Submitted, In Review or Revision Ulbrich, TC, L Bell-Dereske, H Erwin, S Hilborn, SE Evans. Soil microbes increase switchgrass germination but not seedling growth under drought. Plant and Soil In Revision.
Kittredge, H, K Dougherty, K Glanville, SE Evans. Does extracellular DNA mask microbial responses to a pulse disturbance? International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal (ISMEJ) In Revision. doi: 10.1101/2021.12.04.471228. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.04.471228v1
Published
2023
White, RA, A Garoutte, EE Maclachlan, SE Evans, LK Tiemann, ML Friesen. Genome-resolved metagenomics of nitrogen transformations in the switchgrass rhizosphere microbiome on marginal lands. Agronomy 13(5), 1294; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13051294. Request.
Bell-Dereske, L, GMN Benucci, P Costa, G Bonito, M Friesen, LK Tiemann, SE Evans. Regional biogeography versus intra-annual dynamics of the root and soil microbiome 18 (50). Environmental MicrobiomeRequest.
Irvine, R, M Houser, ST Marquart-Pyatt, G Bogar, LG Bolin, E Grennan Browning, SE Evans, MM Howard, JA Lau, JT Lennon. 2023. Soil health through farmers' eyes: Toward a better understanding of how farmers view, value and manage for healtheir soils. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation79(1): 82-92. doi: 10.2489/jswc.2023.00058 Request
2022
Ulbrich, TC, A Rivas-Ubach, LK Tiemann, ML Friesen, SE Evans. 2022. Plant root exudates and rhizosphere bacterial communities shift with neighbor context. Soil Biology and Biochemistry172:108753. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108753. Request
Liu, Y, SE Evans, ML Friesen, LK Tiemann. 2022. Root exudates shift how N mineralization and N fixation contribute to the plant-available N supply in low fertility soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry165:108541. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108541. Request
Kemmerling, LR, CE Rutkoski, SE Evans, JA Helms, ES Cordova-Ortiz, JD Smith, JA Vazquez Custodio, C Vizza, NM Haddad. 2022. Prairie strips and lower land use intensity practices increase biodiversity and ecosystem services. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution10. doi:10.3389/fevo.2022833170 Request
Jones, JM, EL Boehm, K Kahmark, J Lau, SE Evans. 2022. Microbial community response to drought depends on crop. Elementa10:1 doi:10.1525/ elementa.2021.00110 Request
Logan, JR, KE Todd-Brown, KM Jacobson, PJ Jacobson, SE Evans. 2022. Accounting for non-rainfall moisture and temperature improves litter decay model performance in a fog-dominated dryland system. Biogeosciences19(17): 4129-4146. doi: 10.5194/bg-19-4129-2022 Request
Li, X, RH Petipas, AA Antoch, Y Liu, H Vander Stel, L Bell-Dereske, DN Smercina, C Bekkering, SE Evans, LK Tiemann, ML Freisen. 2022. Switchgrass cropping systems affect soil carbon and nitrogen and microbial diversity and activity on marginal lands. GCB Bioenergy 00:1–23. doi:10.1111/gcbb.12949 Request
Evans, SE, E Zandona, J Ribeiro Amaral, SW Fitzpatrick. 2022. Shifts in gut microbiome across five decades of repeated guppy translocations in Trinidadian streams. Proceedings of the Royal Society B289(1975):20211955. doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.1955. Request
Evans, SE. SD Allison, CV Hawkes. 2022. Microbes, memory, and moisture: predicting microbial moisture responses and their impact on carbon cycling. Functional Ecology36:1430-1441. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14034. Request
Logan, JR, P Barners, SE Evans. 2022. Photodegradation of plant litter cuticles enhances microbial decomposition by increasing uptake of non-rainfall moisture. Functional Ecology00:1–12. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14053. Request
Kittredge, HA, KM Dougherty, SE Evans. 2022. Dead but not forgotten: how extracellular DNA, moisture and space modulate the horizontal gene transfer of extracellular antibiotic resistance genes in soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology88(7):e0228021. doi:10.1128/aem.02280-21. Request
2021
Smercina, DN, SE Evans, ML Friesen, LK Tiemann. 2021. Temporal dynamics of free‐living nitrogen fixation in the switchgrass rhizosphere. GCB Bioenergy13(11): 1814-1830. doi:10.1111/gcbb.12893 Request
Bell-Dereske, L, SE Evans. 2021. Contributions of environmental and maternal transmission to the assembly of leaf fungal endophyte communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B288(1956). doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.0621 Request.
Wenndt, AJ, SE Evans, AD van Diepeningen, JR Logan, PJ Jacobson, MK Seely, KM Jacobson. 2021. Why plants harbor complex endophytic fungal communities: insights from perennial bunchgrass Stipagrostis sabulicola in the Namib Sand Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology 12:691584. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.691584. Request.
Brudvig, L. NE Turley, SL Bartel, L Bell-Dereske, S Breland, EI Damschen, SE Evans, J Gibbs, PG Hahn, R Isaacs, JA Ledvina, JL Orrock, QM Sorenson, JD Stuhler. 2021. Large ecosystem-scale effects of restoration fail to mitigate impacts of land-use legacies in longleaf pine savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(17): e2020935118. doi:10.1073/pnas.202093511 Request.
2020
Logan, JR, K Jacobson, P Jacobson, SE Evans. 2021. Fungal communities are structured by moisture type and constrain decomposition in a hyperarid grassland. Frontiers in Microbiology12:596517. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.596517 Request.
Ulbrich, TC, ML Friesen, Ss Roley, LK Tiemann, SE Evans. 2020. Intraspecific variability in root traits and edaphic conditions influence soil microbiomes across 12 switchgrass cultivars. Phytobiomes5(1). doi:10.1094/PBIOMES-12-19-0069-FI Request.
Smericina, DN, SE Evans, ML Friesen, LK Tiemann. 2020. Impacts of nitrogen addition on diazotroph community structure and function in the switchgrass rhizosphere. FEMS Microbiology Ecology96(12). doi:10.1093/femsec/fiaa208 Request.
Smercina, DN, AW Bowsher, SE Evans, ML Freisen, EK Eder, DW Hoyt, LK Tiemann. 2020. Switchgrass rhizosphere metabolite chemistry driven by nitrogen availability. Phytobiomes5(1). doi:10.1094/PBIOMES-09-19-0055-FI Request
Turley, NE, L Bell-Dereske, SE Evans, LA Brudvig. 2020. Agricultural land-use history and restoration impact soil microbial biodiversity. Ecological Applications57(5):852-863. doi 10.1111/1365-2664.13591. Request
Evans, SE, KEO Todd-Brown, K Jacobson, P Jacobson. 2020. Non-rainfall moisture: a key driver of microbial respiration from standing litter in arid, semiarid, and mesic grasslands. Ecosystems 23:1154-1169.doi: 10.1007/s10021-019-00461-y. Request Petipas, RH, AW Bowsher, CS Bekkerring, CN Jack, EE McLachlan, RA White III, BS Younginger, LK Tiemann, SE Evans, M Friesen. 2020. Interactive effects of microbes and nitrogen on Panicum virgatum root functional traits and patterns of phenotypic selection. International Journal of Plant Sciences181:20-32 doi: 10.1086/706198. Request
Evans, SE, LP Bell-Dereske, K Dougherty, HA Kittredge. 2020. Dispersal alters soil microbial community response to drought. Environmental Microbiology22(3):905–916. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14707. Request
2019
Smercina, DN, SE Evans, ML Friesen, LK Tiemann. 2019. Optimization of the 15N2 incorporation and acetylene reduction methods for free-living nitrogen-fixation. Plant and Soil445:595-611. doi: 10.1007/s11104-019-04307-3. Request
Smercina, DN, SE Evans, ML Friesen, LK Tiemann. 2019. To fix or not to fix: controls on free-living nitrogen-fixation in the rhizosphere. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 85(6):e02546-18.. Doi: 10.1128/AEM.02546-18. Request
Evans, SE*, ME Dueker*, JR Logan, KC Weathers. 2019. The biology of fog: results from coastal Maine and Namib Desert reveal common drivers of fog microbial composition. Science of The Total Environment647(10):1547-1556. Request. >>PRESS: The Atlantic, Atlas Obscura, Frontiers in Ecol and Evol Dispatches (Vol16 Issue8, Oct 2018), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WAMC northeast public radio *Co-first authors - order of first two names was random
2018
Hall, EK, ES Bernhardt, R Bier, MA Bradford, CM Boot, JB Cotner, PA del Giorgio, SE Evans, EB Graham, SE Jones, JT Lennon, KJ Locey, D Nemergut, BB Osborne, JD Rocca, JS Schimel, MS Waldrop, MD Wallenstein. 2018. Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they inhabit. Nature Microbiology 3:977-982. doi:10.1038/s41564-018-0201-z Request
Ouyang, Y, SE Evans, ML Friesen LK Tiemann. 2018. Effect of nitrogen fertilization on the abundance of nitrogen cycling genes in agricultural soils: A meta-analysis of field studies. Soil Biology & Biochemistry127: 71-78. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.08.024 Request
2017
Bowsher, AW, SE Evans, LK Tiemann, ML Friesen. 2017. Effect of soil nitrogen availability on rhizodeposition in plants: a review. Plant and Soil423: 59-85. doi:10.1007/s11104-017-3497-1 Request Wilcox, KR, Z Shi, LA Gherardi, NP Lemoine, SE Koerner, DL Hoover, E Bork, KM Byrne, J Cahill Jr., SL Collins, SE Evans, AK Gilgen, P Holub, L Jiang, AK Knapp, D LeCain, J Liang, P Garcia-Palacios, J Peñuelas, WT Pockman, MD Smith, S Sun, SR White, L Yahdjian, K Zhu, Y Luo. 2017.Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments. Global Change Biology 23(10): 4376-4385. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13706. Request
2016
Evans, SE, JBH Martiny, SD Allison. 2016. Effects of dispersal and selection on stochastic assembly in microbial communities. International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal (ISMEJ)11:176–185. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2016.96. Request
Evans, SE, U Dieckmann, O Franklin, C Kaiser. 2016. Synergistic effects of diffusion and microbial physiology reproduce the Birch effect in a micro-scale model. Soil Biology and Biochemistry93: 28-37 doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.10.020. Request
2015 and prior
Jacobson, K, A van Diepeningen, SE Evans, R. Fritts, P Gemmel, C Marsho, M Seely, A Wenndt, X Yang, P Jacobson. 2015. Non-rainfall moisture activates fungal decomposition of surface litter in the Namib Sand Sea. PLOS One10: e0126977. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126977Request
Rocca, JD, EK Hall, JT Lennon, SE Evans, MP Waldrop, JB Cotner, DR Nemergut, EB Graham, MD Wallenstein. 2015. Relationships between protein-encoding gene abundance and corresponding process are commonly assumed yet rarely observed. International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal (ISMEJ)9:1693-1699. doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.252 Request
Evans, SE, MD Wallenstein, IC Burke. 2014. Is bacterial moisture niche a good predictor of shifts in community composition under long-term drought? Ecology95(1): 110-122. doi:10.1890/13-0500.1. Request
Evans, SE, MD Wallenstein. 2013. Climate change alters the ecological strategies of soil bacteria. Ecology Letters17(2) :155-164. doi: 10.1111/ele.12206. Request
Evans, SE, IC Burke. 2013. Carbon and nitrogen decoupling under an 11-year drought in the shortgrass steppe. Ecosystems 16: 20-23. doi: 10.1007/s10021-012-9593-4. Request
Evans, SE, MD Wallenstein. 2011. Soil microbial community response to drying and rewetting stress: does historical precipitation regime matter? Biogeochemistry109: 101-116. doi: 10.1007/s10533-011-9638-3.Request
Conant, RT, MG Ryan, GI Agren, HE Birge, EA Davidson, PE Eliasson, SE Evans, SD Frey, CP Giardina, FM Hopkins, R Hyvonen, MUF Kirschbaum, JM Lavallee, J Leifeld, WJ Parton, JM Steinweg, MD Wallenstein, JA Martin Wetterstedt, MA Bradford. 2011. Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward. Global Change Biology17(1): 3392-3404. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02496.x Request
Evans, SE, KM Byrne, WK Lauenroth, IC Burke. 2011. Defining the limit to resistance in a drought tolerant grassland: long-term severe drought significantly reduces the dominant species and increases ruderals. Journal of Ecology99(6): 1500-1507. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01864.x. Request
Evans, SE, IC Burke, WK Lauenroth. 2011. Controls on soil organic carbon and nitrogen in Inner Mongolia, China: a cross-continental comparison of temperate grasslands. Global Biogeochemical Cycles25(3): GB3006. doi 10.1029/2010GB003945 Request
Recent Conference Presentations Evans, SE. Soil Science Society Annual Meeting. (Special Symposium A National Earthshot: Can we increase the amount of persistence of carbon in soils to reduce atmospheric CO2?). Oral Presentation: “Prairie strips in agricultural land for carbon and conservation” November 2023, Baltimore, MD.
Evans, SE. Long Term Ecological Research Site All Scientist Meeting. Oral Presentation: “The REX project at KBS” October 2023, Asilomar, CA
Evans, SE. Long Term Ecological Research Site All Scientist Meeting. Oral Presentation: “Microbial synthesis across LTER: past and present” October 2023, Asilomar, CA.
Evans, SE, C Rutkoski, B Basso. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting. Poster: “How prairie strips and other subfield agricultural practices could enhance soil health and contribute to sustainability goals” December 2021, New Orleans, LA
Arizona State University, Environmental Science Colloquium, “Microbes, memory, and moisture: microbial response to climate change and its effect on ecosystem function” 2021,Virtual
Kansas State University, Division of Biology Seminar series, “How does the soil microbiome respond to global changes, and when does it matter for ecosystems?” 2021, Manhattan, KS
Indiana University, O’Neil School of Public and Environmental Affairs, “Optimizing soil services through biology in Midwest agriculture” 2021, Virtual
University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, “Microbes in the mist: how precipitation provides moisture - and transport - for earth's biogeochemical engines” 2021, Virtual
Evans, SE. DOE Genomic Sciences Contractor-PI Meeting. (Breakout Session: Microbial Modification of Plant Phenotypes). Oral Presentation: “Do microbes shape switchgrass phenotypes through changes in N cycling?” February 2021, Virtual
Evans, SE, R Logan, K Jacobson, F Getahun, ME Dueker, K Weathers. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. (Contributed Session: Disperal and Colonization 1). Oral Presentation: “From ocean to desert via fog: microbial movement, colonization, and activity in the Namib Desert, Namibia” August 2020, Virtual
Jones, J, SE Evans. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. (Organized Session: Ecological responses to drought across scales). Oral presentation: “Growing season drought, but not microbial inocula, impact soil microbial communities and plant growth in corn and soybean fields” August, 2020, Virtual
Michigan State University, Kellogg Biological Station, “Microbes in the mist: precipitation as a driver of dispersal and function in terrestrial microbial communities” 2019, Hickory Corners, MI
Michigan State University, Department of Integrative Biology, “Microbes in the mist: precipitation as a driver of dispersal and function in terrestrial microbial communities” 2019, East Lansing, MI.
Michigan State University, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, “Microbes in the mist: precipitation as a driver of dispersal and function in terrestrial microbial communities” 2019, East Lansing, MI.
Panelist, “The State of Knowledge on Soil Biodiversity.” Soil Ecology Society Meeting. May 2019, Toledo, OH.
Keynote speaker, Michigan Soil Health Symposium. 2019, Hickory Corners, MI
Virginia Tech University Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, “Microbes in the mist: precipitation as a driver of dispersal and function in terrestrial microbial communities” 2019, Blacksburg, VA