Publications

KE Walters, KM Barbour, JM Powers, JBH Martiny. 2025. Microbial dispersal into surface soil is limited on a meter scale. The ISME Journal 19: wraf169.

Simpson, AMR, AB Chase, A. Rodríguez-Verdugo, and JBH Martiny. 2025. Investigating bacterial evolution in nature with metagenomics. Current Opinion in Microbiology 87: 102654.

Vivanco, L. and JBH Martiny. 2025. Rethinking assumptions about plant litter decomposition. BioScience: biaf036.

Beattie, GA, A Edlund, N Esiobu, J Gilbert, MH Nicolaisen, JK Jansson, P Jensen, M Keiluweit, JT Lennon, J Martiny, VR Minnis, D Newman, R Peixoto, C Schadt, and JR van der Meer. 2025. Soil microbiome interventions for carbon sequestration and climate mitigation. mSystems 10: e01129-24

Malik, AA, JBH Martiny, A Ribeiro, PO Sheridan, C Weihe, EL Brodie, SD Allison. 2024. Bacterial population-level trade-offs between drought tolerance and resource acquisition traits impact decomposition, The ISME Journal 18: wrae224.

Rodriguez, CI, K Isobe, and JBH Martiny. 2024. Short-term dietary fiber interventions produce consistent gut microbiome responses across studies. mSystems. e00133-24.

Lennon, JT, RZ Abramoff, SD Allison, RM Burckhardt, KM DeAngelis, JP Dunne, SD Frey, P Friedlingstein, CV Hawkes, BA Hungate, S Khurana, SN Kivlin, NM Levine, S Manzoni, AC Martiny, JBH Martiny, NK Nguyen, M Rawat, D Talmy, K Todd-Brown, M Vogt, WR Wieder, EJ Zaken. 2024. Priorities, opportunities, and challenges for integrating microorganisms into Earth system models for climate change prediction. mBio. 15:e004-24.

Barbour, KM, and JBH Martiny. 2024. Investigating eco-evolutionary processes of microbial community assembly in the wild using a model leaf litter system. The ISME Journal. 18: wrae043.

Finks, SS, P Moudgalya, C Weihe, and JBH Martiny. 2024. The contribution of plasmids to trait diversity in a soil bacterium, ISME Communications. ycae025. doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae025.

Scales, NC, KT Huynh, C Weihe, and JBH Martiny. 2023. Desiccation induces varied responses within a soil bacterial genus. Environmental Microbiology. doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16494.

Barbour, KM, C Weihe, KE Walters, and JBH Martiny. 2023. Testing the contribution of dispersal to microbial succession following a wildfire. mSystems 8: e00579-23.

Piton, G, SD Allison, M Bahram, F Hildebrand, JBH Martiny, KK Treseder, and AC Martiny. 2023. Life history strategies of soil bacterial communities across global terrestrial biomes. Nature Microbiology 8: 2093-2102.

Martiny, JBH, AC Martiny, E Brodie, AB Chase, A Rodríguez‐Verdugo, KK Treseder, SD Allison. 2023. Investigating the eco‐evolutionary response of microbiomes to environmental change. Ecology Letters 26: S81-S90.

Barrón-Sandoval, A, JBH Martiny, T Pérez-Carbajal, SH Bullock, A Leija, G. Hernándex, AE Escalante. 2023. Functional significance of microbial diversity in arid soils: biological soil crusts and nitrogen fixation as a model system. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, fiad009.

Finks, SS, and JBH Martiny. 2023. Plasmid-encoded traits vary across environments. mBio, e03191-22.

Loreau, M, P Jarne, JBH Martiny. 2023. Opportunities to advance the synthesis of ecology and evolution. Ecology Letters. DOI: 10.1111/ele.14175.  

Barbour, K.M., A. Barróm-Sandoval, K.E. Walters, J.B.H. Martiny. 2022. Towards quantifying microbial dispersal in the environment. Environmental Microbiology 25: 137–142.

Walters, KE, JK Capocchi, MBN Albright, Z. Hao, EL Brodie, JBH Martiny. 2022. Routes and rates of bacterial dispersal impact surface soil microbiome composition and functioning. The ISME Journal 16: 2295-2304.

Barbour, KM, C Weihe, SD Allison, JBH Martiny. 2022. Bacterial community response to environmental change varies with depth in the surface soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 172: 108761.

Scales, NC, AB Chase, SS Finks, AA Malik, C Weihe, SD Allison, JBH Martiny. 2022. Differential response of bacterial microdiversity to simulated global change. Applied and environmental microbiology 88 (6), e02429-2.1

Chase, AB, C Weihe, JBH Martiny. 2021. Adaptive differentiation and rapid evolution of a soil bacterium along a climate gradient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (18), e2101254118

Oliver, A., A.B. Chase, C. Weihe, S.B. Orchanian, S.F. Riedel, C. Hendrickson, M. Lay, J.M. Sewall, J.B.H. Martiny, and K. Whiteson. 2021. High-fiber, whole-food dietary intervention alters the human gut microbiome but not fecal short-chain fatty acids. mSystems6:e00115-21