KBS LTER Publications

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2023

Ulbrich, T. C. 2023. Mechanisms to management: Harnessing plant-microbial interactions and soil health for sustainable agriculture. Dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI.

2022

Hamilton, S. K., D. B. Weed, M. Z. Hussain, K. Egeler, and K. Kahmark. 2022. Bromide tracer study to investigate depth of water uptake by switchgrass underneath vs. outside rainout shelters. Kellogg Biological Station Long-term Ecological Research Special Publication. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7105961..

Kravchenko, A. N., J. A. Richardson, J. H. Lee, and A. K. Guber. 2022. Distribution of Mn oxidation states in grassland soils and their relationships with soil pores. Environmental Science & Technology 56:16462-16472.

Liu, Y., S. E. Evans, M. L. Friesen, and L. K. Tiemann. 2022. Root exudates shift how N mineralization and N fixation contribute to the plant-available N supply in low fertility soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 165:108541.

2021

Smercina, D. N., S. E. Evans, M. L. Friesen, and L. K. Tiemann. 2021. Temporal dynamics of free-living nitrogen fixation in the switchgrass rhizosphere. GCB Bioenergy 13:1814-1830.

Smercina, D., S. E. Evans, M. L. Friesen, and L. K. Tiemann. 2021. Data from: Temporal dynamics of free‐living nitrogen fixation in the switchgrass rhizosphere. Dryad, Dataset https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.931zcrjm3.

2020

Martinez-Feria, R. and B. Basso. 2020. Predicting soil carbon changes in switchgrass grown on marginal lands under climate change and adaptation strategies. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 12:742-755.

Petipas, R. H., A. W. Bowsher, C. S. Bekkering, C. N. Jack, E. E. McLachlan, R. A. White, B. S. Younginger, L. K. Tiemann, S. E. Evans, and M. L. Friesen. 2020. Interactive effects of microbes and nitrogen on Panicum virgatum root functional traits and patterns of phenotypic selection. International Journal of Plant Sciences 181:20-32.

Smercina, D. N., S. E. Evans, M. L. Friesen, and L. K. Tiemann. 2020. Impacts of nitrogen addition on switchgrass root-associated diazotrophic community structure and function. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 5:88-96.

Smercina, D. N. 2020. Environmental and biological controls on free-living nitrogen fixation. Dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

2019

Smercina, D. N., S. E. Evans, M. L. Friesen, and L. K. Tiemann. 2019. To fix or not to fix: Controls on free-living nitrogen fixation in the rhizosphere. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 85:e02546-18.

2018

Kasmerchak, C. S. and R. Schaetzl. 2018. Soils of the GLBRC Marginal Land Experiment (MLE) Sites. Kellogg Biological Station Long-term Ecological Research Special Publication. Zenodo, http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2578238..

2010

da C. Jesus, E., E. Susilawati, S. L. Smith, Q. Wang, B. Chai, R. Farris, J. L. Rodrigues, K. D. Thelen, and J. M. Tiedje. 2010. Bacterial communities in the rhizosphere of biofuel crops grown on marginal lands as evaluated by 16S rRNA gene pyrosequences. BioEnergy Research 3:20-27.