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Joana Falcão Salles

Joana Falcão Salles

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
12897
World Ranking
3423
National Ranking
97

Overview

Joana Falcão Salles is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Plant Science, Ecology, Insect Science, Molecular Biology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work spans several key topics, including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences

Joana Falcão Salles has contributed to multiple papers such as:

  • "Deliberate introduction of invisible invaders: A critical appraisal of the impact of microbial inoculants on soil microbial communities," 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Bio-organic soil amendment promotes the suppression of Ralstonia solanacearum by inducing changes in the functionality and composition of rhizosphere bacterial communities," 2022, New Phytologist
  • "Inoculated microbial consortia perform better than single strains in living soil: A meta-analysis," 2023, Applied Soil Ecology
  • "The legacy of microbial inoculants in agroecosystems and potential for tackling climate change challenges," 2022, iScience
  • "The Role of Rhizosphere Bacteriophages in Plant Health," 2020, Trends in Microbiology

Their frequent co-authors include Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Jay T. Lennon, Raquel S. Peixoto, Christian R. Voolstra, and Lisa Y. Stein.

Significant publication venues for Joana Falcão Salles encompass:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • iScience
  • Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
  • The ISME Journal
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Disentangling mechanisms that mediate the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes in microbial succession

    Francisco Dini-Andreote;James C. Stegen;Jan Dirk van Elsas;Joana Falcão Salles

  • Where less may be more: How the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings

    Alexandre Jousset;Christina Bienhold;Antonis Chatzinotas;Laure Gallien

  • Microbial diversity determines the invasion of soil by a bacterial pathogen.

    Jan Dirk van Elsas;Mario Chiurazzi;Cyrus A. Mallon;Dana Elhottovā

  • Burkholderia phytofirmans sp. nov., a novel plant-associated bacterium with plant-beneficial properties

    A. Sessitsch;T. Coenye;A.V. Sturz;P.A. Vandamme

  • Microbial Invasions : The process, patterns, and mechanisms

    Cyrus Alexander Mallon;Jan Dirk van Elsas;Joana Falcão Salles

  • Community Assembly Processes of the Microbial Rare Biosphere

    Xiu Jia;Francisco Dini-Andreote;Joana Falcão Salles

  • Effects of agronomical measures on the microbial diversity of soils as related to the suppression of soil-borne plant pathogens.

    Jan Dirk van Elsas;Paolina Garbeva;Joana Salles

  • Deliberate introduction of invisible invaders: A critical appraisal of the impact of microbial inoculants on soil microbial communities

    Panji Cahya Mawarda;Xavier Le Roux;Jan Dirk van Elsas;Joana Falcao Salles

  • Dynamics of bacterial community succession in a salt marsh chronosequence: evidences for temporal niche partitioning

    Francisco Dini-Andreote;Michele de Cássia Pereira e Silva;Xavier Triadó-Margarit;Emilio O Casamayor

  • Resource pulses can alleviate the biodiversity–invasion relationship in soil microbial communities

    Cyrus A. Mallon;Franck Poly;Xavier Le Roux;Irene Marring

  • The impact of failure: unsuccessful bacterial invasions steer the soil microbial community away from the invader’s niche

    C A Mallon;X Le Roux;G S van Doorn;F Dini-Andreote

  • Comparative Analysis of Bacterial Communities in a Potato Field as Determined by Pyrosequencing

    Oezguel Inceoglu;Waleed Abu Al-Soud;Joana Falcao Salles;Alexander V. Semenov

  • Effects of Plant Genotype and Growth Stage on the Betaproteobacterial Communities Associated with Different Potato Cultivars in Two Fields

    O. Inceoglu;J.F. Salles;L.S. van Overbeek;J.D. van Elsas

  • Multivariate analyses of Burkholderia species in soil: effect of crop and land use history.

    Joana Falcão Salles;Johannes Antonius van Veen;Jan Dirk van Elsas

  • Community niche predicts the functioning of denitrifying bacterial assemblages.

    Joana Falcao Salles;Franck Poly;Bernhard Schmid;Xavier Le Roux

  • The microbiome of pest insects: it is not just bacteria

    Kiran Gurung;Bregje Wertheim;Joana Falcao Salles

  • Molecular method to assess the diversity of Burkholderia species in environmental samples

    Joana Falcão Salles;Francisco Adriano De Souza;Jan Dirk van Elsas

  • Legacy Effects on the Recovery of Soil Bacterial Communities from Extreme Temperature Perturbation.

    Stephanie D. Jurburg;Ines Nunes;Ines Nunes;Asker Brejnrod;Samuel Jacquiod

  • Application of a novel Paenibacillus-specific PCR-DGGE method and sequence analysis to assess the diversity of Paenibacillus spp. in the maize rhizosphere

    Katia Regina Araújo da Silva;Joana Falcão Salles;Lucy Seldin;Jan Dirk van Elsas

  • Temporal dynamics of abundance and composition of nitrogen-fixing communities across agricultural soils.

    Michele de Cassia Pereira e Silva;Brigitte Schloter-Hai;Michael Schloter;Jan Dirk van Elsas

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Dirk van Elsas
Jan Dirk van Elsas University of Groningen
Franck Poly
Franck Poly University of Lyon System
B. Irene Tieleman
B. Irene Tieleman University of Groningen
Xavier Le Roux
Xavier Le Roux Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
José Ivo Baldani
José Ivo Baldani Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Kevin D. Matson
Kevin D. Matson Wageningen University & Research
Peter Vandamme
Peter Vandamme Ghent University
Søren J. Sørensen
Søren J. Sørensen University of Copenhagen
Ton G. G. Groothuis
Ton G. G. Groothuis University of Groningen
Menno Schilthuizen
Menno Schilthuizen Naturalis Biodiversity Center

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