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Graduate Students: Glinka, ClareRocca, JenniferVerkhoturov, DmitriyWaring, Bonnie Research Summary: Hawkes lab website
Research in the Hawkes Lab is focused on a mechanistic understanding of how plant-microbe interactions affect community and ecosystem processes. We explore how these relationships are influenced by alterations in climate, species invasions, and land use. This research is highly integrative and relies on a wide range of techniques, including DNA-based microbial community analyses, stable isotope biogeochemistry, and large-scale field manipulations.
Publications:| Plant neighborhood control of arbuscular mycorrhizal communities (2009) New Phytologist, In press. | | Embracing variability in the application of plant-soil interactions to the restoration of communities and ecosystems (2008) Restoration Ecology 16, 713-729. | | Soil temperature affects carbon allocation within arbuscular mycorrhizal networks and carbon transport from plant to fungus (2008) Global Change Biology 14, 1181-1190. | | Are invaders moving targets? The generality and persistence of advantages in size, reproduction, and enemy release in invasive species with time since introduction (2007) The American Naturalist 170, 832-843. | | Arbuscular mycorrhizal assemblages in native plant roots change in the presence of exotic grasses (2006) Plant and Soil 281, 369-380. | | Plant invasion alters nitrogen cycling by modifying the soil nitrifying community (2005) Ecology Letters 8, 975-985. |
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