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Overview

Kevin E. Mueller is affiliated with Cleveland State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with particular attention to areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's main topics of study include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Fire effects on ecosystems, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Plant and animal studies, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

Kevin E. Mueller has contributed to multiple publication venues, including:

  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Ecology
  • New Phytologist
  • BioScience
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Recent papers authored or coauthored by them include:

  • Plant- or microbial-derived? A review on the molecular composition of stabilized soil organic matter (2021) in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Unlocking complex soil systems as carbon sinks: multi-pool management as the key (2023) in Nature Communications
  • Traits link drought resistance with herbivore defence and plant economics in semi-arid grasslands: The central roles of phenology and leaf dry matter content (2020) in Journal of Ecology
  • Plant traits related to precipitation sensitivity of species and communities in semiarid shortgrass prairie (2020) in New Phytologist
  • Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO2 as water supply varies (2022) in Nature Ecology & Evolution

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Dana M. Blumenthal, Julie A. Kray, Troy W. Ocheltree, John T. Van Stan, and Gerrit Angst.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

    Peter B. Reich;David Tilman;David Tilman;Forest Isbell;Kevin E. Mueller

  • Plant- or microbial-derived? A review on the molecular composition of stabilized soil organic matter

    Gerrit Angst;Kevin E. Mueller;Klaas G.J. Nierop;Myrna J. Simpson

  • Global patterns in leaf 13C discrimination and implications for studies of past and future climate

    Aaron F. Diefendorf;Kevin E. Mueller;Scott. L. Wing;Paul L. Koch

  • Integrating plant litter quality, soil organic matter stabilization, and the carbon saturation concept

    Michael J. Castellano;Kevin E. Mueller;Daniel C. Olk;John E. Sawyer

  • Unlocking complex soil systems as carbon sinks: multi-pool management as the key

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  • Root depth distribution and the diversity–productivity relationship in a long-term grassland experiment

    Kevin E. Mueller;David Tilman;David Tilman;Dario A. Fornara;Sarah E. Hobbie

  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers: Causes for concern and knowledge gaps regarding environmental distribution, fate and toxicity

    Anne P. Vonderheide;Kevin E. Mueller;Juris Meija;Gwendolyn L. Welsh

  • Tree species effects on coupled cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and acidity in mineral soils at a common garden experiment

    Kevin E. Mueller;David M. Eissenstat;Sarah E. Hobbie;Jacek Oleksyn

  • Plant litter quality affects the accumulation rate, composition, and stability of mineral-associated soil organic matter

    S. Carolina Córdova;Dan C. Olk;Ranae N. Dietzel;Kevin E. Mueller

  • EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ANGIOSPERM ROOT TRAITS

    L. H. Comas;K. E. Mueller;L. L. Taylor;P. E. Midford

  • Aggregation controls the stability of lignin and lipids in clay-sized particulate and mineral associated organic matter

    Gerrit Angst;Gerrit Angst;Kevin E. Mueller;Ingrid Kögel-Knabner;Katherine H. Freeman

  • Shifts in plant functional composition following long‐term drought in grasslands

    Robert J. Griffin‐Nolan;Dana M. Blumenthal;Scott L. Collins;Timothy E. Farkas

  • Soil organic carbon stability in forests: Distinct effects of tree species identity and traits

    Gerrit Angst;Kevin E. Mueller;Kevin E. Mueller;David M. Eissenstat;Susan E. Trumbore;Susan E. Trumbore

  • Traits link drought resistance with herbivore defence and plant economics in semi-arid grasslands: The central roles of phenology and leaf dry matter content

    Dana M. Blumenthal;Kevin E. Mueller;Julie A. Kray;Troy W. Ocheltree

  • Fate of Pentabrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Soil: Abiotic Sorption, Plant Uptake, and the Impact of Interspecific Plant Interactions

    Kevin E. Mueller;Sabrina R. Mueller-Spitz;Heather F. Henry;Anne P. Vonderheide

  • Effects of plant diversity, N fertilization, and elevated carbon dioxide on grassland soil N cycling in a long-term experiment

    Kevin E. Mueller;Sarah E. Hobbie;David Tilman;David Tilman;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich

  • Light, earthworms, and soil resources as predictors of diversity of 10 soil invertebrate groups across monocultures of 14 tree species

    Kevin E. Mueller;Nico Eisenhauer;Nico Eisenhauer;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Sarah E. Hobbie

  • Impacts of warming and elevated CO2 on a semi‐arid grassland are non‐additive, shift with precipitation, and reverse over time

    Kevin E Mueller;Dana M Blumenthal;Elise Pendall;Yolima Carrillo

  • PAH dissipation in spiked soil : Impacts of bioavailability, microbial activity, and trees

    Kevin E. Mueller;Jodi R. Shann

  • Grazing intensity differentially regulates ANPP response to precipitation in North American semiarid grasslands

    J. Gonzalo N. Irisarri;Justin D. Derner;Lauren Mc Geoch Porensky;David J. Augustine

  • Effects of litter traits, soil biota, and soil chemistry on soil carbon stocks at a common garden with 14 tree species

    Kevin E. Mueller;Sarah E. Hobbie;Jon Chorover;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Katherine H. Freeman
Katherine H. Freeman Pennsylvania State University
Dana M. Blumenthal
Dana M. Blumenthal Agricultural Research Service
Jacek Oleksyn
Jacek Oleksyn Polish Academy of Sciences
Sarah E. Hobbie
Sarah E. Hobbie University of Minnesota
Nico Eisenhauer
Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University
David M. Eissenstat
David M. Eissenstat Pennsylvania State University
David Tilman
David Tilman University of Minnesota
Carsten W. Mueller
Carsten W. Mueller University of Copenhagen
Elise Pendall
Elise Pendall Western Sydney University

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