Steven Allison

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.

The paper develops a genomic ratio to quantify resource-acquisition strategies in bacteria, finding uptake-optimised bacteria dominate early decomposition and depolymerisation-optimised bacteria dominate later stages.

The study shows that bacterial community responses to drought in grassland leaf litter are more influenced by background temperature than precipitation, with long-term variability outweighing experimental drought effects.

This study examines how a decade-long drought affects plant litter chemistry and microbial decomposition in a semi-arid ecosystem, finding minimal direct effects on decomposition rates but significant changes in microbial community composition and function.

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 shows that bacterial populations under drought exhibit trade-offs between stress tolerance and decomposition capabilities, reducing overall decomposition rates.