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Jonathan M. Adams

Jonathan M. Adams

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
58
Citations
13807
World Ranking
2545
National Ranking
55

Overview

Jonathan M. Adams is affiliated with Nanjing University in China. Their research spans multiple areas within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on Ecology, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Soil Science. They have published extensively in the subfields of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The primary topics in their work include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Their research has been published in a variety of venues, with frequent publications in:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Pedosphere
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Recent notable papers include:

  • Microbial resistance in rhizosphere hotspots under biodegradable and conventional microplastic amendment: Community and functional sensitivity (2023), Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Soil microbial metabolism on carbon and nitrogen transformation links the crop-residue contribution to soil organic carbon (2022), npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
  • Fungi stabilize multi-kingdom community in a high elevation timberline ecosystem (2022), iMeta
  • Insights into plant-microbe interactions in the rhizosphere to promote sustainable agriculture in the new crops era (2023), New Crops
  • Nutrient resource availability mediates niche differentiation and temporal co-occurrence of soil bacterial communities (2021), Applied Soil Ecology

Jonathan M. Adams frequently collaborates with a set of coauthors, including:

  • Bin Song
  • Zihao Liu
  • Jie Fang
  • Ke Dong
  • Dorsaf Kerfahi

Best Publications

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

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

  • INCREASES IN TERRESTRIAL CARBON STORAGE FROM THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM TO THE PRESENT

    J. M. Adams;H. Faure;L. Faure-Denard;J. M. McGlade

  • Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: Global patterns and paleoclimatic applications

    Daniel J. Peppe;Daniel J. Peppe;Dana L. Royer;Bárbara Cariglino;Sofia Y. Oliver

  • Impacts of Climate and Land-cover Changes in Arid Lands of Central Asia

    E. Lioubimtseva;R. Cole;J.M. Adams;G. Kapustin

  • Spatial scale affects the relative role of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial communities in wheat fields across the North China Plain.

    Yu Shi;Yuntao Li;Xingjia Xiang;Ruibo Sun

  • A GIS-based vegetation map of the world at the Last Glacial Maximum (25,000-15,000 BP)

    Nicolas Ray;Jonathan Adams

  • Global pattern of NPP to GPP ratio derived from MODIS data: effects of ecosystem type, geographical location and climate

    Yangjian Zhang;Ming Xu;Ming Xu;Hua Chen;Jonathan Adams

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

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

  • Sudden climate transitions during the Quaternary

    Jonathan Adams;Mark Maslin;Ellen Thomas

  • Soil fungal diversity in natural grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau: associations with plant diversity and productivity

    Teng Yang;Jonathan M. Adams;Yu Shi;Jin‐sheng He;Jin‐sheng He

  • Masting behaviour in beech: linking reproduction and climatic variation

    Gianluca Piovesan;Jonathan M. Adams

  • Patterns in tree species richness as a test of the glacial extinction hypothesis

    J. M. Adams;J. M. Adams;F. I. Woodward

  • Long-term fertilization influences community assembly processes of soil diazotrophs.

    Maomao Feng;Jonathan M. Adams;Kunkun Fan;Yu Shi

  • A hump-backed trend in bacterial diversity with elevation on Mount Fuji, Japan.

    Dharmesh Singh;Koichi Takahashi;Mincheol Kim;Jongsik Chun

  • 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

  • Modelling Paleoindian dispersals

    James Steele;Jonathan Adams;Tim Sluckin

  • Distinctive Phyllosphere Bacterial Communities in Tropical Trees

    Mincheol Kim;Dharmesh Singh;Ang Lai-Hoe;Rusea Go

  • Preliminary Vegetation Maps of the World since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Aid to Archaeological Understanding

    J.M. Adams;J.M. Adams;H. Faure

  • Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate within Acer rubrum and Quercus kelloggii

    Dana L. Royer;Jennifer C. McElwain;Jonathan M. Adams;Peter Wilf

  • Vegetation-climate interaction : how plants make the global environment

    J. M. Adams

Frequent Co-Authors

Binu M. Tripathi
Binu M. Tripathi West Virginia University
Jin-Sheng He
Jin-Sheng He Peking University
Yangjian Zhang
Yangjian Zhang Hebei University
Gianluca Piovesan
Gianluca Piovesan Tuscia University
Jongsik Chun
Jongsik Chun Seoul National University
Bruce Waldman
Bruce Waldman Oklahoma State University
Zhe-Kun Zhou
Zhe-Kun Zhou Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Yosef Steinberger
Yosef Steinberger Bar-Ilan University
Ryunosuke Tateno
Ryunosuke Tateno Kyoto University
Jason M. Hall-Spencer
Jason M. Hall-Spencer Plymouth University

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