Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications (lab members in bold)

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West, J.R., Lauer, J.G., Whitman, T. (2023) Tillage homogenizes soil bacterial communities in microaggregate fractions by facilitating dispersal. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 186, article 109181.

Johnson, D.B., Woolet, J., Yedinak, K.M., Whitman, T. (2023) Experimentally determined traits shape bacterial community composition one and five years following wildfire. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-13.

Neupane, A., Herndon, E.M., Whitman, T., Faiia, A.M., Jagadamma, S. (2023) Manganese effects on plant residue decomposition and carbon distribution in soil fractions depend on soil nitrogen availability. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 178, 108964.

West, J.R., Whitman, T. (2022) Disturbance by soil mixing decreases microbial richness and supports homogenizing community assembly processes. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 98 (9), fiac089

Whitman, T., Woolet, J., Sikora, M., Johnson, D.B., Whitman, E. (2022) Resilience in soil bacterial communities of the boreal forest from one to five years after wildfire across a severity gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 172, 108755

Whitman, T., Woolet, J., Sikora, M., Johnson, D.B., Whitman, E. (2022) Resilience in soil bacterial communities of the boreal forest from one to five years after wildfire across a severity gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 172, 108755

Woolet, J., Whitman, E., Parisien, M.-A., Thompson, D.K.,  Flannigan, M. D., Whitman, T. (2022). Effects of short-interval reburns in the boreal forest on soil bacterial communities compared to long-interval reburns, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Volume 98, Issue 8, fiac069, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiac069

Shuman, J.K, et al., (2022). Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene. PNAS Nexus, Volume 1, Issue 3.

Fremin, B.J., et al., (2022) Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes. Cell reports, 39.

Zeba, N., Berry, T.D., Panke-Buisse, K., Whitman, T. (2022) Effects of physical, chemical, and biological ageing on the mineralization of pine wood biochar by a Streptomyces isolate. Plos one 17 (4), e0265663.

Zhang, Y., Freedman, Z.B., Hartemink, A.E., Whitman, T, Huang, J. (2022) Characterizing soil microbial properties using MIR spectra across 12 ecoclimatic zones (NEON sites). Geoderma 409, 115647.

Lehmann, J., Cowie, A., Masiello, C.A. et al. Biochar in climate change mitigation. Nat. Geosci. 14, 883–892 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00852-8

Fischer, M.S., Stark, F.G., Berry, T.D., Zeba, N.,  Whitman, T., Traxler, M.F. (2021) Pyrolyzed substrates induce aromatic compound metabolism in the post-fire fungus, Pyronema domesticum. Frontiers in microbiology 12, 729289.

Berry, T.D., Creelman, C., Nickerson, N., Enders, A., Whitman, T. (2021). An open-source, automated, gas sampling peripheral for laboratory incubation experiments using cavity ring-down spectroscopy. HardwareX 10, e00208.

Rachel A Neurath, et al. (2021). Root carbon interaction with soil minerals is dynamic, leaving a legacy of microbially derived residues. Environmental Science & Technology 55 (19), 13345-13355

Braus, M.J., Swader, R., Petry, G., Whitman, T. (2010) Affordable diffusion microchamber array designs for isolating microbes in classrooms and laboratories. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education 22 (2), 10.1128/jmbe. 00131-21.

Braus, M. J.,  Whitman, T. (2021). Standard and non-standard measurements of acidity and the bacterial ecology of northern temperate mineral soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 160, 108323.

Whitman, T., DeCiucies, S., Hanley, K., Enders, A.,  Woolet, J., Lehmann, J. (2021). Microbial community shifts reflect losses of native soil carbon with pyrogenic and fresh organic matter additions and are greatest in low-carbon soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 87 (8), e02555-20

Chamberlain, L.A., Whitman, T.,  Ane, J.M., Diallo, T., Gaska, J.M., Lauer, J.G., et al. (2021) Corn-soybean rotation, tillage, and foliar fungicides: Impacts on yield and soil fungi. Field Crops Research 262, 108030

West, J.R., Cates, A.M., Ruark, M.D., Diess, L., Whitman, T., and Rui, Y. (2020) Winter rye does not increase microbial necromass contributions to soil organic carbon in continuous corn silage in North Central US. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 148, article 107899.

Woolet, J. and Whitman, T. (accepted, 2019) Pyrogenic organic matter effects on soil bacterial community composition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Whitman, T., Whitman, E., Woolet, J., Flannigan, M.D., Thompson, D.K., Parisien, M.-A. (2019) Soil bacterial and fungal response to wildfires in the Canadian boreal forest across a burn severity gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 138, 13pg.

Kranz, C. and Whitman, T. (2019) Surface charring from prescribed burning has minimal effects on soil bacterial community composition two weeks post-fire in jack pine barrens. Applied Soil Ecology, 144, 134-138.

Cates, A., Braus, M., Whitman, T., and Jackson, R. (2019) Separate drivers for microbial carbon mineralization and physical protection of carbon. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 133, 72-82.

Kranz, C. and Whitman, T. (2019) High-severity burning increases jack pine seedling biomass relative to low-severity prescribed fires. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 83, S141-S152.

Whitman, T., Neurath, R., Perera, A., Chu‐Jacoby, I., Ning, D., Zhou, J., Nico, P., Pett-Ridge, J., Firestone, M. (2018) Microbial community assembly differs across minerals in a rhizosphere microcosm. Environmental Microbiology.

DeCiucies, S., Whitman, T., Woolf, D., Enders, A., and Lehmann, J. (2018) Priming mechanisms with additions of pyrogenic organic matter to soil. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 238, 329-342.

Braus, M., Graham, L., and Whitman, T. (2017) Spatiotemporal dynamics of the bacterial microbiota on lacustrine Cladophora glomerata (Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology. 8p, 10.1111/jpy.12573

Willis, A., Bunge, J., and Whitman, T. (2017) Improved detection of changes in species richness in high-diversity microbial communities. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 66, 963-977.

Whitman, T., Pepe-Ranney, C., Enders, A., Koechli, C., Campbell, A., Buckley, D., and Lehmann, J. (2016) Dynamics of microbial community composition and soil organic carbon mineralization in soil following addition of pyrogenic and fresh organic matter. ISME J, 10, 2918-2930.

Whitman, T. and Lehmann, J. (2015) Three-source partitioning with two stable isotopes is a powerful tool for the biogeochemical toolbox. Nature Communications.

Dharmakeerthi, R.S., Hanley, K., Whitman, T., Woolf, D. & Lehmann, J. (2015) Organic carbon dynamics in soils with pyrogenic organic matter that received plant residue additions over seven years. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 88, 268-274.

Whitman, T., Zhu, Z. & Lehmann, J. (2014) Carbon mineralizability determines interactive effects on mineralization of pyrogenic organic matter and soil organic carbon. Environmental Science and Technology, 48, 13727-13734.

Whitman, T., Enders, A., Lehmann, J. (2014) Pyrogenic carbon additions counteract positive priming of soil carbon mineralization by plants. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 73, 33-41.

Whitman, T., Hanley, K., Enders, A., Lehmann, J. (2013) Black carbon labile fraction across production temperatures as related to its initial properties. Organic Geochemistry, 64: 76-83.

Enders, A., Hanley, K., Whitman, T., Joseph, S., Lehmann, J. (2012) Characterization of biochars to evaluate recalcitrance and agronomic performance. Bioresource Technology, 114, 644-653.

Whitman, T., Yanni, S.F., & Whalen, J.K. (2011) Life cycle assessment of corn stover production for cellulosic ethanol in Quebec. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 91(6): 997-1012.

Whitman, T., Nicholson, C.F., Torres, D., & Lehmann, J. (2011) Climate change impact of a biochar cook stove in western Kenyan farm households: system dynamics model analysis. Environmental Science and Technology, 45(8): 3687-3694. [model download]

Whitman, T. & Lehmann, J. (2011) Systematic under- and overestimation of GHG reductions in renewable biomass systems. Climatic Change, 104(2): 415-422.

Whitman, T., Scholz, S., & Lehmann, J. (2010) Biochar projects for mitigating climate change: an investigation of critical methodology issues for carbon accounting. Carbon Management, 1:89-107.

Whitman, T. & Aarssen, L.W. (2010) The leaf size/number trade-off in herbaceous angiosperms. Journal of Plant Ecology-UK, 3(1): 49-58.

Whitman, T. & Lehmann, J. (2009) Biochar – One way forward for soil carbon in offset mechanisms in Africa? Environmental Science and Policy, 12(7): 1024-1027.