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Binu M. Tripathi is affiliated with West Virginia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with focused contributions to related subfields such as Ecology, Soil Science, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

Their work addresses a range of topics including microbial community ecology and physiology, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, gut microbiota and health, peatlands and wetlands ecology, polar research and ecology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and the application of environmental DNA in biodiversity studies.

Tripathi has contributed scholarly articles to several publication venues. Noteworthy frequent publishing outlets include:

  • Global Change Biology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mSystems
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Significant recent papers by Tripathi feature studies on soil bacterial community assembly and ecological processes in coastal wetlands and other environments. Selected papers include:

  • Distinct Community Assembly Processes of Abundant and Rare Soil Bacteria in Coastal Wetlands along an Inundation Gradient, 2020, mSystems
  • Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling, 2022, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Plant Compartments and Developmental Stages Modulate the Balance between Niche-Based and Neutral Processes in Soybean Microbiome, 2021, Microbial Ecology
  • Dramatic change of bacterial assembly process and co-occurrence pattern in Spartina alterniflora salt marsh along an inundation frequency gradient, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Changes in the composition of soil bacterial and fungal communities after revegetation with Caragana microphylla in a desertified semiarid grassland, 2020, Journal of Arid Environments

Frequent collaborators in Tripathi's work include the following researchers:

  • Jonathan M. Adams
  • Ke Dong
  • Priyanka Kumari
  • Mincheol Kim
  • Itumeleng Moroenyane

Best Publications

  • Soil pH mediates the balance between stochastic and deterministic assembly of bacteria

    Binu M. Tripathi;James C. Stegen;Mincheol Kim;Ke Dong

  • Salinity Is a Key Determinant for Soil Microbial Communities in a Desert Ecosystem.

    Kaoping Zhang;Yu Shi;Xiaoqing Cui;Ping Yue

  • Tropical soil bacterial communities in Malaysia: pH dominates in the Equatorial Tropics too

    Binu Mani Tripathi;Mincheol Kim;Dharmesh Singh;Larisa Lee-Cruz

  • Bacterial community dissimilarity between the surface and subsurface soils equals horizontal differences over several kilometers in the western Tibetan Plateau

    Haiyan Chu;Huaibo Sun;Binu M. Tripathi;Jonathan M. Adams

  • Impact of logging and forest conversion to oil palm plantations on soil bacterial communities in Borneo.

    Larisa Lee-Cruz;David P. Edwards;David P. Edwards;Binu M. Tripathi;Jonathan M. Adams

  • Soil pH and biome are both key determinants of soil archaeal community structure

    Binu Mani Tripathi;Mincheol Kim;Ryunosuke Tateno;Woosung Kim

  • pH dominates variation in tropical soil archaeal diversity and community structure.

    Binu M. Tripathi;Mincheol Kim;Ang Lai-Hoe;Nor A.A. Shukor

  • The impact of tropical forest logging and oil palm agriculture on the soil microbiome.

    Binu M. Tripathi;David P. Edwards;Lucas William Mendes;Mincheol Kim

  • Distinct Community Assembly Processes of Abundant and Rare Soil Bacteria in Coastal Wetlands along an Inundation Gradient.

    Gui-Feng Gao;Dan Peng;Binu M. Tripathi;Yihui Zhang

  • Microbiome Variation Across Amphibian Skin Regions: Implications for Chytridiomycosis Mitigation Efforts

    Arnaud Bataille;Larisa Lee-Cruz;Binu Mani Tripathi;Hyoki Kim

  • Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling

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  • Rainforest Conversion to Rubber Plantation May Not Result in Lower Soil Diversity of Bacteria, Fungi, and Nematodes

    Dorsaf Kerfahi;Binu Mani Tripathi;Ke Dong;Rusea Go

  • Shallow Water Marine Sediment Bacterial Community Shifts Along a Natural CO2 Gradient in the Mediterranean Sea Off Vulcano, Italy

    Dorsaf Kerfahi;Jason M. Hall-Spencer;Binu Mani Tripathi;Marco Milazzo

  • Variations in bacterial and archaeal communities along depth profiles of Alaskan soil cores

    Binu Mani Tripathi;Mincheol Kim;Yongwon Kim;Eunji Byun;Eunji Byun

  • Interpreting distance-decay pattern of soil bacteria via quantifying the assembly processes at multiple spatial scales.

    Maomao Feng;Binu M Tripathi;Yu Shi;Jonathan M Adams

  • Effects of functionalized and raw multi-walled carbon nanotubes on soil bacterial community composition.

    Dorsaf Kerfahi;Binu M. Tripathi;Dharmesh Singh;Hyoki Kim

  • Bacterial strategies along nutrient and time gradients, revealed by metagenomic analysis of laboratory microcosms.

    Ho-Kyung Song;Woojin Song;Mincheol Kim;Binu M. Tripathi

  • The impact of selective-logging and forest clearance for oil palm on fungal communities in Borneo.

    Dorsaf Kerfahi;Binu M. Tripathi;Junghoon Lee;David P. Edwards

  • Distinct Bacterial Communities Dominate Tropical and Temperate Zone Leaf Litter

    Mincheol Kim;Woo-Sung Kim;Binu Mani Tripathi;Jonathan M. Adams

  • Trends in Taxonomic and Functional Composition of Soil Microbiome Along a Precipitation Gradient in Israel

    Binu Mani Tripathi;Itumeleng Moroenyane;Chen Sherman;Yoo Kyung Lee

  • Distinctive Tropical Forest Variants Have Unique Soil Microbial Communities, But Not Always Low Microbial Diversity.

    Binu M. Tripathi;Woojin Song;J. W. F. Slik;Rahayu S. Sukri

  • Do tropical rain forest soils have greater nematode diversity than High Arctic tundra? A metagenetic comparison of Malaysia and Svalbard

    Dorsaf Kerfahi;Binu M. Tripathi;Dorota L. Porazinska;Jungok Park

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan M. Adams
Jonathan M. Adams Nanjing University
Yosef Steinberger
Yosef Steinberger Bar-Ilan University
Anil Kumar Saxena
Anil Kumar Saxena Indian Council of Agricultural Research
J. W. Ferry Slik
J. W. Ferry Slik Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Dorota L. Porazinska
Dorota L. Porazinska University of Florida
Ryunosuke Tateno
Ryunosuke Tateno Kyoto University
Bruce Waldman
Bruce Waldman Oklahoma State University
Jongsik Chun
Jongsik Chun Seoul National University
Jun Yu
Jun Yu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yong-Guan Zhu
Yong-Guan Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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