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2025

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Ecology and Evolution

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102
Citations
39270
World Ranking
254
National Ranking
108

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Donald R. Zak is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science.

The subfields of study in which they have contributed include Plant Science, Insect Science, Ecology, Soil Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Their main research topics cover areas such as Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, as well as Estrogen and related hormone effects.

The scientist's recent publications reflect these interests. Notable papers include:

  • Decay by ectomycorrhizal fungi couples soil organic matter to nitrogen availability, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Ectomycorrhizal access to organic nitrogen mediates CO2 fertilization response in a dominant temperate tree, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Ectomycorrhizal fungal decay traits along a soil nitrogen gradient, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Coupled Shifts in Ectomycorrhizal Communities and Plant Uptake of Organic Nitrogen Along a Soil Gradient: An Isotopic Perspective, 2021, Ecosystems
  • Differences in rhizosphere microbial communities between native and non-native Phragmites australis may depend on stand density, 2020, Ecology and Evolution

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Rima A. Upchurch
  • Peter T. Pellitier
  • William A. Argiroff
  • Inés Ibáñez
  • Brooke E. Propson

Publication venues where the scientist has published multiple times include:

  • Ecosphere
  • Plant-Environment Interactions
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology Letters

Donald R. Zak was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Christian L. Lauber;Michael N. Weintraub;Bony Ahmed

  • The effects of long term nitrogen deposition on extracellular enzyme activity in an Acer saccharum forest soil

    K.R Saiya-Cork;R.L Sinsabaugh;D.R Zak

  • PLANT DIVERSITY, SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES, AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: ARE THERE ANY LINKS?

    Donald R. Zak;William E. Holmes;David C. White;Aaron D. Peacock

  • Progressive Nitrogen Limitation of Ecosystem Responses to Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

    Yiqi Luo;Bo Su;William S. Currie;Jeffrey S. Dukes

  • Compositional and functional shifts in microbial communities due to soil warming

    Gregory P. Zogg;Donald R. Zak;David B. Ringelberg;David C. White

  • Elevated atmospheric CO2 and feedback between carbon and nitrogen cycles

    Donald R. Zak;Kurt S. Pregitzer;Peter S. Curtis;James A. Teeri

  • Ecological Lessons from Free-Air CO 2 Enrichment (FACE) Experiments

    Richard J. Norby;Donald R. Zak

  • Elevated atmospheric CO2, fine roots and the response of soil microorganisms: a review and hypothesis

    Donald R. Zak;Kurt S. Pregitzer;John S. King;William E. Holmes

  • Simulated chronic nitrogen deposition increases carbon storage in Northern Temperate forests

    Kurt S. Pregitzer;Andrew J. Burton;Donald R. Zak;Alan F. Talhelm

  • NITROGEN DEPOSITION MODIFIES SOIL CARBON STORAGE THROUGH CHANGES IN MICROBIAL ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY

    Mark P. Waldrop;Donald R. Zak;Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Marcy Gallo

  • Variation in sugar maple root respiration with root diameter and soil depth

    Kurt S. Pregitzer;Michele J. Laskowski;Andrew J. Burton;Veronica C. Lessard

  • PLANT PRODUCTION AND SOIL MICROORGANISMS IN LATE-SUCCESSIONAL ECOSYSTEMS: A CONTINENTAL-SCALE STUDY'

    Donald R. Zak;David Tilman;Robert R. Parmenter;Charles W. Rice

  • Mercury isotopes in a forested ecosystem: Implications for air‐surface exchange dynamics and the global mercury cycle

    Jason D. Demers;Joel D. Blum;Donald R. Zak

  • Landscape-Level Patterns of Microbial Community Composition and Substrate Use in Upland Forest Ecosystems

    Rachel T. Myers;Donald R. Zak;David C. White;Aaron Peacock

  • Extracellular enzyme activities and soil organic matter dynamics for northern hardwood forests receiving simulated nitrogen deposition

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Marcy E. Gallo;Christian Lauber;Mark P. Waldrop

  • Atmospheric Nitrate Deposition, Microbial Community Composition, and Enzyme Activity in Northern Hardwood Forests

    Jared L. DeForest;Donald R. Zak;Kurt S. Pregitzer;Andrew J. Burton

  • Increases in nitrogen uptake rather than nitrogen-use efficiency support higher rates of temperate forest productivity under elevated CO2

    Adrien C. Finzi;Richard J. Norby;Carlo Calfapietra;Anne Gallet-Budynek

  • Atmospheric CO2, soil nitrogen and turnover of fine roots

    Kurt S. Pregitzer;Donald R. Zak;Peter S. Curtis;Mark E. Kubiske

  • Microbial community response to nitrogen deposition in northern forest ecosystems

    Mark P Waldrop;Donald R Zak;Robert L Sinsabaugh

  • THE VERNAL DAM: PLANT-MICROBE COMPETITION FOR NITROGEN IN NORTHERN HARDWOOD FORESTS'

    Donald R. Zak;Peter M. Groffman;Kurt S. Pregitzer;Soren Christensen

  • Dynamics of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae during old field succession.

    Nancy Collins Johnson;Donald R. Zak;David Tilman;F. L. Pfleger

Frequent Co-Authors

Kurt S. Pregitzer
Kurt S. Pregitzer University of Idaho
Andrew J. Burton
Andrew J. Burton Michigan Technological University
Peter S. Curtis
Peter S. Curtis The Ohio State University
Mark E. Kubiske
Mark E. Kubiske US Forest Service
Robert L. Sinsabaugh
Robert L. Sinsabaugh University of New Mexico
John S. King
John S. King North Carolina State University
Mark P. Waldrop
Mark P. Waldrop United States Geological Survey
Richard J. Norby
Richard J. Norby University of Tennessee at Knoxville
James A. Teeri
James A. Teeri University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David F. Karnosky
David F. Karnosky Michigan Technological University

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