Publications
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Published57. Bouskill NJ, Chacon SS, Cusack DF, Dietterich LH, Chen L, Khurram A, Voriskova J, Holman HY (2025). Climate History Modulates Stress Responses of Common Soil Bacteria Under Experimental Drought. The ISME Journal. Preprint.
56. Li Z, Riley WJ, Marschmann G, Karaoz U, Shirley IA, Wu Q, Bouskill NJ, et al., (2025). Wetland methane emissions are strongly sensitive to genome-inferred microbial trait distributions. Nature Communications. 55. Mekonnen Z, Riley WJ, Shirley I, Bouskill NJ, Grant R (2025). Changes in high-latitude surface energy balance driven by snowpack and vegetation dynamics under warmer climate. Environmental Research Letters. 54. Bouskill NJ, Newcomer M, Carroll RWH, et al., (2024). A tale of two catchments: Causality analysis and isotope systematics reveal mountainous watershed traits that regulate the retention and release of nitrogen. JGR: Biogeosciences. 53. Zhu Q, Riley WJ, Tang J, Bouskill NJ (2024). Plant responses to elevated CO2 under competing hypotheses of nitrogen and phosphorus limitations. Ecological Applications. 52. Georgiou K, Koven CD, Wieder WR, Riley WJ, Pett-Ridge J, Bouskill NJ, et al. (2024). Mineral protection drives emergent soil carbon temperature sensitivity. Nature Geoscience. 51. Pavia MJ, et al., (2023). Genes and genome-resolved metagenomics reveal the microbial functional make up of Amazon peatlands under geochemical gradients. Environmental Microbiology. 50. Chacon SS, Cusack DF, Khurram A, Bill M, Dietrich LH, Bouskill NJ (2023). Divergent responses of soil microorganisms to throughfall exclusion across tropical forest soils driven by soil fertility and climate history. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. preprint 49. Dietterich L, Bouskill NJ, Brown M Castro B, Chacon S, Colburn L, Cordeiro A, García E, Gordon A, Gordon E, Hedgpeth A, Konwent W, Oppler G, Reu J, Tsiames C, Valdes E, Zeko A, Cusack D (2022). Effects of experimental and seasonal drying on soil microbial biomass and nutrient cycling in four lowland tropical forests. Biogeochemistry. 48. Dewey C, Nico P, Fox P, Bouskill NJ, Fendorf S (2022). Beaver dams overshadow climate extremes in controlling riparian hydrology and water quality. Nature Communications. 47. Mekonnen ZA, Riley WJ, Randerson JT, Shirley I, Bouskill NJ, Grant RF (2022). Wildfire exacerbates high-latitude soil carbon losses from climate warming. Environmental Research Letters. 46. Cusack D, Dietterich L., Bouskill NJ, Chacon S, Cordeiro A, McFarlane K (2022). Panama Rainforest Changes with Experimental Drought (PaRChED): Initial Effects of Partial Throughfall Exclusion on Soil Dynamics in Lowland Forests across Variation in Rainfall and Soil Fertility. In H. C. Muller-Landau & S. J. Wright (Eds.), The First 100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado: Plant and Ecosystem Science: Smithsonian Institute. 45. Gushgari-Doyle S, Cabugao KGM, Chacon SS, Wu X, Bhattacharyya A, Bouskill NJ, Chakraborty R (2022) Characterizing natural organic matter transformations by microbial communities in terrestrial subsurface ecosystems: A critical review of analytical techniques and challenges. Frontiers in Microbiology. 44. Malik AA, Bouskill NJ (2022). Drought impacts on microbial trait distribution and feedback to soil carbon cycling. Functional Ecology. 43. Bouskill NJ, Mekonnen ZA, Zhu Q, Grant RF, Riley WJ (2022). Microbial contribution to post-fire tundra ecosystem recovery over the 21st century. Communications Earth and Environment. Pre-print. 42. Wainwright H, Uhlemann S, Falco N, Bouskill NJ, Newcomer M, Dafflon B, Woodburn E, Franklin M, Minsley B, Williams KH, Hubbard SS (2022). Watershed zonation approach for tractably quantifying above- and belowground watershed heterogeneity and function. HESS. Preprint. 41. Riley WJ, Mekonnen ZA, Tang JY, Zhu Q, Bouskill NJ, Grant RF (2021). 21st Century tundra shrubification is controlled by non-growing season nutrient uptake. Environmental Research Letters. 40. Mekonnen Z, Riley WJ, Berner L, Bouskill NJ, Torn M, Iwahana G, Breen A, Myers-Smith I, Garcia Criado M, Liu Y, Euskirchen E, Goetz S, Mack M, Grant R (2021). Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance. Environmental Research Letters. 39. Newcomer ME, Bouskill NJ, Wainwright H, Maavara T, et al., (2021). Hysteresis Patterns of Watershed Nitrogen Retention and Loss over the past 50 years in United States Hydrological Basins. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 38. Maavara T, Siirila-Woodburn Erica R, Maina F, Maxwell RM, Sample JE, Chadwick KD, Carroll R, Newcomer ME, Dong W, Williams KH, Steefel C, Bouskill NJ (2021). Modeling geogenic and atmospheric nitrogen through the East River Watershed, Colorado Rocky Mountains. PLoS One. 37. Rogers BD, Newcomer ME, et al., (2021). Modeling the impact of riparian hollows on river corridor nitrogen exports. Frontiers in Water. 36. Wan J, Tokunaga TK, Williams KH, Dong W, Newman AM, Brown W, Bill M, Beutler CA, Harvey-Costello N, Conrad ME, Bouskill NJ, Hubbard SS. (2021). Overlooked N2O emissions driven by bedrock weathering released reactive nitrogen. Nature Geoscience. 35. Bouskill NJ, Riley WJ, Zhu Q, Mekonnen ZA, Grant RF (2020) Alaskan carbon-climate feedbacks will be weaker than suggested from short-term experiments. Nature Communications. 11, 5798. 34. Matheus Carnevali, et al., (2020). Meanders as a scaling motif for understanding of floodplain soil microbiome and biogeochemical potential at the watershed scale. Microbiome. bioRxiv link 33. Sorensen PO, Beller H, Bill M, Bouskill NJ, Hubbard SS, Karaoz U, Polussa A, Steltzer H, Wang S, Williams KH, Wu Y, Brodie EL (2020) The snowmelt niche differentiates three microbial life strategies that influence soil nitrogen availability during and after winter. Frontiers in Microbiology (bioAxiv link), 32. Kazuo I, Bouskill NJ, Brodie EL, Martiny J (2020) Phylogenetic conservation of soil bacterial responses to simulated global changes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B. 31. Cheng Y, Bouskill NJ, Brodie EL (2019) A Trait Based Modeling Approach to Exploring the Impacts of Species and Functional Diversity on Algal Community Productivity. Ecological Modelling. 30. Bouskill NJ, Conrad ME, Hobson C, Cheng Y, Bill M, Brodie EL, Forbes M, Casciotti KL, Williams KH (2019). Evidence for microbial mediated nitrate cycling within floodplain sediments during groundwater fluctuations. Frontiers in Earth Sciences. 29. Dwivedi D, Tang J, Bouskill NJ, Georgiou K, Chacon S, & Riley W (2019). Abiotic and biotic controls on soil organo-mineral interactions: Developing model structures to analyze why soil organic matter persists. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. 28. Riley WJ, Sierra C, Tang JY, Bouskill NJ, Zhu Q, Abramoff R. (2019), Next generation soil biogeochemistry model representations: A proposed community open source model farm (BeTR-S). In Multi-scale Biogeochemical Processes in Soil Ecosystems: Critical Reactions and Resilience to Climate Changes, edited by Y.Yang, M. Keiluweit, N. Senesi and B. Xing. 27. Maavara T, Lauerwald R, Laruelle G, Akbarzadeh Z, Bouskill NJ, Van Cappellen P, Regnier P (2019) Nitrous oxide emissions from inland waters: Are the IPCC estimates too high? Global Change Biology. 26. Eveillard D, Bouskill NJ, Vintache D, Gras J, Ward BB, Bourdon J. (2018) Probabilistic modeling of microbial networks for integrating partial quantitative knowledge within the nitrogen cycle. Frontiers in Microbiology. 25. Hubbard S, Williams KH, Agarwal D, Banfield J, Bouskill NJ, et al., (2018), The East River, CO Watershed: A Mountainous Community Testbed for Improving Predictive Understanding of Multi-Scale Hydrological-Biogeochemical Dynamics. Vadose Zone Journal. 24. Delahaye B, Eveillard D, Bouskill NJ (2017). On the power of uncertainties in microbial system modeling: No need to hide them anymore. mSystems. 23. Cheng Y, Hubbard C, Zheng L, Li Li, Ajo-Franklin J, Bouskill NJ (2017). Next generation modeling of microbial souring – parameterization through genomic information. International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation. 22. Yabusaki SB, Wilkins MJ, Fang Y, Williams KH, Bargar J, Beller H, Bouskill NJ, et al., (2017) Water table dynamics and biogeochemical cycling in a shallow variably-saturated floodplain. Environmental Science and Technology. 21. Cheng Y, Hubbard C, Li L, Bouskill NJ, Mollins SR, et al., (2016) Understanding microbial reservoir souring and remediation: A reactive transport model of the sulfur cycling and isotopic fractionation as impacted by nitrate and perchlorate. Environmental Science & Technology. 20. Le Roux X, Bouskill NJ, Niboyet A, Barthes L, Dijkstra P, Field CB, Hungate BA, Pommier T, Tang J, Terade A, Tourna M, Poly F. (2016) Predicting the response of soil nitrite oxidizers to multi-factorial global change: A trait-based approach. Frontiers in Microbiology. 19. Lloret E, Pascual JA, Brodie EL, Bouskill NJ, Insam H, Juarez MFD, Goberna M. (2016). Sewage sludge modifies soil microbial communities and plant performance. Applied Soil Ecology. 18. Bouskill NJ, Baran R, Wood TE, Hao Z, Ye Z, Bowen BP, Lim HC, Zhou J, Van Nostrand JD, Nico P, Holman HY, Gilbert B, Silver WL, Northen TR, Brodie, EL. (2016) Belowground response to drought in a weathered tropical forest. 2. Functional changes in microbial communities impact forest soil carbon cycling. Frontiers in Microbiology. 17. Bouskill NJ, Baran R, Wood TE, Ye Z, Bowen BP, Lim HC, Zhou J, Van Nostrand JD, Silver WL, Northen TR, Brodie, EL. (2016) Belowground response to drought in a weathered tropical forest. 1. Functional changes in microbial communities are induced by declining water potential. Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. Bouskill NJ, Riley WJ, Tang J (2014) Meta-analysis of high-latitude nitrogen-addition and warming studies uncovers crucial ecological mechanisms overlooked by land models. Biogeosciences. 15. Scott NM, Hess M, Bouskill NJ, Mason OU, Jansson JK, Gilbert JA (2014) The microbial nitrogen cycle is impacted by polyaromatic hydrocarbon pollution in marine sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. Mason OU, Scott NM, Gonzalez A, Robbins-Pianka A, Baelum J, Kimbrel J, Bouskill NJ, Prestat E, Borglin S, Joyner DC, Jurelevicius D, Stringfellow WT, Alvarez-Cohen L, Hazen TC, Knight R, Gilbert JA, Jansson JK. (2014) Metagenomics reveals sediments microbial community response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill. ISME Journal. 13. Rajeev L, da Rocha UN, Klitgord N, Luning EG, Fortney J, Axen SP, Shih PM, Bouskill NJ, Bowen BP, Kerfield C, Garcia-Pichel F, Brodie, EL, Northen TR, Mukhopadhyay A. (2013) Dynamic cyanobacterial response to hydration and dehydration in a desert biological soil crust. ISME Journal. 12. Bouskill NJ, Lim HC, Borglin S, Salve R, Wood T, Silver WL, Brodie EL. (2013). Pre-exposure to short-term drought increases the resistance of sub-tropical forest soil bacterial communities to extended drought. ISME Journal. 11. Bouskill NJ, Tang J, Brodie EL, Riley WJ. (2012). A trait-based microbial model to determine environmental controls on biogeography and nitrous oxide flux. Frontiers in Aquatic Microbiology. 10. Bouskill NJ, Eveillard D, Chien D, Jayakumar AD, Ward BB. (2012). Environmental factors determining ammonia-oxidizing organism distribution and diversity in marine environments. Environmental Microbiology. 9. Ward BB, Bouskill NJ. (2011). The utility of functional gene arrays for assessing community composition, relative abundance and distribution of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea. Methods in Enzymology. 8. Bouskill NJ, Eveillard D, O’Mullan GD, Jackson GA, Ward BB. (2011). Seasonal and annual reoccurrence in betaproteobacterial ammonia-oxidizing bacterial population structure. Environmental Microbiology. 7. Baran R, Bowen BP, Bouskill NJ, Brodie EL, Yannnone SM, Northen TR. (2010). Metabolite profiling of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 reveals unexpected metabolites. Analytical Chemistry. 6. Bouskill NJ, Barker-Finkel J, Handy RH, Galloway TS, Ford TE. (2010). Temporal bacterial diversity associated with metal-contaminated river sediments. Ecotoxicology. 5. Bouskill NJ, Barnhart E, Galloway T, Handy R, Ford T. (2007). Quantification of changing Pseudomonas aeruginosa SodA, HtpX and Mt gene abundance in response to trace metal toxicity: a potential biomarker of ecosystem health. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 4. Bouskill NJ, Galloway T, Handy R, Ford T. (2006). Development and application of microbial molecular biomarkers for assessing trace metal contamination. Marine Environmental Research. 62; 366-367. 3. Bouskill NJ, Handy R, Ford T, Galloway T. (2006). Using biochemical biomarkers to differentiate modes of Arsenic and Copper Toxicity: Na+/ K+ – ATPase TBARS and metallothionein induction in the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha and freshwater isopod, Asellus aquaticus. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 2. Hamner S, Bouskill NJ, Broadaway S, Tripathi A, Mishra RK, Ford TE. (2006). A pilot study of waterborne disease incidence, water use patterns and sewage pollution along the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health. 1. Bouskill NJ, Handy RD, Ford T, Galloway TS. (2004). The Rapid Assessment of copper and arsenic pollution. Biochemical Vs Genomic biomarkers. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A. In Review/RevisionBowen BP, Harwood TV, Louie KB,..., Bouskill NJ et al., (submitted). Structural insights into the global distribution of organic molecules.
Sorensen P, Karaoz U, Beller H, Bill M, Bouskill NJ, et al., (submitted). Coordinated organic and inorganic nitrogen transformations fuel soil microbial blooms and increase nitrogen retention during snowmelt. Preprint |