Michelle E. Afkhami

The paper identifies microbiome resilience to climate stress using network analysis of amplicon sequencing data, showing that keystone microbes and baseline network properties predict community stability.

The paper investigates how land-use intensity, grazing, and precipitation interact to shape soil microbial communities in a subtropical agroecosystem, finding land-use intensity is the primary driver.

This study compares soil microbiome functional capacity between natural and reconstructed Everglades habitats, finding persistent divergence and reduced functional diversity in reconstructed sites.

This study meta-analyzes 1,736 host-symbiont effect sizes to assess how microbial effects on host vital rates vary across life stages and taxa, finding consistent benefits across stages but varying magnitudes and symbiont types.

This paper introduces an LLM-based pipeline to automate trait data extraction from fungal descriptions, showing promise but with variable accuracy across traits.

This study shows mutualistic fungal endophytes in grasses expand ecological niches but constrain diversification, revealing a decoupling between niche expansion and speciation rates.

The paper shows mutualistic fungal endophytes increase grass population persistence but decline under high climate variability, threatening long-term species survival.

The paper uses machine learning to show that soil microbiome properties can predict plant species distributions, with microbial predictors being as important as abiotic factors for some species.

The paper shows gene family expansions, mainly from tandem duplications, underpin context-dependent regulation of mycorrhizal symbiosis and its impact on plant fitness.

This study shows that soil fire legacy significantly influences microbial carbon and nutrient cycling responses to new fires, highlighting the importance of considering legacy effects in ecosystem studies.

The paper investigates how host plant genotypes and microbial interactions non-additively affect plant growth and pathogen defense in Medicago truncatula.