Peter M. Homyak

This study shows that low burn intensity increases N2O emissions through denitrification, while high burn intensity reduces emissions due to microbial loss and resource limitation.

This study investigates how wildfires affect ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and archaea (AOA) abundance and denitrifier activity, leading to increased soil emissions of nitric oxide (NO) and nitrous oxide (N2O) in California chaparral.

This study examines how wildfires alter soil microbial interactions in drylands, revealing increased bacterial-fungal associations and keystone taxa that drive post-fire succession.

This study shows wildfires increase soil nitric oxide emissions and create heterogeneous nitrous oxide emissions in chaparral, with high emissions linked to burn severity.

This study identifies genomic strategies and trait trade-offs in pyrophilous fungi that enable survival and nutrient cycling post-fire, revealing gene duplication, horizontal gene transfer, and sexual recombination as key evolutionary mechanisms.

This study investigates genomic adaptations in pyrophilous bacteria after wildfires, finding gene fragmentation, horizontal gene transfer, and plasmid-mediated operon expansion enhance their ability to degrade PyOM and acquire nutrients.

The paper examines how wildfire alters soil microbial functional potential for PyOM degradation and nitrogen cycling over time using metagenomic analysis of burned and unburned soils.