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While there are some useful tips for graduate students in there, advisors should read this and think, "how can I take the burden off the student." We need to remember our students are in training and are not fully formed researchers.

Environmental matrix and moisture are key determinants of microbial phenotypes expressed in a reduced complexity soil-analog biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

NEW in NATURE COMMUNICATION Conservation agriculture increases #soilhealth & crop yields after long-term warming Open Access: nature.com/articles/s4146… Led: Jialing Teng & Jing Tian #microbialbiomass #GlobalWarming #Fertilisers #soilbacteria #soilfungi #wheat #maize Uni Göttingen

Out now in NatureEcoEvo! Led by Dr. Lidong Mo & Dr. Constantin Zohner, we studied global wood density variation & its drivers🪵🌍 Our research reveals a latitudinal gradient, whereby wood in the tropics is 30% more dense than in boreal forests. Why? Learn more: doi.org/10.1038/s41559…

Native arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi play an important role in #grassland succession, but a changing environment may alter this role as #plant response is context-dependent Reb Bryant 🌾 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

For anyone teaching or learning DNA barcoding, here's an article describing three 1.5-hour introductory lesson outlines for high school students, designed as part of a two-week summer school program in Hawai'i. The lessons are focused around the DNA barcoding of algae but could

ggstatsplot : an R 📦 that is an extension of ggplot2 and creates stunning, publication-ready visualizations with integrated statistical tests 📈 indrajeetpatil.github.io/ggstatsplot/in… #DataScience #Stats #DataAnalysis #DataViz #ggplot2

Unexpected east-west range shifts in forest plants - our recent Europe-wide and long-term study now out in Science Magazine! I summarize the surprising findings here: the3dlab.org/2024/10/15/nit…

Are you interested in full length 16S rRNA sequencing on Oxford Nanopore? We developed a new workflow using UMIs and R10.4+ chemistry to enable highly accurate and multiplexed microbiome profiling. This was a long road, and I’m glad to see this out! 1/4 doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

New paper out in Ecology Letters 🤩 doi.org/10.1111/ele.14… 🙏co-authors: David Coulette, Philippe.ciais, Steven Allison We challenge the idea that "selection always leads to the same outcome, no matter the adaptive mechanism." Here's how👇 (1/7)

Article now out, led by Wolfram Buss: "Applying minerals to soil to draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide through synergistic organic and inorganic pathways." We discuss synergies btw. enhanced weathering, biochar, and secondary minerals to increase SOC. nature.com/articles/s4324…

We're recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to work on biogeochemical modelling: soilenvsci.wisc.edu/people/job-opp…

🔥 New paper by Amy Zimmerman Emily Graham (she/her) Jason McDermott showing that tiny viruses have huge potential to impact soil carbon cycling PNNLSoilsSFA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

Please RT. My department at UVM is just opened a tenure-track soil ecology faculty position (the one I vacated). Comes with good resources and a collegial department. Soil Biodiversity Soil Health Institute Soil Ecology Society ESA Soil Ecology Society of Nematologists Women In Soil Ecology

Big shoes to fill and a great opportunity!

Happy to share our latest article in nature, where we report how soil microbiomes across European grasslands exhibited a small, but highly consistent & phylogenetically conserved, response to extreme climatic events (drought, flood, freezing and heat)

Phenotypic plasticity accounts for changes in #plant phosphorus-acquisition strategies from mining to scavenging along a gradient of #soil phosphorus availability in South American Campos #grasslands👇 Diego Michelini besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

New preprint where we show that differences among ectomycorrhizal trees in their leaf litter nutrient stoichiometry, resource use patterns, and microbiome assembly can drive surrounding soil organic matter properties and ecosystem function biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

💥NEW in Global Change Biology Mineral-Associated Organic #Carbon and Persistent Molecules in Allochthonous Blue Carbon Ecosystems doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70… 🌊 #SoilOrganicMatter #sequestration #carbonsequestration #soil #GlobalWarming #Mangroves #seagrass #saltmarshes 🌊

Brian Darby's family started a scholarship fund for UG students with interdisciplinary interests that include biology, including preference for students with a soil ecology interest. Donations can be made at pd.UNDalumni.org/give-brian-dar…