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Ecology and Evolution

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54
Citations
24877
World Ranking
3048
National Ranking
1070

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2017 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Jennifer B. H. Martiny is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on microbial ecology and related fields.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of microbial community ecology, particularly examining microbial diversity, gene expression, and the interactions of microbes with their environments. Their main topics of work include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

The primary fields of study they publish in are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields that characterize their research contributions include:

  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Soil Science
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • General Health Professions

Jennifer B. H. Martiny's frequent coauthors include:

  • Claudia Weihe
  • Steven Allison
  • Eoin Brodie
  • Alexander B. Chase
  • Adam C. Martiny

Their publications often appear in the following scientific journals:

  • The ISME Journal
  • mSystems
  • mBio
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Microbiology

Some recent papers by Jennifer B. H. Martiny include:

  • Alpha-, beta-, and gamma-diversity of bacteria varies across habitats (2020) in PLoS ONE
  • Drought and plant litter chemistry alter microbial gene expression and metabolite production (2020) in The ISME Journal
  • High-Fiber, Whole-Food Dietary Intervention Alters the Human Gut Microbiome but Not Fecal Short-Chain Fatty Acids (2021) in mSystems
  • Adaptive differentiation and rapid evolution of a soil bacterium along a climate gradient (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Life history strategies of soil bacterial communities across global terrestrial biomes (2023) in Nature Microbiology

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020 and as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Microbial biogeography : putting microorganisms on the map

    Jennifer B.Hughes Martiny;Brendan J.M. Bohannan;James H. Brown;Robert K. Colwell

  • Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities

    Steven D. Allison;Jennifer B. H. Martiny

  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Microorganisms and Climate Change

    Ricardo Cavicchioli;William J. Ripple;Kenneth N. Timmis;Farooq Azam

  • Beyond biogeographic patterns: processes shaping the microbial landscape

    China A. Hanson;Jed A. Fuhrman;M. Claire Horner-Devine;Jennifer B. H. Martiny

  • Fundamentals of microbial community resistance and resilience

    Ashley Shade;Hannes Peter;Steven D. Allison;Didier L. Baho

  • The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification.

    Dawn Field;George Garrity;Tanya Gray;Norman Morrison

  • Defining trait-based microbial strategies with consequences for soil carbon cycling under climate change

    Ashish A. Malik;Jennifer B. H. Martiny;Eoin L. Brodie;Eoin L. Brodie;Adam C. Martiny

  • Microbiomes in light of traits: A phylogenetic perspective.

    Jennifer B. H. Martiny;Stuart E. Jones;Jay T. Lennon;Adam C. Martiny

  • Drivers of bacterial β-diversity depend on spatial scale

    Jennifer B. H. Martiny;Jonathan A. Eisen;Kevin Penn;Steven D. Allison

  • Global patterns of bacterial beta-diversity in seafloor and seawater ecosystems.

    Lucie Zinger;Linda A. Amaral-Zettler;Jed A. Fuhrman;M. Claire Horner-Devine

  • Global biogeography of microbial nitrogen-cycling traits in soil

    Michaeline B. Nelson;Adam C. Martiny;Jennifer B. H. Martiny

  • Microbial abundance and composition influence litter decomposition response to environmental change

    Steven D. Allison;Ying Lu;Claudia Weihe;Michael L. Goulden

  • Effects of dispersal and selection on stochastic assembly in microbial communities

    Sarah Evans;Jennifer B H Martiny;Steven D Allison

  • Decomposition responses to climate depend on microbial community composition.

    Sydney I Glassman;Sydney I Glassman;Claudia Weihe;Junhui Li;Michaeline B N Albright;Michaeline B N Albright

  • A COMPARISON OF TAXON CO-OCCURRENCE PATTERNS FOR MACRO- AND MICROORGANISMS

    M. Claire Horner-Devine;Jessica M. Silver;Mathew A. Leibold;Brendan J.M. Bohannan

  • Broadscale Ecological Patterns Are Robust to Use of Exact Sequence Variants versus Operational Taxonomic Units.

    Sydney I. Glassman;Sydney I. Glassman;Jennifer B. H. Martiny

  • Testing the functional significance of microbial composition in natural communities.

    Heather E. Reed;Jennifer B. H. Martiny

  • Rapid diversification of coevolving marine Synechococcus and a virus

    Marcia F. Marston;Francis J. Pierciey;Alicia Shepard;Gary Gearin

  • Patterns of fungal diversity and composition along a salinity gradient

    Devon J Mohamed;Jennifer B H Martiny

  • Alpha-, beta-, and gamma-diversity of bacteria varies across habitats.

    Kendra E. Walters;Jennifer B. H. Martiny

  • It's all relative: ranking the diversity of aquatic bacterial communities

    Allison K. Shaw;Aaron L. Halpern;Karen Beeson;Bao Tran

Frequent Co-Authors

Eoin L. Brodie
Eoin L. Brodie Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Steven D. Allison
Steven D. Allison University of California, Irvine
Adam C. Martiny
Adam C. Martiny University of California, Irvine
Kathleen K. Treseder
Kathleen K. Treseder University of California, Irvine
Jed A. Fuhrman
Jed A. Fuhrman University of Southern California
Antje Boetius
Antje Boetius Max Planck Society
Alban Ramette
Alban Ramette University of Bern
Trent R. Northen
Trent R. Northen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael L. Goulden
Michael L. Goulden University of California, Irvine

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