| Jones,
R.T., L. Sanchez, N. Fierer. 2013. A cross-taxon analysis of
insect-associated bacterial diversity. PLoS One. 8(4): e61218. [pdf] |
| Bates,
S.T., S. Ahrendt, H. Bik, T. Bruns, J.G. Caporaso, J. Cole, M. Dwan, N.
Fierer, D. Gu, S. Houston, R. Knight, J. Leff, C. Lewis, D. McDonald,
H. Nilsson, A. Porras-Alfaro, V. Robert, C. Schoch, J. Scott, L.
Taylor, L. Wegener-Parfrey, J.E. Stajich. 2013. Meeting report: Fungal
ITS workshop (October 2012). Standards in Genomic Sciences. 8:1
(doi:10.4056/sigs.3737409 [pdf] |
| Serna-Chavez,
H., N. Fierer, P.M. van Bodegom. In
Press. Global drivers and patterns of microbial abundance in
soil. Global Ecology and Biogeography. |
| Song, S.,
C. Lauber, E.K. Costello, C.A. Lozupone, G. Humphrey, D. Berg-Lyons,
J.G. Caporaso, D. Knights, J.C. Clemente, S. Nakielny, J.I. Gordon, N.
Fierer, R. Knight. 2013. Cohabiting family members share microbiota
with one another and with their dogs. eLife. 2:e00458. DOI:
10.7554/eLife.00458 [pdf] |
| Shade, A.,
J.G. Caporaso, J. Handelsman, R. Knight, N. Fierer. In Press. A meta-analysis of
changes in bacterial and archaeal communities with time. ISME Journal. [pdf] |
| Lauber,
C.L., K.S. Ramirez, Z. Aanderud, J. Lennon, N. Fierer. In Press. Temporal variability in
soil microbial communities across land-use types. ISME Journal. [pdf] |
| Leff,
J.W., N. Fierer. 2013.
Bacterial communities associated with the surfaces of fresh fruits and
vegetables. PLoS One. 8: e59310 [pdf] |
| McGuire,
K.L., S.G. Payne, M.I. Palmer, C.M. Gillikin, D. Keefe, S.J. Kim, S.M.
Gedallovich, J. Discenza, R. Rangamannar, J.A. Kosher, A.L. Massmann,
G. Orazi, A. Essene, J.W. Leff, N. Fierer. 2013. Digging the New York City
skyline: Soil fungal communities in green roofs and city parks. PLoS
One. 8: e58020 [pdf] |
| Fierer,
N.,
J.W. Leff, B.J. Adams, U.N. Nielsen, S.T. Bates, C.L. Lauber, S. Owens,
J.A. Gilbert, D.A. Wall, J.G. Caporaso. 2012. Cross-biome metagenomic
analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 109: 21390-21395 [pdf] |
| Flores,
G.E., S. Bates, J.G. Caporaso, C.L. Lauber, J.W. Leff, R. Knight, N.
Fierer. 2013.
Diversity, distribution and sources of bacteria in residential
kitchens. Environmental Microbiology. 15: 588-596 [pdf] |
| Bates,
S.T., J.C. Clemente, G.E. Flores, W.A. Walters, L.W. Parfrey, R.
Knight, N. Fierer. 2013.
Global biogeography of highly diverse protistan communities in soil.
ISME Journal. 7:652-659
[pdf] |
| Bradford,
M.A., N. Fierer. 2012. The biogeography of microbial communities and
ecosystem processes: Implications for soil and ecosystem models. Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services.
ed. D.H. Wall, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K. pgs. 189-200. [pdf] |
| Fierer,
N., J. Ladau. 2012. Predicting microbial distributions in space and
time. Nature Methods. 9: 549-551. [pdf] |
| Flores,
G.E., J.B. Henley, N. Fierer. 2012. A direct PCR approach to accelerate
analyses of human-associated microbial communities. PLoS One. 7(9):
e44563. [pdf] |
| Fierer,
N., S. Ferrenberg, G.E. Flores, A. Gonzalez, J. Kueneman, T. Legg, R.C.
Lynch, D. McDonald, J.R. Mihaljevic, S.P. O'Neill, M.E. Rhodes, S.
Song, W.A. Walters. 2012.
From animalcules to an ecosystem: application of ecological concepts to
the human microbiome. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and
Systematics. 43:137-155 [pdf] |
| Craine,
J.M., N. Fierer, K. McLauchlan, A. Elmore. 2013. Reduction of the
temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition with
sustained temperature increase. Biogeochemistry. 113: 359-368 [pdf] |
| Peterse,
F., J. van der Meer, S. Schouten, J.W.H. Weijers, N. Fierer, R.
Jackson, J.S.S. Damste. 2012.
Revised calibration of the MBT-CBT paleotemperature proxy based on
branched tetraether membrane lipids in suface soils. Geochemica et
Cosmochemica Acta. 96: 215-229. |
| Hulcr, J.,
J.B. Henley, N.R. Rountree, N. Fierer, A. Lucky, M.D. Lowman, A.M.
Latimer, R.R. Dunn. 2012.
A jungle in there: bacteria in belly buttons are highly diverse, but
predictable. PLoS One. 7(11): e47712 [pdf] |
| Aanderud,
Z.T., S.E. Jones, D. Schoolmaster, N. Fierer, J.T. Lennon. 2013.
Sensitivity of soil
respiration and microbial communities to altered snowfall. Soil Biology
& Biochemistry. 57:217-227 [pdf] |
| Shade, A.,
J.S. Read, N.D. Youngblut, N. Fierer, R. Knight, T.K. Kratz, N.R.
Lottig, E.E. Roden, E.H. Stanley, J. Stombaugh, R.J. Whitaker, C.H. Wu,
K.D. McMahon. 2012. Lake
microbial communities are resilient after a whole-ecosystem
disturbance. ISME Journal. 6: 2153-2167. [pdf] |
| Portillo,
M.C., S.P. Anderson, N. Fierer. 2012. Temporal variability in the
diversity and composition of
stream bacterioplankton communities. Environmental Microbiology. 14:
2417-2428 [pdf] |
| Hulcr, J.,
N.R. Rountree, S.E. Diamond, L.L. Stelinski, N. Fierer, R.R. Dunn.
2012.
Mycangia of ambrosia
beetles host specialized communities of bacteria. Microbial Ecology.
64: 784-793 [pdf] |
| Knight,
R., J. Jansson, D. Field, N. Fierer, N. Desai, J. Fuhrman, P.
Hugenholtz, F. Meyer, R. Stevens, M. Bailey, J.I. Gordon, G. Kowalchuk,
J.A. Gilbert. 2012. Unlocking the potential of metagenomics through
replicated experimental design. Nature Biotechnology. 30: 513-520. [pdf] |
| Eilers,
K.G., S. Debenport, S. Anderson. N. Fierer. 2012. Digging deeper to
find unique microbial communities: the strong effect of depth on the
structure of bacterial and archaeal communities. Soil Biology &
Biochemistry. 50: 58-65. [pdf] |
| Caporaso,
J.G., C.L. Lauber, W.A. Walters, D. Berg-Lyons, J. Huntley, N. Fierer,
J. Betley, L. Fraser, M. Bauer, N. Gormley, G. Smith, R. Knight. 2012.
Ultra-high-throughput
microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms.
ISME Journal. [pdf] |
| McGuire,
K.L., N. Fierer, B.L. Turner, C. Bateman, K.K. Treseder. In
Press. Fungal community composition in Neotropical rain forests:
the influence of tree diversity and precipitation. Microbial
Ecology.DOI: 10.1007/s00248-011-9973-x [pdf] |
| Ramirez,
K.S., J.M. Craine, N. Fierer. 2012. Consistent effects of nitrogen
amendments on soil microbial communities and processes across biomes.
Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02639.x [pdf] |
| Bowers,
R.M., I.B. McCubbin, A.G. Hallar, N. Fierer. 2012. Seasonal variability
in airborne bacterial communities at a high-elevation site in the
Colorado Rocky Mountains. Atmospheric Environment. 50:41-49.
[pdf] |
| Barberán,
A., S.T. Bates, E.O. Casamayor, N. Fierer. 2012. Using network analysis
to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities. ISME
Journal. 6: 343-351. [pdf] |
| Fierer,
N., C.L. Lauber, K.S. Ramirez, J. Zaneveld, M.A. Bradford, R. Knight.
2012. Comparative metagenomic, phylogenetic, and physiological analyses
of soil microbial communities across nitrogen gradients. ISME
Journal. doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.159 [pdf] |
| McKenzie,
V.J., R. Bowers, N. Fierer, R. Knight, C. Lauber. 2012. Co-habiting
amphibian species harbor unique skin bacterial communities in wild
populations. ISME Journal. 6: 588-596. [pdf] |
| Bates,
S.T., W.A. Walters, R. Knight, N. Fierer. 2012. A pyrosequencing survey
of lichen associated eukaryotes. The Lichenologist. 44: 137-146. [pdf] |
| Gray,
C.M., N. Fierer. 2012. Impacts of nitrogen fertilization on volatile
organic compound emissions from decomposing plant litter. Global Change
Biology. 18: 739-748 [pdf] |
| Gonzalez,
A., J. Stombaugh, C.L. Lauber, N. Fierer, R. Knight. 2011. SitePainter:
A tool for exploring biogeographical patterns. Bioinformatics. doi:
10.1093/bioinformatics/btr685 |
| Flores,
G.E., S.T. Bates, D. Knights, C.L. Lauber, J. Stombaugh, R. Knight, N.
Fierer. 2011. Microbial biogeography of public restroom surfaces. PLoS
One. 6: e28132. [pdf] |
| Jones,
R.T., A. Bressan, A.M. Greenwell, N. Fierer. 2011. Bacterial
communities of two parthenogenetic aphid species co-colonizing two host
plants across the Hawaii Islands. Applied and Environmental
Microbiology. 77:8345-8349 [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] |
| 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. [pdf] |
| 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
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| N. Fierer, R.B.
Jackson. 2006. The diversity and
biogeography of soil bacterial communities. PNAS. 103 (3):
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| E.J. Gabet, N.
Fierer, O.A. Chadwick. 2005.
Prediction of sediment-bound nutrient delivery from semi-arid California
watersheds. J. Geophysical Research.
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| N. Fierer, O.A. Chadwick, S.E.
Trumbore. 2005. Production of CO2 in soil profiles of a California
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| 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
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| N. Fierer, J. Craine, K. McLauchlan, J.P. Schimel.
2005. Litter quality and the temperature sensitivity of
decomposition. Ecology. 86 (2): 320-326. [pdf] |
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| P.A.
Holden, N. Fierer. 2005. Microbial processes
in the vadose zone. Vadose Zone Journal. 4: 1-21. [pdf] |
| J.P. Schimel, J.
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community composition and soil N cycling: Is
there really a connection? In: Biological Diversity and Function in
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| P.A. Holden, N. Fierer. 2004. Vadose
Zone Microbial Ecology. In: Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment,
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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
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| 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
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| N. Fierer, J.P. Schimel, P.A. Holden.
2003. Variation in microbial community
composition through two soil depth profiles. Soil Biology &
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| N. Fierer, J.P. Schimel, P.A. Holden.
2003. Influence of drying-rewetting
frequency on soil bacterial community structure. Microbial Ecology. 45:
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N. Fierer, E.J. Gabet. 2002. Carbon and
nitrogen losses by surface runoff
following changes in vegetation. Journal of Environmental Quality. 31:
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| N. Fierer, J.P. Schimel. 2002. Effects
of drying-rewetting frequency on soil
carbon and nitrogen transformations. Soil Biology & Biochemistry.
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| 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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