Last update: 24 March, 2023

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 (in press) 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 (in press) 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 (in press) 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
• Wesener F, Rillig MC, Tietjen B. 2023. Heat stress can change the competitive outcome between fungi – insights from a modelling approach. Oikos (in press) 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 (in press)
• 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 (in press)
• 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 (in press) 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 (in press) 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 (in press) 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