S. J. Fansler

The paper tests a conceptual framework linking microbial communities with environmental factors and processes, finding non-linear feedbacks triggered by disturbance.

The paper unifies environmental metabolomics with metacommunity ecology to analyze NOM composition using ecological metrics and dendrograms.

The paper examines seasonal changes in within-gene diversity for nitrogen cycling genes in hyporheic zone communities, finding that nitrification genes show low richness while denitrification genes vary in richness and phylotype turnover.

This study investigates how initial species richness affects the stability of soil microbial consortia over time in different environments.

The paper investigates microbial community succession in a hypersaline mat, finding that turnover, not nestedness, shapes community structure and that deterministic and stochastic processes affect bacteria and eukaryotes differently.

This study identifies dispersal limitation and thermodynamic constraints as key factors shaping permafrost microbial community structure, distinct from non-permafrost soils.