Research Publications
Kosmacher, GK, D Max, Z Rapti, CE Cáceres, and TES Merrill. (2026) 2026. “The Role of Host Immunity and the Environment in Seasonal Disease Dynamics”. BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY 88 (2). doi:10.1007/s11538-025-01582-3.
Black, B, XJ Walker, LT Berner, J Dean, SJ Goetz, Winslow D. Hansen, S Potter, BM Rogers, AC Talucci, and MC Mack. 2026. “Increased Deciduous Tree Dominance Reduces Wildfire Carbon Losses in Boreal Forests”. NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE 16 (2). doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02539-z.
Rothman, SE, Shannon L. LaDeau, and Paul T Leisnham. (2026) 2026. “Plant Communities Differ Along Socioeconomic Gradients in Baltimore, MD, and Washington, DC”. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 14. doi:10.3389/fevo.2026.1623853.
Williams, A, Winslow D. Hansen, C Juang, J Abatzoglou, , BW Wang, Jazlynn Hall, J Buch, and G Madakumbura. 2026. “The Western United States Large Forest-Fire Stochastic Simulator (WULFFSS) 1.0: A Monthly Gridded Forest-Fire Model Using Interpretable Statistics”. GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT 19 (3): 1157-1191,. doi:10.5194/gmd-19-1157-2026.
Hale, RL, K Capps, Elizabeth M. Cook, and R Scarlett. (2026) 2026. “Transformative Adaptation Needed to Break Cycles of Inequitable Urban Flood Management”. NATURE WATER 4 (2): 147-157,. doi:10.1038/s44221-025-00569-7.
Freeze-Thaw Events and Nitric Oxide, Nitrous Oxide, and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in a US Corn Belt Soil
Groffman, Peter M., LD Martel, JE Hickman, M Miles, JE Maul, A Suyker, and T Awada. (2026) 2026. “Freeze-Thaw Events and Nitric Oxide, Nitrous Oxide, and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in a US Corn Belt Soil”. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES 131 (2). doi:10.1029/2025JG009254.
Washington, BN, Peter M. Groffman, JM Duncan, LE Band, and AJ Miller. (2026) 2025. “Long-Term Changes in Riparian Connectivity and Groundwater Chemistry in an Urban Watershed”. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 54 (1): 257-274,. doi:10.1002/jeq2.20654.
Groffman, Peter M. (2026) 2025. “A ‘Golden Moment’ for Soils and Society Presents Challenges and Opportunities for Soil Science”. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE 76 (1). doi:10.1111/ejss.70035.
Fulweiler, RW, ME Berberich, SA Rinehart, JM Taylor, MC Kelly, NE Ray, A Oczkowski, et al. (2026) 2025. “A Global Dataset of Nitrogen Fixation Rates across Inland and Coastal Waters”. LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY LETTERS 10 (3): 412-429,. doi:10.1002/lol2.10459.
Howe, J, S Merchant, WJ Hernández, J Pessutti, and Peter M. Groffman. (2026) 2025. “Assessing Mangrove Canopy Height and Health Changes in Puerto Rico Post-Hurricane Maria Using Remote-Sensing Techniques”. ECOSPHERE 16 (3). doi:10.1002/ecs2.70226.
Possinger, AR, CT Driscoll, MB Green, TJ Fahey, CE Johnson, MMK Koppers, LD Martel, et al. (2026) 2025. “Increasing Soil Respiration in a Northern Hardwood Forest Indicates Symptoms of a Changing Carbon Cycle”. COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT 6 (1). doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02405-y.
Alfonso, VM, Peter M. Groffman, ZQ Cheng, and DE Seidemann. (2026) 2025. “Ancient Clays Support Contemporary Biogeochemical Activity in the Critical Zone”. BIOGEOSCIENCES 22 (13): 3357-3373,. doi:10.5194/bg-22-3357-2025.
Egendorf, SP, M Deeb, B Singer, N Flores, M Prefer, ZQ Cheng, and Peter M. Groffman. (2026) 2025. “Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in an Urban Constructed Technosol: The Artist-Led Carbon Sponge Pilot Study”. GEODERMA 460. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117422.
Howe, J, Peter M. Groffman, WJ Hernández, and S Merchant. (2026) 2025. “Heavy Metal Contamination and Blue Carbon Sequestration in Mangrove Ecosystems of Puerto Rico”. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 54 (6): 2037-2047,. doi:10.1002/jeq2.70078.
Wilson, Geoffrey F., Peter M. Groffman, LD Martel, MB Green, CT Driscoll, J Durán, PH Templer, and M Fisk. (2026) 2025. “Changes in Soil Moisture and Its Relationships With Nitrogen Cycle Processes in a Northern Hardwood Forest”. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH 55. doi:10.1139/cjfr-2025-0043.
Begum, K, ZQ Cheng, GNV Pizarro, MEV Luna, B Fleming, A Price, JV García, et al. (2026) 2025. “Total and Labile Carbon and Nitrogen in Anthropogenic and Native Soils of New York City”. SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL 89 (5). doi:10.1002/saj2.70121.
Merrill, TES, and Pieter T J Johnson. 2025. “Advancing Theory Underlying Diversity-Disease Relationships: Competence in the Context of Life History, Demography, and Disease”. Integr Comp Biol 65 (2): 362-375,. doi:10.1093/icb/icaf077.
Integrating host condition into spatiotemporal multiscale models improves virus shedding predictions
Kramer, Andrew M., Christina L. Faust, Adrian A. Castellanos, Ilya R. Fischhoff, Alison J. Peel, Peggy Eby, Manuel Ruiz-Aravena, Benny Borremans, Raina K. Plowright, and Barbara A. Han. (2025) 2025. “Integrating Host Condition into Spatiotemporal Multiscale Models Improves Virus Shedding Predictions”. Ecography 2025 (9). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: e07784+. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.07784.
Lagergren, John H., Manuel Ruiz-Aravena, Daniel J. Becker, Wyatt G. Madden, Lib Ruytenberg, Andrew Hoegh, Barbara A. Han, et al. 2025. “Environmental and Ecological Signals Predict Food Shortages for Subtropical Populations of Australian Flying Foxes, Reservoirs of Hendra Virus”. Biol Lett 21 (12): 20250371+. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2025.0371.
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, York State Energy Research and Development, and Jane M. Lucas. (2025) 2025. “Measuring Soil Health and Carbon Storage on New York State Solar Photovoltaic Developments, Final Report”. NYSERDA Report. Albany, NY: NYSERDA. https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/-/media/Project/Nyserda/Files/Publications/Research/Environmental/25-27-Measuring-Soil-Health-and-Carbon-Storage-NY-Solar-PV-Development.pdf.
Sloyer, K, DM Aguiar, RV Barros, Adrian Castellanos, Barbara A. Han, KA Hanley, and N Vasilakis. (2026) 2025. “ISLANDS IN THE STREAM: IMPACT OF FLOOD-INDUCED LANDSCAPE CHANGES ON MOSQUITO COMMUNITY COMPOSITION IN THE BRAZILIAN PANTANAL, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR ARBOVIRUS TRANSMISSION”. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE 112 (6).
Lucas, Jane M., ML Budny, and NP Lemoine. (2026) 2025. “Consumers Stabilize Grassland Ecosystem Functions by Destabilizing Belowground Communities under Abiotic Stress”. ECOLOGY 106 (11). doi:10.1002/ecy.70254.
Garlick, S, JC Besley, K Peterman, A Black-Maier, MR Downs, EO Franco, Peter M. Groffman, et al. (2026) 2025. “Six Elements of Effective Public Engagement With Science”. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 23 (10). doi:10.1002/fee.70014.
Drake, JM, J Bahl, MA Cacciatore, A Ghadami, E Graeden, Barbara A. Han, G Nowak, et al. (2026) 2025. “Leveraging Systems-of-Systems Analysis to Strengthen Epidemic Intelligence for Preparedness and Response”. HEALTH SECURITY 23 (6): 400-410,. doi:10.1177/23265094251396048.
Kou-Giesbrecht, S, CRR Ely, SS Perakis, CC Cleveland, DNL Menge, SC Reed, BN Taylor, et al. (2026) 2025. “Overestimated Natural Biological Nitrogen Fixation Translates to an Exaggerated CO2 Fertilization Effect in Earth System Models”. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 122 (48). doi:10.1073/pnas.2514628122.
Souza, Y, Abbey R. Yatsko, R Constantino, and Amy Zanne. (2026) 2025. “The Influence of Dominant Habitats on Termite Species Diversity and Community Structure in the Brazilian Savanna”. AUSTRAL ECOLOGY 50 (12). doi:10.1111/aec.70154.
Medvigy, D, Evan M. Gora, and SP Yanoviak. (2026) 2025. “Compositional Acclimation Can Lessen Tropical Forest Change in Response to Increasing Lightning Frequency: Insights From Simulation Modeling”. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 31 (12). doi:10.1111/gcb.70635.
LaDeau, Shannon L., Kelly M. Oggenfuss, A Schmidt, S Thangamani, and Richard S. Ostfeld. (2026) 2025. “Ecological Dynamics of Blacklegged Ticks, Vertebrate Hosts, and Associated Zoonotic Pathogens in Northeastern Forests”. ECOSPHERE 16 (12). doi:10.1002/ecs2.70508.
Araujo, Raquel Fernandes, Evan M. Gora, Carlos H. S. Celes, Stephen P. Yanoviak, and Helene C. Muller-Landau. (2025) 2025. “Quantifying Patterns of Lightning-Caused Canopy Disturbances via Integration of Drone Imagery and Field Surveys”. Biotropica 57 (5). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: e70083+. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70083.
O’Connor, Lauren E., Jennifer J. Guerard, Emma J. Rosi, and Yu-Ping Chin. (2025) 2025. “Chlorpyrifos Selectively Alters Fluvial Dissolved Organic Carbon Composition and Ecosystem Dynamics”. Science of The Total Environment 999: 180320+. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180320.
Drake, John M., and Barbara A. Han. 2025. “How to Write a Scientific Paper in Fifteen Steps”. Computational Biology 21 (9). Public Library of Science: e1013505+. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013505.
Petticord, Daniel F., Benjamin T. Uveges, Elizabeth H. Boughton, Brian D. Strahm, and Jed P. Sparks. 2025. “Spatial Decoupling of Biological and Geochemical Phosphorus Cycling in Podzolized Soils”. Soil Systems 9 (4). doi:10.3390/soilsystems9040115.
Bernhardt, Emily S., Emma J. Rosi, Christopher T. Solomon, John Campbell, Charles T. Driscoll, Mark B. Green, Gene E. Likens, and William H. McDowell. (2025) 2025. “Forest Recovery After Deforestation Is Fueled by Mineral Weathering at the Expense of Ecosystem Buffering Capacity”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (42). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: e2419123122+. doi:10.1073/pnas.2419123122.
Esperon-Rodriguez, Manuel, Stefan Arndt, Michael Osei Asibey, Benno Andreas Augustinus, Albert Bach, Monica Ballinas, Victor L. Barradas, et al. (2025) 2025. “Urban Forests As Essential Infrastructure for Climate Resilience and Biodiversity: A Call to Policymakers”. PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET n/a (n/a). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70125.
Fleischmann, Ayan Santos, Fabrice Papa, Stephen K. Hamilton, John Melack, Bruce Forsberg, Adalberto Val, Walter Collischonn, et al. (2025) 2025. “Extreme Warming of Amazon Waters in a Changing Climate”. Science 390 (6773). American Association for the Advancement of Science: 606-611,. doi:10.1126/science.adr4029.
Maavara, Taylor, Zimin Yuan, Andrew M. Johnson, Shuang Zhang, Kelly S. Aho, Craig B. Brinkerhoff, Laura A. Logozzo, and Peter Raymond. (2025) 2025. “River Metabolism in the Contiguous United States: A West of Extremes”. Science 390 (6773). American Association for the Advancement of Science: 622-627,. doi:10.1126/science.adu9843.
Roth, AM, , MA Rodriguez, J Lapierre, JS Schacht, S Sharma, MM Aqdam, et al. (2025) 2025. “Differential Effects of Freshwater Browning across Fish Species: Consequences for Individual- to Community-Level Fish Traits in North Temperate Lakes”. BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS. doi:10.1111/brv.70074.
Liu, MD, CZ Zhou, QR Zhang, PA Raymond, XL Li, RP Mason, Taylor Maavara, et al. (2025) 2025. “Fish Trawling and Climate Perturbations Threaten the Largest Marine Mercury Sink”. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY. doi:10.1038/s41893-025-01642-5.
Altamirano, TA, FJ Novoa, Z Von Bernath, A Vermehren, K Martin, R Jara, ER Price, Ricardo Rozzi, and JT Ibarra. (2026) 2025. “Linking Habitat Preferences and Fitness across Scales for a Relict Bird Species of the Southern Andes”. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 15 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-025-93594-1.
Green, MB, JL Campbell, Danielle Hare, G Higgins, AG Russell, Christopher T. Solomon, and CT Driscoll. (2026) 2025. “A Sudden Increase in the Concentration of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Precipitation at a Northeastern US Forest”. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES 130 (20). doi:10.1029/2025JD043488.