McMurdo LTER Publications
A comparison of anhydrobiosis in nematodes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica and Short Grass Steppe, Colorado. 2008. doi:LTER.
. Controls on soil biodiversity: insight s from extreme environments. Applied Soil Ecology. 1999;13:137-150.
. Co-variation in soil biodiversity and biogeochemistry in Northern and Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science. 2006;18:535-548. doi:10.1017/S0954102006000587.
Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes. Proceedings Bational Academy of Sciences. 2012. doi:10.1073/pnas.1215210110.
Culturing the Antarctic Nematode Plectus murrayi. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2010;2010(11):pdb.prot5522 - pdb.prot5522. doi:10.1101/pdb.prot5522.
. 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.
Decline in a dominant invertebrate species contributes to altered carbon cycling in a low-diversity soil ecosystem. Global Change Biology. 2008;14:1734-1744. doi:LTER.
. Decoupled responses of soil bacteria and their invertebrate consumer to warming, but not freeze-thaw cycles, in the Antarctic Dry Valleys. Ecology Letters. 2017;20(10):1242-1249. doi:10.1111/ele.12819.
. Desiccation survival in an Antarctic nematode: molecular analysis using expressed sequenced tags. BMC GENOMICS. 2009;10:69. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-69.
. Determining habitat suitability for soil invertebrates in an extreme environment: The McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Antarctic Science. 2001;13:9-17.
. Detritus, trophic dynamics and biodiversity. Ecology Letters. 2004;7:584-600. doi:LTER.
Developing new perspectives from advances in soil biodiversity research. In: Biological Diversity and Function in Soils. Biological Diversity and Function in Soils. Cambridge University Press; 2005:3-30.
. Distribution and diversity of soil protozoa in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Polar Biology. 2005;28:756-762.
. Distribution and life cycle of Scottnema lindsayae (Nematoda) in Antarctic soils: A modeling analysis of tempaerature responses. Polar Biology. 2002;25:118-125.
. Diversity and distribution of Victoria Land biota. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2006;38:3003-3018. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2006.04.030.
Ecological Biogeography of the Terrestrial Nematodes of Victoria Land, Antarctica. ZooKeys. 2014;419:29 - 71. doi:10.3897/zookeys.419.7180.
. Ecological linkages between aboveground and belowground biota. Science. 2004;304:1629-1633. doi:LTER.
. 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.
The ecology of pulse events: insights from an extreme climatic event in a polar desert ecosystem. Ecosphere. 2012;3(2):art17. doi:10.1890/ES11-00325.1.
Effect of slow desiccation and freezing on gene transcription and stress survival of an Antarctic nematode. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2010;213(11):1803 - 1812. doi:10.1242/jeb.032268.
. Effects of Human Trampling on Populations of Soil Fauna in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Conservation Biology. 2008;22(6):1544-1551. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01034.x.
Elevational constraints on the composition and genomic attributes of microbial communities in Antarctic soils. . mSystems. 2022;7(1):e01330-21. doi:10.1128/msystems.01330-21.
Experimentally increased snow accumulation alters soil moisture and animal community structure in a polar desert. Polar Biology. 2010;33(7):897 - 907. doi:10.1007/s00300-010-0766-3.
Exploring the boundaries of microbial habitability in soil. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2021;126(6). doi:10.1029/2020JG006052.
Extreme streams: flow intermittency as a control on diatom communities in meltwater streams in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 2012;69(8):1405 - 1419. doi:10.1139/f2012-022.