McMurdo LTER Publications
McMurdo Dry Valley lake edge ‘moats’: The ecological intersection between terrestrial and aquatic polar desert habitat. Antarctic Science. 2024:1 - 17. doi:10.1017/S0954102024000087.
Remotely characterizing photosynthetic biocrust in snowpack-fed microhabitats of Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Science of Remote Sensing. 2024:100120. doi:10.1016/j.srs.2024.100120.
Causes and characteristics of electrical resistivity variability in shallow (<4 m) soils in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2023;128(2):e2022JF006696. doi:10.1029/2022JF006696.
Ecological stoichiometry drives the evolution of soil nematode life history traits. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2023;177:108891. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108891.
Influence of landscape-variation in geochemistry on taxonomic and functional composition of microbial mat communities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. . Biological Sciences. 2023;M.S. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/115384.
. Connectivity: Insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network. Ecosphere. 2021;12(5):e03432. doi:10.1002/ecs2.v12.510.1002/ecs2.3432.
Counting carbon: Quantifying biomass in the McMurdo Dry Valleys through orbital and field observations. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 2021;42(22):8597 - 8623. doi:10.1080/01431161.2021.1981559.
Patterns and trends of organic matter processing and transport: Insights from the US Long-term Ecological Research Network. Climate Change Ecology. 2021;2:100025. doi:10.1016/j.ecochg.2021.100025.
Estimating microbial mat biomass in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica using satellite imagery and ground surveys. Polar Biology. 2020. doi:10.1007/s00300-020-02742-y.
. Evaluating alternative metacommunity hypotheses for diatoms in the McMurdo Dry Valleys using simulations and remote sensing data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2020;8. doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.521668.
. Remote characterization of photosynthetic communities in the Fryxell basin of Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Antarctic Science. 2020. doi:10.1017/S0954102020000176.
Biotic interactions are an unexpected yet critical control on the complexity of an abiotically driven polar ecosystem. Communications Biology. 2019;2(1). doi:10.1038/s42003-018-0274-5.
Nematodes in a polar desert reveal the relative role of biotic interactions in the coexistence of soil animals. Communications Biology. 2019;2(1). doi:10.1038/s42003-018-0260-y.
Unimodal productivity–diversity relationships among bacterial communities in a simple polar soil ecosystem. Environmental Microbiology. 2019;21(7). doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14639.
. Catch and release: Hyporheic retention and mineralization of N-fixing Nostoc sustains downstream microbial mat biomass in two polar desert streams. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 2018;3(4):357 - 364. doi:10.1002/lol2.10087.
. Observed trends of soil fauna in the Antarctic Dry Valleys: early signs of shifts predicted under climate change. Ecology. 2018;99(2):312 - 321. doi:10.1002/ecy.2090.
. Soil biological responses to C, N and P fertilization in a polar desert of Antarctica. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2018;122. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.03.025.
. Stable C and N isotope ratios reveal soil food web structure and identify the nematode Eudorylaimus antarcticus as an omnivore–predator in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Polar Biology. 2018;41(5):1013–1018. doi:10.1007/s00300-017-2243-8.
. Stoichiometric Shifts in Soil C:N:P Promote Bacterial Taxa Dominance, Maintain Biodiversity, and Deconstruct Community Assemblages. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2018;9. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.01401.
Decadal ecosystem response to an anomalous melt season in a polar desert in Antarctica. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2017;1(9):1334-1338. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0253-0.
Primary productivity as a control over soil microbial diversity along environmental gradients in a polar desert ecosystem. PeerJ. 2017;5(10):e3377. doi:10.7717/peerj.3377.
. A simulation-based approach to understand how metacommunity characteristics influence emergent biodiversity patterns. Oikos. 2017;126(5):723-737. doi:10.1111/oik.03690.
. Evidence for dispersal and habitat controls on pond diatom communities from the McMurdo Sound Region of Antarctica. Polar Biology. 2016. doi:10.1007/s00300-016-1901-6.
Microbial Community Responses to Increased Water and Organic Matter in the Arid Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2016;7(e23484S2237R25e97876e16410550e61217386e14510884660e19953e2527e661032901141). doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01040.
Global environmental change and the nature of aboveground net primary productivity responses: insights from long-term experiments. Oecologia. 2015;177(4):935 - 947. doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3230-9.