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List of works by Mark A. Bradford

A city-scale assessment reveals that native forest types and overstory species dominate New York City forests

scientific article published on 06 December 2018

A method for simultaneous measurement of soil bacterial abundances and community composition via 16S rRNA gene sequencing

article

A method for simultaneous measurement of soil bacterial abundances and community composition via 16S rRNA gene sequencing

article published in 2015

A test of the hierarchical model of litter decomposition

article

A trait-based understanding of wood decomposition by fungi

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Acceleration or deceleration of litter decomposition by herbivory depends on nutrient availability through intraspecific differences in induced plant resistance traits

scientific article published on 05 May 2018

Agricultural intensification and the functional capacity of soil microbes on smallholder African farms

article

Animating the Carbon Cycle

Ant colonization and coarse woody debris decomposition in temperate forests

article

Ant-mediated seed dispersal does not facilitate niche expansion

article

Applying population and community ecology theory to advance understanding of belowground biogeochemistry

scientific article published on February 2017

Arctic Soil Governs Whether Climate Change Drives Global Losses or Gains in Soil Carbon

scientific article published in 2019

Assessing the functional implications of soil biodiversity in ecosystems

scientific article published in 2001

Author Correction: Crowther et al. reply

scientific article published in Nature

Author Correction: Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming

correction of a scholarly article

Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally

scientific article published in November 2014

Biotic interactions mediate soil microbial feedbacks to climate change

scientific article

Carbon dynamics in a model grassland with functionally different soil communities

article

Carbon use efficiency and storage in terrestrial ecosystems ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2013

Challenges and future directions in urban afforestation

article

Climate fails to predict wood decomposition at regional scales

article

Climate history shapes contemporary leaf litter decomposition

Climate masks decomposer influence in a cross-site litter decomposition study

scholarly article by Ashley D. Keiser & Mark A. Bradford published April 2017 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Comparative metagenomic, phylogenetic and physiological analyses of soil microbial communities across nitrogen gradients

scientific article published in December 2011

Compensatory Thermal Adaptation of Soil Microbial Respiration Rates in Global Croplands

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

Competition as a mechanism structuring mutualisms

scientific article published on 13 January 2014

Competitive network determines the direction of the diversity-function relationship

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

Compositional differences in simulated root exudates elicit a limited functional and compositional response in soil microbial communities

scientific article

Consequences of non-random species loss for decomposition dynamics: experimental evidence for additive and non-additive effects

article

Consistent effects of eastern subterranean termites (Reticulitermes flavipes) on properties of a temperate forest soil

article

Consistent effects of nitrogen fertilization on soil bacterial communities in contrasting systems

scientific article published in December 2010

Consistent trade-offs in fungal trait expression across broad spatial scales

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Contingency in ecosystem but not plant community response to multiple global change factors

scientific article

Correction: Social Insects Dominate Eastern US Temperate Hardwood Forest Macroinvertebrate Communities in Warmer Regions

Corrigendum: Mapping tree density at a global scale.

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

Cross-biome patterns in soil microbial respiration predictable from evolutionary theory on thermal adaptation

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Cryptic indirect effects of exurban edges on a woodland community

scientific article published in 2015

Decoupling direct and indirect effects of temperature on decomposition

article

Decoupling the direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on ecosystem function

article

Decreased mass specific respiration under experimental warming is robust to the microbial biomass method employed

article

Differential growth responses of soil bacterial taxa to carbon substrates of varying chemical recalcitrance

scientific article

Direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on litter decomposition

article published in 2008

Direct effects of soil organic matter on productivity mirror those observed with organic amendments

article

Direct evidence using a controlled greenhouse study for threshold effects of soil organic matter on crop growth

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community composition

scientific article

Disentangling the mechanisms underlying functional differences among decomposer communities

scientific article published in 2014

Disturbance Decouples Biogeochemical Cycles Across Forests of the Southeastern US

Diversity begets diversity in competition for space

article

Earthworms modify plant biomass and nitrogen capture under conditions of soil nutrient heterogeneity and elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentrations

article

Elevated methane concentrations in trees of an upland forest

article

Empirical and theoretical challenges in aboveground-belowground ecology. ⬇️

scientific article published on 03 May 2009

Empirical evidence that soil carbon formation from plant inputs is positively related to microbial growth

article

Environmental heterogeneity and interspecific interactions influence nest occupancy by key seed-dispersing ants

scientific article published in June 2012

Environmental stress response limits microbial necromass contributions to soil organic carbon

article

Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming

scientific article

Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Factors driving natural regeneration beneath a planted urban forest

article

Farm management, not soil microbial diversity, controls nutrient loss from smallholder tropical agriculture

scientific article

Fear of predation slows plant-litter decomposition

scientific article published in June 2012

Field experiments show contradictory short‐ and long‐term myrmecochorous plant impacts on seed‐dispersing ants

scientific article published on 31 July 2018

Forest invader replaces predation but not dispersal services by a keystone species

article

Fungal Taxa Target Different Carbon Sources in Forest Soil

article

Fungal interactions reduce carbon use efficiency

scientific article published on 4 July 2017

Global meta-analysis of the relationship between soil organic matter and crop yields

Global patterns in belowground communities.

scientific article published on 11 August 2009

Grass Invasions Across a Regional Gradient are Associated with Declines in Belowground Carbon Pools

article

Greenhouse trace gases in deadwood

article

Growing the urban forest: tree performance in response to biotic and abiotic land management

article

Habitat, dispersal and propagule pressure control exotic plant infilling within an invaded range

article

How much SOM is needed for sustainable agriculture?

article published in 2015

Identifying the microbial taxa that consistently respond to soil warming across time and space.

scientific article published on 7 November 2016

Impacts of an invasive plant are fundamentally altered by a co-occurring forest disturbance

scientific article published on 18 May 2017

Impacts of invasive plant species on riparian plant assemblages: interactions with elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide and nitrogen deposition

scientific article published on 20 March 2007

Impacts of soil faunal community composition on model grassland ecosystems.

scientific article published in October 2002

Increasing microbial carbon use efficiency with warming predicts soil heterotrophic respiration globally

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Integrating microbial ecology into ecosystem models: challenges and priorities

article

Invasive lianas are drivers of and passengers to altered soil nutrient availability in urban forests

scientific article

Legacies of plant litter on carbon and nitrogen dynamics and the role of the soil community

article

Linkages between below and aboveground communities: Decomposer responses to simulated tree species loss are largely additive

article

Linking functional diversity and ecosystem processes: A framework for using functional diversity metrics to predict the ecosystem impact of functionally unique species

article published in 2017

Linking predation risk, herbivore physiological stress and microbial decomposition of plant litter

scientific article published on 12 March 2013

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Litter quality is in the eye of the beholder: initial decomposition rates as a function of inoculum characteristics

article by Michael S. Strickland et al published June 2009 in Functional Ecology

Long-Term Research in Ecology and Evolution (LTREE): 2015 survey data

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Long-term research in ecology and evolution: a survey of challenges and opportunities

scientific article published in 2018

Loss of faster-cycling soil carbon pools following grass invasion across multiple forest sites

article

Managing uncertainty in soil carbon feedbacks to climate change

scientific article (publication date: 27 July 2016)

Mapping tree density at a global scale

scientific article

Methane emissions from tree stems: a new frontier in the global carbon cycle

article published in 2018

Microbial communities may modify how litter quality affects potential decomposition rates as tree species migrate

article

Microbial formation of stable soil carbon is more efficient from belowground than aboveground input

Microbial stoichiometry overrides biomass as a regulator of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling

scientific article

Microbiota, fauna, and mesh size interactions in litter decomposition

article

Modelling the multidimensional niche by linking functional traits to competitive performance

scientific article

Multiple models and experiments underscore large uncertainty in soil carbon dynamics

article

Mutualism fails when climate response differs between interacting species

scientific article

Myrmecochorous plants and their ant seed dispersers through successional stages in temperate cove forests

scientific article published on 06 May 2022

Native, insect herbivore communities derive a significant proportion of their carbon from a widespread invader of forest understories

article

Natural Area Forests in US Cities: Opportunities and Challenges

scientific article published on 29 December 2020

Nest-mediated seed dispersal

scientific article published in 2017

Nitrogen and Phosphorus Release from Mixed Litter Layers is Lower than Predicted from Single Species Decay

article

Nitrogen recycling in coupled green and brown food webs: Weak effects of herbivory and detritivory when nitrogen passes through soil

scientific article published in 2018

Nitrogen uptake and preference in a forest understory following invasion by an exotic grass

scientific article

Non-native Microstegium vimineum populations collapse with fungal leaf spot disease outbreak

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Nonadditive effects of leaf litter species diversity on breakdown dynamics in a detritus-based stream.

scientific article

Opposing effects of different soil organic matter fractions on crop yields.

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

Pathways of mineral-associated soil organic matter formation: integrating the role of plant carbon source, chemistry, and point-of-entry

article

Performance and reproduction of an exotic invader across temperate forest gradients

article

Plant invasion impacts on arthropod abundance, diversity and feeding consistent across environmental and geographic gradients

article

Positive effects of afforestation efforts on the health of urban soils

article

Positive long‐term impacts of restoration on soils in an experimental urban forest

scientific article published on 30 March 2021

Predicting the responsiveness of soil biodiversity to deforestation: a cross-biome study.

scientific article

Promoting Earth Stewardship through urban design experiments

article by Alexander J Felson et al published September 2013 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

scientific article

Quantifying microbial control of soil organic matter dynamics at macrosystem scales

scientific article published on 26 April 2021

Quantifying the Effects Sizes of Common Controls on Methane Emissions From an Ombrotrophic Peat Bog

scientific article published in 2023

Rates of in situ carbon mineralization in relation to land-use, microbial community and edaphic characteristics

Refining national greenhouse gas inventories

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Reply to Byrnes et al.: Aggregation can obscure understanding of ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 5 December 2014

Reply to Veresoglou: Overdependence on "significance" testing in biology

scientific article published on 25 August 2015

Response of soil microbial community composition and function to a bottomland forest restoration intensity gradient

article

Root carbon flow from an invasive plant to belowground foodwebs

article

Seeing shapes in clouds: the fallacy of deriving ecological hypotheses from statistical distributions

scientific article published on 26 August 2022

Social insects dominate eastern US temperate hardwood forest macroinvertebrate communities in warmer regions

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Soil carbon stocks in experimental mesocosms are dependent on the rate of labile carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to soils

scientific article published in 2008

Soil fauna alter the effects of litter composition on nitrogen cycling in a mineral soil

article

Soil faunal assemblage composition modifies root in-growth to plant litter patches

article

Soil heterogeneity and community composition jointly influence grassland biomass

article

Soil heterogeneity and community composition jointly influence grassland biomass

Soil microbial respiration adapts to ambient temperature in global drylands

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Soil nutrient heterogeneity interacts with elevated CO2 and nutrient availability to determine species and assemblage responses in a model grassland community

article

Soil nutrient recovery after shelterwood timber harvesting in a temperate oak hardwood forest: Insights using a twenty-five-year chronosequence

scientific article

Soil organic matter protects US maize yields and lowers crop insurance payouts under drought

scientific article published on 10 February 2021

Soil-carbon response to warming dependent on microbial physiology

article

Species associations overwhelm abiotic conditions to dictate the structure and function of wood-decay fungal communities

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Surveying soil faunal communities using a direct molecular approach

Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

article

Testing the feasibility of quantifying change in agricultural soil carbon stocks through empirical sampling

scientific article published in December 2023

Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition.

scientific article published in February 2009

The Biogeography of Microbial Communities and Ecosystem Processes: Implications for Soil and Ecosystem Models

scholarly article published 13 June 2012

The abundance, richness and functional role of soil meso- and macrofauna in temperate grassland—A case study

scientific article published in 2006

The cross-contamination and survival of Salmonella enteritidis PT4 on sterile and non-sterile foodstuffs

scientific article published in April 1997

The effect of a quorum-quenching enzyme on leaf litter decomposition

article

The effect of resource history on the functioning of soil microbial communities is maintained across time

scientific article published in 2011

The fate of glucose, a low molecular weight compound of root exudates, in the belowground foodweb of forests and pastures

The functional role of ericoid mycorrhizal plants and fungi on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in forests

scientific article published on 6 July 2022

The influence of microbial communities, management, and soil texture on soil organic matter chemistry

article

The influence of soil properties on the structure of bacterial and fungal communities across land-use types

article by Christian L. Lauber et al published September 2008 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

The interaction between propagule pressure, habitat suitability and density-dependent reproduction in species invasion

article

The potential for mass ratio and trait divergence effects to explain idiosyncratic impacts of non‐native invasive plants on carbon mineralization of decomposing leaf litter

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

The putative niche requirements and landscape dynamics of Microstegium vimineum: an invasive Asian grass

article

The shape of things to come: woodland herb niche contraction begins during recruitment in mesic forest microhabitat.

scientific article published on 20 October 2010

Thermal acclimation in widespread heterotrophic soil microbes ⬇️

scientific article published on January 18, 2013

Thermal adaptation of decomposer communities in warming soils

scientific article

Thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration to elevated temperature

scientific article published in December 2008

Toward an ecological classification of soil bacteria.

scientific article

Trophic cascade alters ecosystem carbon exchange

scientific article

Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they inhabit

scientific article published on 24 August 2018

Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition

article

Universal ecological patterns in college basketball communities

scientific article

Untangling the fungal niche: the trait-based approach

scientific article

Why are some microbes more ubiquitous than others? Predicting the habitat breadth of soil bacteria

scientific article

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