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Recent publications

Burrill, H. M., Wang, G., & Bever, J. D. (2023). Rapid differentiation of soil and root microbiomes in response to plant composition and biodiversity in the field. ISME Communications, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00237-5

Delaney, S., & von Wettberg, E. J. B. (2023). Toward the next angiosperm revolution: Agroecological food production as a driver for biological diversity. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11(1), 00134. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00134

Koziol, Liz, & D. Bever, J.D.  (2023). Crop productivity boosters: Native mycorrhizal fungi Inoculation benefits tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and pepper (Capsicum annuum) varieties in organically farmed soils.  Microorganisms.  11: 8. 2012. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37630572/

Krug, A. S., B. M. Drummond, E., Van Tassel, D. L., & Warschefsky, E. J. (2023). The next era of crop domestication starts now. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(14), e2205769120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2205769120

Magnoli, S. and Beaver, J.D. (2023). Plant productivity response to inter- and intra-symbiont diversity: mechanisms, manifestations, and  meta-analyses.  Ecology Letters.  10.1111/ele.14274. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.14274

Podzikowski, L. Y., Duell, E. B., Burrill, H. M., & Bever, J. D. (2024). Home-field advantage, N-priming and precipitation independently govern litter decomposition in a plant diversity manipulation. Functional Ecology, 00:1-12, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14515

Podzikowski, L. Y., Heffernan, M. M., & Bever, J. D. (2023). Plant diversity and grasses increase root biomass in a rainfall and grassland diversity manipulation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 1-11. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1259809

Wang, G., Burrill, H. M., Podzikowski, L. Y., Eppinga, M. B., Zhang, F., Zhang, J., Schultz, P. A., & Bever, J. D. (2023). Dilution of specialist pathogens drives productivity benefits from diversity in plant mixtures. Nature Communications, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44253-4