Search Results - "HUNGATE, BRUCE A."
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Biochar boosts tropical but not temperate crop yields
Published in Environmental research letters (01-05-2017)“…Applying biochar to soil is thought to have multiple benefits, from helping mitigate climate change [1, 2], to managing waste [3] to conserving soil [4]…”
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Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: a meta-analysis of experimental manipulation
Published in Global change biology (01-02-2011)“…Global mean temperature is predicted to increase by 2-7 °C and precipitation to change across the globe by the end of this century. To quantify climate effects…”
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Ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 governed by plant–soil interactions and the cost of nitrogen acquisition
Published in The New phytologist (01-01-2018)“…Land ecosystems sequester on average about a quarter of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. It has been proposed that nitrogen (N) availability will exert an…”
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Ecosystem context illuminates conflicting roles of plant diversity in carbon storage
Published in Ecology letters (01-11-2018)“…Plant diversity can increase biomass production in plot‐scale studies, but applying these results to ecosystem carbon (C) storage at larger spatial and…”
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Bacterial carbon use plasticity, phylogenetic diversity and the priming of soil organic matter
Published in The ISME Journal (01-08-2017)“…Microorganisms perform most decomposition on Earth, mediating carbon (C) loss from ecosystems, and thereby influencing climate. Yet, how variation in the…”
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Antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli from retail poultry meat with different antibiotic use claims
Published in BMC microbiology (03-11-2018)“…We sought to determine if the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli differed across retail poultry products and among major production…”
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Colonizing opportunistic pathogens (COPs): The beasts in all of us
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-08-2017)“…About the Authors: Lance B. Price * E-mail: lprice@gwu.edu Affiliations Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington DC,…”
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Quantitative microbial ecology through stable isotope probing
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (01-11-2015)“…Bacteria grow and transform elements at different rates, and as yet, quantifying this variation in the environment is difficult. Determining isotope enrichment…”
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Taxon-specific microbial growth and mortality patterns reveal distinct temporal population responses to rewetting in a California grassland soil
Published in The ISME Journal (01-06-2020)“…Microbial activity increases after rewetting dry soil, resulting in a pulse of carbon mineralization and nutrient availability. The biogeochemical responses to…”
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Microbial growth under drought is confined to distinct taxa and modified by potential future climate conditions
Published in Nature communications (22-09-2023)“…Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of drought events, affecting soil functions including carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling, which are…”
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A comprehensive census of microbial diversity in hot springs of Tengchong, Yunnan Province China using 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing
Published in PloS one (09-01-2013)“…The Rehai and Ruidian geothermal fields, located in Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, China, host a variety of geochemically distinct hot springs. In this…”
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A meta-evaluation of the quality of reporting and execution in ecological meta-analyses
Published in PloS one (12-10-2023)“…Quantitatively summarizing results from a collection of primary studies with meta-analysis can help answer ecological questions and identify knowledge gaps…”
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Life history strategies among soil bacteria—dichotomy for few, continuum for many
Published in The ISME Journal (01-04-2023)“…Study of life history strategies may help predict the performance of microorganisms in nature by organizing the complexity of microbial communities into groups…”
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Ominous projections for global antibiotic use in food-animal production
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Predictive genomic traits for bacterial growth in culture versus actual growth in soil
Published in The ISME Journal (01-09-2019)“…Relationships between microbial genes and performance are often evaluated in the laboratory in pure cultures, with little validation in nature. Here, we show…”
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Recovery of ponderosa pine ecosystem carbon and water fluxes from thinning and stand-replacing fire
Published in Global change biology (01-10-2012)“…Carbon uptake by forests is a major sink in the global carbon cycle, helping buffer the rising concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, yet the potential for…”
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Distinct Growth Responses of Tundra Soil Bacteria to Short-Term and Long-Term Warming
Published in Applied and environmental microbiology (29-03-2023)“…Increases in Arctic temperatures have thawed permafrost and accelerated tundra soil microbial activity, releasing greenhouse gases that amplify climate…”
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Phylogenetic organization of bacterial activity
Published in The ISME Journal (01-09-2016)“…Phylogeny is an ecologically meaningful way to classify plants and animals, as closely related taxa frequently have similar ecological characteristics,…”
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Long-term elevated CO2 shifts composition of soil microbial communities in a Californian annual grassland, reducing growth and N utilization potentials
Published in The Science of the total environment (20-02-2019)“…The continuously increasing concentration of atmospheric CO2 has considerably altered ecosystem functioning. However, few studies have examined the long-term…”
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Taxonomic patterns in the nitrogen assimilation of soil prokaryotes
Published in Environmental microbiology (01-03-2018)“…Summary Nitrogen (N) is frequently a limiting nutrient in soil; its availability can govern ecosystem functions such as primary production and decomposition…”
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