2026
Wang W, Wang Y, Li JM, Li MY, He P, Cui Y, Ji SJ, Wang WY, Kavagi L, Ashraf M, Chen Y, Rillig MC, Xiong YC. 2026. Long-term intercropping mitigates warming-induced carbon loss via enhancing microbial and substrate resistance. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 212: 110022. Link
Peláez-Vico MA,Rillig MC, Mittler R, 2026. Plant-to-plant signaling: Building networks for resilience to stress, or merely eavesdropping? Trends in Plant Science (in press) Link
Chen C, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Zhou G, Rillig MC, Li B, Fang C, Li J, Nie M. 2026. Multiple global change stressors boost soil greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Global Change Biology 32: e70633. Link
Cui Y, Peng S, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Moorhead DL, Sinsabaugh RL, Terrer C, Smith TP, Kuzyakov Y, Peñuelas J, Zhu B, Tao F, Hong S, Chen J, Rillig MC. 2026. Productivity-driven decoupling of microbial carbon use efficiency and respiration across global soils. Science Advances 12: eadz5319; doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adz5319. Link
Romero F, Labouyrie M, Orgiazzi A, Ballabio C, Panagos P, Jones A, Tedersoo L, Bahram M, Eisenhauer N, Sünnemann M, Guerra C, Tao D, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Jiao S, Mocali S, Rillig MC, Lehmann A, Rog I, van der Heijden MGA. 2026. The soil microbiome as an indicator of ecosystem multifunctionality in European soils. Nature Communications 17: 705; doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-67353-9. Link
Ajaz S, Amin N, López-García A, Birt H, Murgo M, Lanfranco L, Garrido JL, Alcántara J, Rillig MC, Johnson D, Caruso T. 2026. Maximum entropy networks show that plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal associations are anti-nested and modular. New Phytologist 249: 460-475. Link
Damascene Harindintwali J, Xiang L, Fu Y, Navab-Daneshmand T, Jiang X, Elsner M, Jia Z, Dercon G, Rillig MC, Tiedje JM, Wang F. 2026. Linking pathogens and antibiotic resistance in microbial communities: Insights from omics and isotopic tracing. Trends in Analytical Chemistry 195: 118560. Link
Man J, Tang B, Lozano YM, Rillig MC. 2026. Microplastic and drought influence the positive effect of plant diversity on plant biomass production. Journal of Ecology 114: e70217. Link
Lu Y, Eisenhauer N, Patoine G, Chen Y, Heintz-Buschart A, Küsel K, Wegner CE, Buscot F, Liu X, Araujo ASF, Frey B, Maestre FT, Vadeboncoeur M, van den Brink L, Ponette Q, Didion M, Wohlfahrt G, Gaxiola A, Branquinho C, Meesenburg H, Fukuzawa K, Adair C, Andrić A, Barna M, Bei Q, Bruelheide H, Caliman A, Canessa R, Carbognani M, Cazzolla Gatti R, Chen C, Christiansen C, Danger M, Davydov E, de Graaff MA, Delire C, Di Cecco V, Di Martino L, Djukic I, Drollinger S, Enoki T, Fekete I, Fransson P, Freitag M, Frenzel M, Gavilán R, Glatzel S, Glushkova M, González G, Gripp A, Haase P, Hamer U, Hishi T, Hiura T, Hornung E, Hoshizaki K, Jäger H, Jiménez J, Kelly-Slatten M, Kepfer Rojas S, Kotroczó Z, Kriiska K, Kurokawa H, Lajtha K, Loehr J, Löfgren S, Maire V, Martins R, Maunoury-Danger F, Melece I, Ochoa V, Ostonen I, Paquette A, Parker W, Peri P, Peters R, Petraglia A, Petřík P, Puscas M, Rebmann C, Reich P, Rillig MC, Schädler M, Schaub M, Schmidt A, Seeber J, Serrano H, Sousa A, Scheu S, Stefanski A, Tomaselli M, Tóth Z, Trevathan-Tackett S, Trogisch S, Dan Turtureanu P, Ursu T, Venn S, Verstraeten A, Vijayanathan J, Vujanović D, Wagner M, Weih M, Zehetner F, Guerra C. 2026. Landscape effects on global soil pathogenic fungal diversity across spatial scales. Nature Communications 17: 1164; doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-67929-5. Link
Rillig MC, Xu G, Fu W, Li C. 2026. Constraining the effect of global change on antifungal resistance. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 7: 145-147. Link
Saghaï A, Smith ME, Vico G, Banerjee S, Edlinger A, García-Palacios P, Garland G, van der Heijden MGA, Herzog C, Maestre FT, Pescador DS, Philippot L, Rillig MC, Romdhane S, Bommarco R, Hallin S. 2026. Diverse crop rotations off-set yield-scaled nitrogen losses via denitrification. Communications Biology 7: 73. Link
Kaschper S, Rillig MC, Camenzind T. 2026. Unique species interactions determine the decomposition activity of fungal communities. Functional Ecology 40: 570-584. Link
Li MY, Wang W, Lozano YM, Cui Y, Tao HY, Ashraf M, Rillig MC, Xiong YC. 2026. Microplastic biodegradability does not modify plant carbon input in soil but accelerate soil carbon loss in agroecosystems. Journal of Applied Ecology 63: e70259. Link
Luo XB, Chen XW, Zhai FH, Zhang X, Zhao YX, Zhang H, Li HH, Xu B, Ouyang JX, Li H, Rillig MC. 2026. Enhanced chromium detoxification mediated by an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus via arbutin-derived hydroquinone. New Phytologist 249: 1011-1025. Link
Rongstock R, Li H, Lehmann A, Wulf A, Rillig MC. 2026. Global change factors differ in effect when acting alone and in a multi-factor background. Nature Communications 17: 425; doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-68155-9. Link
Zhao T, Lozano YM, Li G, Lammel DR, Quensen JF, Rillig MC. 2026. Microplastics disrupt the nitrogen-fixing bacterial community with consequences for plant growth. Applied Soil Ecology 219: 106772. Link
Li H, Lehmann A, Kunze E, Xu Y, Tang B, Zhao T, Rongstock R, Rillig MC. 2026. Dissimilarity among soil restoration practices influences soil functions and plant biomass: A functional group approach. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 399: 110194. Link
Li H, Rongstock R, Lehmann A, Simon I, Ring E, Wulf A, Maaß S, Rillig MC. 2026. Number and dissimilarity of soil amendments influence soil properties and plant communities in a greenhouse experiment. Geoderma 466: 117703. Link
Cheng S, Tang X, Huang X, Li Y, Huang S, He D, Moreno-Jiménez E, Xu J, Rillig MC, Dai Z, Delgado-Baquerizo M. 2026. Stressor combinations shift soil microbial communities from rare to unknown taxa and alter genomic strategies. Global Change Biology 32: e70704. Link
He G, Lu M, Yang Y, Zhang Q, Liu W, Rillig MC. 2026. Impacts of microplastics on terrestrial soil carbon dynamics. Nature Geoscience (in press) Link
Huang C, Zhou P, Rillig MC, Capowiez Y, Wang L, Qiao Y, Hou D. 2026. Earthworm casting drives soil microplastic upward transport and the formation of biogenic polymer aggregates. Environmental Science & Technology (in press) Link
Zhao T, Li G, Lozano YM, Wang Y, Lehmann A, Du D, Xiao C, Rillig MC. 2026. Beyond microplastics: how tire wear particles influence plant performance. Environmental Science & Technology (in press) Link
Gao D, Kuzyakov Y, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Peñuelas J, Moorhead DL, Sinsabaugh RL, Xu X, Sun L, Wang H, Kou L, Fu X, Dai X, Meng S, Liu Z, Wang S, Hagedorn F, Rillig MC, Cui Y. 2026. Global patterns and drivers of soil microbial nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency. Nature Communications 17: 2576; doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-70602-0 Link
Qin YF, Zhang WR, Wang L, Wang YF, Lin D, Cai TG, Li HZ, Huang QS, Rillig MC, Zhu D. 2026. Extracellular vesicles drive stress-induced antibiotic resistance spread in soil. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology (in press) Link
Zhang Q, Zhang Z, Zhang Z, Qin G, Jin M, Chen B, Yu Y, Wang T, Wang M, Lu T, Zhu D, Cui L, Qian H, Rillig MC, Zhu YG. 2026. Potential plastic biodegradation in lakes worldwide. The Innovation (in press) Link
Tomachewski D, Souza RF, Lammel DR, Schiebelbein LM, Galvão CW, Ribeiro MF, Karas LP, Galvão F, Baura CA, Rillig MC, Etto RM. 2026. Tree diversity shapes soil bacterial community structure under low abiotic heterogeneity in the Atlantic forest. Archives of Microbiology 208:246. Link
Dong X. Yao Y, Han B, Rillig MC, Zhong Y, Hu H, Li Z. 2026. Anthropogenic soil acidification severely decreases microbial diversity and functionality. Current Biology (in press) Link
Meizoso-Regueira T, Yu Y, Flury M, Rillig MC. 2026. Critical thresholds in soil physical properties driven by microplastics. Microplastics and Nanoplastics (in press) Link
Wang J, Lu L, Sun Y, Messer LF, Wu M, Duan Z, Shi J, Yang Y, Li C, Mao Y, Zhu D, Rillig MC, Wang X. 2026. AHL-mediated quorum sensing drives plastisphere formation and elevates pathogenic potential. The ISME Journal (in press) Link
Strullu-Derrien C, Rillig MC. 2026. Plant-soil interactions: a primacy of soil? Current Biology (accepted)
Wang M, Chen J, Rillig MC, Peñuelas J, Veresoglou SD. 2026. How sustainable agricultural management practices mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in paddy fields. Journal of Environmental Management 404: 129557. Link
Tang B, Lu X, Wang Y, Man J, Zhao X, Hu S, Rillig MC, Bai Y. 2026. Host-mediated interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and saprotrophs drive soil organic carbon dynamics. New Phytologist (in press)
Chen D, Peng X, Rillig MC, Vesterdal L, Peng Y, Wu Q, Li Z, Heděnec P, Fan Y, Ni X, Wu F, Yue Y. 2026. Global negative effects of fire on soil fauna communities vary with geographic factors and taxonomic groups. Plant and Soil (in press)
Yue K, Rillig MC, Van Meerbeek K, Chen S, Wu Q, Peng Y, Guo K, Li Z, Peng X, Fan Y, An N, Ni X, Wu F. Disentangling litter decomposition trajectories in streams: ecological insights from a global multi-model analysis. Ecology (in press)
Wang YF, Wang YN, Lin D, Xu JY, Qi FY, Cui HL, Lu HJ, Qiao M, Topp E, Zhu D, Rillig MC, Zhu YG. 2026. Diversity of pharmaceuticals enhances antibiotic resistance in the invertebrate gut via biofilm-mediated mechanisms. Advanced Science (in press) Link
Xiang Y, Peñuelas J, Rillig MC, Luo X, Nizzetto L, Akkanen J, Liu Y, Luo Y, Yao B, Li Y. 2026. Microplastics deplete soil available nutrients: a global meta-analysis with machine learning reveals critical thresholds and interactive controls. Water Research (in press) Link
Rillig MC. 2026. Fungal diversity, ecology and functions in soil ecosystems. Nature Reviews Microbiology (accepted)
Li N, He Y, Rillig MC. 2026. An overlooked micro(nano)plastic climate feedback in frozen regions. Global Change Biology (in press)
Saiz H, Neuenkamp L, Penone C, Birkhofer K, Blüthgen N, Boch S, Bonkowski M, Buscot F, Felipe Lucia M, Fiore-Donno AM, Fischer M, Freitag M, Godoy O, Goldmann K, Gossner MM, Hamer U, Hölzel N, Jung K, Kandeler E, Klaus V, Kleinebecker T, Leimer S, Marhan S, Oelmann Y, Overmann J, Prati D, Renner S, Rillig MC, Seibold S, Schloter M, Schoening I, Sikorski J, Socher S, Solly E, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stempfhuber B, Westphal C, Wilcke W, Wubet T, Wurst S, Allan E. 2026. Land use intensification results in abrupt transitions between extensively and intensively managed grasslands. Functional Ecology (in press)
Mittler R, Zandalinas SI, Rillig MC. 2027. Stress combination in biology, ecology and medicine: Embracing complexity to resolve our central challenges. Trends in Plant Science (in press)
Zhou J, Huang B, Yang R, Berckx F, Gui H, Frasson P, Rillig MC, Reynolds M, Xie J, Razavi B, Li FM, Chen X, Weih M, Yang H. 2026. Arbuscular mycorrhiza provides post-anthesis benefits to maximize wheat grain yield and nitrogen concentration. New Phytologist (in press)
Jiang S, Halbleib A, Antonovics J, Remus-Emsermann M, Rillig MC, Mansour I. 2026. Rapid evolution in necromass use under resource limitation reduces persistence in producer-decomposer microbial biospheres. Communications Biology (in press)
Li MY, Wang W, Ma Y, Yang JY, Liu ST, Xiong XB, Zhao T, Sun Y, Saqib S, Ashraf M, Rillig MC, Xiong YC. 2026. Degradable versus inert microplastics: effects on soil organic carbon persistence via microbial drivers in an agroecosystem. Functional Ecology (in press)
2025
Xu L, Tian X, Bai X, Li K, Zhang G, Zhang M, Rillig MC, Huang Y, Hu M. 2025. Atmospheric microplastic input into wetlands: Spatiotemporal patterns, drivers, and unique ecological impacts. Water Research 268: 122601. Link
Rillig MC. Global change refugia could shelter species from multiple threats. 2025. Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1: 10-11. Link
Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2025. Systematic mapping of experimental approaches to studying common mycorrhizal networks in arbuscular mycorrhiza. Plants, People, Planet 7: 920-933. Link
Lozano Y, Landt L, Rillig MC. 2025. Plastic particles and their additives can promote plant invasion via physical and chemical mechanisms on seed germination. Journal of Ecology 113: 275-288. Link
Chen L, Han L, Wang F, Chen Q, Huang H, Wang J, Ma C, Sun K, Rillig MC, Kuzyakov Y, Yang Z. 2025. Polylactic acid microplastics induced negative priming and improved carbon sequestration via microbial processes in different paddy soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 201: 109653. Link
Chen H, Ingraffia R, Schloter M, Brüggemann N, Rillig MC. 2025. Effects of multiple microplastic types on growth of winter wheat and soil properties vary in different agricultural soils. Plants, People, Planet 7: 194-203. Link
Li H, Lehmann A, Rongstock R, Xu Y, Kunze E, Meidl P, Rillig MC. 2025. Diversity of organic amendments increases soil functions and plant growth. Plants, People, Planet 7: 80-86. Link
Li H, Tang B, Lehmann A, Rongstock R, Zhu Y, Rillig MC. 2025. The dissimilarity between multiple management practices drives the impact on soil properties and functions. Soil Ecology Letters 7: 240278. Link
Rillig MC, Lehmann A, Lanfranco L, Caruso T, Johnson D. 2025. Clarifying the definition of common mycorrhizal networks. Functional Ecology 39: 1411-1417. Link
Wei Z, Ma X, Chai Y, Senbayram M, Wang X, Wu M, Zhang G, Cai S, Ma J, Xu H, Bol R, Rillig MC, Ji R, Yan X, Shan J. 2025. Tire wear particles exposure enhances denitrification in soil by enriching labile DOM and shaping the microbial community. Environmental Science & Technology 59: 1209–1221. Link
Ni B, Xiao L, Lin D, Zhang T, Zhang Q, Liu Y, Chen Q, Zhu D, Qian H, Rillig MC, Zhu YG. 2025. Increasing pesticide diversity impairs soil microbial functions. PNAS 122: e2419917122. Link
Yao W, Yang Y, Beillouin D, Zhao J, Olesen JE, Zhou J, Smith P, Zeng Z, Lambers H, Rillig MC, Wanger TC, Zang H, 2025. Legume-rice rotations increase rice yields and carbon sequestration potential globally. One Earth 8: 101170. Link
Shi J, Tanentzap AJ, Sun Y, Wang J, Xing B, Rillig MC, Li C, Jin L, Wang F, Adyel TM, Shang J, Wang X, Wang J. 2025. Microplastics generate less mineral protection of soil carbon and more CO2 emissions. Advanced Science 12: 2409585. Link
Rillig MC, Lehmann A, Mounts I, Bock B. 2025. Concurrent common fungal networks formed by different guilds of fungi. New Phytologist 246: 33-38. Link
Dueñas JF, Kunze E, Li H, Rillig MC. 2025. Soil conditioner mixtures as an agricultural management alternative to mitigate drought impacts. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 25: 1377–1386. Link
Rillig MC. 2025. Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs. PLOS Computational Biology 21(2): e1012788; doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012788. Link
Rillig MC, Lehmann A, Bi M. 2025. Hormesis as a hidden hand in global environmental change? Environmental Science & Technology 59: 2887–2890. Link
Zhu R, Zhang Z, Zhang N, Zhong H, Zhou F, Zhang X, Liu C, Huang Y, Yuan Y, Wang Y, Li C, Shi H, Rillig MC, Dang F, Ren H, Zhang Y, Xing B. 2025. A global estimate of multi-ecosystem photosynthesis losses under microplastic pollution. PNAS 122 (11): e2423957122. Link
Guo Y, Guigue J, Bauke SL, Hempel S, Rillig MC. 2025. Soil depth and fertilizer shape fungal community composition in a long-term fertilizer agricultural field. Applied Soil Ecology 207: 105943. Link
Schaller J, Kleber M, Stein M, Meunier JD, Puppe D, Sommer M, Rillig MC. 2025. The importance of reactive silica for maintaining soil health. Plant and Soil 513: 1651–1662. Link
Li AD, Meidl P, Wang SH, Tang B, Rillig MC, Yu GC, Chen J, Liu RZ, Lie ZY, Wu AC, Rong LL, Peng C, Liu ZF, Zhang W, Lu XK, Liu JX, Ye Q, Mo JM, Zheng MH. 2025. Atmospheric nitrogen deposition has minor impacts on the abundance and diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their contribution to soil carbon stock in tropical forests. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 204: 109746. Link
Kong X, Xu B, Orr JA, Meidl P, Rillig MC, Yang G. 2025. Ecosystems have multiple interacting processes that buffer against co-occurring stressors. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 40: 479-488. Link
Jeltsch F, Roeleke M, Abdelfattah A, Arlinghaus R, Berg G, Blaum N, De Meester L, Dittmann E, Eccard JA, Fournier B, Gaedke U, Gallagher C, Govaert L, Hauber M, Jeschke JM, Kramer-Schadt S, Linstädter A, Lucke U, Mazza V, Metzler R, Nendel C, Radchuk V, Rillig MC, Ryo M, Scheiter K, Tiedemann R, Tietjen B, Voigt CC, Weithoff G, Wolinska J, Zurell D. 2025. The need for an individual-based global change ecology. Individual-based Ecology 1: e148200. Link
Kim SW, Šmídová K, van Loon S, van Gestel CAM, Rillig MC, Fritze H, Velmala S. 2025. Effects of biodegradable microplastics on soil microbial communities and activities: Insight from an ecological mesocosm experiment. Science of the Total Environment 975: 179288. Link
Bartkowski B, Eisenhauer N, Glante F, Lachmann C, Römbke J, Rillig MC, Ristok C, Schmidt A, Babin D. 2025. The options of different actor groups to address drivers of soil biodiversity change. Soil Organisms 97: 129–142. Link
Tchiechoua YH, Rillig MC. 2025. Microplastics pollution in terrestrial ecosystems of Africa: Current knowledge, challenges and building collaborative research networks. Microplastics and Nanoplastics 5: 15; doi: 10.1186/s43591-025-00122-z. Link
Riedo J, Rillig MC, Walder F. 2025. Beyond dosage – the need for more realistic research scenarios to understand pesticide impacts on agricultural soils. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 73: 10093–10100. Link
Tunali M, Rillig MC. 2025. Vertical distribution of microplastics in soil affects plant response to microplastics. NanoImpact 38: 100557. Link
Liang Y, Leifheit E, Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2025. Soil organic carbon stabilization is influenced by microbial diversity and temperature. Scientific Reports 15: 13990. Link
Guo T, Guo M, Ryo M, Rillig MC, Liu N, Zhang Y. 2025. Ungulate herbivory affects grassland soil biota β-diversity and community assembly via modifying soil properties and plant root traits. New Phytologist 247: 281-294. Link
Cui Y, Peng S, Rillig MC, Camenzind T, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Terrer C, Xu X, Feng M, Wang M, Fang L, Zhu B, Du E, Moorhead DL, Sinsabaugh RL, Peñuelas J, Elser JJ. 2025. Global patterns of nutrient limitation in soil microorganisms. PNAS 122: e2424552122. Link
Lammel DR, Kim SW, Rong L, Chen H, Ingraffia R, Rillig MC. 2025. Effects of microplastic types and shapes on the community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in different soil types. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 32: 12504–12512. Link
Zhao T, Xu Y, Bi M, Li H, Li G, Rillig MC. 2025. Soil properties explain the variability in tire wear particle effects in soil based on a laboratory test with 59 soils. Environmental Pollution 375: 126271. Link
Liu YR, Wen S, Singh BK, Zhang W, Liu Z, Hao X, Hao YY, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Tan W, Huang Q, Rillig MC, Zhu YG. Vulnerability of soil food webs to chemical pollution and climate change. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9: 1112–1119. Link
Amato-Lourenço LF, Bertoldi C, van Praagh M, Rillig MC. 2025. Environmental factors influence airborne microplastic deposition in the soil of urban allotment gardens. Environmental Pollution 375: 126372. Link
Yan H, Zhao T, Xu B, Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2025. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi suffer from perfluorooctanoic acid in soil but ameliorate negative effects on plant performance. Applied Soil Ecology 212: 106169. Link
Zhu Y, Meidl P, Li H, Bi M, Ryo M, Rillig MC. 2025. Concurrent anthropogenic stressors affect plant-soil systems with different plant diversity levels. New Phytologist 247: 1897-1911. Link
Rodríguez del Río A, Scheu S, Rillig MC. 2025. Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics. Nature Communications 16: 5058; doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-60390-4. Link
Ishfaq M, Shakoor N, Rillig MC, Geilfus CM. 2025. Airborne microplastics in leaves and food safety risks. Trends in Plant Science 30: 1063-1065. Link
Liu N, Guo T, Zhang H, Yang G, Wei B, Xu H, Ren H, Badgery W, Kemp D, Nie Z, Lee MRF, Rillig MC, Zhang Y. 2025. Optimized grazing management enhances multiple ecosystem services by maintaining plant diversity and dominance in grasslands. One Earth 8: 101319. Link
Kim J, Kim SW, Waldman WW, Bredendiek F, Son S, Kim S, Parr MK, Rillig MC, Kim TY. 2025. Toxicological effects of microplastic fibers from different disposable face masks on Caenorhabditis elegans. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 300: 118451. Link
Wen S, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Sáez-Sandino T, Chen J, Feng J, Huang Q, Guirado E, Rillig MC, Liu YR. 2025. Negative impacts of global change stressors permeate into deep soils. Ecology Letters 28: e70143. Link
Shi J, Lu L, Sun Y, Rillig MC, Peng Y, Duan Z, Xiao K, Adyel T, Zhu D, Ding J, Feng B, Wang X, Wang J. 2025. A double-edged sword of biodegradable microplastics on the soil microbial carbon pump. Global Change Biology 31: e70313. Link
Zhang Y, Wang R, Xue K, Dijkstra FA, Sardans J, Liu H, Rillig MC, Peñuelas J, Han X, Jiang Y. 2025. Expanding the root economics space with root nitrogen reallocation. Plant, Cell & Environment 48: 7505-7516. Link
Dai J, Hu C, Flury M, Huang Y, Rillig MC, Ji D, Peng J, Fei J, Huang Q, Xiong Y, Yang N, Jones DL, Wang J, Ding F. 2025. National inventory of plastic mulch residues in Chinese croplandsfrom 1993 to 2050. Global Change Biology 31: e70297. Link
Huang X, Yang L, Zhou S, Zhong L, Xu G, Bi M, Yang X, Su X, Rillig MC. 2025. Plastic biofilms as hotspots of nitrogen cycling in estuarine ecosystems: Comparative ecological, genomic, and transcriptomic analysis across substrates. Global Change Biology 31: e70329. Link
Fu W, Niu T, Wu S, Hao Z, Rillig MC, Chen B. 2025. Harnessing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities for ecological restoration: a conceptual framework. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 209: 109902. Link
Lehmann A, Tang B, Rillig MC. 2025. Meta-analysis of effects of common mycorrhizal networks formed by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant and fungal parameters. Functional Ecology 39: 2758-2771. Link
Lehmann J, Gomes C, Rillig MC, Shekhar S. 2025. Deep Mutual Learning: incentives and trust through practitioner engagement for integrating artificial intelligence into sustainability science. RSC Sustainability 3: 3903-3909. Link
Ristok C, Babin D, Bartkowski B, Burkhard B, Filser J, Hohberg K, Kleemann J, Kolb S, Lehmitz R, Rillig MC, Römbke J, Ruess L, Scheu S, Scheunemann N, Schmidt A, Steinhoff-Knopp B, Eisenhauer N, Tebbe CC, Xylander WER. 2025. Towards a comprehensive assessment of soil biodiversity in Germany: status quo, challenges, and policy implications. Soil Organisms 97: 143–157. Link
Riedo J, Dueñas JF, Mbedi S, Sparmann S, Rillig MC. 2025. Abrupt versus gradual application of pesticides: effects on soil bacterial and fungal communities. Environmental Pollution 383: 126859. Link
Lehmann A, Tang B, Rongstock R, Sommerburg A, Chramova N, Ergül K, Heydebreck K, Quiram N, Maaß S, Leifheit E, Rillig MC. 2025. Research landscape of experiments on global change effects on mycorrhizae. New Phytologist 248: 1612-1619. Link
Zhang R, Wei Y, Dong C, Wei B, Rillig MC, Badgery WB, Yang G, Liu N, Zhang Y. 2025. Quantifying the positive effect of ungulate herbivory on living root-derived soil organic carbon formation: evidence from an eight-year simulated grazing field experiment with 13C pulse labeling. Global Change Biology 31: e70336. Link
Rillig MC, Sprekeler H. 2025. From bench to big boss: mitigating the widening gap between PI and lab. Nature (Career Column); doi: 10.1038/d41586-025-01912-4. Link
Li T, Phillips RP, Rillig MC, Angst G, Kiers ET, Bonfante P, Eisenhauer N, Liu Z. 2025. Mycorrhizal allies: synergizing forest carbon and multifunctional restoration. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 40: 983-994. Link
Li C, Jin LN, Bank MS, Fan C, Gillings MR, Zhao T, Han Y, Chen T, Gao M, Zhu D, Chen Q, Zhu G, Wang J, Wang L, Liu J, Yuan X, Huang Q, Wang X, Jahnke A, Brahney J, Allen A, Arp HPH, Oberbeckmann S, Bergmann M, Pointing SB, Zhang D, Rillig MC. 2025. Potential planetary health impacts of the airborne plastisphere. One Earth 8: 101446. Link
Xie A, Xu W, Li Z, Tiunov AV, O’Connor P, Su J, Huang Q, Gong X, Wang B, Shun Chan FK, Rillig MC, Sun X. 2025. Zoonotic pathogen-driven antibiotic resistance emerges in urban soils. Journal of Hazardous Materials 497: 139618. Link
Chen XP, Zhu D, Liu SY, Sun MM, Ye M, Wang L, Lin D, Zhang TL, Rillig MC, Zhu YG. 2025. Unique plastisphere viromes with habitat-dependent potential for modulating global methane cycle. Nature Communications 16: 8098; doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-63215-6. Link
Fu Y, Yu Y, Xu G, Rillig MC. 2025. Size effects of microplastics on competition between crop and weed via soil microbes. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 303: 118972. Link
Zhang X, Jin X, Li J, Dini-Andreote F, Li H, Rahman MK, Du M, Wu F, Wei Z, Zhou X, van der Heijden MGA, Rillig MC. 2025. Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly. Cell Host & Microbe 33: 1765-1778. Link
Deb D, Rillig MC. 2025. Microbial plastic degradation: a solution or a pollution problem? ACS Sustainable Resource Management 2: 1627–1629. Link
Medrano L, Ros M, Sáez Sandino T, Zhou G, Dongxue T, Zhai K, Yue Y, Tao Z, Revillini D, Pascual JA, Sánchez-Rodríguez AR, Ochoa HR, Alguacil MM, Sacristán D, Alejandre J, del Rio G, Rillig MC, Delgado-Baquerizo M. 2025. Multiple sustainable practices are crucial for enhancing the provisioning of agroecosystem services worldwide. Ecology Letters 28: e70276. Link
Liao M, Xiang L, Wang Y, Fu Y, Harindintwali JD, Jiang X, Elsner M, Rillig MC, Wang F. 2025. Microplastics and antibiotics in agricultural soil: mechanisms and implications of co-contamination. Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering 50: 101181. Link
Fan C, Chen T, Chow FWN, Fisher M, Rillig MC, Wu D, Luo Y, Jin LN. 2025. Public health implications of airborne Candida: viability, drug resistance, and genetic links to clinical strains. Environmental Science & Technology Letters 12: 1320–1326. Link
Xu Y, Li H, Zhao TT, Rillig MC. 2025. Spray paint-derived microplastics influence soil properties and microbial activity through their composite composition. Journal of Hazardous Materials 498: 140009. Link
Lagos S, Lamprou E, Liu H, Thiour Mauprivez C, MacLean J, Cooper M, Spor A, Martin-Laurent F, Rillig MC, Karpouzas D. 2025. Interactions of microplastics with pesticides and anthelminthics mediate undesirable effects on microbial nitrogen cycling in agricultural soils. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 101: fiaf104. Link
Smídova K, Soinne H, Kim SW, Tirronniemi J, Meffe R, Redondo-Hasselerharm PE, Braun M, Rillig MC, Fritze H, Adamczyk B, Nikama J, Kaseva J, Saartama V, Amelung W, Hurley R, Hofman J, Nizzetto L, Selonen S, Velmala S. 2025. Conventional and biodegradable agricultural microplastics: effects on soil properties and microbial functions across a European pedoclimatic gradient. Environmental Pollution 386: 127212. Link
Wang Y, Wang F, Xiang L, Liao M, Wang M, Bian Y, Jiang X, Naidu R, Rillig MC, Amelung W. 2025. Co-exposure of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) decreased the submicron plastic stress in soil–plant system. Eco-Environment & Health 4: 100184. Link
Zhu Y, Kim SW, Barili S, Abdullayeva G, Xu Y, Rillig MC. 2025. Ageing conditions of tire wear particles alter the effects of their leachates on soil. Applied Soil Ecology 216: 106563. Link
Xiang Y, Rillig MC, Peñuelas J, Nizzetto L, Sardans J, Long J, Zhang J, Li R, Liu Y, Luo Y, Yao B, Li Y. 2025. Global meta-analysis integrated with machine learning assesses context-dependent microplastic effects on soil microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen. Environmental Science & Technology 59: 26568–26582. Link
Zhou F, Zhai X, Dai Z, Zhou M, Liu R, Zhang S, Pan Z, Zhong W, Hua ZS, Nie M, Rillig MC, Wang Z. 2025. Acid and antibiotic stress suppresses soil microbial carbon use efficiency via fungal proliferation: mechanistic insights from microbial community dynamics. Journal of Hazardous Materials 500: 140478. Link
Shokri N, Robinson DA, Afshar M, Alewell C, Aminzadeh M, Arthur E, Broothaerts N, Campbell GA), Eklund L, Gupta S, Harper R, Hassani A, Hohenegger C, Keller T, Kiener M, Lebron I, Madani K, Marwala T, Matthews F, Moldrup P, Nemes A, Panagos P, Prăvălie R, Rillig MC, Saggau P, Shokri-Kuehni SMS, Smith P, Thomas A, de Jonge LW, Or D. 2025. Rethinking Global Soil Degradation: Drivers, Impacts, and Solutions. Reviews of Geophysics 63: e2025RG000883. Link
Chen Y, Kuzyakov Y, Ma Q, Du Z, Sun K, Xiao K, Liang X, Li Y, Zhang Y, Lai X, Fu W, Gao B, Wang F, Zhu S, Gao Q, Rillig MC. 2025. Aggregate size mediates the stability and temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon in response to decadal biochar and straw amendments. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 211: 109969. Link
Dou J, Rillig MC, Hedenqvist MS, He Y, Zhang H. 2025. Oligomer nanoparticles challenge the sustainability of biodegradable plastics. Cell Reports Sustainability 2: 100530. Link
Lamprou ER, Liu H, Cooper M, Lagos S, MacLean J, Thiour-Mauprivez C, Spor A, Martin F, Rillig MC, Karpouzas DG. 2025. Pesticide, veterinary medicines and microplastics: bipartite and tripartite interactions drive the transformation of albendazole and pyraclostrobin in agricultural soils. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 73: 33005–33018. Link
Yuan W, Xu E, Zhu D, Zhang W, Liu W, Abdolahpur Monikh F, Lin L, Li L, Grossart HP, Yang Y, Rillig MC, Peijnenburg W. 2025. Nanoplastics in duckweed: single-cell responses and recovery. ACS Nano 19: 42869–42880. Link
2024
Bauke SL, Seidel SJ, Athmann M, Berns AE, Braun M, Gocke MI, Guigue J, Kautz T, Kögel-Knabner I, Ohan J, Rillig MC, Schloter M, Schmittmann O, Schulz S, Uhlig D, Schnepf A, Amelung W. 2024. Short-term effects of subsoil management by strip-wise loosening and incorporation of organic material. Soil & Tillage Research 236: 105936. Link
Agathokleous E, Rillig MC, Peñuelas J, Yu Z. 2024. One hundred questions facing plant science derived using a large language model. Trends in Plant Science 29: 210-218. Link
Philippot L, Chenu C, Kappler A, Rillig MC, Fierer N. 2024. The interplay between microbial communities and soil properties. Nature Reviews Microbiology 22: 226–239. Link
Rillig MC, Kim SW, Zhu YG. 2024. The soil plastisphere. Nature Reviews Microbiology 22: 64–74. Link
Lozano YM, Dueñas JF, Zordick C, Rillig MC. 2024. Microplastic fibers affect soil fungal communities depending on drought conditions with consequences for ecosystem functions. Environmental Microbiology 26 (2): e16549. Link
Moreno-Jiménez E, Ferrol N, Corradi N, Peñalosa JM, Rillig MC. 2024. The potential of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to enhance metallic micronutrient uptake and mitigate food contamination in agriculture: prospects and challenges. New Phytologist 242: 1441-1447. Link
Wu S, Fu W, Rillig MC, Chen BD, Zhu YG, Huang L. 2024. Soil organic matter dynamics mediated by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi – an updated conceptual framework. New Phytologist 242: 1417-1425. Link
Rillig MC, Lehmann A, Orr JA, Rongstock R. 2024. Factors of global change affecting plants act at different levels of the ecological hierarchy. The Plant Journal 117: 1781-1785. Link
Qiu X, Ma S, Pa J, Cu Q, Zheng W, Din L, Liang X, Xu B, Guo X, Rillig MC. 2024. Microbial metabolism influences microplastic perturbation of dissolved organic matter in agricultural soils. The ISME Journal 18(1): wrad017; doi: 10.1093/ismejo/wrad017 Link
Kim SW, Song WY, Waldman W, Rillig MC, Kim TY. 2024. Toxicity of aged paint particles to soil ecosystems: Insights from Caenorhabditis elegans. Environmental Science & Technology 58: 231–241. Link
Lozano YM, Gordillo H, Waldman W, Rillig MC. 2024. Photodegradation modifies microplastic effects on soil properties and plant performance. Journal of Applied Ecology 61: 13–24. Link
Meidl P, Lehmann A, Bi M, Breitenreiter C, Benkrama J, Li E, Riedo J, Rillig MC. 2024. Combined application of up to ten pesticides decreases key soil processes. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 31: 11995–12004. Link
Rillig MC. 2024. Protecting old-growth microbial communities and systems. Environmental Science & Technology 58: 1787–1789. Link
Banerjee S, Zhao C, Garland G, Edlinger A, García-Palacios P, Romdhane S, Degrune F, Pescador DS, Herzog C, Camuy-Velez L, Bascompte J, Hallin S, Philippot L, Maestre FT, Rillig MC, van der Heijden MGA. 2024. Biotic homogenization, lower soil fungal diversity and fewer rare taxa in arable soils across Europe. Nature Communications 15: 327; doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-44073-6. Link
Neyret M, Le Provost G, Boesing AL, Schneider F, Baulechner D, Bergmann J, de Vries F, Fiore-Donno AM, Geisen S, Goldmann K, Merges A, Saifutdinov R, Simons N, Tobias J, Zaitsev A, Gossner M, Jung K, Kandeler E, Krauss J, Penone C, Schloter M, Staab M, Wolters V, Apostolakis A, Birkhofer K, Boch S, Boeddinghaus R, Bolliger R, Bonkowski M, Buscot F, Dumack K, Fischer M, Gan HY, Heinze J, Hölzel N, John K, Klaus V, Kleinebecker T, Marhan S, Müller J, Renner S, Rillig MC, Schenk N, Schöning I, Schrumpf M, Seibold S, Socher S, Solly E, Teuscher M, van Kleunen M, Wubet T, Schulz S, Manning P. 2024. A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land use intensification. Nature Communications 15: 1251; doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45113-5. Link
Li C, Li X, Bank M, Dong T, Fang JKH, Leusch F, Rillig MC, Wang J, Wang L, Xia Y, Xu E, Yang Y, Zhang C, Zhu D, Liu J, Jin L. 2024. The ‘microplastome’ – A holistic perspective to capture the real-world ecology of microplastic. Environmental Science & Technology 58: 4060–4069. Link
Vogel HJ, Bonkowski M, Blagodatsky S, Müller C, Wachendorf C, Kiese R, Schulz S, Herbst M, Siebers N, Lennartz B, Koch S, Baum C, Leinweber P, König S, Pagel H, Amelung W, Grosch R, Vetterlein D, Kuhwald M, Rillig MC, Weller U, Schnepf A, Rüschhoff J, Russell D, Wollschläger U. 2024. How to adequately represent biological processes in modeling multifunctionality of arable soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils 60: 263–306. Link
Lin XL, Guo F, Rillig MC, Chen C, Duan GL, Zhu YG. 2024. Effects of common artificial sweeteners at environmentally relevant concentrations on soil springtails and their gut microbiota. Environment International 185: 108496. Link
Han L, Chen L, Feng Y, Kuzyakov Y, Chen Q, Zhang S, Chao L, Cai Y, Ma C, Sun K, Rillig MC. 2024. Microplastics alter soil structure and microbial community composition. Environment International 185: 108508. Link
Liang Y, Rillig MC, Chen HYH, Shan R, Ma Z. 2024. Soil pH drives the relationship between the vertical distribution of soil microbial biomass and soil organic carbon across terrestrial ecosystems: A global synthesis. Geoderma 238: 107873. Link
Rillig MC, Mansour I, Hempel S, Bi M, König-Ries B, Kasirzadeh A. 2024. How widespread use of generative AI for images and video can affect the environment and the science of ecology. Ecology Letters 27: e14397. Link
Reinecke A, Flaig I, Lozano YM, Rillig MC, Hilker M. 2024. Drought induces moderate, diverse changes in the odour of grassland species. Phytochemistry 221: 114040. Link
Xiang Y, Rillig MC, Penuelas J, Sardans J, Liu Y, Yao B, Li Y. 2024. Global responses of soil carbon dynamics to microplastics exposure: a data synthesis of laboratory studies. Environmental Science & Technology 58: 5821–5831. Link
Leifheit E, Camenzind T, Lehmann A, Andrade-Linares D, Fussan M, Westhusen S, Wineberger T, Rillig MC. 2024. Fungal traits help to understand the decomposition of simple and complex plant litter. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 100: fiae033. Link
Camenzind T, Haslwimmer H, Rillig MC, Ruess L, Finn DR, Tebbe CC, Hempel S, Marhan S. 2024. Revisiting soil fungal biomarkers and conversion factors: Interspecific variability in phospholipid fatty acids, ergosterol and rDNA copy numbers. Soil Ecology Letters 6: 240243. Link
Wang F, Xiang L, Leung KSY, Elsner M, Zhang Y, Guo Y, Pan B, Sun H, An T, Ying G, Brooks BW, Hou D, Helbling DE, Sun J, Qiu H, Vogel TM, Zhang W, Gao Y, Simpson MJ, Luo Y, Chang SX, Su G, Wong BM, Fu TM, Zhu D, Jobst KJ, Ge C, Coulon F, Harindintwali JD, Zeng X, Wang H, Fu Y, Wei Z, Lohmann R, Chen C, Song Y, Sanchez-Cid C, Wang Y, El-Naggar A, Yao Y, Huang Y, Law JCF, Gu C, Shen H, Gao Y, Qin C, Li H, Zhang T, Corcoll N, Liu M, Alessi DS, Li H, Brandt KK, Pico Y, Gu C, Guo J, Su J, Corvini P, Ye M, Rocha-Santos T, He H, Yang Y, Tong M, Zhang W, Suanon F, Brahushi F, Wang Z, Hashsham SA, Virta M, Yuan Q, Jiang G, Tremblay LA, Bu Q, Wu J, Peijnenburg W, Topp E, Cao X, Jiang X, Zheng M, Zhang T, Luo Y, Zhu L, Li X, Barceló D, Chen J, Xing B, Amelung W, Cai Z, Naidu R, Shen Q, Pawliszyn J, Zhu YG, Schaeffer A, Rillig MC, Wu F, Yu G, Tiedje JM. 2024. Emerging Contaminants: A One Health Perspective. The Innovation 5 (4): 100612. Link
Eldridge D, Ding J, Dorrough J, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Sala O, Gross N, Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y, Mallen-Cooper M, Saiz H, Asensio S, Ochoa V, Gozalo B, Guirado E, García-Gómez M, Valencia E, Martínez-Valderrama J, Plaza C, Abedi M, Ahmadian N, Ahumada R, Alcantara J, Amghar F, Azevedo L, Ben Salem F, Berdugo M, Blaum N, Boldgiv B, Bowker M, Bran D, Bu C, Canessa R, Castilla-Monroy A, Castro I, Castro-Quezada P, Cesarz S, Chibani R, Conceição AA, Darrouzet-Nardi A, Davila Y, Deák B, Diaz-Martinez P, Donoso D, Dougill A, Durán J, Eisenhauer N, Ejtehadi H, Espinosa C, Fajardo A, Farzam M, Foronda A, Franzese J, Fraser L, Gaitán J, Geissler K, Gonzalez SL, Gusmán E , Hernandez RM, Hölzel N , Mendes Hughes F, Jadan O, Jentsch A, Ju M, Kaseke K, Köbel M, Lehmann A, Liancourt P, Linstädter A, Louw M, Ma Q, Mabaso M, Maggs-Kölling G, Makhalanyane T, Mallam Issa O, Marais E, McClaran M, Mendoza B, Mokoka V, Mora J, Moreno G, Munson S, Nunes A, Oliva G, Oñatibia G, Osborne B, Peter G, Pierre M, Pueyo Y, Quiroga E, Reed S, Rey A, Rey PJ, Reyes-Gomez V, Rolo V, Rillig MC, le Roux P, Ruppert JC, Salah A, Sebei PJ, Stavi I, Stephens C, Teixido A, Thomas A, Tielbörger K, Torres Robles S, Travers S, Sharkhuu A, Valkó O, van den Brink L, Velbert F, von Heßberg A, Wamiti W, Wang D, Wang L, Wardle G, Yahdjian L, Zaady E, Zhang Y, Zhou X, Maestre FT. 2024. Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands. Nature Plants 10: 760–770. Link
Camenzind T, Aguilar-Trigueros C, Hempel S, Lehmann A, Bielcik M, Andrade-Linares D, Bergmann J, dela Cruz J, Gawronski J, Golubeva P, Haslwimmer H, Lartey L, Leifheit E, Maaß S, Marhan S, Pinek L, Powell J, Roy J, Veresoglou S, Wang D, Wulf A, Zheng W, Rillig MC. 2024. Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi. Nature Communications 15: 3321. Link
Rillig MC, Kasirzadeh A. 2024. AI personal assistants and sustainability: risks and opportunities. Environmental Science & Technology 58: 7237–7239. Link
Zhu Y, Kim SW, Li H, Rillig MC. 2024. Delivery rate alters the effects of tire wear particles on soil microbial activities. Environmental Sciences Europe 36: 97. Link
Rillig MC, Lehmann A, Rongstock R, Li H, Harris J. 2024. Moving restoration ecology forward with combinatorial approaches. Global Change Biology 30: e17361. Link
Tang B, Man J, Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2024. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi attenuate negative impact of drought on soil functions. Global Change Biology 30: e17409. Link
Zhang R, Yang QF, Lai YW, Zhao TT, Li GL, Guo YJ, Yan ZG, Wang Yj, Rillig MC. 2024. Microplastics promote the invasiveness of invasive alien species under fluctuating water regime. Journal of Applied Ecology 61: 2281-2293. Link
Zhao S, Rillig MC, Bing H, Cui Q, Qiu T, Cui Y, Penuelas J, Liu B, Bian S, Monikh F, Yang Y, Chen J, Fang L. 2024. Microplastic pollution promotes soil respiration: a global-scale meta-analysis. Global Change Biology 30: e17415. Link
Rillig MC, Li C, Rodríguez del Río A, Zhu YG, Jin L. 2024. Elevated levels of antibiotic resistance genes as a factor of human-caused global environmental change. Global Change Biology 30: e17419. Link
Su X, Huang X, Zhang Y, Yang L, Wen T, Yang X, Zhu G, Zhang, Jang Y, Li Z, Ding J, Li R, Pan J, Chen X, Huang F, Rillig MC, Zhu YG. 2024. Nitrifying niche in estuaries is expanded by the plastisphere. Nature Communications 15: 5866. Link
Bielčik M, Schlägel UE, Schäfer M, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Lakovic M, Sosa-Hernández MA, Hammer EC, Jeltsch F, Rillig MC. 2024. Aligning spatial ecological theory with the study of clonal organisms: the case of fungal coexistence. Biological Reviews 99: 2211-2233. Link
Tang B, Man J, Romero F, Bergmann J, Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2024. Mycorrhization enhances plant growth and stabilizes biomass allocation under drought. Global Change Biology 30: e17438. Link
Guerra CA, Eisenhauer N, Tebbe CC, Xylander WER, Albert C, Babin D, Bartkowski B, Burkhard B, Filser J, Haase D, Hohberg K, Kleemann J, Kolb S, Lachmann C, Rillig MC, Römbke J, Ruess L, Scheu S, Scheunemann N, Steinhoff-Knopp B, Wellbrock N, Ristok C. 2024. Foundations for a national assessment of soil biodiversity. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment 3: e12116. Link
Degrune F, Dumack K, Ryo M, Garland G, Romdhane S, Saghaï A, Banerjee S, Edlinger A, Herzog C, Pescador DS, García-Palacios P, Fiore-Donno AM, Bonkowski M, Hallin S, van der Heijden MGA, Maestre FT, Philippot L, Glemnitz M, Sieling K, Rillig MC. 2024. The impact of fungi on soil protist communities in European cereal croplands. Environmental Microbiology 26: e16673. Link
Heinen R, Duffy M, Fox JW, Heard SB, McGlynn T, Ollerton J, Rillig MC, Saunders ME, Millman CA, Azevedo RA. Don’t forget the Blogosphere. Annals of Applied Biology 185: 124-131. Link
Meizoso-Regueira T, Fuentes J, Cusworth SJ, Rillig MC. 2024. Prediction of future microplastic accumulation in agricultural soils. Environmental Pollution 359: 124587. Link
dela Cruz J, Lammel D, Kim SW, Bi M, Rillig MC. 2024. COVID-19 pandemic-related drugs and microplastics from mask fibers jointly affect soil functions and processes. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 31: 50630–50641. Link
Camenzind T, Aguilar-Trigueros C, Heuck MK, Maerowitz-McMahan S, Rillig MC, Cornwell W, Powell JR. 2024. Progressing beyond colonization strategies to understand arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal life-history. New Phytologist 244: 752-759. Link
Stiller S, Dueñas J, Hempel S, Rillig MC, Ryo M. 2024. Deep learning image analysis for filamentous fungi taxonomic classification: Dealing with small data sets with class imbalance and hierarchical grouping. Biology Methods and Protocols 9: bpae063. Link
Meidl P, Lammel DR, Nikolic V, Decker M, Bi M, Hampl L, Rillig MC. 2024. Combined application of multiple global change factors negatively influences key soil processes across an urban gradient in Berlin, Germany. Soil Systems 8 (3): 96. Link
dela Cruz JA, Camenzind T, Xu B, Rillig MC. 2024. Limited role of fungal diversity in maintaining soil processes in grassland soil under concurrent fungicide stress. Environmental Sciences Europe 36: 156. Link
Lozano YM, Rillig MC. 2024. Do invasive plant species profit from pollution with synthetic organic chemicals? New Phytologist 244: 2137-2140. Link
Liu M, Wei Y, Lian L, Zhang J, Liu N, Wilson GWT, Rillig MC, Jia S, Yang G, Zhang Y. 2024. Discovering the role of fairy ring fungi in accelerating nitrogen cycling to promote plant productivity in grasslands. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 199: 109595. Link
Bi M, Li H, Meidl P, Zhu Y, Ryo M, Rillig MC. 2024. Number and dissimilarity of global change factors influences soil properties and functions. Nature Communications 15: 8188. Link
Li C, Liu J, Rillig MC, Bank MS, Fantke P, Zhu D, Zhu YG, Jin LN. 2024. What harmful microbes are lurking in the world’s 7 billion tonnes of plastic waste? Nature 634: 30-32. Link
Fu CX, Chen C, Xiang Q, Wang YF, Wang L, Qi FY, Zhu D, Li HZ, Cui L, Hong WL, Rillig MC, Zhu YG, Qiao M. 2024. Antibiotic resistance at environmental multi-media interfaces through integrated genotype and phenotype analysis. Journal of Hazardous Materials 480: 136160. Link
Wang L, Lin D, Xiao KQ, Ma LJ, Fu YM, Huo YX, Liu Y, Ye M, Sun MM, Zhu D, Rillig MC, Zhu YG. 2024. Soil viral-host interactions regulate microplastic-dependent carbon storage. PNAS 121: e2413245121. Link
Lozano YM, Perlenfein C, Bernal MG, Rillig MC. 2024. Disentangling mechanisms by which microplastic films affect plant-soil systems: Physical effects of particles can override toxic effects of additives. Environmental Sciences Europe 36: 198. Link
Zhu D, Wang Y, Liu Y, Fu Y, Xu JY, Zhang TI, Cui HL, Qiao M, Rillig MC, Zhu YG. 2024. Microplastic diversity increases the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in soil. Nature Communications 15: 9788; doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-54237-7. Link
Rillig MC, Li C, Jin LN, Kim SW. 2024. Understanding the soil plastisphere and its environmental impacts. One Earth 7: 2095-2098. Link
Campos-Cáliz A, Valencia E, Plaza C, Garland G, Edlinger A, Herzog C, van der Heijden MGA, Banerjee S, Rillig MC, Hallin S, Saghaï A, Maestre FT, Pescador DS, Philippot L, Spor A, Romdhane S, García-Palacios P. 2024. The positive effects of soil organic carbon on European cereal yields level off at 1.4%. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment 3: e70017. Link
He Z, Hou Y, Li Y, Bei Q, Li X, Zhu YG, Liesack W, Rillig MC, Peng J. 2024. Increased methane production associated with community shifts towards Methanocella in paddy soils with the presence of nanoplastics. Microbiome 12: 259. Link
2023
Wu H, Yang J, Fu W, Rillig MC, Cao Z, Zhao A, Han X, Hao Z, Zhang X, Chen BD. 2023. Identifying thresholds of nitrogen enrichment for substantial shifts in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community metrics in a temperate grassland of northern China. New Phytologist 237: 279–294. Link
Ding J, Lv M, Zhu D, Leifheit EF, Chen QL, Wang YQ, Chen LX, Rillig MC, Zhu YG. 2023. Tire wear particles: an emerging threat to soil health. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 53: 239–257. Link
Xu B, Yang G, Lehmann A, Riedel S, Rillig MC. 2023. Effects of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on soil structure and function. Soil Ecology Letters 5: 108–117. Link
Roy J, Reichel R, Brüggemann N, Rillig MC. 2023. Functional, not taxonomic, composition of soil fungi reestablishes to pre-mining initial state after 52 years of recultivation. Microbial Ecology 86: 213–223. Link
Caruso T, Rillig MC. 2023. A general stochastic model shows that plant-soil feedbacks can buffer plant species from extinction risks in unpredictable environments. Plant and Soil 485: 45-56. Link
Le Provost G, Schenk NV, Penone C, Thiele J, Westphal C, Allan E, Ayasse M, Blüthgen N, Boeddinghaus RS, Boesing AL, Bolliger R, Busch V, Fischer M, Gossner MM, Hölzel N, Jung K, Kandeler E, Klaus VH, Kleinebecker T, Leimer S, Marhan S, Morris K, Müller S, Neff F, Neyret M, Oelmann Y, Perović D, Peter S, Prati D, Rillig MC, Saiz H, Schäfer D, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Schloter M, Schöning I, Schrumpf M, Steckel J, Steffan-Dewenter I, Tschapka M, Vogt J, Weiner C, Weisser W, Wells K, Werner M, Wilcke W, Manning P. 2023. The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 236–249. Link
Moreno E, Maestre FT, Flagmeier M, Guirado E, Berdugo M, Bastida F, Dacal M, Díaz-Martínez P, Ochoa-Hueso R, Plaza C, Rillig MC, Crowther TW, Delgado-Baquerizo M. 2023. Soils in warmer and less developed countries have less micronutrients globally. Global Change Biology 29: 522-532. Link
Zhu YG, Zhu D, Rillig MC, Yang Y, Chu H, Chen QL, Penuelas J, Cui HL, Gillings M. 2023. Ecosystem microbiome science. mLife 2: 2-10. Link
Lammel DR, Szymczak A, Bielcik M, Rillig MC. 2023. Fungal growth response to recurring heating events is modulated by species interactions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 1028136; doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1028136. Link
Tang B, Rocci KS, Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2023. Nitrogen increases soil organic carbon accrual and alters its functionality. Global Change Biology 29: 1971-1983. Link
Rillig MC. 2023. Creating YouTube and TikTok videos is improving my lab leadership. Nature (Career Column); doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00703-z Link
Wesener F, Rillig MC, Tietjen B. 2023. Heat stress can change the competitive outcome between fungi – insights from a modelling approach. Oikos 2023: e09377. Link
Camenzind T, Mason-Jones K, Mansour I, Rillig MC, Lehmann J. 2023. Formation of necromass-derived soil organic carbon determined by microbial death pathways. Nature Geoscience 16: 115–122. Link
Xie Q, Xu B, Rillig MC. 2023. Litter decomposition is not affected by perfluorobutane sulfonate (PFBS) in experimental soil microcosms. Soil Systems 7: 13; doi: 10.3390/soilsystems7010013 Link
Rillig MC, Ågerstrand M, Bi M, Gould KA, Sauerland U. 2023. Risks and benefits of large language models for the environment. Environmental Science & Technology 57: 3464–3466. Link
Liu YR, van der Heijden M, Riedo J, Sanz-Lázaro C, Eldridge D, Bastida F, Moreno-Jiménez E, Zhou XQ, Hu HW, He JZ, Moreno JL, Abades S, Alfaro F, Bamigboye AR, Berdugo M, Blanco-Pastor JL, de los Ríos A, Durán J, Grebenc T, Illán J, Makhalanyane T, Molina-Montenegro M, Nahberger TU, Peñaloza-Bojacá GF, Plaza C, Rey A, Rodríguez A, Siebe C, Teixido AL, Casado-Coy N, Trivedi P, Torres-Díaz C, Verma JP, Mukherjee A, Zeng XM, Wang L, Wang J, Zaady E, Zhou X, Huang Q, Tan W, Zhu YG, Rillig MC, Delgado-Baquerizo M. 2023. Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide. Nature Communications 14: 1706; doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37428-6 Link
Zhou J, Wen Y, Rillig MC, Shi L, Dippold MA, Zheng Z, Kuzyakov Y, Zang H, Jones DL, Blagodatskaya E. 2023. Restricted power: Can microorganisms maintain soil organic matter stability under warming exceeding 2 degrees? Global Ecology and Biogeography 32: 919-930. Link
Rillig MC, van der Heijden MGA, Berdugo M, Liu YR, Riedo J, Sanz-Lazaro C, Moreno-Jiménez E, Romero F, Tedersoo L, Delgado-Baquerizo M. 2023. Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide. Nature Climate Change 13: 478–483. Link
Edlinger A, Garland G, Banerjee S, Degrune F, García-Palacios P, Herzog C, Sánchez Pescador D, Romdhane S, Ryo M, Saghaï A, Hallin S, Maestre FT, Philippot L, Rillig MC, van der Heijden MGA. 2023. The impact of agricultural management on soil aggregation and carbon storage is regulated by climatic thresholds across a 3000 km European gradient. Global Change Biology 29: 3177-3192. Link
Sigmund G, Ågerstrand M, Antonelli A, Backhaus T, Brodin T, Diamond ML, Erdelen WR, Evers DC, Hoffmann T, Hueffer T, Lai A, Machado Torres JP, Mueller L, Perrigo AL, Rillig MC, Schaeffer A, Scheringer M, Schirmer K, Tlili A, Soehl A, Triebskorn R, Vlahos P, vom Berg C, Wang Z, Groh KJ. 2023. Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research. Global Change Biology 29: 3240-3255. Link
Eisenhauer N, Hines J, Maestre F, Rillig MC. 2023. Reconsidering functional redundancy in biodiversity research. npj Biodiversity 2: 9; doi: 10.1038/s44185-023-00015-5 Link
Cui Y, Peng S, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Rillig MC, Terrer T, Zhu B, Jing X, Chen J, Li J, Feng J, He Y, Fang L, Moorhead DL, Sinsabaugh RL, Peñuelas J. 2023. Microbial communities in terrestrial surface soils are not widely limited by carbon. Global Change Biology 29: 4412-4429. Link
Aguilar-Trigueros, CA, Krah FS, Cornwell WK, Zanne AE, Abrego N, Anderson IC, Andrew C, Baldrian P, Bässler C, Bissett A, Chaudhary VB, Chen BD, Chen Y, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Deveautour C, Egidi E, Flores-Moreno H, Golan J, Heilmann-Clausen J, Hempel S, Hu Y, Kauserud H, Kivlin S, Kohout P, Lammel DR, Maestre FT, Pringle A, Purhonen J, Singh BK, Veresoglou SD, Vetrovsky T, Zhang HY, Rillig MC, Powell JR. 2023. Symbiotic status alters fungal eco-evolutionary offspring trajectories. Ecology Letters 26: 1523-1534. Link
Liu Y, Rillig MC, Liu Q, Huang J, Khan MA, Li X, Liu Q, Wang Q, Su X, Lin L, Bai Y, Guo G, Huang Y, Ok YS, Hu S, Wang J, Ni H, Huang Q. 2023. Factors affecting the distribution of microplastics in soils of China. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 17: 110; doi: 10.1007/s11783-023-1710-4 Link
Osburn E, Yang G, Rillig MC, Strickland M. 2023. Evaluating the role of bacterial diversity in supporting soil ecosystem functions under anthropogenic stress. ISME Communications 3: 66; doi: 10.1038/s43705-023-00273-1. Link
Rillig MC, Bank MS, Maaß S, Roger M, Maeder M. 2023. Sound stewardship for a noisy planet. Science 380: 1219. Link
Wang F, Harindintwali JD, Wei K, Shan Y, Mi Z, Costello MJ, Grunwald S, Feng Z, Wang F, Guo Y, Wu X, Kumar P, Kästner M, Feng X, Kang S, Liu Z, Fu Y, Zhao W, Ouyang C, Shen J, Wang H, Chang SX, Evans DL, Wang R, Zhu C, Xiang L, Rinklebe J, Du M, Huang L, Bai Z, Li S, Lal R, Elsner M, Wigneron JP, Florindo F, Jiang X, Shaheen SM, Zhong X, Bol R, Vasques GM, Li X, Pfautsch S, Wang M, He X, Agathokleous E, Du H, Yan H, Kengara FO, Brahushi F, Long XE, Pereira P, Ok YS, Rillig MC, Jeppesen E, Barceló D, Yan X, Jiao N, Han B, Schäffer A, Chen JM, Zhu YG, Cheng H, Amelung W, Spötl C, Zhu J, Tiedje JM. 2023. Climate change: strategies for mitigation and adaptation. The Innovation Geoscience 1(1): 100015. Link
Weber CJ, Rillig MC, Bigalke M. 2023. Mind the gap: Forest soils as a hidden hub for global micro- and nanoplastic pollution. Microplastics and Nanoplastics 3: 19. Link
Hofmann T, Ghoshal S, Tufenkji N, Adamowski J, Bayen S, Chen Q, Demokritou P, Flury M, Hüffer T, Ivleva NP, Ji R, Leask R, Maric M, Mitrano D, Sander M, Pahl S, Rillig MC, Walker T, White J, Wilkinson K. 2023. Plastics can be used more sustainably in agriculture. Communications Earth & Environment 4: 332; doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00982-4. Link
Tang B, Man J, Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2023. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi benefit plants in response to major global change factors. Ecology Letters 26: 2087-2097. Link
Dinh KV, Albini D, Orr JA, Macaulay SJ, Rillig MC, Borgå K, Jackson MC. 2023. Winter is coming: interactions of multiple stressors in winter and implications for the natural world. Global Change Biology 29: 6834-6845. Link
Geschke J, Rillig MC, Böhning-Gaese K, Potthast T, Arth A, Dicks LV, Habekuss F, Kleinschmit D, Lesch H, Spehn EM, Wenzel S, Fischer M, Klein AM. 2023. Science journalism and a multi-directional science-policy-society dialogue are needed to foster public awareness for biodiversity and its conservation. PLOS Sustainability and Transformation 2(10): e0000083; doi: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000083 Link
Eisenhauer N, Ochoa-Hueso R, Huang Y, Barry KE, Gebler A, Guerra CA, Hines J, Jochum M, Andraczek K, Bucher SF, Buscot F, Ciobanu M, Chen H, Junker R, Lange M, Lehmann A, Rillig M, Römermann C, Ulrich J, Weigelt A, Schmidt A, Türke M. 2023. Ecosystem consequences of invertebrate decline. Current Biology 33: 4538–4547. Link
Wei X, Rillig MC, Yu MF, Hu JN, Huang L, Yu FH. 2023. Soil nutrient heterogeneity alters productivity and diversity of experimental plant communities under multiple global change factors. Oikos 2023: e10189. Link
Li Y, Hou Y, Hou Q, Long M, Wang Z, Rillig MC, Liao Y. 2023. Soil microbial community parameters affected by microplastics and other plastic residues. Frontiers in Microbiology 14: 1258606. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1258606. Link
Sünnemann M, Beugnon R, Breitkreuz C, Buscot F, Cesarz S, Jones A, Lehmann A, Lochner A, Orgiazzia A, Reitz T, Rillig MC, Schädler M, Smith LC, Zeuner A, Guerra CA, Eisenhauer N. 2023. Climate change and cropland management compromise soil integrity and multifunctionality. Communications Earth & Environment 4: 394. Link
Wang Y, Bai J, Liu Z, Zhang L, Zhang G, Chen G, Xia J, Cui B, Rillig MC. 2023. Consequences of microplastics on global ecosystem structure and function. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 261: 22; doi: 10.1007/s44169-023-00047-9. Link
Lehmann A, Flaig M, Dueñas J, Rillig MC. 2023. Surfactant-mediated effects on hydrological and physical soil properties: a data synthesis. Environmental Science & Technology 57: 9849–19859. Link
Eisenhauer N, Hines J, Rillig MC. 2023. Reply: Functional similarity is more appropriate than functional redundancy. npj Biodiversity 2: 24; doi: 10.1038/s44185-023-00030-6 Link
Chen H, Zhang X, Wang H, Xing S, Yin R, Fu W, Rillig MC, Chen BD, Zhu YG. 2023. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can inhibit the allocation of microplastics from crop roots to aboveground edible parts. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 71: 18323–18332. Link
2022
Zhu D, Ma J, Li G, Rillig MC, Zhu YG. 2022. Soil plastispheres as hotspots of antibiotic resistance genes and potential pathogens. The ISME Journal 16: 521–532. Link
Fu W, Chen BD, Rillig MC, Jansa J, Ma W, Xu C, Luo W, Wu H, Hao Z, Wu H, Zhao A, Yu Q, Han XG. 2022. Community response of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to extreme drought in a cold-temperate grassland. New Phytologist 234: 2003-2017. Link
Li E, Krsmanovic A, Ballhausen MB, Rillig MC. 2022. Fungal response to abruptly or gradually delivered antifungal agent Amphotericin B is growth stage dependent. Environmental Microbiology 23: 7701-7709. Link
Moreno-Jiménez E, Leifheit EF, Plaza C, Feng L, Bergmann J, Wulf A, Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2022. Effects of microplastics on crop nutrition in fertile soils and interaction with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment 1: 66-72. Link
Frew A, Antunes P, Cameron D, Hartley S, Johnson S, Rillig MC, Bennett A. 2022. Plant herbivore protection by arbuscular mycorrhizas: A role for fungal diversity? New Phytologist 233: 1022-1031. Link
Orr JA, Rillig MC, Jackson MC. 2022. Similarity of anthropogenic stressors is multifaceted and scale dependent. Natural Sciences 2: e20210076. Link
Saghaï A, Banjeree S, Degrune F, Edlinger A, García-Palacios P, Garland G, van der Heijden MGA, Herzog C, Maestre FT, Pescador DS, Philippot L, Rillig MC, Romdhane S, Hallin S. 2022. Diversity of archaea and niche preferences among putative ammonia-oxidizing Nitrososphaeria dominating across European arable soils. Environmental Microbiology 24: 341-356. Link
Veresoglou SD, Johnson D, Mola M, Yang G, Rillig MC. 2022. Evolutionary bet-hedging in arbuscular mycorrhiza associating angiosperms. New Phytologist 233: 1984-1987. Link
Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Boddy L, Rillig MC, Fricker M. 2022. Network traits predict ecological strategies in fungi. ISME Communications 2: 2; doi: 10.1038/s43705-021-00085-1 Link
Zhang S, Yun W, Xia Y, Wu S, You Z, Rillig MC. 2022. Arbuscular mycorrhiza reduced nitrogen loss via runoff, leaching, and emission of N2O and NH3 from microcosms of paddy fields. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 233: 11; doi: 10.1007/s11270-021-05429-0 Link
Chaudhary VB, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Mansour I, Rillig MC. 2022. Fungal dispersal across spatial scales. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 53: 69-85. Link
Lachaise T, Bergmann J, Hölzel N, Klaus V, Kleinebecker T, Rillig MC, van Kleunen M. 2022. Soil conditions drive belowground trait space in temperate agricultural grasslands. Journal of Ecology 110: 1189-1200. Link
Lehmann A, Leifheit EF, Feng L, Bergmann J, Wulf A, Rillig MC. 2022. Microplastic fiber and drought effects on plants and soil are only slightly modified by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Soil Ecology Letters 4: 32-44. Link
Whitehead J, Hempel S, Rillig MC. 2022. Non-mycorrhizal fungal presence within roots increases across an urban gradient in Berlin, Germany. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10: 888310; doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.888310. Link
Rillig MC, Gould KA, Maeder M, Kim SW, Dueñas J, Pinek L, Lehmann A, Bielcik M. 2022. Opportunities and risks of the ‘metaverse’ for biodiversity and the environment. Environmental Science & Technology 56: 4721–4723. Link
Sousa NMF, Roy J, Hempel S, Rillig MC, Maia LC. 2022. Precipitation and temperature shape the biogeography of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across the Brazilian Caatinga. Journal of Biogeography 49: 1137-1150. Link
Ingraffia R, Amato G, Iovino M, Rillig MC, Giambalvo D, Frenda AS, 2022. Polyester microplastic fibers in soil increase nitrogen loss via leaching and decrease plant biomass production and N uptake. Environmental Research Letters 17: 054012; doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac652d. Link
Camenzind T, Weimerhaus P, Lehmann A, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Rillig MC. 2022. Soil fungi invest into asexual sporulation under resource scarcity, but trait spaces of individual isolates are unique. Environmental Microbiology 24: 2962-2978. Link
Zeiss R, Eisenhauer N, Orgiazzi A, Rillig MC, Buscot F, Jones A, Lehmann A, Reitz T, Smith L, Guerra CA. 2022. Challenges of and opportunities for protecting European soil biodiversity. Conservation Biology 36: e13930. Link
Lakovic M, Rillig MC. 2022. A nuclei-based conceptual model of (eco)evolutionary dynamics in fungal heterokaryons. Frontiers in Microbiology 13: 914040; doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.914040 Link
Edlinger A, Garland G, Hartman K, Banerjee S, Degrune F, García-Palacios P , Hallin S, Valzano-Held A, Herzog C, Jansa J, Kost E, Maestre FT, Sánchez Pescador D, Philippot L, Rillig MC, Romdhane S, Saghaï A, Spor A, Frossard E, van der Heijden MGA. 2022. Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the functioning of beneficial plant symbionts. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6: 1145–1154. Link
Ingraffia R, Amato G, Bagarello V, Carollo FG, Giambalvo D, Iovino M, Lehmann A, Rillig MC, Frenda AS. 2022. Polyester microplastic fibers affect soil physical properties and erosion as a function of soil type. SOIL 8: 421–435. Link
Okiobe ST, Pirhofer-Walzl K, Leifheit EF, Rillig MC, Veresoglou SD. 2022. Proximal and distal mechanisms through which arbuscular mycorrhizal associations alter terrestrial denitrification. Plant and Soil 476: 315–336. Link
Xu B, Alizray R, Lammel DR, Riedel S, Rillig MC. 2022. Concentration-dependent response of soil parameters and functions to trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). European Journal of Soil Science 73: e13266. Link
Lozano YM, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Ospina JM, Rillig MC. 2022. Drought legacy effects on root morphological traits and plant biomass via soil biota feedback. New Phytologist 236: 222-234. Link
Sigmund G, Ågerstrand M, Brodin T, Diamond ML, Erdelen WR, Evers DC, Lai A, Rillig MC, Schäffer A, Soehl A, Torres JPM, Wang Z, Groh KJ. 2022. Broaden chemicals scope in biodiversity targets. Science 6599: 1280. Link
Su X, Yang L, Yang K, Tang Y, Wen T, Wang Y, Rillig MC, Rohe L, Pan J, Li H, Zhu YG. 2022. Estuarine plastisphere as an overlooked source of N2O production. Nature Communications 13: 3884; doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31584-x. Link
Grünfeld L, Skias G, Rillig MC, Veresoglou SD. 2022. Arbuscular mycorrhizal root colonization depends on the spatial distribution of the host plants. Mycorrhiza 32: 387–395. Link
Lozano YM, Rillig MC. 2022. Legacy effect of microplastics on plant-soil feedbacks. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 965576; doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.965576. Link
Yang G, Ryo M, Roy J, Lammel D, Ballhausen MB, Jing X, Zhu X, Rillig MC. 2022. Multiple anthropogenic pressures eliminate the effects of soil microbial diversity on ecosystem functions in experimental microcosms. Nature Communications 13: 4260; doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31936-7. Link
Roy J, Mazel F, Dumack K, Bonkowski M, Rillig MC. 2022. Hierarchical phylogenetic community assembly of soil protists in a temperate agricultural field. Environmental Microbiology 24: 5498-5508. Link
Jurburg S, Eisenhauer N, Buscot F, Chatzinotas A, Chaudhari N, Heintz-Buschart A, Kallies R, Küsel K, Litchman E, Macdonald C, Müller S, Reuben RC, Nunes da Rocha U, Panagiotou G, Rillig MC, Singh B. 2022. Potential of microbiome-based solutions for agri-food systems. Nature Food 3: 557–560. Link
Yang H, Fang C, Li Y, Wu Y, Fransson P, Rillig MC, Zhai S, Xie J, Tong Z, Zhang Q, Sheteiwy M, Li F, Weih M. 2022. Temporal complementarity between roots and mycorrhizal fungi drives wheat nitrogen use efficiency. New Phytologist 236: 1168-1181. Link
Whitehead J, Roy J, Hempel S, Rillig MC. 2022. Soil microbial communities shift along an urban gradient in Berlin, Germany. Frontiers in Microbiology 13: 972052; doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.972052. Link
Agathokleous E, Peñuelas J, Azevedo RA, Rillig MC, Sun H, Calabrese E. 2022. Low levels of contaminants stimulate harmful algal organisms and enrich their toxins. Environmental Science & Technology 56: 11991–12002. Link
Kublik S, Gschwendtner S, Magritsch T, Radl V, Rillig MC, Schloter M. 2022. Microplastics in soil induce a new microbial habitat, with consequences for bulk soil microbiomes. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10: 989267; doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.989267. Link
Rillig MC, Kim SW, Schäffer A, Sigmund G, Groh K, Wang Z. 2022. About ‘controls’ in pollution-ecology experiments in the Anthropocene. Environmental Science & Technology 56: 11928–11930. Link
Dueñas JF, Hempel S, Homeier J, Suárez JP, Rillig MC, Camenzind T. 2022. Root associated fungal lineages of a tropical montane forest show contrasting sensitivities to the long-term addition of nitrogen and phosphorus. Environmental Microbiology Reports 14: 775-784. Link
Caruso T, Clemente GV, Rillig MC, Garlaschelli D. 2022. Fluctuating ecological networks: a synthesis of maximum-entropy approaches for pattern detection and process inference. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13: 2306-2317. Link
dela Cruz JA, Camenzind T, Rillig MC. 2022. Sub-lethal fungicide concentrations both reduce and stimulate the growth rate of non-target soil fungi from a natural grassland. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10: 1020465; doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1020465. Link
Pirhofer-Walzl K, Ryo M, Raatz L, Petermann JS, Gessler A, Joshi J, Rillig MC. 2022. Distance to semi-natural habitats matters for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in wheat roots and wheat performance in a temperate agricultural landscape. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment 1: 262-274. Link
Bank MS, Mitrano DM, Rillig MC, Lin CSK, Ok YS. 2022. Embrace complexity to understand microplastic pollution. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 3: 736–737. Link
Roy J, Reinwarth N, Kyritsi I, Bachelier JB, Rillig MC, Lücking R. 2022. Host and abiotic constraints on the distribution of the pine fungal pathogen Sphaeropsis sapinea. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 5: 971916; doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2022.971916. Link
Okiobe ST, Meidl P, Koths T, Olschewsky D, Rillig MC, Lammel DR. 2022. Root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi is reduced in tomato plants sprayed with fungicides. Frontiers in Agronomy 4:1028195; doi: 10.3389/fagro.2022.1028195. Link
Lozano YM, Caesaria PU, Rillig MC. 2022. Microplastics of different shapes increase seed germination synchrony while only films and fibers affect seed germination velocity. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10:1017349; doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1017349. Link
Xu Y, Rillig MC, Waldman WR. 2022. New separation protocol reveals spray painting as a neglected source of microplastics in soils. Environmental Chemistry Letters 20: 3363–3369. Link
Maestre FT, Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Eldridge DJ, Saiz H, Berdugo M, Gozalo B, Ochoa V, Guirado E, García-Gómez M, Valencia E, Gaitán JJ, Asensio S, Mendoza BJ, Plaza C, Díaz-Martínez P, Rey A, Hu HW, He JZ,Wang JT, Lehmann A, Rillig MC, Cesarz S, Eisenhauer N, Martínez-Valderrama J, Moreno-Jiménez E, Sala O, (…), Singh B, Gross N. 2022. Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. Science 378: 915-920. Link
Leifheit EF, Kissener HL, Faltin E, Ryo M, Rillig MC. 2022. Tire abrasion particles negatively affect plant growth even at low concentrations and alter soil biogeochemical cycling. Soil Ecology Letters 4: 409-415. Link
Kim SW, Rillig MC. 2022. Research trends of microplastics in the soil environment: comprehensive screening of effects. Soil Ecology Letters 4: 109-118. Link
Kim SW, Xu Y, Meidl P, Bi M, Zhu Y, Rillig MC. 2022. Soil storage conditions alter effects of tire wear particles on microbial activities in laboratory tests. Environmental Science & Technology Letters 9: 1037–1043. Link
Rillig MC. 2022. Ten Simple Rules for how you can help make your lab a better place as a graduate student or postdoc. PLOS Computational Biology 18: e1010673; doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010673. Link
2021
Guerrero-Ramírez N, Mommer L, Freschet GT, Iversen CM, McCormack M.L, Kattge J, Poorter H, van der Plas F, Bergmann J, Kuyper TW, York LM, Bruelheide H, Laughlin DC, Meier IC, Roumet C, Semchenko M, Sweeney CJ, van Ruijven J, Valverde-Barrantes OJ, Aubin I, Catford JA, Manning P, Martin A, Milla R, Minden V, Pausas JG, Smith SW, Soudzilovskaia NA, Ammer C, Butterfield B, Craine J, Cornelissen JHC, de Vries FT, Isaac ME, Kramer K, König C, Lamb EG, Onipchenko VG, Peñuelas J, Reich PB, Rillig MC, Sack L, Shipley B, Tedersoo L, Valladares F, van Bodegom P, Weigelt P, Wright JP, Weigelt A. 2021. Global Root Traits (GRooT) Database. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 25-37. Link
Lachaise T, Bergmann J, Rillig MC, van Kleunen M. 2021. Below- and aboveground traits explain local abundance, and regional, continental and global occurrence frequencies of grassland plants. Oikos 130: 110-120. Link
Camenzind T, Grenz K, Lehmann J, Rillig MC. 2021. Soil fungal mycelia have unexpectedly flexible stoichiometric C:N and C:P ratios. Ecology Letters 24: 208-218. Link
Yang G, Roy J, Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC. 2021. Soil biodiversity enhances the persistence of legumes under climate change. New Phytologist 229: 2945-2956. Link
Kamau CW, van Duijnen R, Schmid CAO, Balàzs H, Roy J, Rillig MC, Schröder P, Radl V, Temperton V, Schloter M. 2021. Impact of high carbon amendments and pre-crops on soil bacterial communities. Biology and Fertility of Soils 57: 305-317. Link
Oviatt P, Rillig MC. 2021. Mycorrhizal technologies for an agriculture of the middle. Plants, People, Planet 3: 454-461. Link
Yang G, Zhang Y, Yang X, Liu N, Rillig MC, Veresoglou SD, Wagg C. 2021. Mycorrhizal suppression and phosphorus addition influence the stability of plant community composition and function in a temperate steppe. Oikos 130: 354-365. Link
Lozano Y, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Onandia G, Maaß S, Zhao T, Rillig MC. 2021. Effects of microplastics and drought on ecosystem functions and multifunctionality. Journal of Applied Ecology 54: 988-996. Link
Leifheit EF, Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2021. Potential effects of microplastic on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Frontiers in Plant Science 12: 626709; doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.626709. Link
Rillig MC, Bonneval K, de Lutz C, Lehmann J, Mansour I, Rapp R, Spačal S, Meyer V. 2021. Ten simple rules for hosting artists in a scientific lab. PLoS Computational Biology 17(2): e1008675. Link
Garland G, Edlinger A, Banerjee S, Degrune F, García-Palacios P, Pescador DS, Herzog C, Romdhane S, Saghai A, Spor A, Wagg C, Hallin S, Maestre FT, Philippot L, Rillig MC, van der Heijden MGA. 2021. Crop cover is more important than rotational diversity for soil multifunctionality and cereal yields in European cropping systems. Nature Food 2: 28-37. Link
Guerra CA, Bardgett RD, Caon L, Crowther TW, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Montanarella L, Navarro L, Orgiazzi A, Singh BK, Tedersoo L, Vargas-Rojas R, Briones MJI, Buscot F, Cameron EK, Cesarz S, Chatzinotas A, Cowan DA, Djukic I, van der Hoogen J, Lehmann A, Maestre FT, Marín C, Reitz T, Rillig MC, Smith LC, de Vries FT, Weigelt A, Wall DH, Eisenhauer N. 2021. Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity. Science 371: 239-241. Link
Roy J, van Duijnen R, Leifheit EF, Mbedi S, Temperton VM, Rillig MC. 2021. Legacy effects of pre-crop plant functional group on fungal root symbionts of barley. Ecological Applications 31: e02378. Link
Lozano YM, Lehnert T, Linck LT, Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2021. Microplastic shape, polymer type and concentration affect soil properties and plant biomass. Frontiers in Plant Science 12:616645; doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.616645. Link
Wesener F, Szymczak A, Rillig MC, Tietjen B. 2021. Stress priming affects fungal competition – evidence from a combined experimental and modelling study. Environmental Microbiology 23: 5934-5945. Link
Rillig MC, Kim SW, Kim TY, Waldman W. 2021. The global plastic toxicity debt. Environmental Science & Technology 55: 2717-2719. Link
Rillig MC, Leifheit EF, Lehmann J. 2021. Microplastic effects on carbon cycling processes in soils. PLOS Biology 19(3): e3001130. Link
Rillig MC, Ryo M, Lehmann A. 2021. Classifying human influences on terrestrial ecosystems. Global Change Biology 27: 2273-2278. Link
Rillig MC, Hoffmann M, Lehmann A, Liang Y, Lück M, Augustin J. 2021. Microplastic fibers affect dynamics and intensity of CO2 and N2O fluxes from soil differently. Microplastics and Nanoplastics 1: 3; doi: 10.1186/s43591-021-00004-0. Link
Liang Y, Lehmann A, Yang G, Leifheit EF, Rillig MC. 2021. Effects of microplastic fibers on soil aggregation and enzyme activities are organic matter dependent. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9: 650155; doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.650155. Link
Yang G, Ryo M, Roy J, Hempel S, Rillig MC. 2021. Plant and soil biodiversity have non-substitutable stablizing effects on biomass production. Ecology Letters 24: 582-1593. Link
Muller L, Ballhausen MB, Andrade-Linares D, Pinek L, Golubeva P, Rillig MC. 2021. Fungus-bacterium associations are widespread in fungal cultures isolated from a semi-arid natural grassland in Germany. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 97: fiab059; doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiab059 Link
Bank M, Swarzenski P, Duarte C, Rillig MC, Koelmans A, Metian M, Wright S, Provencher J, Sanden M, Jordaan A, Wagner M, Thiel M, Ok YS. 2021. A global plastic pollution observation system to aid policy. Environmental Science & Technology 55: 7770-7775 Link
Lehmann A, Leifheit EF, Gerdawischke M, Rillig MC. 2021. Microplastics have shape- and polymer-dependent effects on soil aggregation and organic matter loss – An experimental and meta-analytical approach. Microplastics and Nanoplastics 1: 7; doi: 10.1186/s43591-021-00007-x. Link
Kim SW, Liang Y, Zhao TT, Rillig MC. 2021. Indirect effects of microplastic-contaminated soils on adjacent soil layers: Vertical changes in soil physical structure and water flow. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9: 681934; doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.681934. Link
Phillips HRP,….,Rillig MC,…, Eisenhauer N. 2021. Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties. Scientific Data 8: 136; doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00912-z. Link
Zhao TT, Lozano YM, Rillig MC. 2021. Microplastics increase soil pH and decrease microbial activities as a function of microplastic shape, polymer type, and exposure time. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9: 675803; doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.675803 Link
Lammel DR, Nüsslein K, Cerri CEP, Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC. 2021. Soil biota shift with land use change from pristine rainforest and Savannah (Cerrado) to agriculture in southern Amazonia. Molecular Ecology 30: 4899-4912. Link
Smith L, Orgiazzi A, Eisenhauer N, Cesarz S, Lochner A, Jones A, Bastida F, Patoine G, Reitz T, Buscot F, Rillig MC, Heintz-Buschart A, Lehmann A, Guerra C. 2021. Large-scale drivers of relationships between soil microbial properties and organic carbon across Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 2070-2083. Link
Kanold E, Rillig MC, Antunes PM. 2021. Microplastics and phagotrophic soil protists: evidence of ingestion. Soil Organisms 93: 133-140. Link
Rillig MC, Antonovics J, Mansour I. 2021. Microbial self-recycling and biospherics. PNAS 118: e2113148118. Link
Rillig MC, Lehmann A, Bank MS, Gould KA, Heekeren HR. 2021. Scientists need to better communicate the links between pandemics and global environmental change. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5: 1466–1467. Link
Lozano YM, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Roy J, Rillig MC. 2021. Drought induces shifts in soil fungal communities that can be linked to root traits across twenty-four plant species. New Phytologist 232: 1917-1929. Link
Rillig MC, Lehmann A, Orr JA, Waldman WR. 2021. Mechanisms underpinning non-additivity of global change factor effects in the plant-soil system. New Phytologist 232: 1535-1539. Link
Kim SW, Leifheit EF, Maaß S, Rillig MC. 2021. Time-dependent toxicity of tire particles on soil nematodes. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9: 744668; doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.744668. Link
de Castro F, Adl SM, Allesina S, Bardgett RD, Bolger T, Dazell J, Emmerson M, Fleming T, Garlaschelli D, Grilli J, Hannula SE, de Vries F, Lindo Z, Maule A, Öpik M, Rillig MC, Veresoglou S, Wall DH, Caruso T. 2021. Local stability properties of complex, species rich soil food webs with functional block structure. Ecology and Evolution 11: 16070-16081. Link
Whitehead J, Hempel S, Hiller A, von der Lippe M, Rillig MC. 2021. Soil physico-chemical properties change across an urbanity gradient in Berlin. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9: 765696; doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.765696. Link
Kim SW, Liang Y, Lozano YM, Rillig MC. 2021. Microplastics reduce the negative effects of litter-derived plant secondary metabolites on nematodes in soil. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9:790560; doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.790560 Link
Bank MS, Sonne C, Hansson SV, Rillig MC. 2021. Science-informed salmon conservation strategies. Science 374: 700. Link
2020
Muller LAH, Ballhausen MB, Lakovic M, Rillig MC. 2020. Assessing the robustness of communities and ecosystems in global change research. Global Change Biology 26: e4-e5. Link
Lehmann A, Zheng W, Ryo M, Soutschek K, Roy J, Rongstock R, Maaß S, Rillig MC. 2020. Fungal traits important for soil aggregation. Frontiers in Microbiology 10: 2904, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02904. Link
Ryo M, Jeschke JM, Rillig MC, Heger T. 2020. Machine learning with the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH) approach discovers novel pattern in studies on biological invasions. Research Synthesis Methods 11: 66-73. Link
Thakur MP, Phillips HRP, Brose U, de Vries FT, Lavelle P, Loreau M, Mathieu J, Mulder C, van der Putten WH, Rillig MC, Wardle DA, Back EM, Bartz MLC, Bennett JM, Briones MJI, Brown G, Decaëns T, Eisenhauer N, Ferlian O, Guerra CA, König‐Ries B, Orgiazzi A, Ramirez KS, Russell DJ, Rutgers M, Wall DH, Cameron EK. 2020. Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity. Biological Reviews 95: 350-364. Link
Grünfeld L, Wulf M, Rillig MC, Manntschke A, Veresoglou SD. 2020. Neighbours of arbuscular-mycorrhiza associating trees are colonized more extensively by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi than their conspecifics in ectomycorrhiza dominated stands. New Phytologist 227: 10-13. Link
Zhang S, Guo X, Yun W, Xia Y, You Z, Rillig MC. 2020. Arbuscular mycorrhiza contributes to the control of phosphorus loss from paddy fields. Plant and Soil 447: 623-636. Link
Okiobe S, Rillig MC, Mola M, Augustin J, Parolly G, Veresoglou SD. 2020. Arbuscular mycorrhiza has little influence on N2O potential emissions compared to plant diversity in experimental plant communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 96: fiz208, doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiz208. Link
Kattge J, (….), Bergmann J, (…), Hempel S, (…), Rillig MC, (…), Ryo M, (…), Wirth C. 2020. TRY plant trait data base – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology 26: 119-188. Link
Zhang S , You Z, Guo X, Yun W, Xia Y, Rillig MC. 2020. Suitability of mycorrhiza-defective rice and its progenitor for studies on the control of nitrogen loss in paddy fields via arbuscular mycorrhiza. Frontiers in Microbiology 11: 186, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00186. Link
Berdugo M, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Soliveres S, Hernández-Clemente R, Zhao Y, Gaitán JJ, Gross N, Saiz H, Maire V, Lehmann A, Rillig MC, Solé RV, Maestre FT. 2020. Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity. Science 367: 787-790. Link
Rillig MC, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Anderson I, Antonovics J, Ballhausen MB, Bergmann J, Bielcik M, Chaudhary VB, Deveautour C, Grünfeld L, Hempel S, Lakovic M, Lammel D, Lehmann A, Lehmann J, Leifheit E, Liang Y, Li E, Lozano Y, Manntschke A, Mansour I, Oviatt P, Pinek L, Powell JR, Roy J, Ryo M, Sosa-Hernandez M, Veresoglou SD, Wang DW, Yang G, Zhang H. 2020. Myristate and the ecology of AM fungi: significance, opportunities, applications and challenges. New Phytologist 227: 1610-1614. Link
Schlägel U, Grimm V, Blaum N, Colangeli P, Dammhahn M, Eccard J, Hausmann S, Herde A, Hofer H, Joshi J, Kramer-Schadt S, Litwin M, Lozada Gobilard SD, Müller M, Müller T, Nathan R, Petermann J, Pirhofer-Walzl K, Radchuk V, Rillig MC, Roeleke M, Schäfer M, Scherer C, Schiro G, Scholz C, Teckentrup L, Tiedemann R, Ullmann W, Voigt C, Weithoff G, Jeltsch F. 2020. Movement-mediated community assembly and coexistence. Biological Reviews 95: 1073-1096. Link
Lozano YM, Rillig MC. 2020. Effects of microplastic fibers and drought on plant communities. Environmental Science & Technology 54: 6166-6173. Link
Dueñas JF, Camenzind T, Roy J, Hempel S, Homeier J, Suárez JP, Rillig MC. 2020. Moderate phosphorus additions consistently affect community composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in tropical montane forests in southern Ecuador. New Phytologist 277: 1505-1518. Link
Heger T, Bernard-Verdier M, Gessler A, Greenwood AD, Grossart HP, Hilker M, Keinath S, Kowarik I, Kueffer C, Marquard E, Müller J, Niemeier S, Onandia G, Petermann JS, Rillig MC, Rödel MO, Saul WC, Schittko C, Tockner K, Joshi J, Jeschke J. 2020. Clear Language for Ecosystem Management in the Anthropocene: A Reply to Bridgewater and Hemming. BioScience 70: 374-376. Link
Rillig MC. 2020. Experimental tools for addressing effects of complex substance mixtures in soil. Soil Organisms 92: 5-7. Link
Ballhausen MB, Hewitt R, Rillig MC. 2020. Mimicking climate warming effects on Alaskan soil microbial communities via gradual temperature increase. Scientific Reports 10: 8533; doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65329-x Link
Serlet AJ, López Moreira GA, Zolezzi G, Wharton G, Hölker F, Gurnell AM, Tockner K, Bertoldi W, Bruno MC, Jähnig S, Lewandowski J, Monaghan MT, Rillig MC, Rogato M, Toffolon M, Veresoglou SD, Zarfl C. 2020. SMART Research: Towards interdisciplinary river science in Europe. Frontiers in Environmental Science 8: 63; doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.00063 Link
Golubeva P, Ryo M, Muller L, Ballhausen MB, Lehmann A, Sosa-Hernández MA, Rillig MC. 2020. Soil saprobic fungi differ in their response to gradually and abruptly delivered copper. Frontiers in Microbiology 11: 1195; doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01195 Link
Ingraffia R, Amato G, Sosa-Hernández MA, Frenda AS, Rillig MC, Giambalvo D. 2020. Nitrogen type and availability drive mycorrhizal effects on wheat performance, nitrogen uptake and recovery, and production sustainability. Frontiers in Plant Science 11:760; doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00760 Link
Szymczak A, Ryo M, Roy J, Rillig MC. 2020. Diversity of growth responses of soil saprobic fungi to recurring heat events. Frontiers in Microbiology 11: 1326; doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01326 Link
Waldman WR, Rillig MC. 2020. Microplastic research should embrace the complexity of secondary particles. Environmental Science & Technology 54: 7751-7753. Link
Camenzind T, Lehmann A, Ahland J, Rumpel S, Rillig MC. 2020. Trait-based approaches reveal fungal adaptations to nutrient-limiting conditions. Environmental Microbiology 22: 3548-3560. Link
Zheng W, Lehmann A, Ryo M, Vályi KK, Rillig MC. 2020. Growth rate trades off with enzymatic investment in soil filamentous fungi. Scientific Reports 10: 11031; doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-68099-8 Link
Rillig MC, Lehmann A. 2020. Microplastic in terrestrial ecosystems. Science 368: 1430-1431. Link
Barreto C, Rillig MC, Lindo Z. 2020. Addition of polyester in soil affects decomposition rates but not microarthropod communities. Soil Organisms 92: 109-119. Link
Bergmann J, Weigelt A, van der Plas F, Laughlin DC, Kuyper TW, Guerrero-Ramirez N, Valverde-Barrantes OJ, Bruelheide H, Freschet GT, Iversen CM, Kattge J, McCormack ML, Meier IC, Rillig MC, Roumet C, Semchenko M, Sweeney CJ, van Ruijven J, York LM, Mommer L. 2020. The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants. Science Advances 6: eaba3756; doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba3756 Link
Pinek L, Mansour I, Lakovic M, Ryo M, Rillig MC. 2020. Rate of environmental change across scales in ecology. Biological Reviews 95: 1798-1811. Link
Rillig MC. 2020. Plastic and plants. Nature Sustainability 3: 887–888. Link
Veresoglou SD, Yang G, Mola M, Manntschke A, Mating M, Forstreuter M, Rillig MC. 2020. Excluding arbuscular mycorrhiza lowers variability in soil respiration but slows down recovery from perturbations. Ecosphere 11: e03308. Link
Lozano Y, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Flaig I, Rillig MC. 2020. Root trait responses to drought are more heterogeneous than leaf trait responses. Functional Ecology 34: 2224-2235. Link
Guerra CA, Heintz-Buschart A, Sikorski J, Chatzinotas A, Guerrero-Ramírez N, Cesarz S, Beaumelle L, Rillig MC, Maestre FT, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Buscot F, Overmann J, Patoine G, Phillips HRP, Winter M, Wubet T, Küsel K, Bardgett RD, Cameron EK, Cowan D, Grebenc T, Marín C, Orgiazzi A, Singh BK, Wall DH, Eisenhauer N. 2020. Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research. Nature Communications 11: 3870; doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17688-2 Link
Lehmann J, Bossio DA, Kögel-Knabner I, Rillig MC. 2020. The concept and future prospects of soil health. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 1: 544-553. Link
Erktan A, Rillig MC, Carminati A, Jousset A, Scheu S. 2020. Protists and collembolans alter microbial community composition, C dynamics and soil aggregation in simplified consumer-prey systems. Biogeosciences 17: 4961-4980. Link
Rillig MC, Bielcik M, Chaudhary VB, Grünfeld L, Maaß S, Mansour I, Ryo M, Veresoglou SD. 2020. Ten simple rules for increased lab resilience. PLoS Computational Biology 16(11): e1008313. Link
Kim SW, Waldman W, Kim TY, Rillig MC. 2020. Effects of different microplastics on nematodes in the soil environment: tracking the extractable additives using an ecotoxicological approach. Environmental Science & Technology 54: 13868–13878. Link
Estendorfer J, Stempfhuber B, Vestergaard G, Schulz S, Rillig MC, Joshi J, Schroeder P, Schloter M. 2020. The role of land use intensity for the formation of a core microbiome. Diversity 12: 392 Link
2019
Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC. 2019. Research experience modifies how participants profit from journal clubs in academia. Journal of Biological Education 53: 327-332. Link
van der Plas F, Allan E, Fischer M, Alt F, Arndt H, Binkenstein J, Blaser S, Blüthgen N, Boehm S, Hoelzel N, Klaus V, Kleinebecker T, Morris K, Oelmann Y, Prati D, Renner S, Rillig MC, Schaefer HM, Schloter M, Schmitt B, Schoening I, Schrumpf M, Solly E, Sorkau E, Steckel J, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stempfhuber B, Tschapka M, Weiner C, Weisser W, Werner M, Westphal C, Wilcke W, Manning P. 2019. Towards the development of general rules describing landscape heterogeneity-multifunctionality relationships. Journal of Applied Ecology 56: 168-179. Link
Veresoglou SD, Liu L, Xu T, Rillig MC, Wang M, Wang J, Chen Y, Hu Y, Hao Z, Chen BD. 2019. Biogeographical constraints in Glomeromycotinan distribution across forest habitats in China. Journal of Ecology 107: 684-695. Link
Rillig MC, Machado AAS, Lehmann A, Klümper U. 2019. Evolutionary implications of microplastics for soil biota. Environmental Chemistry 16: 3-7. Link
Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Hempel S, Powell JR, Cornwell WK, Rillig MC. 2019. Bridging reproductive and microbial ecology: a case study in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The ISME Journal 13: 873-884. Link
Rillig MC, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Camenzind T, Cavagnaro T, Degrune F, Hohmann P, Lammel D, Mansour I, Roy J, van der Heijden MGA, Yang G. 2019. Why farmers should manage the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis – a response to Ryan and Graham (2018). New Phytologist 222: 1171-1175. Link
McTee M, Bullington L, Rillig MC, Ramsey P. 2019. Do soil bacterial communities respond differently to abrupt or gradual additions of copper. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 95: fiy212. Link
Zhang S, Lehmann A, Zheng W, You Z, Rillig MC. 2019. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increase grain yields: a meta-analysis. New Phytologist 222: 543-555. Link
Veresoglou SD, Verbruggen E, Makarova O, Mansour I, Sen R, Rillig MC. 2019. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi alter the community structure of ammonia oxidizers at high fertility via competition for soil NH4+. Microbial Ecology 78: 147-158. Link
Hu Y, Veresoglou SD, Tedersoo L, Xu T, Ge T, Liu L, Chen Y, Hao Z, Su Y, Rillig MC, Chen BD. 2019. Contrasting latitudinal diversity and co-occurrence patterns of soil fungi and plants in forest ecosystems. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 131: 100-110. Link
Morris EK, Morris DJP, Vogt S, Gleber SC, Bigalke M, Wilcke W, Rillig MC. 2019. Visualizing the dynamics of soil aggregation as affected by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The ISME Journal 13: 1639–1646. Link
Rillig MC, Lehmann A. 2019. Exploring the agricultural parameter space for crop yield and sustainability. New Phytologist 223: 517-519. Link
Rillig MC, Lehmann A, Machado AAS, Yang G. 2019. Microplastic effects on plants. New Phytologist 223: 1066-1070. Link
Lehmann A, Fitschen K, Rillig MC. 2019. Abiotic and biotic factors influencing the effect of microplastic on soil aggregation. Soil Systems 3: 21, doi:10.3390/soilsystems3010021 Link
DeGrune F, Dumack K, Fiore-Donno MA, Bonkowski M, Sosa-Hernandez M, Schloter M, Kautz T, Fischer D, Rillig MC. 2019. Distinct communities of Cercozoa at different soil depths in a temperate agricultural field. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 95: fiz041, doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiz041 Link
Sosa-Hernandez MA, Leifheit EF, Ingraffia R, Rillig MC. 2019. Subsoil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for sustainability and climate smart agriculture: a solution right under our feet. Frontiers in Microbiology 10: 744, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00744 Link
Camenzind T, Scheu S, Rillig MC. 2019. Expanding the toolbox of nutrient limitation studies: novel method of soil microbial in-growth bags to evaluate nutrient demands in tropical forests. Functional Ecology 33: 1536-1548. Link
Ryo M, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Pinek L, Muller LAH, Rillig MC. 2019. Basic principles of temporal dynamics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 34: 723-733. Link
Rillig MC, Antonovics J. 2019. Microbial biospherics for the experimental study of ecosystem function and evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 116: 11093-11098. Link
Machado AAS, Lau CW, Kloas W, Bergmann J, Bachelier J, Faltin E, Becker R, Görlich A, Rillig MC. 2019. Microplastics can change soil properties and affect plant performance. Environmental Science & Technology 53: 6044-6052. Link
Veresoglou SD, Chen BD, Fischer M, Helgason T, Mamolos A, Rillig MC, Roldan A, Johnson D. 2019. Latitudinal constraints in responsiveness of plants to arbuscular mycorrhiza: the ‘sun-worshipper’ hypothesis. New Phytologist 224: 552-556. Link
Fiore-Donno AM, Richter-Heitmann T, Degrune F, Dumack K, Regan KM, Marhan S, Boeddinghaus R, Rillig MC, Friedrich MW, Kandeler E, Bonkowski M. 2019. Functional traits and spatio-temporal structure of a major group of soil protists (Rhizaria: Cercozoa) in a temperate grassland. Frontiers in Microbiology 10: 1332, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01332 Link
Rillig MC, Lehmann A, Ryo M, Bergmann J. 2019. Shaping up: towards considering the shape and form of pollutants. Environmental Science & Technology 53: 7925-7926. Link
Rillig MC, Bonneval K, Lehmann J. 2019. Sounds of soil: a new world of interactions under our feet. Soil Systems 3: 45, doi: 10.3390/soilsystems3030045 Link
Heger T, Bernard-Verdier M, Gessler A, Greenwood AD, Grossart HP, Hilker M, Keinath S, Kowarik I, Kueffer C, Marquard E, Müller J, Niemeier S, Onandia G, Petermann JS, Rillig MC, Rödel MO, Saul WC, Schittko C, Tockner K, Joshi J, Jeschke J. 2019. Towards an integrative, eco-evolutionary understanding of ecological novelty: Studying and communicating interlinked effects of global change. BioScience 69: 888-899. Link
Roy J, Mazel F, Sosa-Hernandez MA, Duenas JF, Hempel S, Zinger L, Rillig MC. 2019. The relative importance of ecological drivers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal distribution varies with taxon phylogenetic resolution. New Phytologist 224: 936-948. Link
Liang Y, Lehmann A, Ballhausen M, Muller L, Rillig MC. 2019. Experimental warming and microplastic fibers jointly influence soil aggregation by saprobic fungi. Frontiers in Microbiology 10: 2018, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02018 Link
Lehmann A, Zheng W, Soutschek K, Roy J, Yurkov A, Rillig MC. 2019. Tradeoffs in hyphal traits determine mycelium architecture in saprobic fungi. Scientific Reports 9: 14152; doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50565-7. Link
Lammel DR, Arlt T, Manke I, Rillig MC. 2019. Testing contrast agents to improve micro Computerized Tomography (µCT) for spatial location of organic matter and biological material in soil. Frontiers in Environmental Science 7: 153; doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00153 Link
Bielcik M, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Lakovic M, Jeltsch F, Rillig MC. 2019. The role of active movement in fungal ecology and community assembly. Movement Ecology 7: 36; doi: 10.1186/s40462-019-0180-6 Link
Maaß S, Hückelheim R, Rillig MC. 2019. Collembola laterally move biochar particles. PLoS One 14(11): e0224179. Link
Phillips HRP, Guerra CA, Bartz MLC, Briones MJI, Brown G, Crowther TH, Ferlian O, Gongalsky KB, van den Hoogen J, Krebs J, Orgiazzi A, Routh D, Schwarz B, Bach EM, Bennett J, Brose U, Decaens T, König-Ries B, Loreau M, Mathieu J, Mulder C, van der Putten WH, Ramirez KS, Rillig MC, Russell D, Rutgers M, Thakur MP, de Vries FT, Wall DH, Wardle DA, (…), Cameron EK, Eisenhauer N. 2019. Global distribution of earthworm diversity. Science 366: 480-485. Link
Rillig MC, Ryo M, Lehmann A, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Buchert S, Wulf A, Iwasaki A, Roy J, Yang G. 2019. The role of multiple global change factors in driving soil functions and microbial biodiversity. Science 366: 886-890. Link
2018
de Sousa NMF, Veresoglou SD, Oehl F, Rillig MC, Maia LC. 2018. Predictors of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in the Brazilian tropical dry forest. Microbial Ecology 75: 447-458. Link
Veresoglou SD, Wang D, Andrade-Linares DR, Hempel S, Rillig MC. 2018. Fungal decision to exploit or explore depends on growth rate. Microbial Ecology 75: 289-292. Link
Camenzind T, Hättenschwiler S, Treseder K, Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2018. Nutrient limitation of soil microbial processes in tropical forests. Ecological Monographs 88: 4-21. Link
Rillig MC, Lehmann A, Lehmann J, Camenzind T, Rauh C. 2018. Soil biodiversity effects from field to fork. Trends in Plant Science 23: 17-24. Link
Sosa-Hernandez MA, Roy J, Hempel S, Kautz T, Köpke U, Uksa M, Schloter M, Caruso T, Rillig MC. 2018. Subsoil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in arable soil differ from those in the topsoil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 117: 83-86. Link
Camenzind T, Lehmberg J, Weimershaus P, Alvarez-Garrido L, Andrade Linares DR, Suarez JP, Rillig MC. 2018. Do fungi need salt licks? No evidence for fungal contribution to the Sodium Ecosystem Respiration Hypothesis based on lab and field experiments in Southern Ecuador. Fungal Ecology 32: 18-28. Link
Martin-Robles N, Lehmann A, Seco E, Aroca R, Rillig MC, Milla R. 2018. Impacts of domestication on the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis of 27 crop species. New Phytologist 218: 322-334. Link
Machado AAS, Kloas W, Zarfl C, Hempel S, Rillig MC. 2018. Microplastics as an emerging threat to terrestrial ecosystems. Global Change Biology 24: 1405-1416. Link
Menzel A, Hempel S, Davison J, Moora M, Pysek P, Rillig MC, Zobel M, Kühn I. 2018. Widely distributed native and alien plant species differ in arbuscular mycorrhizal associations and related functional trait interactions. Ecography 41: 1583-1593. Link
Caruso T, Hammer E, Hempel S, Kohler J, Morris EK, Veresoglou SD, Opitz N, Wehner J, Rillig MC. 2018. Assessing soil ecosystem processes – biodiversity relationships in a nature reserve in Central Europe. Plant and Soil 424: 491-501. Link
Soliveres S, Lehmann A, Boch S, Altermatt F, Carrara F, Crowther T, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Kempel A, Maynard D, Rillig MC, Singh B, Trivedi P, Allan E. 2018. Intransitive competition is common across five major taxonomic groups and is driven by productivity, competitive rank and functional traits. Journal of Ecology 106: 852-864. Link
Powell JR, Rillig MC. 2018. Biodiversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and ecosystem function. New Phytologist 220: 1059-1075. Link
Camenzind T, Hammer E, Lehmann J, Solomon D, Horn S, Rillig MC, Hempel S. 2018. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal and soil microbial communities in African Dark Earths. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 94: fiy033, doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiy033. Link
Mansour I, Heppell C, Ryo M, Rillig MC. 2018. Application of the microbial community coalescence concept to riverine networks. Biological Reviews 93: 1832-1845. Link
Rillig MC, Bonkowski M. 2018. Microplastic and soil protists: a call for research. Environmental Pollution 241: 1128-1131. Link
Sosa-Hernandez MA, Roy J, Hempel S, Rillig MC. 2018. Evidence for subsoil specialization in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6: 67. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00067 Link
Rillig MC. 2018. Microplastic disguising as soil carbon storage. Environmental Science & Technology 52: 6079-6080. Link
Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC, Johnson D. 2018. Responsiveness of plants to mycorrhiza regulates coexistence. Journal of Ecology 106: 1864-1875. Link
Machado AAS, Lau CW, Till J, Kloas W, Lehmann A, Becker R, Rillig MC. 2018. Impacts of microplastics on the soil biophysical environment. Environmental Science & Technology 52: 9656-9665. Link
Ferlian O, Biere A, Bonfante P, Buscot F, Eisenhauer N, Fernandez I, Hause B, Herrmann S, Krajinski-Barth F, Meier IC, Pozo MJ, Rasmann S, Rillig MC, Tarkka MT, van Dam NM, Wagg C, Martinez-Medina A. 2018. Growing research networks on mycorrhizae for mutual benefit. Trends in Plant Science 23: 975-984. Link
Yang G, Wagg C, Veresoglou SD, Hempel S, Rillig MC. 2018. How soil biota drive ecosystem stability. Trends in Plant Science 23: 1057-1067. Link
Eisenhauer N, Hines J, Isbell F, van der Plas F, Hobbie SE, Kazanski KE, Lehmann A, Liu M, Lochner A, Rillig MC, Vogel A, Worm K, Reich PB. 2018. Plant diversity maintains multiple soil functions in future environments. eLife 7: e41228. Link
2017
Machado AAS, Valyi K, Rillig MC. 2017. Potential environmental impacts of an “underground revolution”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32: 8-10. Link
Holloway JV, Rillig MC, Gurnell AM. 2017. Physical environmental controls on riparian root profiles associated with Black Poplar (Populus nigra L.) along the Tagliamento River, Italy. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42: 1262-1273. Link
Holloway JV, Rillig MC, Gurnell AM. 2017. Underground riparian wood: buried stem and coarse root structures of Black Poplar (Populus nigra L.). Geomorphology 279: 188-198. Link
Holloway JV, Rillig MC, Gurnell AM. 2017. Underground riparian wood: reconstructing the processes influencing buried stem and coarse root structures of Black Poplar (Populus nigra L.). Geomorphology 279: 199-208. Link
Hol WHG, Jousset A, Bienhold C, Chatzinotas A, Gallien L, Gobet A, Kurm V, Küsel K, Rillig MC, Rivett D, Falcao Salles J, van der Heijden M, Youssef N, Zhang X, Wei Z. 2017. Where less may be more: How the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings. The ISME Journal 11: 853-862. Link
Menzel A, Hempel S, Klotz S, Moora M, Pyšek P, Rillig MC, Zobel M, Kühn I. 2017. Mycorrhizal status helps explain invasion success of alien plant species. Ecology 98: 92-102. Link
Horn S, Hempel S, Verbruggen E, Rillig MC, Caruso T. 2017. Linking the community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants: a story of interdependence? The ISME Journal 11: 1400-1411. Link
Veresoglou SD, Wulf M, Rillig MC. 2017. Facilitation between woody and herbaceous plants that associate with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in temperate European forests. Ecology and Evolution 7: 1181-1189. Link
Rillig MC, Muller LAH, Lehmann A. 2017. Soil aggregates as massively concurrent evolutionary incubators. The ISME Journal 11: 1943-1948. Link
Wehner J, Mittelbach M, Rillig MC, Verbruggen E. 2017. Specialist nectar-yeasts decline with urbanization in Berlin. Scientific Reports 7: 45315; doi: 10.1038/srep45315 Link
Chen YL, Xu TL, Veresoglou SD, Hu HW, Hao ZP, Hu YJ, Liu L, Deng Y, Rillig MC, Chen BD. 2017. Plant diversity represents the prevalent determinant of soil fungal community structure across temperate grassland in northern China. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 110: 12-21. Link
Maaß S, Daphi D, Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2017. Transport of microplastics by two collembolan species. Environmental Pollution 225: 456-459. Link
Rillig MC, Ziersch L, Hempel S. 2017. Microplastic transport in soil by earthworms. Scientific Reports 7: 1362; doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-01594-7 Link
Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Rillig MC, Crowther T. 2017. Applying allometric theory to fungi. The ISME Journal 11: 2175-2180. Link
Eisenhauer N, Antunes PM, Bennett AE, Birkhofer K, Bissett A, Bowker MA, Caruso T, Chen BD, Coleman DC, de Boer W, de Ruiter P, DeLuca TH, Frati F, Griffiths BS, Hart MM, Hättenschwiler S, Haimi J, Heethoff M, Kaneko N, Kelly LC, Leinaas HP, Lindo Z, Macdonald C, Rillig MC, Ruess L, Scheu S, Schmidt O, Seastedt TR, van Straalen NM, Tiunov AV, Zimmer M, Powell JR. 2017. Priorities for research in soil ecology. Pedobiologia 63: 1-7. Link
Estendorfer J, Stempfhuber B, Haury P, Vestergaard G, Rillig MC, Joshi J, Schröder P, Schloter M. 2017. The influence of land use intensity on the plant-associated microbiome of Dactylis glomerata L. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 930. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00930 Link
Pärtel M, Öpik M, Moora M, Tedersoo L, Szava-Kovats R, Rosendahl S, Rillig MC, Lekberg Y, Kreft H, Helgason T, Eriksson O, Davison J, de Bello F, Caruso T, Zobel M. 2017. Historical biome distribution and recent human disturbance shape the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 216: 227-238. Link
Bergmann J, Ryo M, Prati D, Hempel S, Rillig MC. 2017. Root traits are more than analogues of leaf traits: the case for diaspore mass. New Phytologist 216: 1130-1139. Link
Roy J, Reichel R, Brüggemann N, Hempel S, Rillig MC. 2017. Succession of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi along a 52-year agricultural recultivation chronosequence. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 93: fix102 Link
Lehmann A, Zheng W, Rillig MC. 2017. Soil biota contributions to soil aggregation. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1828-1835. Link
Ryo M, Rillig MC. 2017. Statistically-reinforced machine learning for nonlinear patterns and variable interactions. Ecosphere 8(11): e01976. Link
Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Rillig MC, Ballhausen MB. 2017. Environmental filtering is a relic. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32: 882-884. Link
Rillig MC, Ingraffia R, Machado AAS. 2017. Microplastic incorporation into soil in agroecosystems. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 1805. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01805 Link
Hausmann S, Tietjen B, Rillig MC. 2017. Solving the puzzle of yeast survival in ephemeral nectar systems: exponential growth is not enough. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 93: fix150. Link
Rillig MC, Mansour I. 2017. Microbial Ecology: Community coalescence stirs things up. Current Biology 27: R1280-R1282. Link
Lehmann A, Leifheit EF, Rillig MC. 2017. Mycorrhizas and soil aggregation. In: Mycorrhizal Mediation of Soil: Fertility, Structure and Carbon Storage (Eds, Johnson NC, Gehring C, Jansa J), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 241-262. Link
2016
Camenzind T, Papathanasiou HJ, Förster A, Dietrich K, Hertel D, Homeier J, Oelmann Y, Olsson PA, Suarez JP, Rillig MC. 2016. Increases in soil aggregation following phosphorus additions in a tropical premontane forest are not driven by root and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal abundances. Frontiers in Earth Science 3:89 Link
Sardans J, Alonso R, Janssens I, Carnicer J, Veresoglou S, Rillig MC, Fernandez-Martinez M, Sanders T, Penuelas J. 2016. Foliar and soil concentrations and stoichiometry of N and P across European Pinus sylvestris forests: relationships with climate, N deposition and tree growth. Functional Ecology 30: 676-689. Link
Hilker M, Schwachtje J, Baier M, Balazadeh S, Bäurle I, Geiselhardt S, Hincha DK, Kunze R, Mueller-Roeber B, Rillig MC, Rolff J, Romeis T, Schmülling T, Steppuhn A, van Dongen J, Withcomb SJ, Wurst S, Zuther E, Kopka, J. 2016. Priming and memory of stress responses in organisms lacking a nervous system. Biological Reviews 91: 1118-1133. Link
Eilers EJ, Veit D, Rillig MC, Hansson BS, Hilker M, Reinecke A. 2016. Soil substrates affect responses of root-feeding larvae to their hosts at multiple levels: orientation, locomotion and feeding. Basic and Applied Ecology 17: 115-124. Link
Verbruggen E, Jansa J, Hammer EC, Rillig MC. 2016. Do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi stabilize litter-derived carbon in soil. Journal of Ecology 104: 261-269. Link
Mardhiah U, Caruso T, Gurnell A, Rillig MC. 2016. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae reduce soil erosion by surface water flow in a greenhouse experiment. Applied Soil Ecology 99: 137-140. Link
Camenzind T, Homeier J, Dietrich K, Hempel S, Hertel D, Krohn A, Leuschner C, Oelmann Y, Olsson PA, Suarez JP, Rillig MC. 2016. Opposing effects of nitrogen versus phosphorus additions on mycorrhizal fungal abundance along an elevational gradient in tropical montane forests. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 94: 37-47. Link
George C, Kohler J, Rillig MC. 2016. Biochars reduce infection rates of the root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans and associated biomass loss in carrot. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 95: 11-18. Link
Soliveres S, Manning P, Prati D, Gossner MM, Alt F, Arndt H, Baumgartner V, Binkenstein J, Birkhofer K, Blaser S, Blüthgen N, Boch S, Böhm S, Börschig C, Buscot F, Diekötter T, Heinze J, Hölzel N, Jung K, Klaus VH, Klein AM, Kleinebecker T, Klemmer S, Krauss J, Lange M, Morris EK, Müller J, Oelmann Y, Overmann J, Pasalic E, Renner SC, Rillig MC, Schaefer HM, Schloter M, Schmitt B, Schöning I, Schrumpf M, Sikorski J, Socher SA, Solly EF, Sonnenmann I, Sorkau E, Steckel J, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stempfhuber B, Tschapka M, Türke M, Venter P, Weiner CN, Weisser WW, Werner M, Westphal C, Wilcke W, Wolters V, Wubet T, Wurst S, Fischer M, Allan E. 2016. Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371: 20150269. Link
Rillig MC, Lehmann A, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Antonovics J, Caruso T, Hempel S, Lehmann J, Valyi K, Verbruggen E, Veresoglou SD, Powell JR. 2016. Soil microbes and community coalescence. Pedobiologia – Journal of Soil Ecology 59: 37-40. Link
Andrade-Linares DR, Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2016. Microbial stress priming – a meta-analysis. Environmental Microbiology 18: 1277-1288. Link
Andrade-Linares DR, Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC. 2016. Temperature priming and memory in soil filamentous fungi. Fungal Ecology 21: 10-15. Link
Valyi K, Mardhiah U, Rillig MC, Hempel S. 2016. Community assembly and coexistence in communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The ISME Journal 10: 2341-2351. Link
Lopez-Garcia A, Horn S, Rillig MC, Hempel S. 2016. Spatial and niche-based ecological processes drive the distribution of endophytic Sebacinales in soil and root of grassland communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 92: fiw079. Link
Xiang D, Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC, Xu T, Li H, Hao Z, Chen BD. 2016. Relative importance of individual climatic drivers shaping arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. Microbial Ecology 72: 418-427. Link
Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC, Fraser L, Halley J. 2016. The influence of sampled biomass on species-area relationships of grassland plants. New Phytologist 211: 382-385. Link
Schläppi K, Bender S, Mascher F, Russo G, Patrignani A, Camenzind T, Hempel S, Rillig MC, van der Heijden MGA. 2016. High-resolution community profiling of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 212: 780-791. Link
Veresoglou SD, Anderson IC, de Sousa NMF, Hempel S, Rillig MC. 2016. Resilience of fungal communities to elevated CO2. Microbial Ecology 72: 493-495. Link
Menzel A, Hempel S, Manceur AM, Götzenberger L, Moora M, Rillig MC, Zobel M, Kühn I. 2016. Distribution patterns of arbuscular mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal plant species in Germany. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 21: 78-88. Link
Soliveres S, van der Plas F, Manning P, Prati D, Gossner MM, Renner SC, Alt F, Arndt H, Baumgartner V, Binkenstein J, Birkhofer K, Blaser S, Blüthgen N, Boch S, Böhm S, Börschig C, Buscot F, Diekötter T, Heinze J, Hölzel N, Jung K, Klaus VH, Kleinebecker T, Klemmer S, Krauss J, Lange M, Morris EK, Müller J, Oelmann Y, Overmann J, Pašali E, Rillig MC, Schaefer HM, Schloter M, Schmitt B, Schöning I, Schrumpf M, Sikorski J, Socher SA, Solly EF, Sonnemann I, Sorkau E, Steckel J, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stempfhuber B, Tschapka M, Türke M, Venter PC, Weiner CN, Weisser WW, Werner M, Westphal C, Wilcke W, Wolters V, Wubet T, Wurst S, Fischer M, Allan E. 2016. Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature 536: 456-459. Link
Zheng W, Morris EK, Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2016. Interplay of soil water repellency, soil aggregation and organic carbon. A meta-analysis. Geoderma 283: 39-47. Link
Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Rillig MC. 2016. Effect of different root endophytic fungi on plant community structure in experimental microcosms. Ecology and Evolution 6: 8149-8158. Link
Bergmann J, Verbruggen E, Heinze J, Xiang D, Chen BD, Joshi J, Rillig MC. 2016. The interplay between soil structure, roots and microbiota as a determinant of plant-soil feedback. Ecology and Evolution 6: 7633–7644. Link
Maighal M, Salem M, Kohler J, Rillig MC. 2016. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi negatively affect soil seed bank viability. Ecology and Evolution 6: 7683–7689. Link
Rillig MC, Sosa-Hernandez MA, Roy J, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Valyi K, Lehmann A. 2016. Towards an integrated mycorrhizal technology: harnessing mycorrhizae for sustainable intensification in agriculture. Frontiers in Plant Science 7: 1625. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01625. Link
Rillig MC, Tsang A, Roy J. 2016. Microbial community coalescence for microbiome engineering. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:1967. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01967 Link
Xu T, Veresoglou SD, Chen Y, Xiang D, Ondrej D, Hao Z, Liu L, Deng Y, Hu Y, Chen W, Wang J, He J, Rillig MC, Chen BD. 2016. Plant community, geographic distance and abiotic factors play different roles in predicting AMF biogeography at the regional scale in northern China. Environmental Microbiology Reports 8: 1048–1057. Link
2015
Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2015. Arbuscular mycorrhizal contribution to copper, manganese and iron nutrient concentrations in crops – a meta-analysis. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 81: 147-158. Link
Leifheit E, Verbruggen E, Rillig MC. 2015. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi reduce decomposition of woody plant litter while increasing soil aggregation. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 81: 323-328. Link
Rillig MC, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Bergmann J, Verbruggen E, Veresoglou SD, Lehmann A. 2015. Plant root and mycorrhizal fungal traits for understanding soil aggregation. New Phytologist 205:1385-1388. Link
Valyi K, Rillig MC, Hempel S. 2015. Land use intensity and host plant identity interactively shape communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in roots of grasssland plants. New Phytologist 205: 1577-1586. Link
Sardans J, Janssens IA, Alonso R, Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC, Sanders T, Carnicer J, Filella I, Farre-Armengol G, Penuelas J. 2015. Foliar elemental composition of European forest tree species associated with evolutionary traits and present environmental and competitive conditions. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24: 240-255. Link
Mardhiah U, Rillig MC, Gurnell AM. 2015. Reconstructing the development of sampled sites on fluvial island surfaces of the Tagliamento River, Italy, from historical sources. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 40: 629-641. Link
Wurst S, Kaiser N, Nitzsche S, Haase J, Auge H, Rillig MC, Powell JR. 2015. Tree diversity modifies distance-dependent effects on seedling emergence but not plant-soil feedbacks of temperate trees. Ecology 96: 1529-1539. Link
Horn S, Hempel S, Ristow M, Rillig MC, Kowarik I, Caruso T. 2015. Plant community assembly at small scales: spatial versus environmental factors in a central European grassland. Acta Oecologica 63: 56-62. Link
Rillig MC, Kiessling W, Borsch T, Gessler A, Greenwood AD, Hofer H, Joshi J, Schröder B, Thonicke K, Tockner K, Weißhuhn K, Jeltsch F. 2015. Biodiversity research: data without theory – theory without data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3: 20 Link
Tischer A, Werisch M, Döbbelin F, Camenzind T, Rillig MC, Potthast K, Hamer U. 2015. Above- and belowground linkages of a nitrogen and phosphorus co-limited tropical mountain pasture system – reponses to nutrient enrichment. Plant and Soil 391: 333-352. Link
Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Hempel S, Powell JR, Anderson IC, Antonovics J, Bergmann J, Cavagnaro TR, Chen BD, Hart MM, Klironomos J, Petermann JS, Verbruggen E, Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC. 2015. Branching out: towards a trait-based understanding of fungal ecology. Fungal Biology Reviews 29: 34-41. Link
Eilers E, Pauls G, Rillig MC, Hansson BS, Hilker M, Reinecke A. 2015. Novel set-up for low-disturbance sampling of volatile and non-volatile compounds from plant roots. Journal of Chemical Ecology 41: 253-266. Link
Maaß S, Maraun M, Scheu S, Rillig MC, Caruso T. 2015. Environmental filtering vs. resource-based niche partitioning in diverse soil animal assemblages. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 85: 145-152. Link
Maaß S, Caruso T, Rillig MC. 2015. Functional role of microarthropods in soil aggregation. Pedobiologia 58: 59-63. Link
Verbruggen E, Xiang D, Chen BD, Xu T, Rillig MC. 2015. Mycorrhizal fungi associated with high soil N:P ratios are more likely to be lost upon conversion from grasslands to arable agriculture. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 86: 1-4. Link
Heinze J, Bergmann J, Rillig MC, Joshi J. 2015. Negative biotic soil effects enhance biodiversity by restricting potentially dominant plant species in grasslands. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 17: 227-235. Link
Veresoglou SD, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Mansour I, Rillig MC. 2015. Self-DNA: a blessing in disguise? New Phytologist 207: 488-490. Link
Rillig MC, Rolff J, Tietjen B, Wehner J, Andrade-Linares D. 2015. Community priming – effects of sequential stressors on microbial assemblages. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 91: fiv040. Link
Heinze J, Werner T, Weber E, Rillig MC, Joshi J. 2015. Soil biota effects on local abundances of three grass species along a land-use gradient. Oecologia 179: 249-259. Link
Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC. 2015. Evidence-based data analysis: protecting the world from bad code? The American Statistician 69: 257. Link
Antonovics J, Bergmann J, Hempel S, Verbruggen E, Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC. 2015. The evolution of mutualism from reciprocal parasitism: more ecological clothes for the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Evolutionary Ecology 29: 627-641. Link
Allan E, Manning P, Alt F, Binkenstein J, Blaser S, Blüthgen N, Böhm S, Grassein F, Hölzel N, Klaus V, Kleinebecker T, Morris EK, Oelmann Y, Prati D, Renner S, Rillig M, Schaefer HM, Schloter M, Schmitt B, Schöning I, Schrumpf M, Solly M, Sorkau E, Steckel J, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stempfhuber B, Tschapka M, Weiner C, Weisser W, Werner M, Westphal C, Wilcke W, Fischer M. 2015. Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition. Ecology Letters 18: 834-843. Link
Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2015. Understanding mechanisms of soil biota involvement in soil aggregation: a way forward with saprobic fungi. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 88: 298-302. Link
Rillig MC, Antonovics J, Caruso T, Lehmann A, Powell JR, Veresoglou SD, Verbruggen E. 2015. Interchange of entire communities: microbial community coalescence. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30: 470-476. Link
Ramirez KS, Döring M, Eisenhauer N, Gardi C, Ladau J, Leff JW, Lentendu G, Lindo Z, Rillig MC, Russell D, Scheu S, St. John MG, de Vries FT, Wubet T, van der Putten WH, Wall DH. 2015. Towards a global platform for linking soil biodiversity data. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution 3:91 Link
Hammer EC, Forstreuter M, Rillig MC, Kohler J. 2015. Biochar increases arbuscular mycorrhizal plant growth enhancement and ameliorates salinity stress. Applied Soil Ecology 96: 114-121. Link
Veresoglou SD, Halley JM, Rillig MC. 2015. Extinction risk of soil biota. Nature Communications 6: 8862. Link
2014
Lehmann A, Veresoglou SD, Leifheit EF, Rillig MC. 2014. Arbuscular mycorrhizal influence on Zinc nutrition in crop plants – a meta-analysis. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 69: 123-131. Link
Leifheit EF, Veresoglou SD, Lehmann A, Morris EK, Rillig MC. 2014. Multiple factors influence the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil aggregation – a meta-analysis. Plant and Soil 374: 523-537. Link
Allan E, Bossdorf O, Dormann CF, Prati D, Gossner M, Tscharntke T, Blüthgen N, Bellach M, Birkhofer K, Boch S, Böhm S, Börschig C, Chatzinotas A, Christ S, Daniel R, Diekötter T, Fischer C, Friedl T, Glaser K, Hallmann C, Hodac L, Hölzel N, Jung K, Klein AM, Klaus VH, Kleinebecker T, Krauss J, Lange M, Morris EK, Müller J, Nacke H, Pašalić E, Rillig MC, Rothenwöhrer C, Schall P, Scherber C, Schulze W, Socher S, Steckel J, Steffan-Dewenter I, Türcke M, Weiner CN, Werner M, Westphal C, Wolters V, Wubet T, Gockel S, Gorke M, Hemp A, Renner SC, Schöning I, Pfeiffer S, König-Ries B, Buscot F, Linsenmair KE, Schulze ED, Weisser WW, Fischer M. 2014. Inter-annual variation in land use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity. Proceedings of the National Adacemy of Sciences of the USA 111: 308-313. Link
Rillig MC, Wendt S, Antonovics J, Hempel S, Kohler J, Wehner J, Caruso T. 2014. Interactive effects of root endophytes and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on an experimental plant community. Oecologia 174: 263-270. Link
Bargmann I, Rillig MC, Kruse A, Greef JM, Kücke M. 2014. Effects of hydrochar application on the dynamics of soluble nitrogen in soils and on plant availability. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 177: 48-58. Link
Achatz M, Morris EK, Müller F, Hilker M, Rillig MC. 2014. Soil hypha mediated movement of allelochemicals: arbuscular mycorrhizae extend the bioactive zone of juglone. Functional Ecology 28: 1020-1029. Link
Bargmann I, Martens R, Rillig MC, Kruse A, Kücke M. 2014. Hydrochar amendment promotes microbial immmobilization of mineral nitrogen. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 177: 59-67. Link
Wehner J, Powell JR, Muller LAH, Caruso T, Veresoglou SD, Hempel S, Rillig MC. 2014. Determinants of root-associated fungal communities within Asteraceae in a semiarid grassland. Journal of Ecology 102: 425-436. Link
Veresoglou SD, Penuelas J, Fischer R, Rautio P, Sardans J, Merliä P, Tabakovic-Tosic M, Rillig MC. 2014. Exploring continental-scale stand health – N:P ratio relationships for European forests. New Phytologist 202: 422-430. Link
Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC. 2014. Do closely related plants host similar arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities? A meta-analysis. Plant and Soil 377: 395-406. Link
Lehmann J, Rillig MC. 2014. Distinguishing variability from uncertainty. Nature Climate Change 4: 153. Link
Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Powell JR, Anderson IC, Antonovics J, Rillig MC. 2014. Ecological understanding of root-infecting fungi using trait-based approaches. Trends in Plant Science 19: 432-438. Link
Veresoglou SD, Powell JR, Davison J, Lekberg Y, Rillig MC. 2014. The Leinster and Cobbold indices improve inferences of microbial diversity. Fungal Ecology 11: 1-7. Link
Horn S, Caruso T, Verbruggen E, Rillig MC, Hempel S. 2014. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities are phylogenetically clustered at small scales. The ISME Journal 8: 2231-2242. Link
Mardhiah U, Caruso T, Gurnell A, Rillig MC. 2014. Just a matter of time: fungi and roots significantly and rapidly aggregate soil over four decades along the Tagliamento River, NE Italy. Soil Biology & Biochemisty 75: 133-142. Link
Morris EK, Caruso T, Buscot F, Fischer M, Hancock C, Maier TS, Meiners T, Müller C, Obermaier E, Prati D, Socher SA, Sonnemann I, Wäschke N, Wubet T, Wurst S, Rillig MC. 2014. Choosing and using diversity indices: insights for ecological applications from the German Biodiversity Exploratories. Ecology & Evolution 4: 3514-3524. Link
Verbruggen E, Rillig MC, Wehner J, Hegglin D, Wittwer R, van der Heijden MGA. 2014. Sebacinales, but not total root-associated fungal communities, are affected by land use intensity. New Phytologist 203: 1036-1040. Link
Hammer E, Balogh-Brunstad Z, Jakobsen I, Olsson PA, Stipp SLS, Rillig MC. 2014. A mycorrhizal fungus grows on biochar and captures phosphorus from its surfaces. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 77: 252-260. Link
Achatz M, Rillig MC. 2014. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae enhance the transport of the allelochemical juglone in the field. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 78: 76-82. Link
Zheng W, Morris EK, Rillig MC. 2014. Ectomycorrhizal fungi in association with Pinus sylvestris seedlings promote soil aggregation and soil water repellency. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 78: 326-331. Link
Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC. 2014. Challenging cherished ideas in mycorrhizal ecology: the Baylis postulate. New Phytologist 204: 1-3. Link
Leifheit E, Verbruggen E, Rillig MC. 2014. Rotation of hyphal in-growth cores has no confounding effects on soil abiotic properties. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 79: 78-80. Link
Camenzind T, Hempel S, Homeier J, Horn S, Velescu A, Wilcke W, Rillig MC. 2014. Nitrogen and phosphorus additions impact arbuscular mycorrhizal abundance and molecular diversity in a tropical montane forest. Global Change Biology 20: 3546-3659. Link
Xiang D, Verbruggen E, Hu Y, Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC, Zhou W, Xu T, Li H, Hao Z, Chen Y, Chen BD. 2014. Land use influences arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China. New Phytologist 204: 968-978. Link
Chaudhary VB, O’Dell TE, Rillig MC, Johnson NC. 2014. Scale-dependent patterns in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities of semi-arid shrublands. Fungal Ecology 12: 32-43. Link
Maaß S, Migliorini M, Rillig MC, Caruso T. 2014. Disturbance, neutral theory and patterns of beta diversity in soil communities. Ecology and Evolution 4:4766-4774. Link
2013
Verbruggen E, Veresoglou SD, Anderson IC, Caruso T, Hammer EC, Kohler J, Rillig MC. 2013. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi – short-term liability but long-term benefits for soil carbon storage. New Phytologist 197: 366-368. Link
Salem M, Kohler J, Rillig MC. 2013. Palatability of carbonized materials to collembola. Applied Soil Ecology 64: 63-69. Link
Veresoglou SD, Barto EK, Menexes G, Rillig MC. 2013. Fertilization affects severity of disease caused by fungal plant pathogens. Plant Pathology 5: 961-969. Link
Veresoglou SD, Caruso T, Rillig MC. 2013. Modelling the environmental and soil factors that shape the niches of two common arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal families. Plant and Soil 368: 507-518. Link
Verbruggen E, van der Heijden MGA, Rillig MC, Kiers ET. 2013. Mycorrhizal fungal establishment in agricultural soils: factors determining inoculation success. New Phytologist 197: 1104-1109. Link
Fischer LK, von der Lippe M, Rillig MC, Kowarik I. 2013. Creating novel urban grasslands by reintroducing native species in wasteland vegetation. Biological Conservation 159: 119-126. Link
Powell JR, Anderson IC, Rillig MC. 2013. A new tool of the trade: plant trait-based approaches in microbial ecology. Plant and Soil 365: 35-40. Link
Jeltsch F, Blaum N, Brose U, Chipperfield JD, Yann Clough, Farwig N, Geissler K, Graham CH, Grimm V, Hickler T, Huth A, May F, Meyer KM, Pagel J, Reineking B, Rillig MC, Shea K, Schurr FM, Schröder B, Tielbörger K, Weiss L, Wiegand K, Wirth C, Zurell D. 2013. How can we bring together empiricists and modellers in functional biodiversity research. Basic and Applied Ecology 14: 93-101. Link
Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2013. Are there temporal trends in root architecture and soil aggregation for barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) breeding lines. Applied Soil Ecology 65: 31-34. Link
Hempel S, Götzenberger L, Kühn I, Michalski SG, Rillig MC, Zobel M, Moora M. 2013. Mycorrhizas in the Central European flora – relationships with plant life history traits and ecology. Ecology 94: 1389-1399. Link
Hu Y, Rillig MC, Xiang D, Hao Z, Chen BD. 2013. Changes of AM fungal abundance along environmental gradients in the arid and semi-arid grasslands of northern China. PLoS One 8(2): e57593. Link
Lopez-Garcia A, Hempel S, Miranda Juan de D, Rillig MC, Barea JM, Azcon-Aguilar C. 2013. The influence of environmental degradation processes on the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community associated with yew (Taxus baccata L.), an endangered tree species from Mediterranean ecosystems of Southeast Spain. Plant and Soil 370: 355-366. Link
Bargmann I, Rillig MC, Buss W, Kruse A, Kücke M. 2013. Hydrochar and biochar effects on germination of spring barley. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 199: 360-373. Link
Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC. 2013. Accounting for the adaptation deficit of non-mycorrhizal plants in experiments. Plant and Soil 366: 33-34. Link
Camenzind T, Rillig MC. 2013. Extraradical arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae in an organic tropical montane forest soil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 64: 96-102. Link
Salem M, Kohler J, Wurst S, Rillig MC. 2013. Earthworms can modify effects of hydrochar on growth of Plantago lanceolata and performance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Pedobiologia 56: 219-224. Link
Morris EK, Buscot F, Herbst C, Meiners T, Obermaier E, Wäschke NW, Wubet T, Rillig MC. 2013. Land use and host neighbor identity effects on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition in focal plant rhizosphere. Biodiversity and Conservation 22: 2193-2205. Link
2012
Veresoglou SD, Chen BD, Rillig MC. 2012. Arbuscular mycorrhiza and soil nitrogen cycling. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 46: 53-62. Link
Ramsey PW, Gibbons SM, Rice P, Mummey DL, Feris KP, Moore JN, Rillig MC, Gannon JE. 2012. Relative strengths of relationships between plant, microbial and environmental parameters in heavy-metal contaminated floodplain soil. Pedobiologia 55: 15-23. Link
Spohn M, Rillig MC. 2012. Temperature- and moisture-dependent soil water repellency induced by the basidiomycete Agaricus bisporus. Pedobiologia 55: 59-61. Link
Siddiky MRK, Schaller J, Caruso T, Rillig MC. 2012. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and collembola non-additively increase soil aggregation. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 47: 93-99. Link
Barto EK, Rillig MC. 2012. Dissemination biases in ecology: effect sizes matter more than quality. Oikos 121: 228-235. Link
Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC. 2012. Suppression of fungal and nematode plant pathogens through arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Biology Letters 8: 214-216. Link
Veresoglou SD, Menexes G, Rillig MC. 2012. Do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi affect the allometric partition of host plant biomass to shoots and roots? A meta-analysis of studies from 1990 – 2010. Mycorrhiza 22: 227-235. Link
Siddiky MRK, Kohler J, Cosme M, Rillig MC. 2012. Soil biota effects on soil structure: interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal mycelium and collembola. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 50: 33-39. Link
Antunes PM, Lehmann A, Hart MM, Baumecker M, Rillig MC. 2012. Long-term effects of soil nutrient deficiency on arbuscular mycorrhizal communities. Functional Ecology 26: 532-540. Link
Caruso T, Powell JR, Rillig MC. 2012. Compositional divergence and convergence in local communities and spatially structured landscapes. PLoS ONE 7 (4): e35942. Link
Caruso T, Rillig MC, Garlaschelli D. 2012. On the application of network theory to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi – plant interactions: the importance of basic assumptions. New Phytologist 194: 891-894. Link
George C, Wagner M, Kücke M, Rillig MC. 2012. Divergent consequences of hydrochar in the plant-soil system: arbuscular mycorrhiza, nodulation, plant growth and soil aggregation effects. Applied Soil Ecology 59: 68-72. Link
Caruso T, Hempel S, Powell JR, Barto EK, Rillig MC. 2012. Compositional divergence and convergence in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. Ecology 93: 1115-1124. Link
Lehmann A, Barto EK, Powell JR, Rillig MC. 2012. Mycorrhizal responsiveness trends in annual crop plants and their wild relatives – a meta-analysis on studies from 1981 to 2010. Plant and Soil 355: 231-250. Link
Rillig MC. 2012. Microplastic in terrestrial ecosystems and the soil? Environmental Science & Technology 46: 6453-6454. Link
Homeier J, Hertel D, Camenzind T, Cumbicus NL, Martinson GO, Poma N, Rillig MC, Sandmann D, Scheu S, Veldkamp E, Wilcke W, Wullaert H, Leuschner C. 2012. Tropical Andean forests are highly susceptible to nutrient inputs – rapid effects of experimental N and P addition to an Ecuadorian montane forest. PLoS ONE 7 (10): e47128. Link
Veresoglou SD, Caruso T, Rillig MC. 2012. Metacommunities and symbiosis: hosts of challenges. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27: 588-589. Link
Barto EK, Weidenhamer JD, Cipollini D, Rillig MC. 2012. Fungal superhighways: do common mycorrhizal networks enhance belowground communication? Trends in Plant Science 17: 633-637. Link
2011
Antunes PM, Koch AM, Morton JB, Rillig MC, Klironomos JN. 2011. Evidence for functional divergence in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from contrasting climatic origins. New Phytologist 189: 507-514. Link
Klironomos JN, Zobel M, Tibbett M, Stock WD, Rillig MC, Parrent JL, Moora M, Koch AM, Facelli JM, Facelli E, Dickie IA, Bever JD. 2011. Forces that structure plant communities: quantifying the importance of the mycorrhizal symbiosis. New Phytologist 189: 366-370. Link
Caruso T, Barto EK, Siddiky MRK, Smigelski J, Rillig MC. 2011. Are power laws that estimate fractal dimension a good descriptor of soil structure and its link to soil biological properties. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43: 359-366. Link
Harner MJ, Opitz N, Geluso K, Tockner K, Rillig MC. 2011. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on developing islands within a dynamic river floodplain: an investigation across successional gradients and soil depth. Aquatic Sciences 73: 35-42. Link
Schnitzer SA, Klironomos JN, HilleRisLambers J, Kinkle LL, Reich PB, Xiao K, Rillig MC, Sikes BA, Callaway RM, Mangan SA, van Nes E, Scheffer M. 2011. Soil microbes drive the classic diversity-productivity pattern. Ecology 92: 296-303. Link
Powell JR, Monaghan MT, Öpik M, Rillig MC. 2011. Evolutionary criteria outperform operational approaches in producing ecologically-relevant fungal species inventories. Molecular Ecology 20: 655-666. Link
MacDougall AS, Rillig MC, Klironomos JN. 2011. Weak conspecific feedbacks and exotic dominance in a species-rich savanna. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278: 2939-2945. Link
Dickie IA, Yeates GW, St. John MG, Stevenson BA, Scott JT, Rillig MC, Peltzer DA, Orwin KH, Kirschbaum MUF, Hunt JE, Burrows LE, Barbour MM, Aislabie J. 2011. Ecosystem service and biodiversity trade-offs in two woody successions. Journal of Applied Ecology 48: 926-934. Link
Caruso T, Rillig MC. 2011. Direct, positive feedbacks produce instability in models of interrelationships among soil structure, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43: 1198-1206. Link
Hertel D, Köhler L, Rillig MC. 2011. Mycorrhizal, endophytic and ecomorphological status of tree roots in the canopy and terrestrial soil in a montane rainforest (Costa Rica). Biotropica 43: 401-404. Link
Lehmann J, Rillig MC, Thies J, Masiello C, Hockaday W, Crowley D. 2011. Biochar effects on soil biota – a review. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43: 1812-1836. Link
Wurst S, Gebhardt K, Rillig MC. 2011. Independent effects of arbuscular mycorrhiza and earthworms on plant diversity and newcomer plant establishment. Journal of Vegetation Science 22: 1021-1030. Link
Wehner J, Antunes PM, Powell JR, Caruso T, Rillig MC. 2011. Indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages protect grassland host plants from pathogens. PLoS ONE 6(11): e27381. Link
Barto EK, Hilker M, Müller F, Mohney BK, Weidenhamer JD, Rillig MC. 2011. The fungal fast-lane: common mycorrhizal networks extend bioactive zones of allelochemicals in soils. PLoS ONE 6(11): e27195. Link
Fester T, Fetzer I, Buchert S, Lucas R, Rillig MC, Härtig C. 2011. Towards a systemic metabolic signature of the arbuscular mycorrhizal interaction. Oecologia 167: 913-924. Link
Wurst S, Rillig MC. 2011. Additive effects of functionally dissimilar above- and belowground organisms on a grassland plant community. Journal of Plant Ecology 4: 221-227. Link
Hammer E, Rillig MC. 2011. The influence of different stresses on glomalin levels in an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus – salinity increases glomalin content. PLoS ONE 6 (12): e28426. Link
2010
Wehner J, Antunes PM, Powell JR, Mazukatow J, Rillig, MC. 2010. Plant pathogen protection by arbuscular mycorrhizas: a role for fungal diversity? Pedobiologia 53: 197-201. Link
Rillig MC, Mardatin NF, Leifheit EF, Antunes PM. 2010. Mycelium of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increases soil water repellency and is sufficient to maintain water-stable soil aggregates. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 42: 1189-1191. Link
Harner MJ, Mummey DL, Stanford JA, Rillig MC. 2010. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhance spotted knapweed growth across a riparian chronosequence. Biological Invasions 12: 1481-1490. Link
Sikes BA, Powell JR, Rillig MC. 2010. Deciphering the relative contributions of multiple functions within plant-microbe symbioses. Ecology 91: 1591-1597. Link
Barto EK, Rillig MC. 2010. Does herbivory really suppress mycorrhiza? A meta-analysis. Journal of Ecology 98: 745-753. Link
Wurst S, Vender V, Rillig MC. 2010. Testing for allelopathic effects in plant competition: does activated carbon disrupt plant symbioses? Plant Ecology 211: 19-26. Link
Rillig MC, Wagner M, Salem M, Antunes PM, George C, Ramke HG, Titirici MM, Antonietti M. 2010. Material derived from hydrothermal carbonization: effects on plant growth and arbuscular mycorrhiza. Applied Soil Ecology 45: 238-242. Link
Bever JD, Dickie IA, Facelli E, Facelli JM, Klironomos JN, Moora M, Rillig MC, Stock WD, Tibbett M, Zobel M. 2010. Rooting theories of plant ecology in microbial interactions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25: 468-478. Link
Barto EK, Alt F, Oelmann Y, Wilcke W, Rillig MC. 2010. Contributions of biotic and abiotic factors to soil aggregation across a land use gradient. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 42: 2316-2324. Link
Warnock DD, Mummey DL, McBride B, Major J, Lehmann J, Rillig MC. 2010. Influences of non-herbaceous biochar on arbuscular mycorrhizal abundances in roots and soils: results from growth-chamber and field experiments. Applied Soil Ecology 46: 450-456. Link
2009
Hallett PD, Feeney DS, Bengough AG, Rillig MC, Scrimgeour CM, Young IM. 2009. Disentangling the impact of AM fungi versus roots on soil structure and water transport. Plant and Soil 314: 183-196. Link
Chaudhary VB, Bowker MA, O’Dell TE, Grace JB, Redman AE, Rillig MC, Johnson NC. 2009. Untangling the biological contributions to soil stability in semi-arid shrublands. Ecological Applications 19: 110-122. Link
Wilson GWT, Rice C, Rillig MC, Springer A, Hartnett D. 2009. Soil aggregation and carbon sequestration are tightly correlated with the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: results from long-term field experiments. Ecology Letters 12: 452-461. Link
Antunes PM, Koch AM, Dunfield KE, Hart MM, Downing A, Rillig MC, Klironomos JN. 2009. Influence of commercial inoculation with Glomus intraradices on the structure and functioning of an AM fungal community from an agricultural site. Plant and Soil 317: 257-266. Link
Mummey DL, Antunes PM, Rillig MC. 2009. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi pre-inoculant identity determines community composition in roots. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 41: 1173-1179. Link
Clark NM, Rillig MC, Nowak RS. 2009. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal abundance in the Mojave Desert: seasonal dynamics and impacts of elevated CO2. Journal of Arid Environments 73: 834-843. Link
Feris KP, Ramsey PW, Gibbons SM, Frazar C, Rillig MC, Moore JN, Gannon JE, Holben WE. 2009. Hyporheic microbial community development is a sensitive indicator of metal contamination. Environmental Science & Technology 43: 6158-6163. Link
Powell JR, Parrent JL, Hart MM, Klironomos JN, Rillig MC, Maherali H. 2009. Phylogenetic trait conservatism and the evolution of functional tradeoffs in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276: 4237-4245. Link
Harner MJ, Piotrowski JS, Lekberg Y, Stanford JA, Rillig MC. 2009. Heterogeneity in mycorrhizal inoculum potential of flood-deposited sediments. Aquatic Sciences 71: 331-337. Link
Chen S, Rillig MC, Wang W. 2009. Improving soil protein extraction for metaproteome analysis and glomalin-related soil protein detection. Proteomics 9: 4970-4973. Link
Pringle A, Bever JD, Gardes M, Parrent JL, Rillig MC, Klironomos JN. 2009. Mycorrhizal symbioses and plant invasions. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 40: 699-715. Link
Thies JE, Rillig MC. 2009. Characteristics of Biochar: Biological Properties. In: Lehmann J, Joseph S (Eds.), Biochar for Environmental Management: Science and Technology. Earthscan, London. pp. 85-105.
2008
Gadkar V, Rillig MC. 2008. Evaluation of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) to rapidly detect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40: 540-543.
Piotrowski JS, Morford S, Rillig MC. 2008. Inhibition of colonization of a native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community via Populus trichocarpa litter, litter extract, and soluble phenolic compounds. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40: 709-717.
Purin S, Rillig MC. 2008. Parasitism of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: reviewing the evidence. FEMS Microbiology Letters 279: 8-14.
Purin S, Rillig MC. 2008. Immuno-cytolocalization of glomalin in the mycelium of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40: 1000-1003.
Piotrowski JS, Rillig MC. 2008. Succession of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: patterns, causes and considerations for organic agriculture. Advances in Agronomy 97: 111-130. Link
Piotrowski JS, Lekberg Y, Harner MJ, Ramsey PW, Rillig MC. 2008. Dynamics of mycorrhizae during development of riparian forests along an unregulated river. Ecography 31: 245-253.
Mummey DL, Rillig MC. 2008. Spatial characterization of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal molecular diversity at the sub-metre scale in a temperate grassland. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 64: 260-270.
Rosier CL, Piotrowski JS, Hoye AT, Rillig MC. 2008. Intraradical protein and glomalin as a tool for quantifying arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal root colonization. Pedobiologia 52: 41-50. Link
Rillig MC, Ramsey PW, Gannon JE, Mummey DL, Gadkar V, Kapulnik Y. 2008. Suitability of mycorrhiza-defective mutant/ wildtype plant pairs (Solanum lycopersicum L. cv Micro-Tom) to address questions in mycorrhizal soil ecology. Plant and Soil 308: 267-275. Link
Cornejo P, Meier S, Borie G, Rillig MC, Borie F. 2008. Glomalin-related soil protein in a Mediterranean ecosystem affected by a copper smelter and its contribution to Cu and Zn sequestration. Science of the Total Environment 406: 154-160. Link
2007
Preger AC, Rillig MC, Johns AR, Du Preez CC, Lobe I, Amelung W. 2007. Losses of glomalin-related soil protein under prolonged arable cropping: a chronosequence study in sandy soils of the South African Highveld. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 39: 445-453.
Wolfe BE, Rillig MC, Mummey DL, Klironomos JN. 2007. Small-scale spatial heterogeneity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a calcareous fen. Mycorrhiza 17: 175-183.
Rillig MC, Caldwell BA, Wösten HAB, Sollins P. 2007. Role of proteins in soil carbon and nitrogen storage: controls on persistence. Biogeochemistry 85: 25-44.
Purin S, Rillig MC. 2007. The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal protein glomalin: limitations, progress, and a new hypothesis for its function. Pedobiologia 51: 123-130.
Mummey DL, Rillig MC. 2007. Evaluation of LSU rRNA-gene PCR primers for the study of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities via terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Journal of Microbiological Methods 70: 200-204.
Kimball BA, Idso SB, Johnson S, Rillig MC. 2007. Seventeen years of CO2 enrichment of sour orange trees: final results. Global Change Biology 13: 2171-2183.
Warnock DD, Lehmann J, Kuyper TW, Rillig MC. 2007. Mycorrhizal responses to biochar in soil – concepts and mechanisms. Plant and Soil 300: 9-20. (Marschner Review)
2006
Mummey DL, Six J, Rillig MC. 2006. Influence of endogeic earthworm activities on bacterial communities associated with different soil aggregate size fractions. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38: 1608-1614.
Rillig MC, Mummey DL, Ramsey PW, Klironomos JN, Gannon JE. 2006. Phylogeny of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi predicts community composition of symbiosis-associated bacteria. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 57: 389-395.
Rosier CL, Hoye AT, Rillig MC. 2006. Glomalin-related soil protein: assessment of current detection and quantification tools. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38: 2205-2211.
Ramsey PW, Rillig MC, Feris KP, Holben WE, Gannon JE. 2006. Choice of methods for soil microbial community analysis: PLFA maximizes power compared to CLPP and PCR-based approaches. Pedobiologia 50: 275-280.
Rillig MC, Mummey DL. 2006. (Tansley review) Mycorrhizas and soil structure. New Phytologist 171: 41-53.
Gadkar V, Driver JD, Rillig MC. 2006. A novel in vitro cultivation system to produce and isolate soluble factors released from hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Biotechnology Letters 28: 1071-1076.
Rillig MC, Hoye AT, Carran A. 2006. Minimal direct contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to DOC leaching in grassland through losses of glomalin-related soil protein. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38: 2967-2970.
Gadkar V, Rillig MC. 2006. The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal protein glomalin is a putative homolog of heat shock protein 60. FEMS Microbiology Letters 263: 93-101.
Mummey DL, Rillig MC. 2006. The invasive plant species Centaurea maculosa alters arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in the field. Plant and Soil 288: 81-90.
Rillig MC. 2006. Climate change effects on fungi in agroecosystems. In: Newton PCD et al. (Eds.), Agroecosystems in a changing climate. CRC Press/ Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, pp. 211-230.
2005
Driver JD, Holben WE, Rillig MC. 2005. Characterization of glomalin as a hyphal wall component of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 37: 101-106.
Gadkar V, Rillig MC. 2005. Application of Phi29 DNA polymerase mediated whole genome amplification to single spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. FEMS Microbiology Letters 242: 65-71.
Mummey DL, Rillig MC, Holben WE. 2005. Neighboring plant influences on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition as assessed by T-RFLP analysis. Plant and Soil 271: 83-90.
Rillig MC, Lutgen ER, Ramsey PW, Klironomos JN, Gannon JE. 2005. Microbiota accompanying different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal isolates influence soil aggregation. Pedobiologia 49: 251-259.
Ramsey PW, Rillig MC, Feris KP, Moore JN, Gannon JE. 2005. Mine waste contamination limits soil respiration rates: a case study using quantile regression. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 37: 1177-1183.
Klironomos JN, Allen MF, Rillig MC, Piotrowski JS, Makvandi-Nejad S, Wolfe BE, Powell JR. 2005. Abrupt rise in atmospheric CO2 overestimates community response in a model plant-soil system. Nature 433: 621-624.
Gadkar V, Rillig MC. 2005. Suitability of genomic DNA synthesized by strand displacement amplification (SDA) for AFLP analysis: genotyping single spores of arbuscular (AM) mycorrhizal fungi. Journal of Microbiological Methods 63: 157-164.
Batten KM, Six J, Scow KM, Rillig MC. 2005. Plant invasion of native grassland on serpentine soils has no major effect upon selected physical and biological properties. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 37: 2277-2282.
Rillig MC. 2005. A connection between fungal hydrophobins and soil water repellency. Pedobiologia 49: 395-399.
Ramsey PW, Rillig MC, Feris KP, Gordon N, Moore JN, Holben WE, Gannon JE. 2005. Relationship between communities and processes: new insights from a field study of a contaminated ecosystem. Ecology Letters 8: 1201-1210.
Rillig MC, Rosier CL, Piotrowski JS, Gadkar V, Driver JD. 2005. Glomalin: a novel proteinaceous substance produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. In: Varma A, Podila GK (Eds), Biotechnological applications of microbes. IK International Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, pp. 67-85.
Rillig MC. 2005. Polymers and microorganisms. In: Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment (Ed. Hillel D). Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, UK, pp.287-294.
2004
Feris KP, Ramsey PW, Rillig MC, Moore JN, Gannon JE, Holben WE. 2004. Determining rates of change and evaluating group-level resiliency differences in hyporheic microbial communities in response to fluvial heavy-metal deposition. Appl. Environ. Microbiol 70: 4756-4765.
Lutgen ER, Rillig MC. 2004. Influence of spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) management treatments on arbuscular mycorrhizae and soil aggregation. Weed Science 52: 172-177.
Rillig MC. 2004. Arbuscular mycorrhizae, glomalin and soil quality. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 84: 355-363.
Feris KP, Ramsey PW, Frazar CF, Rillig MC, Gannon JE, Holben WE. 2004. Seasonal dynamics of shallow hyporheic zone microbial community structure along a heavy metal contamination gradient. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 2323-2331.
Rillig MC. 2004. Arbuscular mycorrhizae and terrestrial ecosystem processes. Ecology Letters 7: 740-754.
Piotrowski JS, Denich T, Klironomos JN, Graham JM, Rillig MC. 2004. The effects of arbuscular mycorrhizae on soil aggregation depend on the interaction between plant and fungal species. New Phytologist 164: 365-373.
Harner MJ, Ramsey PW, Rillig MC. 2004. Protein accumulation and distribution in floodplain soils and river foam. Ecology Letters 7: 829-836.
2003
Lutgen ER, Clairmont DL, Graham J, Rillig MC. 2003. Seasonality of arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae and glomalin in a western Montana grassland. Plant and Soil 257: 71-83.
Rillig MC, Maestre FT, Lamit LJ. 2003. Microsite differences in fungal hyphal length, glomalin, and soil aggregate stability in semiarid Mediterranean steppes. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 35: 1257-1260.
Knorr MA, Boerner REJ, Rillig MC. 2003. Glomalin content of forest soils in relation to fire frequency and landscape position. Mycorrhiza 13: 205-210.
Rillig MC, Field CB. 2003. Arbuscular mycorrhizae respond to plants exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2 as a function of soil depth. Plant and Soil 254: 383-391.
Feris KP, Ramsey PW, Frazar CF, Rillig MC, Gannon JE, Holben WE. 2003. Structure and seasonal dynamics of hyporheic zone microbial communities in free-stone rivers of the western United States. Microbial Ecology 46: 200-215.
Rillig MC, Ramsey PW, Morris S, Paul EA. 2003. Glomalin, an arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungal soil protein, responds to land-use change. Plant and Soil 253: 293-299.
Steinberg PD, Rillig MC. 2003. Differential decomposition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae and glomalin. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 35: 191-194.
2002
Rillig MC, Steinberg PD. 2002. Glomalin production by an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus: a mechanism of habitat modification. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 34: 1371-1374.
Rillig MC, Wright SF, Eviner V. 2002. The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and glomalin in soil aggregation: comparing effects of five plant species. Plant and Soil 238: 325-333.
Rillig MC, Wright SF, Shaw MR, Field CB. 2002. Artificial ecosystem warming positively affects arbuscular mycorrhizae but decreases soil aggregation. Oikos 97: 52-58.
Rillig MC, Treseder KK, Allen MF. 2002. Mycorrhizal fungi and global change. In: Ecological Studies Series 157: Mycorrhizal Ecology, Springer Verlag, pp. 135-160.
2000-2001
Rillig MC, Wright SF, Nichols KA, Schmidt WF, Torn M.S. 2001. Large contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to soil carbon pools in tropical forest soils. Plant and Soil 233: 167-177.
Rillig MC, Wright SF, Kimball BA, Leavitt SW. 2001. Elevated carbon dioxide and irrigation effects on water stable aggregates in a Sorghum field: a possible role for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Global Change Biology 7: 333-337.
Rillig MC, Hernandez GY, Newton PCD. 2000. Arbuscular mycorrhizae respond to elevated atmospheric CO2 after long-term exposure: evidence from a CO2 spring in New Zealand supports the resource-balance model. Ecology Letters 3: 475-478.
1999
Rillig MC, Wright SF, Allen MF, and Field C.B. 1999. Rise in carbon dioxide changes soil structure. Nature 400: 628.
Rillig MC, Allen MF, and Field CB. 1999. Soil biota responses to long-term atmospheric CO2 enrichment in two California annual grasslands. Oecologia 119: 572-577.
Rillig MC and Allen MF. 1999. What is the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in plant-to-ecosystem responses to elevated atmospheric CO2? Mycorrhiza 9: 1-8.
Rillig MC, Field CB, Allen MF. 1999. Fungal root colonization responses in natural grasslands after long-term exposure to elevated CO2. Global Change Biology 5: 577-585.
Klironomos JN, Rillig MC, Allen MF. 1999. Designing belowground field experiments with the help of semi-variance and power analyses. Applied Soil Ecology 12: 227-238.
1998
Rillig MC and Allen MF. 1998. Arbuscular mycorrhizae of Gutierrrezia sarothrae and elevated carbon dioxide: evidence for shifts in C allocation to and within the mycobiont. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 30: 2001-2008.
Rillig MC, Allen MF, Klironomos JN, Chiariello NR, and Field CB. 1998. Plant species-specific changes in root-inhabiting fungi in a California annual grassland: responses to elevated CO2 and nutrients. Oecologia 113: 252-259.
Rillig MC, Allen MF, Klironomos JN, and Field CB. 1998. Arbuscular mycorrhizal percent root infection and infection intensity of Bromus hordeaceus grown in elevated atmospheric CO2. Mycologia 90: 199-205.
Klironomos JN, Ursic M, Rillig MC, and Allen MF. 1998. Inter-specific differences in the response of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to elevated atmospheric CO2. New Phytologist 138: 599-603.
1996-1997
Rillig MC. 1997. Effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide on the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California Davis/ San Diego State University.
Rillig MC, Scow KM, Klironomos JN, and Allen MF. 1997. Microbial carbon substrate utilization in the rhizosphere of Gutierrezia sarothrae grown in elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 29: 1387-1394.
Klironomos JN, Rillig MC, and Allen MF. 1996. Below-ground microbial and microfaunal responses to Artemisia tridentata grown under elevated atmospheric CO2. Functional Ecology 10: 527-534.
Klironomos JN, Rillig MC, Allen MF, Zak DR, Kubiske M, and Pregitzer KS. 1997. Soil fungal-arthropod responses to Populus tremuloides grown under enriched atmospheric CO2 under field conditions. Global Change Biology 3: 473-478.
Klironomos JN, Rillig MC, Allen MF, Zak DR, Pregitzer KS, and Kubiske ME. 1997. Increased levels of airborne fungal spores in response to Populus tremuloides grown under elevated atmospheric CO2. Canadian Journal of Botany 75: 1670-1673.
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