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Sikes Microbial Lab
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* = graduate student; ‡ = undergraduate researcher; ^ = high school student
Bixler RP, Epanchin-Niell RS, Brunson MW, Tarver RD*, Sikes BA, McClure M*, Aslan CE. How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA. Ecology and Society. 2023 Mar 1;28(1).
Hopkins JR*, Semenova-Nelsen TA, Sikes BA. Land management drives dynamic changes to microbial function through edaphic factors and soil biota. Pedobiologia. 2023 Mar 1;96:150859.
Hopkins JR*, Huffman JM, Jones NJ, Platt WJ, Sikes BA. Pyrophilic Plants Respond to Postfire Soil Conditions in a Frequently Burned Longleaf Pine Savanna. The American Naturalist. 2023 Mar 1;201(3):389-403.
Aslan CE, Zachmann L, Epanchin-Niell RS, Brunson MW, Veloz S, Sikes BA. Soil characteristics and bare ground cover differ among jurisdictions and disturbance histories in Western US protected area-centered ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2022 Dec 23;10:1053548.
Dao VQ‡, Potts SE*, Johnson CN, Sikes BA, Platt WJ. Substrate and low intensity fires influence bacterial communities in longleaf pine savanna. Scientific Reports. 2022 Dec 3;12(1):20904.
Aslan CE, Veloz S, Epanchin-Niell RS, Brunson MW, Sikes BA. Integrating social and ecological predictors to understand variation within ecosystems: A case study of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park PACE. Natural Areas Journal. 2022 Oct;42(4):284-92.
Dixon CM, Robertson KM, Ulyshen MD, Sikes BA. Pine savanna restoration on agricultural landscapes: The path back to native savanna ecosystem services. Science of The Total Environment. 2022 Apr 20;818:151715.
Fox S*, Sikes BA, Brown SP, Cripps CL, Glassman SI, Hughes K, Semenova-Nelsen T, Jumpponen A. Fire as a driver of fungal diversity—A synthesis of current knowledge. Mycologia. 2022 Mar 4;114(2):215-41.
Aslan CE, Zachmann L, McClure M, Sikes BA, Veloz S, Brunson MW, Epanchin-Niell RS, Dickson BG. Quantifying ecological variation across jurisdictional boundaries in a management mosaic landscape. Landscape Ecology. 2021 Apr;36(4):1215-33.
Aslan CE, Brunson MW, Sikes BA, Epanchin‐Niell RS, Veloz S, Theobald DM, Dickson BG. Coupled ecological and management connectivity across administrative boundaries in undeveloped landscapes. Ecosphere. 2021 Jan;12(1):e03329.
Hopkins JR*, Semenova-Nelsen T, Sikes BA. Fungal community structure and seasonal trajectories respond similarly to fire across pyrophilic ecosystems. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2021 Jan;97(1):fiaa219.
Delavaux CS*, Schemanski JL‡, House GL, Tipton AG, Sikes B, Bever JD. Root pathogen diversity and composition varies with climate in undisturbed grasslands, but less so in anthropogenically disturbed grasslands. The ISME journal. 2021 Jan;15(1):304-17.
Hopkins JR*, Huffman JM, Platt WJ, Sikes BA. Frequent fire slows microbial decomposition of newly deposited fine fuels in a pyrophilic ecosystem. Oecologia. 2020 Jul;193(3):631-43.
McKenna TP, Koziol L, Bever JD, Crews TE, Sikes BA. Abiotic and biotic context dependency of perennial crop yield. PloS one. 2020 Jun 26;15(6):e0234546.
Alexander HM, Barnes C‡, Timm RM, Sikes BA. Mammalian soil disturbance, plant cover, and soil nitrogen in a prairie restoration. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2020 May;123(1-2):179-90.
Bufford JL, Hulme PE, Sikes BA, Cooper JA, Johnston PR, Duncan RP. Novel interactions between alien pathogens and native plants increase plant–pathogen network connectance and decrease specialization. Journal of Ecology. 2020 Mar;108(2):750-60.
McKenna TP, Crews TE, Kemp L, Sikes BA. Community structure of soil fungi in a novel perennial crop monoculture, annual agriculture, and native prairie reconstruction. PloS one. 2020 Jan 30;15(1):e0228202.
Semenova‐Nelsen TA, Platt WJ, Patterson TR‡, Huffman J, Sikes BA. Frequent fire reorganizes fungal communities and slows decomposition across a heterogeneous pine savanna landscape. New Phytologist. 2019 Oct;224(2):916-27.
Hansen PM‡, Semenova-Nelsen TA, Platt WJ, Sikes BA. Recurrent fires do not affect the abundance of soil fungi in a frequently burned pine savanna. Fungal Ecology. 2019 Dec 1;42:100852.
AA Klymiuk*, BA Sikes. Suppression of root-endogenous fungi in persistently inundated Typha roots. Mycologia. 2019 Aug 1:1-0.
BA Sikes, JL Bufford, PE Hulme, JA Cooper, PR Johnston, RP Duncan. (2018) Import volumes and biosecurity interventions shape the arrival rate of fungal pathogens. PLoS biology 16 (5), e2006025.
BA Sikes, J Paszalek‡, NE de Leon^, CV Hawkes. (2017) Regardless of N-substrate, multiple fungal root endophytes isolated from pastures outgrow and outcompete those isolated from undisturbed sites. Pedobiologia 63:52-8.
BA Sikes, J Paszalek‡, NE de Leon^, CV Hawkes. (2017) Regardless of N-substrate, multiple fungal root endophytes isolated from pastures outgrow and outcompete those isolated from undisturbed sites. Pedobiologia 63:52-8.
JL Bufford, PE Hulme, BA Sikes, JA Cooper, PR Johnston, RP Duncan. (2016) Taxonomic similarity, more than contact opportunity, explains novel plant–pathogen associations between native and alien taxa. New Phytologist 212 (3), 657-667.
BA Sikes, CV Hawkes, T Fukami. (2016) Plant and root-endophyte assembly history: interactive effects on native and exotic plants. Ecology 97(2), 484-493.
CE Aslan, BA Sikes, KB Gedan. (2015) Research on mutualisms between native and non-native partners can contribute critical ecological insights. NeoBiota 26, 39-54.
JR Powell and BA Sikes. (2014) Method or madness: does OTU delineation bias our perceptions of fungal ecology. New Phytologist 202(4): 1095-1097.
BA Sikes*, H Maherali, JN Klironomos. (2014) Mycorrhizal fungal growth responds to soil characteristics, but not host plant identity, during a primary lacustrine dune succession. Mycorrhiza 24(3): 219-226.
BA Sikes*, H Maherali, JN Klironomos. (2012) Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities change among three stages of primary sand dune succession but do not alter plant growth. Oikos 121(11): 1791-1800.
BA Sikes* (2012) Internalizing Conservation through our own Microbes. Conservation Biology, 26(2): 198.
KC Courtney‡, LD Bainard*, BA Sikes*, AM Koch, MM Hart, H Maherali, and JN Klironomos (2012) Determining a minimum detection threshold in terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Journal of Microbiological Methods 88(1): 14-18.
J Harnden‡, AS MacDougall and BA Sikes*. (2011) Field-based effects of allelopathy in invaded tallgrass prairie. Botany 89(4): 227-234.
SA Schnitzer, JN Klironomos, J HilleRisLambers, LL Kinkel, PB Reich, K Xiao, MC Rillig, BA Sikes & RM Callaway. (2011) Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity–productivity pattern. Ecology 92(2): 296-303. [Selected by Faculty of 1000]
Sikes BA*, JR Powell*, and MC Rillig. (2010) Deciphering the Relative Contribution of Multiple Functions within Plant-Microbe Symbioses. Ecology 91(6): 1591-1597.
* Authors contributed equally to publication of this work.
Sikes BA (2010) When do arbuscular mycorrhizas protect plant roots from pathogens? Plant Signaling and Behavior PSB5-6 Addendum.
Sikes BA and JN Klironomos. (2009) Plant and fungal identity determines pathogen protection of plant roots by arbuscular mycorrhizas. Journal of Ecology 97(6): 1274-1280.
Wolfe BE, JL Parrent, AM Koch, BA Sikes, M Gardes, JN Klironomos. (2009) Spatial heterogeneity in mycorrhizal populations and communities: scales and mechanisms. In Mycorrhizas - Functional Processes and Ecological Impact. Edited by C. Azcon-Aguilar, J.M. Barea, S. Gianinazzi, V. Gianinazzi-Pearson. Springer-Verlag. Berlin Heidelberg. Chapter 12. Pg. 167- 185. {e-book}
Howard, RJ, SE Travis and BA Sikes. (2007) Rapid Growth of a Eurasian haplotype of Phragmites australis in a restored brackish marsh in Louisiana, USA. Biological Invasions 10(3): 369-379.
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