Publications
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Recent Publications
2018
- Minerovic, A.J., O.J. Valverde-Barrantes, C.B. Blackwood. 2018. Importance of Physical and Microbial Mechanisms of Decomposition Vary by Root Order in Two Temperate Tree Species with Differing Chemical and Morphological Traits. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 124:142-149.
- Valverde-Barrantes, O.J., K.A. Smemo, L.M. Feinstein, M.W. Kershner, C.B. Blackwood. 2018. Patterns in spatial distribution and root trait syndromes for ecto and arbuscular mycorrhizal temperate trees in a mixed broadleaf forest. Oecologia 186:731–741.
2017
- Tomiolo, S, J Metz, CB Blackwood, K Djendoucic, L Henneberga , C Müller, K Tielbörger. 2017. Short-term drought and long-term climate legacy affect production of chemical defenses among plant ecotypes. Environmental and Experimental Botany 141:124-131.
- Horton, D.J., M.W. Kershner, C.B. Blackwood. 2017. Suitability of PCR primers for characterizing invertebrate communities from soil and leaf litter targeting metazoan 18S ribosomal or cytochrome oxidase I (COI) genes. European Journal of Soil Biology 80:43-48.
- Valverde-Barrantes, OJ, GT Freschet, C Roumet, CB Blackwood. 2017. A worldview of root traits: the influence of ancestry, growth form, climate and mycorrhizal association on the functional trait variation of fine root tissues in seed plants. New Phytologist 215: 1562–1573.
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- Ayayee, PA, S Ghosh, OJ Valverde-Barrantes, CB Blackwood, TV Royer, LG Leff. 2017. Initial nitrogen enrichment conditions determines variations in nitrogen substrate utilization by heterotrophic bacterial isolates. BMC Microbiology 17(1):87.
- Freschet, GT, OJ Valverde-Barrantes, JM Craine, ML McCormack, C Violle, CB Blackwood, KR Urban-Mead, CM Iversen, A Bonis, LH Comas, JHC Cornelissen, M Dong, F Fort, D Guo, SE Hobbie, RJ Holdaway, SW Kembel, N Makita, VG Onipchenko, C Picon-Cochard, PB Reich, EG de la Riva, SW Smith, NA Soudzilovskaia, MG Tjoelker, DA Wardle, C Roumet. 2017. Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation. Journal of Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12769
- Iversen, C.M., M.L. McCormack, A.S. Powell, C.B. Blackwood, G.T. Freschet, J. Kattge, C. Roumet, D.B. Stover, N.A. Soudzilovskaia, O.J. Valverde-Barrantes, P.M. van Bodegom, C. Violle. 2017. A global Fine-Root Ecology Database to address belowground challenges in plant ecology. New Phytologist 215:15-26.
2016
- Valverde-Barrantes, O.J., C.B. Blackwood. 2016. Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum: Commentary on Kramer-Walter et al. Journal of Ecology 104:1311–1313.
- Valverde-Barrantes, O.J., A.L. Horning, K.A. Smemo, C.B. Blackwood. 2016. Phylogenetically structured traits in root systems influence arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization in woody angiosperms. Plant and Soil 404:1-12.
- Gacura, M.D., D.D. Sprockett, B. Heidenreich, C.B. Blackwood. 2016. Comparison of pectin-degrading fungal communities in temperate forests using glycosyl hydrolase family 28 pectinase primers targeting Ascomycete fungi. Journal of Microbiological Methods 123:108-113.