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Congratulations to undergraduate Therese Pham for being awarded a research grant from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program to analyze enzymatic traits of bacteria!

Drought and nitrogen treatments at the Loma Ridge Global Change Experiment affect greenhouse gas fluxes according to a new study in Soil Biology and Biochemistry by Emma Aronson and UCI colleagues

Our new paper in Global Change Biology by Jianwei Li et al. uses data assimilation and modeling to show that soil microbial properties of carbon use efficiency and death rate don't adapt to soil warming at Harvard Forest.

New perspective article by Bin Wang argues that soil aggregates--separate micro‐environments embedded in a soil matrix--are mini-reactors for microbial and physical processes that cycle greenhouse gases. Now published in Global Change Biology.

Results of our microbiome transplant experiment across a climate gradient in Southern California are now published in PNAS!

Congratulations to Kelly Ramin for succesfully defending her PhD today!

We just published a paper in Fungal Ecology showing that there is no evolution of thermal compensation in respiration or enzymes of Neurospora discreta. Positive feedbacks to soil carbon loss under climate warming can be maintained. [published version free until 28...

New publication on plant-soil interactions under changing snow cover published in Soil Biology & Biochemistry by collaborator Weixing Liu

Check out Nameer Baker’s Ecology paper: "Microbial decomposers not constrained by climate history along a Mediterranean climate gradient in southern California"

Check out our new video about a project on wood, termites, and fungi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19qldIR-41M Also check out our new publication in Global Change Biology, “Temperature sensitivities of extracellular enzyme Vmax and Km across thermal...