Publications

Slessarev, E. W., Mayer, A., Kelly, C., Georgiou, K., Pett‐Ridge, J., & Nuccio, E. E. (2022). 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