An article led by Ashish Malik is now published in the ISME Journal: "Bacterial population-level trade-offs between drought tolerance and resource acquisition traits impact decomposition"
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Steve runs for office!
Steven Allison is running for a seat on the Irvine Ranch Water District Board of Directors in the Nov. 5, 2024, election.
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Bahareh Sorouri's latest paper on "Sphingomonas clade and functional distribution with simulated climate change" is out in Microbiology Spectrum!
Congrats Dr. Nugent Suratt
EEB PhD student Andie Nugent Suratt defended her dissertation on "Impacts of Climate Change and Urbanization on Soil Microbial Communities" and will be starting a postdoc at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Congratulations, Andie!
Congrats Dr. Hemming-Schroeder!
ESS PhD student Nicole Hemming-Schroeder defended her dissertation on "Mapping and Modeling Individual Tree Mortality in California’s Sierra Nevada After the 2012-2016 Drought." Congratulations, and best wishes for your postdoc at CU Boulder!
Cover story: wood, termites, fungi
Our article entitled "Wood traits explain microbial but not termite-driven decay in Australian tropical rainforest and savanna" made the cover of the Journal of Ecology! Also check out our blog post for a behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of doing...
An eco-evolutionary concept
Our recent article in Ecology Letters describes how ecology and evolution blend together in microbial responses to environmental change: "Investigating the eco-evolutionary response of microbiomes to environmental change"
Will drought destabilize soil C?
Read the paper to find out: "Microbial drought resistance may destabilize soil carbon"
Estimating tree mortality
Congratulations to Nicole Hemming-Schroeder for publishing her first dissertation chapter in JGR Biogeosciences: "Estimating Individual Tree Mortality in the Sierra Nevada Using Lidar and Multispectral Reflectance Data"
Sphingomonas study published
Congratulations to Bahareh Sorouri for publishing her dissertation chapter in Frontiers in Microbiology: "Variation in Sphingomonas traits across habitats and phylogenetic clades"