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Jessica L. M. Gutknecht

Jessica L. M. Gutknecht

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
40
Citations
6175
World Ranking
8077
National Ranking
2896

Overview

Jessica L. M. Gutknecht is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in Environmental Science. Within these broader fields, their work extends into subfields including Soil Science, Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Plant Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics covered in their research include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Bioenergy Crop Production and Management, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Crop Yield and Soil Fertility, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Jessica L. M. Gutknecht has published papers in a range of scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Microbiome
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Gutknecht include:

  • "Priming mechanisms providing plants and microbes access to mineral-associated organic matter," 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Long-term nitrogen deposition enhances microbial capacities in soil carbon stabilization but reduces network complexity," 2022, Microbiome
  • "How do soil microbial communities respond to fire in the intermediate term? Investigating direct and indirect effects associated with fire occurrence and burn severity," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Nitrogen fixation and productivity of winter annual legume cover crops in Upper Midwest organic cropping systems," 2020, Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
  • "Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments," 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Frequent collaborators in Gutknecht's research include:

  • Jacob M. Jungers
  • Kathryn M. Docherty
  • Craig C. Sheaffer
  • Nona R. Chiariello
  • Qun Gao

The scope and nature of Jessica L. M. Gutknecht's publications indicate a focus on understanding soil microbial dynamics, nutrient cycling, and ecological interactions related to agricultural systems and environmental processes. Their work contributes to advancing knowledge in how soil and microbial communities interact with environmental factors such as nitrogen deposition, burn severity, and plant diversity.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • Rhizosphere priming effects on soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization

    Biao Zhu;Biao Zhu;Jessica L.M. Gutknecht;Jessica L.M. Gutknecht;Donald J. Herman;Daniel C. Keck;Daniel C. Keck

  • Horizon-Specific Bacterial Community Composition of German Grassland Soils, as Revealed by Pyrosequencing-Based Analysis of 16S rRNA Genes

    Christiane Will;Andrea Thürmer;Antje Wollherr;Heiko Nacke

  • Designing forest biodiversity experiments : general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

    Helge Bruelheide;Karin Nadrowski;Thorsten Assmann;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

    Andreas Schuldt;Thorsten Assmann;Matteo Brezzi;Matteo Brezzi;François Buscot

  • Linking soil process and microbial ecology in freshwater wetland ecosystems

    Jessica L. M. Gutknecht;Robert M. Goodman;Robert M. Goodman;Teri C. Balser

  • Microbial communities and their responses to simulated global change fluctuate greatly over multiple years

    Jessica L. M. Gutknecht;Christopher B. Field;Teri C. Balser

  • Priming mechanisms providing plants and microbes access to mineral-associated organic matter

    Andrea Jilling;Marco Keiluweit;Jessica L.M. Gutknecht;A. Stuart Grandy

  • General Relationships between Abiotic Soil Properties and Soil Biota across Spatial Scales and Different Land- Use Types

    Klaus Birkhofer;Ingo Schöning;Fabian Alt;Nadine Herold

  • Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on soil microbial communities in oak forests persist for more than 100 years

    A. Fichtner;G. von Oheimb;W. Härdtle;C. Wilken;C. Wilken

  • Precipitation modifies the effects of warming and nitrogen addition on soil microbial communities in northern Chinese grasslands

    Naili Zhang;Shiqiang Wan;Jixun Guo;Guodong Han

  • Key Edaphic Properties Largely Explain Temporal and Geographic Variation in Soil Microbial Communities across Four Biomes.

    Kathryn M. Docherty;Hannah M. Borton;Noelle Espinosa;Martha Gebhardt

  • Soil microbial responses to warming and increased precipitation and their implications for ecosystem C cycling.

    Naili Zhang;Weixing Liu;Haijun Yang;Xingjun Yu

  • Inter-annual variation in soil extra-cellular enzyme activity in response to simulated global change and fire disturbance.

    Jessica L.M. Gutknecht;Hugh A.L. Henry;Teri C. Balser

  • Monthly dynamics of microbial community structure and their controlling factors in three floodplain soils

    M. Moche;Jessica L Gutknecht;Jessica L Gutknecht;E. Schulz;U. Langer

  • Soil and tree species traits both shape soil microbial communities during early growth of Chinese subtropical forests

    Zhiqin Pei;David Eichenberg;Helge Bruelheide;Wenzel Kröber

  • Soil microbial responses to fire and interacting global change factors in a California annual grassland

    Kathryn M. Docherty;Kathryn M. Docherty;Teri C. Balser;Teri C. Balser;Brendan J. M. Bohannan;Jessica L. M. Gutknecht;Jessica L. M. Gutknecht

  • Long-term nitrogen deposition enhances microbial capacities in soil carbon stabilization but reduces network complexity

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  • Uncoupling of microbial community structure and function in decomposing litter across beech forest ecosystems in Central Europe

    Witoon Purahong;Witoon Purahong;Michael Schloter;Marek J. Pecyna;Danuta Kapturska;Danuta Kapturska

  • Biogenic volatile organic compound and respiratory CO2 emissions after 13C-labeling: online tracing of C translocation dynamics in poplar plants.

    Andrea Ghirardo;Jessica L Gutknecht;Ina Zimmer;Nicolas Brüggemann

  • How Will Climate Change Impact Soil Microbial Communities

    Teri C. Balser;Jessica L. M. Gutknecht;Chao Liang

Frequent Co-Authors

François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Tesfaye Wubet
Tesfaye Wubet Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Teri C. Balser
Teri C. Balser University of Calgary
Thomas Scholten
Thomas Scholten University of Tübingen
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Pascal A. Niklaus
Pascal A. Niklaus University of Zurich
Keping Ma
Keping Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peter Kühn
Peter Kühn University of Tübingen

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