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Overview

Albert Barberán is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The subfields of study that Barberán contributes to include Ecology, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Soil Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Their work covers several main topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Gut Microbiota and Health, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Barberán has published numerous papers in a variety of scientific venues, with a frequent presence in Frontiers in Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Biological Invasions, Restoration Ecology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Their recent publications demonstrate a focus on microbial ecology and environmental interactions, including:

  • Life-history strategies of soil microbial communities in an arid ecosystem, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Dynamics of dark fermentation microbial communities in the light of lactate and butyrate production, 2021, Microbiome
  • Metagenomic insights into soil microbial communities involved in carbon cycling along an elevation climosequences, 2021, Environmental Microbiology
  • Seasonal niche differentiation among closely related marine bacteria, 2021, The ISME Journal
  • Nitrogen-induced acidification plays a vital role driving ecosystem functions: Insights from a 6-year nitrogen enrichment experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Barberán has collaborated extensively with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including Yongjian Chen, Elise S. Gornish, Julia W. Neilson, Raina M. Maier, and Daniel Laubitz. These collaborations have contributed to a broad range of studies related to microbial communities and environmental processes.

Best Publications

  • Using network analysis to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities

    Albert Barberán;Scott T Bates;Emilio O Casamayor;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer

  • Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

    Jonathan W. Leff;Stuart E. Jones;Suzanne M. Prober;Albert Barberán

  • Long-term nitrogen fertilization decreases bacterial diversity and favors the growth of Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria in agro-ecosystems across the globe

    Zhongmin Dai;Weiqin Su;Huaihai Chen;Albert Barberán

  • Global ecological patterns in uncultured Archaea.

    Jean-Christophe Auguet;Albert Barberan;Emilio O Casamayor

  • Continental-scale distributions of dust-associated bacteria and fungi

    Albert Barberán;Joshua Ladau;Jonathan W. Leff;Katherine S. Pollard

  • Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally

    Kelly S. Ramirez;Jonathan W. Leff;Albert Barberán;Scott Thomas Bates

  • Why are some microbes more ubiquitous than others? Predicting the habitat breadth of soil bacteria

    Albert Barberán;Kelly S. Ramirez;Jonathan W. Leff;Jonathan W. Leff;Mark A. Bradford

  • The ecology of microscopic life in household dust

    Albert Barberán;Robert R. Dunn;Robert R. Dunn;Brian J. Reich;Krishna Pacifici

  • Relating belowground microbial composition to the taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional trait distributions of trees in a tropical forest

    Albert Barberán;Krista L. McGuire;Jeffrey A. Wolf;Jeffrey A. Wolf;F. Andrew Jones;F. Andrew Jones

  • Life-history strategies of soil microbial communities in an arid ecosystem.

    Yongjian Chen;Julia W Neilson;Priyanka Kushwaha;Raina M Maier

  • Global phylogenetic community structure and β-diversity patterns in surface bacterioplankton metacommunities

    Albert Barberán;Emilio O. Casamayor

  • Seeing the forest for the genes: using metagenomics to infer the aggregated traits of microbial communities

    Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer;Albert Barberán;Daniel C. Laughlin

  • Consistent Changes in the Taxonomic Structure and Functional Attributes of Bacterial Communities During Primary Succession

    Rüdiger Ortiz-Álvarez;Noah Fierer;Asunción de los Ríos;Emilio O. Casamayor

  • The microbial contribution to macroecology.

    Albert Barberán;Emilio O. Casamayor;Noah Fierer

  • Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information

    Albert Barberán;Hildamarie Caceres Velazquez;Stuart Jones;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer

  • Structure, inter-annual recurrence, and global-scale connectivity of airborne microbial communities

    Albert Barberán;Jessica B. Henley;Noah Fierer;Emilio O. Casamayor

  • Metagenomic insights into soil microbial communities involved in carbon cycling along an elevation climosequences.

    Zhongmin Dai;Huadong Zang;Jie Chen;Yingyi Fu

  • Exploration of community traits as ecological markers in microbial metagenomes

    Albert Barberán;Antoni Fernández-Guerra;Brendan J. M. Bohannan;Emilio O. Casamayor

  • Using null models to infer microbial co-occurrence networks.

    Nora Connor;Albert Barberán;Aaron Clauset;Aaron Clauset

  • Seasonal niche differentiation among closely related marine bacteria

    Adrià Auladell;Albert Barberán;Ramiro Logares;Esther Garcés

  • Fungi identify the geographic origin of dust samples.

    Neal S. Grantham;Brian J. Reich;Krishna Pacifici;Eric B. Laber

Frequent Co-Authors

Noah Fierer
Noah Fierer University of Colorado Boulder
Emilio O. Casamayor
Emilio O. Casamayor Spanish National Research Council
Robert R. Dunn
Robert R. Dunn North Carolina State University
A. Murat Eren
A. Murat Eren Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Jonathan W. Leff
Jonathan W. Leff University of Colorado Boulder
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner Jacobs University
Robert D. Finn
Robert D. Finn European Bioinformatics Institute
Silvia G. Acinas
Silvia G. Acinas Spanish National Research Council
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Diana H. Wall
Diana H. Wall Colorado State University

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