Timmermann, T., Yip, C., Yang, Y., Wemmer, K.A., Chowdhury, A., Dores, D., Takayama, T., Nademanee, S., Traag, B., Zamanian, K., Gonzalez, B., Breeker, D.O., Fierer, N., Slessarev, E.W., Fuenzalida-Meriz, G.A. (2025) Harnessing microbes to weather native silicates in agricultural soils for scalable carbon dioxide removal. Global Change Biology, 31(5) e70216. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70216
Min, K., Nuccio, E, Slessarev, E.W., Kan, M., McFarlane, K.J., Oerter, E., Jurusik, A., Sanford, G., Thelen, K.D., Pett-Ridge, J., Berhe, A.A. (2025). Deep-rooted perennials alter microbial respiration and chemical composition of carbon in density fractions along soil depth profiles. Geoderma 455, 117202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117202
Slessarev, E.W., Nezgoduk, A., Golla, J.K., Faybishenko, B., Dwivedi, D., Nico, P.S., Birkholzer, J.T., O’Ryan, D., Alvarez, O., Kersting, A.B. and Zavarin, M., (2024). Application of the DRASTIC Model to Assess the Vulnerability of Groundwater Contamination Near Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine. ACS ES&T Water. 5(1) 366-376. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.4c00891
Sokol, N.W., Sohng, J., Moreland, K., Slessarev, E.W., Goertzen, H., Schmidt, R., Samaddar, S., Holzer, I., Almaraz, M., Geoghegan, E., Houlton, B., Montañez, I., Pett-Ridge, J., Scow, K., (2024). Reduced accrual of mineral-associated organic matter after two years of enhanced rock weathering in cropland soils, though no net losses of soil organic carbon. Biogeochemistry 167, 989–1005. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-024-01160-0
Georgiou, K., Koven, C.D., Wieder, W.R., Hartman, M.D., Riley, W.J., Pett-Ridge, J., Bouskill, N.J., Abramoff, R.Z., Slessarev, E.W., Ahlström, A., Parton, W.J., Pellegrini, A.F.A., Pierson, D., Sulman, B.N., Zhu, Q., Jackson, R.B., (2024). Emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon driven by mineral associations. Nature Geoscience 17, 205–212. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01384-7
Sokol, N.W., Foley, M.M., Blazewicz, S.J., Bhattacharyya, A., DiDonato, N., Estera-Molina, K., Firestone, M., Greenlon, A., Hungate, B.A., Kimbrel, J., Liquet, J., Lafler, M., Marple, M., Nico, P.S., Paša-Tolić, L., Slessarev, E., Pett-Ridge, J., (2024). The path from root input to mineral-associated soil carbon is dictated by habitat-specific microbial traits and soil moisture. Soil Biol. and Biochem., 193, 109367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109367
Slessarev, E. W., Mayer, A., Kelly, C., Georgiou, K., Pett‐Ridge, J., & Nuccio, E. E. (2023). Initial soil organic carbon stocks govern changes in soil carbon: Reality or artifact? Global Change Biology, gcb.16491. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16491
Slessarev, E.W., Chadwick, O.A., Sokol, N.W., Nuccio, E.E., Pett-Ridge, J. (2022) Weathering controls the potential for soil carbon storage at a continental scale. Biogeochemistry. 157 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-021-00859-8
Chadwick, O. A., Chorover, J., Chadwick, K. D., Bateman, J. B., Slessarev, E. W., Kramer, M., Thompson, A., & Vitousek, P. M. (2022). Constraints of Climate and Age on Soil Development in Hawai‘i. In A. S. Wymore, W. H. Yang, W. L. Silver, W. H. McDowell, & J. Chorover (Eds.), Biogeochemistry of the Critical Zone (pp. 49–88). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95921-0_3
Sokol, N. W., Slessarev, E.W., Marschmann, G. L., Nicolas, A., Blazewicz, S. J., Brodie, E. L., Firestone, M. K., Foley, M. M., Hestrin, R., Hungate, B. A., Koch, B. J., Stone, B. W., Sullivan, M. B., Zablocki, O., LLNL Soil Microbiome Consortium, Trubl, G., McFarlane, K., Stuart, R., Nuccio, E., … Pett-Ridge, J. (2022). Life and death in the soil microbiome: How ecological processes influence biogeochemistry. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 20(7), 415–430. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-022-00695-z
Oerter, E., Slessarev, E.W., Visser, A., Min, K., Kan, M., McFarlane, K.J., Saha, M.C., Asefaw Berhe, A., Pett-Ridge, J., Nuccio, E.E. (2021) Hydraulic Redistribution by Deeply Rooted Grasses and its Ecohydrologic Implications in the Southern Great Plains of North America. Hydrological Processes. 35 (9), e14366. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14366
Min, K., Slessarev, E.W., Kan, M.P., McFarlane, K.J., Oerter, E., Pett-Ridge, J., Nuccio, E.E., Berhe, A.A. (2021) Depth Gradients in microbial growth kinetics under deeply rooted versus shallow rooted plants. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 162, 108401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108401
Slessarev, E.W., Greene, A.C., Homyak, P.M., Ying, S.C., Schimel, J.P. (2021) High resolution measurements reveal abiotic and biotic mechanisms of elevated NOx emission after wetting dry soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 160, 108316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108316
Bingham, N.L., Slessarev, E.W., Homyak, P.M., Chadwick, O.A. (2021) Rock-sourced nitrogen in semi-arid, shale-derived California soils. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 57, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.672522
Homyak, P.M., Slessarev, E.W., Hagerty, S., Greene, A.C., Marchus, K., Dowdy, K., Iverson, S., Schimel, J.P. (2021). Amino acids dominate diffusive nitrogen fluxes in acidic tussock tundra. New Phytologist. 231 (6) 2162-2173. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17315
Slessarev, E.W., Nuccio, E. E., McFarlane, K. J., Ramon, C., Saha, M, Firestone, M. K., Pett-Ridge, J. (2020) Quantifying the effects of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) on deep organic C stocks using natural abundance 14C in three marginal soils. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 12 (10), 834-847. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12729
Visioni, D., Slessarev, E. W., MacMartin, D., Mahowald, N., Goodale, C., Xia, L. (2020). What goes up must come down: impacts of deposition in a sulfate geoengineering scenario. Environmental Research Letters. 15 (9) 40-63. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab94eb
Oono, R., Black, D., Slessarev, E. W., Sickler, B., Strom, A., Apigo, A. (2020). Species diversity of fungal endophytes across a stress gradient for plants. New Phytologist. 228 (1) 2010-225. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16709
Slessarev, E. W., & Schimel, J. P. (2020). Partitioning sources of CO2 emission after soil wetting using high-resolution observations and minimal models. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 107753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107753
Slessarev, E. W., Lin, Y., Jiménez, B. Y., Homyak, P. M., Chadwick, O. A., D’Antonio, C. M., & Schimel, J. P. (2020). Cellular and extracellular C contributions to respiration after wetting dry soil. Biogeochemistry, 147, 307-328. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-020-00645-y
Slessarev, E.W., Feng, X., Bingham N.L., & Chadwick, O.A. (2019). Landscape age as a major control on the geography of soil weathering. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 33, 1513-1531. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GB006266
Homyak, P.M., Blankinship, J.C., Slessarev, E.W., Shaeffer S.M., Manzoni, S. & Schimel J.P. (2018). Effects of altered dry-season length and plant inputs on soluble carbon. Ecology, 99(10), 2348-2362. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2473
Lin, Y., Slessarev E.W., Yehl, S.T., D’Antonio, C.M. & King J.Y. (2018). Long-term nutrient fertilization increased soil carbon stocks in California grasslands. Ecosystems 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-018-0300-y
Slessarev, E.W., Lin, Y., Bingham, N.L., Johnson J.E., Dai, Y., Schimel J.P. & Chadwick, O.A. (2016) Water balance creates a threshold in soil pH at the global scale. Nature, 540, 567-569. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20139
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