KBS LTER Publications

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2023

Haan, N. L. and D. A. Landis. 2023. Pest suppression potential varies across 10 bioenergy cropping systems. GCB Bioenergy 15:765-775.

Haan, N. L., G. N. Benucci, C. M. Fiser, G. Bonito, and D. A. Landis. 2023. Contrasting effects of bioenergy crops on biodiversity. Science Advances 9:eadh7960.

Howe, A., N. Stopnisek, S. K. Dooley, F. Yang, K. L. Grady, and A. Shade. 2023. Seasonal activities of the phyllosphere microbiome of perennial crops. Nature Communications 14:1039.

Hussain, M. Z., S. K. Hamilton, and G. P. Robertson. 2023. Soil phosphorus drawdown by perennial bioenergy cropping systems in the Midwestern US. GCB Bioenergy 15:254-263.

Lei, C., J. Chen, and G. P. Robertson. 2023. Climate cooling benefits of cellulosic bioenergy crops from elevated albedo. GCB Bioenergy 15:1373-1386.

2022

Hussain, M. Z., S. K. Hamilton, and G. P. Robertson. 2022. Data from: Soil phosphorus drawdown by perennial bioenergy cropping systems in the Midwestern US. Dryad, Dataset doi: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dfn2z355r

Lei, C. 2022. The analysis of albedo on bioenergy crops: Assessment for climate and global warming impact. Dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI.

2021

Hussain, M. Z., S. K. Hamilton, G. P. Robertson, and B. Basso. 2021. Phosphorus availability and leaching losses in annual and perennial cropping systems in an upper US Midwest landscape. Scientific Reports 11:20367.

Hussain, M. Z., S. K. Hamilton, G. P. Robertson, and B. Basso. 2021. Data from: Phosphorus availability and leaching losses in annual and perennial cropping systems in an upper US Midwest landscape. Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8sf7m0cpx .

Kuhl, A. S., A. D. Kendall, R. L. van Dam, S. K. Hamilton, and D. W. Hyndman. 2021. Root water uptake of biofuel crops revealed by coupled electrical resistivity and soil water content measurements. Vadose Zone Journal 20:e20124.

2020

Gelfand, I., S. K. Hamilton, A. N. Kravchenko, R. D. Jackson, K. D. Thelen, and G. P. Robertson. 2020. Empirical evidence for the potential climate benefits of decarbonizing light vehicle transport in the U.S. with bioenergy from purpose-grown biomass with and without BECCS. Dryad, Dataset https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.44j0zpc8r.

Hussain, M. Z., G. P. Robertson, B. Basso, and S. K. Hamilton. 2020. Data from: Leaching losses of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen from agricultural soils in the upper US Midwest. Dryad, Dataset https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0p2ngf1xb.

Hussain, M. Z., G. P. Robertson, B. Basso, and S. K. Hamilton. 2020. Leaching losses of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen from agricultural soils in the upper US Midwest. Science of the Total Environment 734:139379.

Kuhl, A. S. 2020. Development and application of a coupled hydrogeophysical inversion model for estimating soil and root properties. Dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Wang, S., G. R. Sanford, G. P. Robertson, R. D. Jackson, and K. D. Thelen. 2020. Perennial bioenergy crop yield and quality response to nitrogen fertilization. BioEnergy Research 13:157-166.

2019

Duncan, D. S., L. G. Oates, I. Gelfand, N. Millar, G. P. Robertson, and R. D. Jackson. 2019. Environmental factors function as constraints on soil nitrous oxide fluxes in bioenergy feedstock cropping systems. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 11:416-426.

Grady, K. L., J. W. Sorensen, N. Stopnisek, J. Guittar, and A. Shade. 2019. Assembly and seasonality of core phyllosphere microbiota on perennial biofuel crops. Nature Communications 10:4135.

Hussain, M. Z., A. K. Bhardwaj, B. Basso, G. P. Robertson, and S. K. Hamilton. 2019. Nitrate leaching from continuous corn, perennial grasses, and poplar in the US Midwest. Journal of Environmental Quality 48:1849-1855.

Xue, C., Y. Hao, X. Pu, C. Ryan Penton, Q. Wang, M. Zhao, B. Zhang, W. Ran, Q. Huang, Q. Shen, and J. M. Tiedje. 2019. Effect of LSU and ITS genetic markers and reference databases on analyses of fungal communities. Biology and Fertility of Soils 55:79-88.

2018

Sprunger, C. D. and G. P. Robertson. 2018. Data from: Early accumulation of active fraction soil carbon in newly established cellulosic biofuel systems. Dryad Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7jq46.

Sprunger, C. D. and G. P. Robertson. 2018. Early accumulation of active fraction soil carbon in newly established cellulosic biofuel systems. Geoderma 318:42-51.

2017

Emery, S. M., M. L. Reid, L. Bell-Dereske, and K. L. Gross. 2017. Soil mycorrhizal and nematode diversity vary in response to bioenergy crop identity and fertilization. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 9:1644-1656.

Sanford, G. R., R. D. Jackson, L. G. Oates, G. P. Robertson, S. Roley, and K. D. Thelen. 2017. Biomass production a stronger driver of cellulosic ethanol yield than biomass quality. Agronomy Journal 109:1911-1922.

Sprunger, C. D., L. G. Oates, R. D. Jackson, and G. P. Robertson. 2017. Plant community composition influences fine root production and biomass allocation in perennial bioenergy cropping systems of the upper Midwest, USA. Biomass and Bioenergy 105:248-258.

Wang, S. 2017. Biomass production potential, theoretical ethanol yield, environmental sustainability of Miscanthus x giganteus and nitrogen fertilizer effect on quantity and quality in five lignocellulosic biomass crops in north-central U.S. Thesis, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI.

Zhang, B., C. R. Penton, C. Xue, J. F. Quensen, S. S. Roley, J. Guo, A. Garoutte, T. Zheng, and J. M. Tiedje. 2017. Soil depth and crop determinants of bacterial communities under ten biofuel cropping systems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 112:140-152.

2016

Duncan, D. S. 2016. Linking soil microbiology and environmental conditions to variability in nitrous oxide production in bioenergy cropping systems. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

Garoutte, A., E. Cardenas, J. Tiedje, and A. Howe. 2016. Methodologies for probing the metatranscriptome of grassland soil. Journal of Microbiological Methods 131:122-129.

Garoutte, A. 2016. Identifying the activities of rhizosphere microbial communities using metatranscriptomics. Dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

Guo, J. 2016. Rhizosphere metagenomics of three biofuel crops. Dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

Guo, J., J. R. Cole, Q. Zhang, C. T. Brown, and J. M. Tiedje. 2016. Microbial community analysis with ribosomal gene fragments from shotgun metagenomes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 82:157-166.

2015

Hamilton, S. K., M. Z. Hussain, A. K. Bhardwaj, B. Basso, and G. P. Robertson. 2015. Comparative water use by maize, perennial crops, restored prairie, and poplar trees in the US Midwest. Environmental Research Letters 10:064015.

Tiemann, L. K. and A. S. Grandy. 2015. Mechanisms of soil carbon accrual and storage in bioenergy cropping systems. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 7:161-174.

Wang, Q., J. A. Fish, M. Gilman, Y. Sun, C. T. Brown, J. M. Tiedje, and J. R. Cole. 2015. Xander: employing a novel method for efficient gene-targeted metagenomic assembly. Microbiome 3:32.