Research Summary
Soil microbial responses to anthropogenic disturbance and of microbes’ roles in mitigating disturbance effects; nitrogen transformations in agricultural and urban soils; microbe-mineral-plant interactions and biological crusts that form and stabilize soils in acid mine drainage impacted areas; and carbon and nitrogen fixation by bacterial communities in soil crusts and in bedrock-regolith interface zones.
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Tillage intensity and plant rhizosphere selection shape bacterial-archaeal assemblage diversity and nitrogen cycling genes
Cloutier, M., Alcaide, T., Duiker, S. & Bruns, M. A., Jan 2023, In: Soil and Tillage Research. 225, 105525.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ectomycorrhizal diversity on the roots of Pitch pine (Pinus rigida Mill.) saplings as influenced by remediation and soil metal content
Eardly, B. D., Cloutier, M., Chung, T., Roitman, S., Vieira, F. R. & Bruns, M. A. V., Jan 2023, In: Restoration Ecology. 31, 1, e13695.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Phylogenetic Signal, Root Morphology, Mycorrhizal Type and Macroinvertebrate Exclusion: Exploring Wood Decomposition in Soils Conditioned by 13 Temperate Tree Species
Malik, R. J., Bruns, M. A. V., Bell, T. H. & Eissenstat, D. M., Apr 2022, In: Forests. 13, 4, 536.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Integrated weed management with strategic tillage can maintain soil quality in continuous living cover systems
McPheeters, D., Bruns, M. A., Karsten, H. D. & Dell, C. J., Nov 2 2022, In: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 6, 907590.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Microbes and Climate Change: a Research Prospectus for the Future
Tiedje, J. M., Bruns, M. A., Casadevall, A., Criddle, C. S., Eloe-Fadrosh, E., Karl, D. M., Nguyen, N. K. & Zhou, J., Jun 2022, In: mBio. 13, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Hydrocarbon substrate richness impacts microbial abundance, microbiome composition, and hydrocarbon loss
Bell, T. H., Camillone, N., Abram, K., Bruns, M. A., Yergeau, E. & St-Arnaud, M., Sep 2021, In: Applied Soil Ecology. 165, 104015.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Sorghum root flavonoid chemistry, cultivar, and frost stress effects on rhizosphere bacteria and fungi
Cloutier, M., Chatterjee, D., Elango, D., Cui, J., Bruns, M. V. & Chopra, S., 2021, In: Phytobiomes Journal. 5, 1, p. 39-50 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Recovery of waste nutrients by duckweed for reuse in sustainable agriculture: Second-year results of a field pilot study with sorghum
Fernandez Pulido, C. R., Caballero, J., Bruns, M. A. & Brennan, R. A., Oct 1 2021, In: Ecological Engineering. 168, 106273.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The influence of soil amendments on a native wildflower seed mix in surface mine restoration
Rothman, S. E., Cole, C. A., Bruns, M. A. & Hall, M., Sep 2021, In: Restoration Ecology. 29, 7, e13440.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Organic fertility inputs synergistically increase denitrification-derived nitrous oxide emissions in agroecosystems
Saha, D., Kaye, J. P., Bhowmik, A., Bruns, M. A., Wallace, J. M. & Kemanian, A. R., Oct 2021, In: Ecological Applications. 31, 7, e02403.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Metatranscriptomic sequencing of a cyanobacterial soil-surface consortium with and without a diverse underlying soil microbiome
Bell, T. H., Trexler, R. V., Peng, X., Huntemann, M., Clum, A., Foster, B., Foster, B., Roux, S., Palaniappan, K., Varghese, N., Mukherjee, S., Reddy, T. B. K., Daum, C., Copeland, A., Ivanova, N. N., Kyrpides, N. C., Pennacchio, C., Eloe-Fadrosh, E. A. & Bruns, M. A., Jan 2 2020, In: Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9, 1, e01361-19.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Fungal community shifts in soils with varied cover crop treatments and edaphic properties
Cloutier, M. L., Murrell, E., Barbercheck, M., Kaye, J., Finney, D., García-González, I. & Bruns, M. A., Dec 1 2020, In: Scientific reports. 10, 1, 6198.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Manipulating Wild and Tamed Phytobiomes: Challenges and Opportunities
Bell, T. H., Hockett, K., Alcalá-Briseño, R. I., Barbercheck, M., Beattie, G. A., Bruns, M. A., Carlson, J., Chung, T., Collins, A., Emmett, B., Esker, P., Garrett, K., Glenna, L., Gugino, B. K., Jimenez Gasco, M. D. M., Kinkel, L., Kovac, J., Kowalski, K., Kuldau, G., Leveau, J., & 10 others, Mar 13 2019, In: Phytobiomes Journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Innovative Technologies Can Improve Understanding of Microbial Nitrogen Dynamics in Agricultural Soils
Cloutier, M. L., Bhowmik, A., Bell, T. H. & Bruns, M. A., 2019, In: Agricultural and Environmental Letters. 4, 1, p. 1-6 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Duckweed as an agricultural amendment: Nitrogen mineralization, leaching, and sorghum uptake
Kreider, A. N., Fernandez Pulido, C. R., Bruns, M. A. & Brennan, R. A., Mar 1 2019, In: Journal of Environmental Quality. 48, 2, p. 469-475 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review