B. J. M. Bohannan

This study shows that artificial selection on soil microbiomes can increase methane oxidation rates, with non-traditional taxa contributing to this function.

This study shows that both host and microbiome contribute to adaptation in a novel environment using C. elegans and compost mesocosms.

This study quantifies how warming and drought affect plant diversity and soil nitrogen fixation in Mediterranean grasslands, finding that warming reduces plant diversity and ANF varies with season and drought intensity.

This study examines seasonal changes in methane-cycling microbial communities in Amazonian floodplain sediments, finding high methanogen abundance and diverse methanotroph pathways.

This study shows free-living bacteria can rapidly adapt to vertebrate hosts through experimental evolution, with parallel improvements in swimming motility across independently evolved populations.

The paper measures methane flux and microbial communities across land use changes in Amazonia, finding that pasture soils emit methane while forests act as sinks, with microbial shifts driving these changes.

This study shows that converting rainforest to pasture in the Brazilian Amazon increases soil methanogenesis, with pastures acting as methane sources and secondary rainforests as sinks.

This study finds consistent changes in tropical rainforest soil bacterial communities following land use conversion to agriculture, including shifts in phyla abundance and increased alpha diversity.

The paper examines how microbial community structure relates to methane cycling processes in the Congo Basin, finding that finer-scale processes are better predicted by community diversity and composition than broader-scale processes.