selected publications

• journal article

  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide.  Ecology Letters. 85-95. 2015
  • Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2014
  • Changes in Bacterial and Fungal Communities across Compost Recipes, Preparation Methods, and Composting Times.  PLoS ONE. 2013
  • Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi.  Molecular Ecology. 5271-5277. 2013
  • Global biogeography of highly diverse protistan communities in soil.  ISME Journal. 652-659. 2013
  • Diversity, distribution and sources of bacteria in residential kitchens.  Environmental Microbiology. 588-596. 2013
  • Meeting Report: Fungal ITS Workshop (October 2012).  Standards in Genomic Sciences. 118-123. 2013
  • Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 21390-21395. 2012
  • Patterns of diversity for fungal assemblages of biological soil crusts from the southwestern United States.  Mycologia. 353-361. 2012
  • Using network analysis to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities.  ISME Journal. 343-351. 2012
  • A preliminary survey of lichen associated eukaryotes using pyrosequencing.  Lichenologist. 137-146. 2012
  • Microbial Biogeography of Public Restroom Surfaces.  PLoS ONE. 2011
  • The under-recognized dominance of Verrucomicrobia in soil bacterial communities.  Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 1450-1455. 2011
  • Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil.  ISME Journal. 908-917. 2011
  • Bacterial Communities Associated with the Lichen Symbiosis.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 1309-1314. 2011
  • Fungal communities of lichen-dominated biological soil crusts: Diversity, relative microbial biomass, and their relationship to disturbance and crust cover.  Journal of Arid Environments. 1192-1199. 2010
  • Archaeal populations in biological soil crusts from arid lands in North America.  Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2069-2074. 2009