Research Publications

Bradford, M. A., Davies, C. A., Frey, S. D., Maddox, T. R., Melillo, J. M., Mohan, J., Reynolds, J. F., Treseder, K. K., Wallenstein, M. D. 2008. Thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration to elevated temperature. Ecology Letters 11: 1316-1327.

Bradford, M. A., Wallenstein, M., Allison, S. D., Treseder, K. K., Frey, S., Watts, S. B., Davies, C. A., Maddox, T. R., Melillo, J. M., Mohan, J., Reynolds, J. F. 2009. Decreased mass specific respiration under experimental warming is robust to the microbial biomass method employed. Ecology Letters 12: E15-E18.

Brzostek, E. R., Blair, J. M., Dukes, J. S., Frey, S. D., Hobbie, S. E., Melillo, J. M., Mitchell, R. J., Pendall, E., Reich, P. B., Shaver, G. R., Stefanski, A., Tjoelker, M. G., Finzi, A. C. 2012. The effect of experimental warming and precipitation change on proteolytic enzyme activity: positive feedbacks to nitrogen availability are not universal. Global Change Biology 18: 2617-2625.

Burton, A. J., Melillo, J. M., Frey, S. D. 2008. Adjustment of Forest Ecosystem Root Respiration as Temperature Warms. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 50: 1462-1483.

Conant, R. T., Ryan, M. G., Ågren, G. I., Birge, H. E., Bradford, M. A., Davidson, E. A., Eliasson, P. E., Evans, S. E., Frey, S. D., Giardina, C. P., Hopkins, F., Hyvönen, R., Kirschbaum, M. U. F., Lavallee, J. M., Leifeld, J., Parton, W. J., Steinweg, J. M., Wallenstein, M. D., Wetterstedt, J. A. M. 2011. Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates – synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward. Global Change Biology 17: 3392-3404.

DeAngelis, K. M., Pold, G., Topcuonglu, B. D., van Diepen, L. T. A., Varney, R., Blanchard, J., Melillo, J. M., Frey, S. D. 2015. Long-term forest soil warming alters microbial communities in temperate forest soils. Frontiers in Microbiology 6: 104.

DeAngelis, K. M., Priyanka, R. C., Pold, G., Romero Olivares, A., Frey, S. D. 2019. Microbial responses to experimental soil warming: Five testable hypotheses. In: Mohan, J. E., Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming, Academic Press, Cambridge.

Domeignoz-Horta, L. A., Pold, G., Erb, H., Sebag, D., Verrecchia, E., Northen, T., Louie, K., Eloe-Fadrosh, E., Pennacchio, C., Knorr, M. A., Frey, S. D., Melillo, J. M., DeAngelis, K. M. 2023. Substrate availability and not thermal acclimation controls microbial temperature sensitivity response to long-term warming. Global Change Biology 29: 1574 - 1590.

Domke, G., Williams, C. A., Birdsey, R., Coulston, J., Finzi, A. C., Gough, C., Haight, B., Hicke, J., Janowiak, M., de Jong, B., Kurz, W. A., Lucash, M., Ogle, S., Olguin-Alvarez, M., Pan, Y., Skutsch, M., Smyth, C., Swanston, C., Templer, P., Wear, D., Woodall, C. W. 2018. Forests. In: Cavallaro, N., Shrestha, G., Birdsey, R., Mayes, M. A., Najjar, R. G., Reed, S. C., Romero-Lankao, P., Zhu, Z., Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report, U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC.

Eshel, G., Dayalu, A., Wofsy, S. C., Munger, J. W., Tziperman, E. 2019. Listening to the Forest: An Artificial Neural Network-Based Model of Carbon Uptake at Harvard Forest. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biosciences 124: 461-478.

Ettinger, A. K., Chuine, I., Cook, B. I., Dukes, J. S., Ellison, A. M., Johnston, M. R., Panetta, A. M., Rollinson, C. R., Vitasse, Y., Wolkovich, E. M. 2019. How do climate change experiments alter plot-scale climate?. Ecology Letters 22: 748-763.

Felzer, B., Cronin, T. W., Melillo, J. M., Kicklighter, D. W., Schlosser, C. A. 2009. Importance of carbon-nitrogen interactions and ozone on ecosystem hydrology during the 21st century. Journal of Geophysical Research 114: G01020.

Finzi, A. C., Giasson, M.-A., Barker Plotkin, A., Aber, J. D., Boose, E. R., Davidson, E. A., Dietze, M. C., Ellison, A. M., Frey, S. D., Goldman, E., Keenan, T. F., Melillo, J. M., Munger, J. W., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Ollinger, S. V., Orwig, D. A., Pederson, N., Richardson, A. D., Savage, K., Tang, J., Thompson, J. R., Williams, C. A., Wofsy, S. C., Zhou, Z., Foster, D. R. 2020. Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change. Ecological Monographs 90: e01423, 37 pp.

Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Bowden, R. D., Melillo, J., Bazzaz, F. 2004. Comparison between physical disturbance and novel stresses. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Melillo, J. M., Bowden, R. D., Bazzaz, F. A. 1997. Forest response to disturbance and anthropogenic stress. Rethinking the 1938 Hurricane and the impact of physical disturbance vs. chemical and climate stress on forest ecosystems. BioScience 47: 437-445.

Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Melillo, J., Bowden, R. D., Bazzaz, F. A. 1998. Forest response to natural disturbance versus human-induced stresses. Arnoldia 58: 35-40.

Frey, S. D., Drijber, R., Smith, H., Melillo, J. 2008. Microbial biomass, functional capacity, and community composition after twelve years of soil warming. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40: 2904-2907.

Frey, S. D., Lee, J., Melillo, J. M., Six, J. W. 2013. The temperature response of soil microbial efficiency and its feedback to climate. Nature Climate Change 3: 395-398.

Frumhoff, P. C., McCarthy, J. J., Melillo, J. M., Moser, S. C., Wuebbles, D. J. 2007. Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: Science, Impacts, and Solutions.

Frumhoff, P. C., McCarthy, J. J., Melillo, J. M., Moser, S. C., Wuebbles, D. J., Wake, C., Spanger-Siegfried, E. 2008. An integrated climate change assessment for the Northeast United States. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 13: 419-423.

Giasson, M.-A., Ellison, A. M., Bowden, R. D., Crill, P. M., Davidson, E. A., Drake, J. E., Frey, S. D., Hadley, J. L., Lavine, M., Melillo, J. M., Munger, J. W., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Nicoll, L., Ollinger, S. V., Savage, K., Steudler, P. A., Tang, J., Varner, R. K., Wofsy, S. C., Foster, D. R., Finzi, A. C. 2013. Soil respiration in a northeastern US temperate forest: a 22-year synthesis. Ecosphere 4: article 140.

Karl, T. R., Melillo, J. M., Peterson, T. C. 2009. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.

Kitzmiller, C. E., Tran, W. C., Sullivan, B., Cortez, F., Choudoir, M., Simoes, R., Dayarathne, N., DeAngelis, K. M. 2023. High-quality genomes of Paenibacillus spp. RC334 and RC343, isolated from a long-term forest soil warming experiment. Microbiology Resource Announcements 12: e00371-23.

Knapp, A. K., Smith, M. D., Hobbie, S. E., Collins, S. L., Fahey, T. J., Hansen, G. J. A., Landis, D. A., La Pierre, K. L., Melillo, J. M., Seastedt, T. R., Shaver, G. R., Webster, J. R. 2012. Past, Present, and Future Roles of Long-Term Experiments in the LTER Network. BioScience 62: 377-389.

Li, J., Wang, G., Mayes, M. A., Allison, S. D., Frey, S. D., Shi, Z., Hu, X., Luo, Y., Melillo, J. M. 2019. Reduced carbon use efficiency and increased microbial turnover with soil warming. Global Change Biology 25: 900-910.

Liu, X. A., Frey, S. D., Melillo, J. M., DeAngelis, K. M. 2021. Physical protection regulates microbial thermal responses to chronic soil warming. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 159: article 108298, 5 pp.

Liu, X. A., Pold, G., Domeignoz-Horta, L. A., Geyer, K. M., Caris, H., Nicholson, H., Kemner, K. M., Frey, S. D., Melillo, J. M., DeAngelis, K. M. 2021. Soil aggregate-mediated microbial responses to long-term warming. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 152: article 108055.

McGuire, A. D., Melillo, J. M., Kicklighter, D. W., Joyce, L. A. 1995. Equilibrium responses of soil carbon to climate change: Empirical and process-based estimates. Journal of Biogeography 22: 785-796.

Melillo, J. M., Butler, S., Johnson, J., Mohan, J., Steudler, P. A., Lux, H., Burrows, E., Bowles, F. P., Smith, R., Scott, L., Vario, C., Hill, T., Burton, A. J., Zhou, Y., Tang, J. 2011. Soil-warming carbon–nitrogen interactions and forest carbon budgets. PNAS 108: 9508-9512.

Melillo, J. M., Frey, S. D., DeAngelis, K. M., Werner, W. J., Bernard, M. J., Bowles, F. P., Pold, G., Knorr, M. A., Grandy, A. S. 2017. Long-term pattern and magnitude of soil carbon feedback to the climate system in a warming world. Science 358: 101-105.

Melillo, J. M., Kicklighter, D. W., Tian, H., Butler, S. 2010. Fertilizing Change: Carbon-Nitrogen Interactions and Carbon Storage in Land Ecosystems. In: Hillel, D., Rosenzweig, C., Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation, Imperial College Press, London, England.

Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Aber, J. D., Newkirk, K., Lux, H., Bowles, F. P., Catricala, C., Magill, A., Ahrens, T., Morrisseau, S., Burrows, E., Nadelhoffer, K. 2004. Soil warming - a major consequence of global climate change. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Pec, G. J., Van Diepen, L. T. A., Knorr, M., Grandy, A. S., Melillo, J. M., DeAngelis, K. M., Blanchard, J. L., Frey, S. D. 2021. Fungal community response to long-term soil warming with potential implications for soil carbon dynamics. Ecosphere 12: article e03460, 13 pp.

Peterjohn, W. T., Melillo, J. M., Bowles, F. P., Steudler, P. A. 1993. Soil warming and trace gas fluxes: experimental design and preliminary flux results. Oecologia 93: 18-24.

Peterjohn, W. T., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Newkirk, K. M., Bowles, F. P., Aber, J. D. 1995. Responses of trace gas fluxes and N availability to experimentally elevated soil temperatures. Ecological Applications 4: 617-625.

Pold, G., Billings, A. F., Blanchard, J. L., Burkhardt, D. B., Frey, S. D., Melillo, J. M., Schnabel, J., van Diepen, L. T. A., DeAngelis, K. M. 2016. Long-term warming alters carbohydrate degradation potential in temperate forest soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 82: 6518-6530.

Pold, G., Conlon, E. M., Huntemann, M., Pillay, M., Mikhailova, N., Stamatis, D., Reddy, T. B. K., Daum, C., Shapiro, N., Kyrpides, N., Woyke, T., DeAngelis, K. M. 2018. Genome Sequence of Verrucomicrobium sp. Strain GAS474, a Novel Bacterium Isolated from Soil. ASM Genome Announcements 6, e01451-17: 2 pp.

Pold, G., DeAngelis, K. M. 2013. Up against the wall: the effects of climate warming on soil microbial diversity and the potential for feedbacks to the carbon cycle. Diversity 5: 409-425.

Pold, G., Grandy, A. S., Melillo, J. M., DeAngelis, K. M. 2017. Changes in substrate availability drive carbon cycle response to chronic warming. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 110: 68-78.

Pold, G., Huntemann, M., Pillay, M., Mikhailova, N., Stamatis, D., Reddy, T. B. K., Daum, C., Shapiro, N., Kyrpides, N., Woyke, T., DeAngelis, K. M. 2018. Draft genome sequences of three strains of a novel Rhizobiales species isolated from forest soil. ASM Genome Announcements 6, e01452-17: 2 pp.

Rizzo, G., Choudoir, M., Simoes, R., Dayarathne, N., DeAngelis, K. M. 2024. High-quality draft genome sequence of Paenibacillus sp. RC80, a candidate for biofuel production. Microbiology Resource Announcements 13: e01067-23.

Roy Chowdhury, P., Golas, S. M., Alteio, L. V., Stevens, J. T. E., Billings, A. F., Blanchard, J. L., Melillo, J. M., DeAngelis, K. M. 2021. The Transcriptional Response of Soil Bacteria to Long-Term Warming and Short-Term Seasonal Fluctuations in a Terrestrial Forest. Frontiers in Microbiology 12: article 666558, 16 pp.

Schmidt, L. 1999. Exploration of possible feedback mechanism for carbon and nitrogen cycling in a forested ecosystem in response to artificial soil warming. Thesis, Brown University.

Schnabel, J. 2016. Microbial community response to long-term warming in temperate forest soils. Thesis, University of Massachusetts.

Shaver, G. R., Canadell, J., Chapin, F. S. III, Gurevitch, J., Harte, J., Henry, G., Ineson, P., Jonasson, S., Melillo, J. M., Pitelka, L., Rustad, L. 2000. Global Warming and Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis. BioScience 50: 871-882.

Shinfuku, M. S., Domeignoz-Horta, L. A., Choudoir, M. J., Frey, S. D, Mitchell, M. F., Ranjan, R. 2024. Seasonal effects of long-term warming on ecosystem function and bacterial diversity. PLoS ONE 19: e0311364.

Tran, W. C., Sullivan, B., Kitzmiller, C. E., Choudoir, M., Simoes, R., Dayarathne, N., DeAngelis K. M. 2023. Draft genome sequence of Paenibacillus sp. strain RC67, an isolate from a long-term forest soil warming experiment in Petersham, Massachusetts. Microbiology Resource Announcements 12: e00373-23.

Wieder, W. R., Pierson, D., Earl, S., Lajtha, K., Baer, S. G., Ballantyne, S., Berhe, A. A., Billings, S. A., Brigham, L. M., Chacon, S. S., Fraterrigo, J., Frey, S. D., Georgiou, K, de Graaff, M., Grandy, A. S., Hartman, M. D., Hobbie, S. E., Johnson, C., Kaye, J., Kyker-Snowman, E., Litvak, M. E., Mack, M. C., Malhotra, A., Moore, J. A. M., Nadelhoffer, K., Rasmussen, C., Silver, W. L., Sulman. B. N., Walker. X., Weintraub, S. 2021. SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0. Earth System Science Data 13: 1843–1854.