Research Bibliography

Kurz AY, Blum JD, Johnson MW, Nadelhoffer K, Zak DR.  2021.  Isotopic composition of mercury deposited via snow into mid-latitude ecosystems. Science of The Total Environment. 784:147252.

Zak DR, Pellitier PT, Argiroff WA., Castillo B, James TY, Nave LE, Averill C, Beidler KV, Bhatnagar J, Blesh J et al..  2019.  Exploring the role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in soil carbon dynamics. New Phytologist. 2235(1):33-39.

Ibáñez I, Zak DR, Burton AJ, Pregitzer KS.  2016.  Chronic nitrogen deposition alters tree allometric relationships: implications for biomass production and carbon storage. Ecological Applications. 26:913-925.

Freedman ZB, Zak DR.  2015.  Atmospheric N deposition alters connectance, but not functional potential among saprotrophic bacterial communities. Molecular Ecology. 24:3170-3180.

Freedman ZB, Romanowicz KJ, Upchurch RA, Zak DR.  2015.  Differential responses of total and active soil microbial communities to long-term experimental N deposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 90:275-282.

Freedman Z, Zak DR.  2015.  Soil bacterial communities are shaped by temporal and environmental filtering: evidence from a long-term chronosequence. Environmental Microbiology. :1-11.

Cline LC, Zak DR.  2014.  Dispersal limitation structures fungal community assembly in a long-term glacial chronosequence. Environmental Microbiology. 16:1538-1548.

Gan H, Zak DR, Hunter MD.  2014.  Trophic stability of soil oribatid mites in the face of environmental change. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 68:71-77.

Gan H, Zak DR, Hunter MD.  2013.  Chronic nitrogen deposition alters the structure and function of detrital food webs in a northern hardwood ecosystem. Ecological Applications. 23:1311-1321.

Freedman Z, Eisenlord SD, Zak DR, Xue K, He Z, Zhou J.  2013.  Towards a molecular understanding of N cycling in northern hardwood forests under future rates of N deposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 66:130-138.

Talhelm AF, Pregitzer KS, Burton AJames, Zak DR.  2012.  Air pollution and the changing biogeochemistry of northern forests. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. :110622071548013.

Thomas DC, Zak DR, Filley TR.  2012.  Chronic N deposition does not apparently alter the biochemical composition of forest floor and soil organic matter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 54:7-13.

Eisenlord SD, Zak DR, Upchurch RA.  2012.  Dispersal limitation and the assembly of soil Actinobacteria communities in a long-term chronosequence. Ecology and Evolution. 2:538-549.

Zak DR, Pregitzer KS, Burton AJ, Edwards IP, Kellner H.  2011.  Microbial responses to a changing environment: implications for the future functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Fungal Ecology. 4:386-395.

Edwards IP, Zak DR, Kellner H, Eisenlord SD, Pregitzer KS.  2011.  Simulated Atmospheric N Deposition Alters Fungal Community Composition and Suppresses Ligninolytic Gene Expression in a Northern Hardwood Forest. PLoS ONE. 6:1-10.

Patterson SL, Zak DR, Burton AJames, Talhelm AF, Pregitzer KS.  2011.  Simulated N deposition negatively impacts sugar maple regeneration in a northern hardwood ecosystem. Journal of Applied Ecology. 49:155-163.

Pregitzer KS, Zak DR, Talhelm AF, Burton AJames, Eikenberry JR.  2010.  Nitrogen turnover in the leaf litter and fine roots of sugar maple. Ecology. 91:3456-3462.

Eisenlord SD, Zak DR.  2010.  Simulated Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition Alters Actinobacterial Community Composition in Forest Soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 74:1157.

Hassett JE, Zak DR, Blackwood CB, Pregitzer KS.  2009.  Are Basidiomycete Laccase Gene Abundance and Composition Related to Reduced Lignolytic Activity Under Elevated Atmospheric NO3 - Deposition in a Northern Hardwood Forest? Microbial Ecology. 57:728-739.

Eddy WC, Zak DR, Holmes WE, Pregitzer KS.  2008.  Chronic Atmospheric NO3- Deposition Does Not Induce NO3- Use by Acer saccharum Marsh.. Ecosystems. 11:469-477.

Zak DR, Holmes WE, Burton AJames, Pregitzer KS, Talhelm AF.  2008.  Simulated atmospheric NO3- deposition increases soil organic matter by slowing decomposition. Ecological Applications. 18:2016-2027.

Pregitzer KS, Burton AJames, Zak DR, Talhelm AF.  2008.  Simulated chronic nitrogen deposition increases carbon storage in Northern Temperate forests. Global Change Biology. 14:142-153.

Smemo KA, Zak DR, Pregitzer KS, Burton AJames.  2007.  Characteristics of DOC exported from northern hardwood forests receiving chronic experimental NO3- deposition. Ecosystems. 10:369-379.

Zak DR, Holmes WE, Tomlinson MJ, Pregitzer KS, Burton AJames.  2006.  Microbial cycling of C and N in northern hardwood forests receiving chronic atmospheric NO3- deposition. Ecosystems. 9:242-253.

Sefcik LTaylor, Zak DR, Ellsworth DS.  2006.  Photosynthetic responses to understory shade and elevated carbon dioxide concentration in four northern hardwood tree species. Tree Physiology. 26:1589-1599.