Publications

Published

• A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry

  Zhen Li , William J. Riley, Gianna L. Marschmann, Ulas Karaoz, Ian A. Shirley, Qiong Wu, Nicholas J. Bouskill, Kuang-Yu Chang, Patrick M. Crill, Robert F. Grant, Eric King, Scott R. Saleska, Matthew B. Sullivan, Jinyun Tang, Ruth K. Varner, Ben J. Woodcroft, Kelly C. Wrighton, EMERGE Coordinators, Eoin L. Brodie (2025). Nature Communications [HTML]

• On the relationship between methane production in anaerobic incubations of peat materials and in-situ methane emissions

  Alexandra B. Cory, Rachel M. Wilson, Olivia C. Ogles, Patrick M. Crill, Zhen Li, Kuang-Yu Chang, Samantha H. Bosman, EMERGE Project Coordinators, Isogenie Field Team, Virginia I. Rich, and Jeffrey P. Chanton (2025). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences [HTML]

• Unraveling the Depth-Dependent Causal Dynamics of Methanogenesis and Methanotrophy in a High-Latitude Fen Peatland

  Shuai Yang, Jinyun Tang, Zhen Li, Kunxiaojia Yuan, Qiong Wu, Kuang-Yu Chang, Suzanne Hodgkins, Rachel M. Wilson, Qing Zhu, Robert Grant, William J. Riley, Scott Saleska, Virginia I. Rich, Ruth K. Varner (2025). Environmental Research Letters [HTML]

• Microbial Ecology of Permafrost Soils: Populations, Processes, and Perspectives

  Mark P. Waldrop, Jessica Gilman Ernakovich, Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya, Sean R. Schaefer, Rachel Mackelprang, Jiri Barta, …, Zhen Li, … and T. C. Onstott (2025). Permafrost and Periglacial Processes [HTML]

• Soil incubation methods lead to large differences in inferred methane production temperature sensitivity

  Zhen Li, Robert F. Grant, Kuang-Yu Chang, Suzanne B. Hodgkins, Jinyun Tang, Alexandra Cory, Zelalem A. Mekonnen, Scott R. Saleska, Eoin L. Brodie, Ruth K.Varner, Virginia I.Rich, Rachel M. Wilson, Jeff P. Chanton, Patrick Crill, William J. Riley (2024). Environmental Research Letter [HTML].

• The effect of the top soil layer on moisture and evaporation dynamics

  Zhen Li, Jan Vanderborght, and Kathleen M. Smits (2020). _Vadose Zone Journal _ [HTML].

• Accounting for temperature effects on the performance of soil moisture sensors in sandy soils

  Michelle Schwartz, Zhen Li, Toshihiro Sakaki, Ali Moradi, Kathleen Smits. (2020). Soil Science Society of America Journal [HTML]

• Evaluation of model concepts to describe water transport in shallow subsurface soil and across the soil–air interface

  Zhen Li, Jan Vanderborght, and Kathleen M. Smits (2019). _Transport in porous media _ [HTML]