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List of works by Mary K. Firestone

A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

An arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus significantly modifies the soil bacterial community and nitrogen cycling during litter decomposition

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Annual grassland resource pools and fluxes: sensitivity to precipitation and dry periods on two contrasting soils

scientific article published in 2012

Application of a high-density oligonucleotide microarray approach to study bacterial population dynamics during uranium reduction and reoxidation

scientific article published in September 2006

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Assemblages in Native Plant Roots Change in the Presence of Invasive Exotic Grasses

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Avian incubation inhibits growth and diversification of bacterial assemblages on eggs

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Bacterial quorum sensing and nitrogen cycling in rhizosphere soil

scientific article published on 20 August 2008

Belowground allocation and dynamics of recently fixed plant carbon in a California annual grassland

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Belowground allocation and dynamics of recently fixed plant carbon in a California annual grassland soil

Carbon flow in the rhizosphere of ponderosa pine seedlings

Changes in microbial community characteristics and soil organic matter with nitrogen additions in two tropical forests

scientific article published on March 2011

Changing precipitation pattern alters soil microbial community response to wet-up under a Mediterranean-type climate

scientific article published on 17 March 2015

Climate and edaphic controllers influence rhizosphere community assembly for a wild annual grass

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Conversion of marginal land into switchgrass conditionally accrues soil carbon and reduces methane consumption

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Conversion of marginal land into switchgrass conditionally accrues soil carbon but reduces methane consumption

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Corrigendum to “Microbial extracellular polysaccharide production and aggregate stability controlled by Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) root biomass and soil water potential” [Soil Biology and Biochemistry 143 (2020) 107741]

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Distribution of Chromium Contamination and Microbial Activity in Soil Aggregates

Distribution of chromium contamination and microbial activity in soil aggregates

scientific article published on March 2003

Divergent microbial traits influence the transformation of living versus dead root inputs to soil carbon

Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly.

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Ecosystem Fabrication (EcoFAB) Protocols for The Construction of Laboratory Ecosystems Designed to Study Plant-microbe Interactions.

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Effects of organic carbon supply rates on uranium mobility in a previously bioreduced contaminated sediment

scientific article published in October 2008

Effects of selected root exudate components on soil bacterial communities

scientific article published on 13 July 2011

Environmental controls on denitrifying communities and denitrification rates: insights from molecular methods

scientific article published on December 2006

Evaluating rRNA as an indicator of microbial activity in environmental communities: limitations and uses.

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Evaluation of accelerated H<sup>+</sup>applications in predicting soil chemical and microbial changes due to acid rain

scientific article published in 1982

Fog Water and Ecosystem Function: Heterogeneity in a California Redwood Forest

scientific article published in 2009

Fungal-Bacterial Cooccurrence Patterns Differ between Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Nonmycorrhizal Fungi across Soil Niches

scientific article published in 2021

Growth and death of bacteria and fungi underlie rainfall-induced carbon dioxide pulses from seasonally dried soil

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HOW DISTURBANCE BY FOSSORIAL MAMMALS ALTERS N CYCLING IN A CALIFORNIA ANNUAL GRASSLAND

scientific article published in 2003

In situ long-term reductive bioimmobilization of Cr(VI) in groundwater using hydrogen release compound

scientific article published in November 2008

In situ reduction of chromium(VI) in heavily contaminated soils through organic carbon amendment.

scientific article published in September 2003

Influence of oxic/anoxic fluctuations on ammonia oxidizers and nitrification potential in a wet tropical soil.

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Influences of organic carbon supply rate on uranium bioreduction in initially oxidizing, contaminated sediment

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Interactions between an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus and a soil microbial community mediating litter decomposition

scientific article published on January 17, 2012

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Large losses of ammonium-nitrogen from a rice ecosystem under elevated CO2

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry

scientific article published on 28 February 2022

Linking microbial community composition and soil processes in a California annual grassland and mixed-conifer forest

scientific article published on 17 May 2005

Managing Plant Microbiomes for Sustainable Biofuel Production

Measurement Error and Resolution in Quantitative Stable Isotope Probing: Implications for Experimental Design

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Measurement error and resolution in quantitative stable isotope probing: implications for experimental design

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Mesoscale Biotransformations of Uranium: Identifying Sites and Strategies where Reductive Immobilization is Practical

scholarly article published 1 June 2006

Metatranscriptomes of California grassland soil microbial communities in response to rewetting

scientific article published in 2024

Metatranscriptomic reconstruction reveals RNA viruses with the potential to shape carbon cycling in soil

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Metatranscriptomic reconstruction reveals RNA viruses with the potential to shape carbon cycling in soil

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Methods for measuring denitrification: diverse approaches to a difficult problem

scientific article published on December 2006

Microbial and environmental effects on avian egg viability: Do tropical mechanisms act in a temperate environment?

scientific article published on May 1, 2011

Microbial communities acclimate to recurring changes in soil redox potential status

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Microbial community assembly differs across minerals in a rhizosphere microcosm

scientific article published on 10 September 2018

Microbial community assembly differs by mineral type in the rhizosphere

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Microbial community response to addition of polylactate compounds to stimulate hexavalent chromium reduction in groundwater

scientific article published on 27 August 2011

Microbial extracellular polysaccharide production and aggregate stability controlled by Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) root biomass and soil water potential

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Microbial extracellular polysaccharide production and aggregate stability controlled by switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) root biomass and soil water potential

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Microbial functional diversity: From concepts to applications

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

N dynamics in the rhizosphere of Pinus ponderosa seedlings

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Niche differentiation is spatially and temporally regulated in the rhizosphere

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

Niche differentiation is spatially and temporally regulated in the rhizosphere

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PLANT AND MICROBIAL CONTROLS ON NITROGEN RETENTION AND LOSS IN A HUMID TROPICAL FOREST

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Phylogenetic clustering of soil microbial communities by 16S rRNA but not 16S rRNA genes

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Plant invasion alters nitrogen cycling by modifying the soil nitrifying community

scientific article (publication date: September 2005)

Plant roots alter microbial functional genes supporting root litter decomposition

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Protist diversity and community complexity in the rhizosphere of switchgrass are dynamic as plants develop

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Quantifying the effects of switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) on deep organic C stocks using natural abundance 14 C in three marginal soils

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Quantifying the effects of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) on deep organic C stocks using natural abundance 14C in three marginal soils

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Rainfall-induced carbon dioxide pulses result from sequential resuscitation of phylogenetically clustered microbial groups

scientific article published on June 19, 2012

Reoxidation of bioreduced uranium under reducing conditions

scientific article published in August 2005

Responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to extreme desiccation and rewetting

scientific article published on July 4, 2013

Root Carbon Interaction with Soil Minerals Is Dynamic, Leaving a Legacy of Microbially Derived Residues

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Root Interactions with Soil Microbial Communities and Processes

Root carbon interaction with soil minerals is dynamic, leaving a legacy of microbially-derived residues

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Routes to Roots: Direct Evidence of Water Transport by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi to Host Plants

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Selective progressive response of soil microbial community to wild oat roots

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Sensitive whole-cell biosensor suitable for detecting a variety of N-acyl homoserine lactones in intact rhizosphere microbial communities

scientific article published on 30 March 2007

Short-term partitioning of ammonium and nitrate between plants and microbes in an annual grassland

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Spectroscopic analysis reveals that soil phosphorus availability and plant allocation strategies impact feedstock quality of nutrient-limited switchgrass

scientific article published on 11 March 2022

Stable isotope informed genome-resolved metagenomics reveals that Saccharibacteria utilize microbially-processed plant-derived carbon.

scientific article published on 3 July 2018

Stable isotope informed genome-resolved metagenomics uncovers potential trophic interactions in rhizosphere soil

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Stable-Isotope-Informed, Genome-Resolved Metagenomics Uncovers Potential Cross-Kingdom Interactions in Rhizosphere Soil

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Successional Trajectories of Rhizosphere Bacterial Communities over Consecutive Seasons

scientific article published on 4 August 2015

Taxon-specific microbial growth and mortality patterns reveal distinct temporal population responses to rewetting in a California grassland soil

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

The Functional Significance of Bacterial Predators

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The interconnected rhizosphere: High network complexity dominates rhizosphere assemblages

scientific article published on 6 June 2016

The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology.

scientific article published on May 2007

The source of microbial C has little impact on soil organic matter stabilisation in forest ecosystems.

scientific article published on 16 August 2012

Transcription of macromolecular N degrading genes provides a window into organic nitrogen decomposition in soil

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Transcriptional Response of Nitrifying Communities to Wetting of Dry Soil

scientific article published on March 22, 2013

Tropical forest soil microbial communities couple iron and carbon biogeochemistry

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Two novel bacterial biosensors for detection of nitrate availability in the rhizosphere.

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Uranium reduction in sediments under diffusion-limited transport of organic carbon.

scientific article published in September 2005

Using stable isotopes to explore root-microbe-mineral interactions in soil

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Utilizing novel diversity estimators to quantify multiple dimensions of microbial biodiversity across domains

scientific article (publication date: 15 November 2013)