Stephanie D. Jurburg

TreeTOP: Plant experimental platforms in canopy space

TreeTOP enables standardized manipulative experiments in forest canopies by providing accessible platforms for potted plants across different heights.

The illusion of diversity: sampling design drives conflicting estimates of soil bacterial richness

The paper shows that sampling design affects estimates of soil bacterial richness, with homogenized samples underestimating diversity and altering ecosystem comparisons.

HVRLocator: A Computationally Efficient Tool for Identifying Hypervariable Regions in 16S rRNA Big Datasets

HVRLocator identifies hypervariable regions in 16S rRNA datasets to improve metadata quality and enable accurate large-scale microbiome analysis.

Soil protist diversity enhances prokaryotic diversity, and regulates dominant prokaryotes and the abundance of key nitrogen cycling genes

This study shows that higher soil protist diversity increases prokaryotic diversity and affects nitrogen cycling genes through selective predation.

Analysis of predation-driven inoculum loss and carbon flow in bioaugmented soils through DNA-SIP

This study tracks the fate of 13C-labelled pollutant-degrading inoculum in two soils using DNA-SIP, revealing differences in predation effects and inoculum establishment between short-term and long-term polluted soils.