Publications

@article{saez2025substrate,

title = {Substrate Origin Controls Phosphorus Availability in Globally Distributed Long-Term Chronosequences},

author = {S{'a}ez-Sandino, Tadeo and Gallardo, Antonio and Dur{'a}n, Jorge and Wardle, David A and Hayes, Patrick E and Hart, Stephen C and Garc{'i}a-Vel{'a}zquez, Laura and P{'e}rez, Cecilia A and Siebe, Christina and Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw and Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel },

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-06},

urldate = {2025-01-06},

journal = {Ecosystems},

volume = {28},

issue = {1},

pages = {7},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{doetterl2025landscape,

title = {A landscape-scale view of soil organic matter dynamics},

author = {S Doetterl and AA Berhe and K Heckman and C Lawrence and J Schnecker and Cordula Vogel R Vargas and Rota Wagai},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

journal = {Nature Reviews Earth & Environment},

number = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00621},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{mcmurtry2024getting,

title = {Getting to the root of the problem: Soil carbon and microbial responses to root inputs within a buried paleosol along an eroding hillslope in southwestern Nebraska, USA},

author = {Abbygail R McMurtry and Chase S Kasmerchak and Elliot A Vaughan and Manisha Dolui and Laura M Phillips and Carsten W Mueller and Jennifer Pett-Ridge and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Joseph A Mason and Erika Mar'ın-Spiotta and others},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Soil Biology and Biochemistry},

volume = {198},

pages = {109549},

publisher = {Pergamon},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{wahab2024regional,

title = {Regional differences in soil stable isotopes and vibrational features at depth in three California grasslands},

author = {Leila Maria Wahab and SS Chacon and SL Kim and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Biogeochemistry},

volume = {167},

number = {12},

pages = {1511–1532},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{von2024controls,

title = {Controls on timescales of soil organic carbon persistence across sub-saharan africa},

author = {Sophie F Von Fromm and Sebastian Doetterl and Benjamin M Butler and Ermias Aynekulu and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Stephan M Haefele and Steve P McGrath and Keith D Shepherd and Johan Six and Lulseged Tamene and others},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Global Change Biology},

volume = {30},

number = {1},

pages = {e17089},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{saez2024plant,

title = {Plant footprint decreases the functional diversity of molecules in topsoil organic matter after millions of years of ecosystem development},

author = {Tadeo Sáez-Sandino and Antonio Gallardo and David J Eldridge and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Sebastian Doetterl and Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Global Ecology and Biogeography},

volume = {33},

number = {1},

pages = {162–172},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{hicks2023deep,

title = {The deep soil organic carbon response to global change},

author = {Caitlin E Hicks Pries and Rebecca Ryals and Biao Zhu and Kyungjin Min and Alexia Cooper and Sarah Goldsmith and Jennifer Pett-Ridge and Margaret Torn and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics},

volume = {54},

number = {1},

pages = {375–401},

publisher = {Annual Reviews},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{malone2023impacts,

title = {Impacts of organic matter amendments on urban soil carbon and soil quality: A meta-analysis},

author = {Zachary Malone and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Rebecca Ryals},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Cleaner Production},

volume = {419},

pages = {138148},

publisher = {Elsevier},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{gao2023role,

title = {Role of soil organic matter composition and microbial communities on SOC stability: Insights from particle-size aggregates},

author = {Xin Gao and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Yaxian Hu and Lanlan Du and Fangbin Hou and Shengli Guo and Rui Wang},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Soils and Sediments},

volume = {23},

number = {7},

pages = {2878–2891},

publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{primack2023historically,

title = {Historically excluded groups in ecology are undervalued and poorly treated},

author = {Richard B Primack and Tara K Miller and Carina Terry and Erika Mar'ın-Spiotta and Pamela H Templer and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Emily J Diaz Vallejo and Meredith G Hastings and Vicki J Magley and Allison Mattheis and others},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{marin2023exclusionary,

title = {Exclusionary behaviors reinforce historical biases and contribute to loss of talent in the Earth sciences},

author = {Erika Marin-Spiotta and Emily J Diaz-Vallejo and Rebecca T Barnes and Allison Mattheis and Blair Schneider and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Meredith G Hastings and Billy M Williams and Vicki Magley},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Earth's Future},

volume = {11},

number = {3},

pages = {e2022EF002912},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{moreland2023climatic,

title = {Climatic controls on soil and saprock nitrogen distribution and persistence in the Sierra Nevada},

author = {Kimber C Moreland and Morgan E Barnes and Anthony O'Geen and Nicholas Dove and Stephen C Hart and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science},

volume = {186},

number = {1},

pages = {116–129},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{gewin2022down,

title = {A down-to-earth approach to climate change},

author = {Virginia Gewin},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Nature},

volume = {606},

number = {7912},

pages = {218–218},

publisher = {Nature},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{yang2022climate,

title = {Climate warming alters nutrient storage in seasonally dry forests: Insights from a 2,300 m elevation gradient},

author = {Yang Yang and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Morgan E Barnes and Kimber C Moreland and Zhiyuan Tian and Anne E Kelly and Roger C Bales and Anthony T O'Geen and Michael L Goulden and Peter Hartsough and others},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Global Biogeochemical Cycles},

volume = {36},

number = {11},

pages = {e2022GB007429},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{yang2022impactsb,

title = {Impacts of climate and forest management on suspended sediment source and transport in montane headwater catchments},

author = {Yang Yang and Mohammad Safeeq and Joseph W Wagenbrenner and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Stephen C Hart},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Hydrological Processes},

pages = {e14684},

publisher = {John Wiley & Sons, Inc.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{perez2022ten,

title = {Ten simple rules for creating and sustaining antiracist graduate programs},

author = {Edgar Perez-Lopez and Larisa Gavrilova and Janice Disla and Melissa Goodlad and Dalena Ngo and Arabi Seshappan and Farhana Sharmin and Jesus Cisneros and Christopher T Kello and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {PLoS computational biology},

volume = {18},

number = {10},

pages = {e1010516},

publisher = {Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{plaza2022ecosystem,

title = {Ecosystem productivity has a stronger influence than soil age on surface soil carbon storage across global biomes},

author = {César Plaza and Pablo Garc'ıa-Palacios and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Jesús Barquero and Felipe Bastida and G Kenny Png and Ana Rey and Richard D Bardgett and Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Communications Earth & Environment},

volume = {3},

number = {1},

pages = {233},

publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK London},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{chen2022burn,

title = {Burn intensity drives the alteration of phenolic lignin to (Poly) aromatic hydrocarbons as revealed by pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS)},

author = {Huan Chen and Jun-Jian Wang and Pei-Jia Ku and Martin Tsz-Ki Tsui and Rebecca B Abney and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Qiang Zhang and Sarah D Burton and Randy A Dahlgren and Alex T Chow},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Environmental science & technology},

volume = {56},

number = {17},

pages = {12678–12687},

publisher = {American Chemical Society},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{berhe2022biogeochemistry,

title = {BIOGEOCHEMISTRY GEOCHEMICAL AND IN MATHEMATICAL DYNAMIC LANDSCAPES: CONSTRAINTS ON THE EROSION-INDUCED TERRESTRIAL CARBON SINK},

author = {Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Teamrat A Ghezzehei},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Multi-Scale Biogeochemical Processes in Soil Ecosystems: Critical Reactions and Resilience to Climate Changes},

pages = {323},

publisher = {John Wiley & Sons},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{santos2022dissolved,

title = {Dissolved pyrogenic carbon leaching in soil: Effects of soil depth and pyrolysis temperature},

author = {Fernanda Santos and Jeffrey A Bird and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Geoderma},

volume = {424},

pages = {116011},

publisher = {Elsevier},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{harrison2022dairy,

title = {Dairy manure co-composting with wood biochar plays a critical role in meeting global methane goals},

author = {Brendan P Harrison and Si Gao and Melinda Gonzales and Touyee Thao and Elena Bischak and Teamrat Afewerki Ghezzehei and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Gerardo Diaz and Rebecca A Ryals},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Environmental science & technology},

volume = {56},

number = {15},

pages = {10987–10996},

publisher = {American Chemical Society},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{reed2022restoring,

title = {Restoring function: Positive responses of carbon and nitrogen to 20 years of hydrologic restoration in montane meadows},

author = {Cody C Reed and Asmeret A Berhe and Kimber C Moreland and Jim Wilcox and Benjamin W Sullivan},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Ecological Applications},

pages = {e2677},

publisher = {John Wiley & Sons, Inc},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{rasmussen2022soil,

title = {Soil science research priorities in the United States},

author = {C Rasmussen and AA Berhe and R Turco},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Geoderma},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{berhe2022relationship,

title = {On the relationship of armed conflicts with climate change},

author = {AA Berhe},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {PLOS Climate},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{marin2022critical,

title = {A critical feminist approach to transform workplace climate in partnership with professional associations},

author = {E. Marin-Spiotta and A. Mattheis and C. F. Bell and J. Maertens and R. T. Barnes and A. A. Berhe and M. G. Hastings and B. Schneider and B. M. Williams.},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {ADVANCE Journal},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{longbottom2022s,

title = {What'92s Soil Got to Do with Climate Change?},

author = {T Longbottom and L Wahab and K Min and A Jurusik and K Moreland and M Dolui and T Thao and M Gonzales and Y Perez Rojas and Z J: Malone Alvarez and others},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {GSA Today},

volume = {32},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{yang2022impacts,

title = {Impacts of climate and disturbance on nutrient fluxes and stoichiometry in mixed-conifer forests},

author = {Yang Yang and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Carolyn T Hunsaker and Dale W Johnson and Mohammad Safeeq and Morgan E Barnes and Emma P McCorkle and Erin M Stacy and Roger C Bales and Ryan R Bart and others},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Biogeochemistry},

volume = {158},

number = {1},

pages = {1–20},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{kopittke2022ensuring,

title = {Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils},

author = {Peter M Kopittke and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Yolima Carrillo and Timothy R Cavagnaro and Deli Chen and Qing-Lin Chen and Mercedes Román Dobarco and Feike A Dijkstra and Damien J Field and Michael J Grundy and others},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology},

pages = {1–17},

publisher = {Taylor & Francis},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{berhe2022scientists,

title = {Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course},

author = {Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Rebecca T Barnes and Meredith G Hastings and Allison Mattheis and Blair Schneider and Billy M Williams and Erika Mar'ın-Spiotta},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Nature Geoscience},

pages = {1–3},

publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{mainka2022soil,

title = {Soil geochemistry as a driver of soil organic matter composition: insights from a soil chronosequence},

author = {Moritz Mainka and Laura Summerauer and Daniel Wasner and Gina Garland and Marco Griepentrog and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Sebastian Doetterl},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Biogeosciences},

volume = {19},

number = {6},

pages = {1675–1689},

publisher = {Copernicus GmbH},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{dacal2022temperature,

title = {Temperature increases soil respiration across ecosystem types and soil development, but soil properties determine the magnitude of this effect},

author = {Marina Dacal and Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo and Jesús Barquero and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Antonio Gallardo and Fernando T Maestre and Pablo Garc'ıa-Palacios},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Ecosystems},

volume = {25},

number = {1},

pages = {184–198},

publisher = {Springer US},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{wieder2021sodah,

title = {SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0},

author = {William R Wieder and Derek Pierson and Stevan Earl and Kate Lajtha and Sara G Baer and Ford Ballantyne and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Sharon A Billings and Laurel M Brigham and Stephany S Chacon and others},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Earth System Science Data (Online)},

volume = {13},

number = {LLNL-JRNL-821943},

publisher = {Lawrence Livermore National Lab.(LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{rath2021synergy,

title = {Synergy between compost and cover crops leads to increased subsurface soil carbon storage},

author = {Daniel Rath and Nathaniel Bogie and Leonardo Deiss and Sanjai Parikh and Daoyuan Wang and Samantha Ying and Nicole Tautges and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Kate Scow},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {SOIL Discussions},

volume = {2021},

pages = {1–27},

publisher = {Göttingen, Germany},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{heckman2021beyond,

title = {Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence},

author = {Katherine Heckman and Caitlin E Hicks Pries and Corey R Lawrence and Craig Rasmussen and Susan E Crow and Alison M Hoyt and Sophie F Fromm and Zheng Shi and Shane Stoner and Casey McGrath and others},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Global Change Biology},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{moreland2021deep,

title = {Deep in the Sierra Nevada critical zone: saprock represents a large terrestrial organic carbon stock},

author = {Kimber Moreland and Zhiyuan Tian and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Karis J McFarlane and Peter Hartsough and Stephen C Hart and Roger Bales and Anthony T O'92Geen},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Environmental Research Letters},

volume = {16},

number = {12},

pages = {124059},

publisher = {IOP Publishing},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{doetterl2021preface,

title = {Preface: Tropical biogeochemistry of soils in the Congo Basin and the African Great Lakes region},

author = {Sebastian Doetterl and Marijn Bauters and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Pauline Chivenge and Peter Finke and Stefan Hauser},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {SOIL},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{oerter2021hydraulic,

title = {Hydraulic Redistribution by Deeply Rooted Grasses and its Ecohydrologic Implications in the Southern Great Plains of North America},

author = {Erik Oerter and Eric Slessarev and Ate Visser and Kyungjin Min and Megan Kan and Karis J McFarlane and Malay C Saha and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Jennifer Pett-Ridge and Erin Nuccio},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Hydrological Processes},

pages = {e14366},

publisher = {John Wiley & Sons, Inc.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{min2021active,

title = {Active microbial biomass decreases, but microbial growth potential remains similar across soil depth profiles under deeply-vs. shallow-rooted plants},

author = {Kyungjin Min and Eric Slessarev and Megan Kan and Karis McFarlane and Erik Oerter and Jennifer Pett-Ridge and Erin Nuccio and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Soil Biology and Biochemistry},

volume = {162},

pages = {108401},

publisher = {Pergamon},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{dove2021depth,

title = {Depth dependence of climatic controls on soil microbial community activity and composition},

author = {Nicholas Dove and Morgan Barnes and Kimber Moreland and Robert Graham and Asmeret Berhe and Stephen Hart},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {ISME Communications},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{georgiou2021divergent,

title = {Divergent controls of soil organic carbon between observations and process-based models},

author = {Katerina Georgiou and Avni Malhotra and William R Wieder and Jacqueline H Ennis and Melannie D Hartman and Benjamin N Sulman and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and A Stuart Grandy and Emily Kyker-Snowman and Kate Lajtha and others},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Biogeochemistry},

volume = {156},

pages = {5–17},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{berhe2021s,

title = {What's soil got to do with climate change?},

author = {Asmeret Asefaw Berhe},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{yang2021stream,

title = {Stream water chemistry in mixed-conifer headwater basins: role of water sources, seasonality, watershed characteristics, and disturbances},

author = {Yang Yang and Stephen C Hart and Emma P McCorkle and Erin M Stacy and Morgan E Barnes and Carolyn T Hunsaker and Dale W Johnson and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Ecosystems},

volume = {24},

number = {8},

pages = {1853–1874},

publisher = {Springer US},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{santos2021pyrolysis,

title = {Pyrolysis temperature and soil depth interactions determine PyC turnover and induced soil organic carbon priming},

author = {Fernanda Santos and David M Rice and Jeffrey A Bird and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Biogeochemistry},

volume = {153},

pages = {47–65},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{belle2021key,

title = {Key drivers of pyrogenic carbon redistribution during a simulated rainfall event},

author = {Severin-Luca Bellè and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Frank Hagedorn and Cristina Santin and Marcus Schiedung and Ilja Meerveld and Samuel Abiven},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Biogeosciences},

volume = {18},

number = {3},

pages = {1105–1126},

publisher = {Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{alcantara2021reflections,

title = {Reflections on Earth surface research},

author = {Irasema Alcántara-Ayala and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Louis Derry and Vamsi Ganti and Alice A Horton and Min Sub Sim},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Nature Reviews Earth & Environment},

volume = {2},

number = {1},

pages = {15–20},

publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK London},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}