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Kirsten S. Hofmockel is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Geophysics, Environmental Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecology, and Molecular Biology.

The research topics covered by Hofmockel encompass areas such as Seismic Waves and Analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Earthquake Detection and Analysis, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere Dynamics, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Seismology and Earthquake Studies, and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

Recent publications reflect the breadth of Hofmockel's research interests and include the following papers:

  • Soil Microbiomes Under Climate Change and Implications for Carbon Cycling, 2020, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • The temperature sensitivity of soil: microbial biodiversity, growth, and carbon mineralization, 2021, The ISME Journal
  • Life history strategies among soil bacteria-dichotomy for few, continuum for many, 2023, The ISME Journal
  • Nutrients cause consolidation of soil carbon flux to small proportion of bacterial community, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The Functional Significance of Bacterial Predators, 2021, mBio

Hofmockel has collaborated frequently with several coauthors throughout their career, including:

  • Ryan McClure
  • Hyun-Seob Song
  • Joon-Yong Lee
  • Ruonan Wu
  • Jason McDermott

The scientist has published regularly in several venues, with a notable number of publications in the following journals and repositories:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mSystems
  • Nature Communications
  • mBio

Best Publications

  • Soil microbiomes and climate change

    Janet K. Jansson;Kirsten S. Hofmockel

  • Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

    Jonathan W. Leff;Stuart E. Jones;Suzanne M. Prober;Albert Barberán

  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

    Suzanne M. Prober;Jonathan W. Leff;Scott T. Bates;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

    Jian Song;Jian Song;Shiqiang Wan;Shiqiang Wan;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Alan K. Knapp

  • Increases in the flux of carbon belowground stimulate nitrogen uptake and sustain the long‐term enhancement of forest productivity under elevated CO2

    John E. Drake;Anne Gallet-Budynek;Anne Gallet-Budynek;Kirsten S. Hofmockel;Emily S. Bernhardt

  • The soil microbiome-from metagenomics to metaphenomics.

    Janet K Jansson;Kirsten S Hofmockel

  • Greatest soil microbial diversity found in micro-habitats

    Elizabeth M. Bach;Ryan J. Williams;Sarah K. Hargreaves;Fan Yang

  • Demonstrating microbial co-occurrence pattern analyses within and between ecosystems

    Ryan J. Williams;Adina C. Howe;Adina C. Howe;Kirsten S. Hofmockel

  • Nutrient and sediment removal by a restored wetland receiving agricultural runoff.

    Thomas E. Jordan;Dennis F. Whigham;Kirsten H. Hofmockel;Mary A. Pittek

  • Soil Microbiomes Under Climate Change and Implications for Carbon Cycling

    Dan Naylor;Natalie Sadler;Arunima Bhattacharjee;Emily B. Graham;Emily B. Graham

  • PROGRESSIVE NITROGEN LIMITATION OF ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES UNDER ELEVATED CO2 IN A WARM-TEMPERATE FOREST

    Adrien C. Finzi;David J.P. Moore;Evan H. DeLucia;John Lichter

  • Integrating microbial ecology into ecosystem models: challenges and priorities

    Kathleen K. Treseder;Teri C. Balser;Mark A. Bradford;Eoin L. Brodie

  • Nitrogen addition changes grassland soil organic matter decomposition

    Charlotte E. Riggs;Sarah E. Hobbie;Elizabeth M. Bach;Elizabeth M. Bach;Kirsten S. Hofmockel

  • Soil aggregate isolation method affects measures of intra-aggregate extracellular enzyme activity

    Elizabeth M. Bach;Kirsten S. Hofmockel

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • The temperature sensitivity of soil: microbial biodiversity, growth, and carbon mineralization

    Chao Wang;Ember M. Morrissey;Rebecca L. Mau;Michaela Hayer

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Life history strategies among soil bacteria—dichotomy for few, continuum for many

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  • A long‐term nitrogen fertilizer gradient has little effect on soil organic matter in a high‐intensity maize production system

    Kimberly H. Brown;Elizabeth M. Bach;Rhae A. Drijber;Kirsten S. Hofmockel

  • Spatio-temporal microbial community dynamics within soil aggregates.

    Racheal N. Upton;Elizabeth M. Bach;Kirsten S. Hofmockel;Kirsten S. Hofmockel

  • Strategies to improve reference databases for soil microbiomes

    Jinlyung Choi;Fan Yang;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Erick Cardenas

  • Community composition and photosynthesis by photoautotrophs under quartz pebbles, Southern Mojave Desert

    William H. Schlesinger;Jeffrey S. Pippen;Matthew D. Wallenstein;Kirsten S. Hofmockel

  • Regional Contingencies in the Relationship between Aboveground Biomass and Litter in the World's Grasslands

    Lydia R. O’Halloran;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Andrew S. MacDougall

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet K. Jansson
Janet K. Jansson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jennifer Pett-Ridge
Jennifer Pett-Ridge Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Sarah E. Hobbie
Sarah E. Hobbie University of Minnesota
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Bruce A. Hungate
Bruce A. Hungate Northern Arizona University
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
Egbert Schwartz
Egbert Schwartz Northern Arizona University
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Rebecca L. McCulley
Rebecca L. McCulley University of Kentucky

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