Research Publications

Anthony, M. A., Knorr, M., Moore, J. A. M., Simpson, M., Frey, S. D. 2021. Fungal community and functional responses to soil warming are greater than for soil nitrogen enrichment. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9: article 000059, 15 pp.

Anthony, M. A., Stinson, K. A., Moore, J. A. M., Frey, S. D. 2020. Plant invasion impacts on fungal community structure and function depend on soil warming and nitrogen enrichment. Oecologia 194: 659–672.

Brangarí, A. C., Knorr, M. A., Frey, S. D., Rousk, J. 2025. Shifts in Microbial Thermal Traits Mitigate Heat-Induced Carbon Losses in Soils. Global Change Biology 31: e70579.

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.

Carey, J. C., Tang, J., Templer, P. H., Kroeger, K. D., Crowther, T. W., Burton, A. J., Dukes, J. S., Emmett, B., Frey, S. D., Heskel, M. A., Jiang, L., Machmuller, M. B., Mohan, J., Panetta, A., Reich, P. B., Reinsch, S., Wang, X., Allison, S. D. , Bamminger, C., Bridgham, S., Collins, S. L., de Dato, G., Eddy, W. C., Enquist, B. J., Estiarte, M., Harte, J., Henderson, A., Johnson, B. R., Steenberg Larsen, K., Luo, Y., Marhan, S., Melillo, J. M., Peñuelas, J., Pfeifer-Meister, L., Poll, C., Rastetter, E., Reinmann, A. B., Reynolds, L. L., Schmidt, I. K., Shaver, G. R., Strong, A. L., Suseela, V., Tietema, A. 2016. Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming. PNAS 113: 13797–13802.

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.

Contosta, A. R. 2011. Seasonal, Biogeochemical, and Microbial Response of Soils to Simultaneous Warming and Nitrogen Additions. Thesis, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.

Contosta, A. R., Frey, S. D., Cooper, A. B. 2011. Seasonal dynamics of soil respiration and nitrogen mineralization in chronically warmed and fertilized soils. Ecosphere 2: 1-21.

Contosta, A. R., Frey, S. D., Cooper, A. B. 2015. Soil microbial communities vary as much over time as with chronic warming and nitrogen additions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 88: 19-24.

Contosta, A. R., Frey, S. D., Ollinger, S. V., Cooper, A. 2013. Soil respiration does not acclimatize to warmer temperatures when modeled over seasonal timescales. Biogeochemistry 112: 555-570.

Crowther, T. W., Thomas, S. M., Maynard, D. S., Baldrian, P., Covey, K., Frey, S. D., van Diepen, L. T. A., Bradford, M. A. 2015. Biotic interactions mediate soil microbial feedbacks to climate change. PNAS 112: 7033-7038.

Crowther, T. W., Todd-Brown, K. E. O., Rowe, C. W., Wieder, W. R., Carey, J. C., Machmuller, M. B., Snoek, B. L., Fang, S., Zhou, G., Allison, S. D., Blair, J. M., Bridgham, S. D., Burton, A. J., Carrillo, Y., Reich, P. B., Clark, J. S., Classen, A. T., Dijkstra, F. A., Elberling, B., Emmett, B. A., Estiarte, M., Frey, S. D., Guo, J., Harte, J., Jiang, L., Johnson, B. R., Kröel-Dulay, G., Larsen, K. S., Laudon, H., Lavallee, J. M., Luo, Y., Lupascu, M., Ma, L. N., Marhan, S., Michelsen, A., Mohan, J., Niu, S., Pendall, E., Peñuelas, J., Pfeifer-Meister, L., Poll, C., Reinsch, S., Reynolds, L. L., Schmidt, I. K., Sistla, S., Sokol, N. W., Templer, P. H., Treseder, K. K., Welker, J. M., Bradford, M. A. 2016. Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming. Nature 540: 104-108.

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.

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.

Frey, S. D. 2019. Mycorrhizal Fungi as Mediators of Soil Organic Matter Dynamics. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 50: 237-259.

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.

Gill, A. L., Grinder, R. M., See, C. R., Chapin, F. S., DeLancey, L. C., Fisk, M. C., Groffman, P. M., Harms, T., Hobbie, S. E., Knoepp, J. D., Knops, J. M. H., Mack, M., Reich, P. B., Keiser, A. D. 2023. Soil carbon availability decouples net nitrogen mineralization and net nitrification across United States Long Term Ecological Research sites. Biogeochemistry 162: 13-24.

Harms, T. K., Groffman, P. M., Aluwihare, L., Craft, C., Wieder, W. R., Hobbie, S. E., Baer, S. G., Blair, J. M., Frey, S. D., Remucal, C. K., Rudgers, J. A., Collins, S. L. 2021. Patterns and trends of organic matter processing and transport: Insights from the US long-term ecological research network. Climate Change Ecology 2: article 100025, 12 pp.

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.

Knorr, M. A., Contosta, A. R., Morrison, E. W., Muratore, T. J., Anthony, M. A., Stoica, I., Geyer, K. M., Simpson, M. J., Frey, S. D. 2024. Unexpected sustained soil carbon flux in response to simultaneous warming and nitrogen enrichment compared with single factors alone. Nature Ecology & Evolution 10.1038/s41559-024-02546-x: 23 pp.

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.

Maynard, D. S., Covey, K. R., Crowther, T. W., Sokol, N. W., Morrison, E. W., Frey, S. D., Van Diepen, L. T. A., Bradford, M. A. 2018. Species associations overwhelm abiotic conditions to dictate the structure and function of wood-decay fungal communities. Ecology 99: 801-811.

Muratore, T. J., Knorr, M. A., Simpson, M. J., Stephens, R. B., Phillips, R. P., Frey, S. D. 2024. Response of Root Respiration to Warming and Nitrogen Addition Depends on Tree Species. Global Change Biology 30: e17530.

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.

Pisani, O., Frey, S. D., Simpson, A. J., Simpson, M. J. 2015. Soil warming and nitrogen deposition alter soil organic matter composition at the molecular-level. Biogeochemistry 123: 391-409.

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.

Romero-Olivares, A. L., Davie-Martin, C. L., Kramshøj, M., Rinnan, R., Frey, S. D. 2022. Soil volatile organic compound emissions in response to soil warming and nitrogen deposition. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 10: 00065.

Rousk, J., Frey, S. D., Baath, E. 2012. Temperature adaptation of bacterial communities in experimentally warmed forest soils. Global Change Biology 18: 3252-3258.

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

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.

Stoica, I., Tabatabaei Anaraki, M., Muratore, T., Knorr, M., Frey, S. D., Simpson, M. J. 2023. Chronic Warming and Nitrogen-Addition Alter Soil Organic Matter Molecular Composition Distinctly in Tandem Compared to Individual Stressors. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 7: 609-622.

VandenEnden, L., Anthony, M. A., Frey, S. D., Simpson, M. J. 2021. Biogeochemical evolution of soil organic matter composition after a decade of warming and nitrogen addition. Biogeochemistry 156: 161-175.

Wheeler, J. A., Frey, S. D., Stinson, K. A. 2017. Tree seedling responses to multiple environmental stresses: Interactive effects of soil warming, nitrogen fertilization, and plant invasion. Forest Ecology and Management 403: 44-51.

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.