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Krista L. McGuire is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions to subfields such as Plant Science, Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work centers on several main topics including:

  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Coffee research and impacts
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Plant and Fungal Interactions Research

Krista L. McGuire has published multiple papers in various scientific venues, including:

  • The Role of Phosphorus Limitation in Shaping Soil Bacterial Communities and Their Metabolic Capabilities, 2020, mBio
  • Academic leaders must support inclusive scientific communities during COVID-19, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Microbial Composition and Functional Diversity Differ Across Urban Green Infrastructure Types, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity, 2023, Communications Biology
  • Soil microbial composition varies in response to coffee agroecosystem management, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Their research has been featured in these frequent publication venues:

  • mBio
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Communications Biology
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Frequent collaborators in their publications include:

  • Katherine L. Shek
  • Stephanie D. Jurburg
  • Lucas C. R. Silva
  • Tiffany E. Thornton
  • Bitty A. Roy

Best Publications

  • Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

    J.W. Ferry Slik;Gary Paoli;Krista L. McGuire;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Microbial communities and their relevance for ecosystem models: Decomposition as a case study

    Krista L. McGuire;Krista L. McGuire;Kathleen K. Treseder

  • Digging the New York City Skyline: soil fungal communities in green roofs and city parks.

    Krista Lynn McGuire;Sara Grace Payne;Matthew I. Palmer;Caitlyn Marie Gillikin

  • Common ectomycorrhizal networks may maintain monodominance in a tropical rain forest.

    Krista L. McGuire

  • Relating belowground microbial composition to the taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional trait distributions of trees in a tropical forest

    Albert Barberán;Krista L. McGuire;Jeffrey A. Wolf;Jeffrey A. Wolf;F. Andrew Jones;F. Andrew Jones

  • Functional diversity in resource use by fungi

    Krista L. McGuire;Elizabeth Bent;James Borneman;Arundhati Majumder

  • Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils.

    Kelly S. Ramirez;Christopher G. Knight;Mattias de Hollander;Francis Q. Brearley

  • Fungal Community Composition in Neotropical Rain Forests: the Influence of Tree Diversity and Precipitation

    Krista L. McGuire;Noah Fierer;Carling Bateman;Kathleen K. Treseder

  • The Role of Phosphorus Limitation in Shaping Soil Bacterial Communities and Their Metabolic Capabilities.

    Angela M. Oliverio;Angela M. Oliverio;Andrew Bissett;Krista McGuire;Kristin Saltonstall

  • Nitrogen alters carbon dynamics during early succession in boreal forest

    Steven D. Allison;Tracy B. Gartner;Michelle C. Mack;Krista McGuire

  • Lack of host specificity leads to independent assortment of dipterocarps and ectomycorrhizal fungi across a soil fertility gradient

    Kabir G. Peay;Sabrina E. Russo;Krista L. McGuire;Krista L. McGuire;Zhenyu Lim

  • Slowed decomposition is biotically mediated in an ectomycorrhizal, tropical rain forest

    Krista L. McGuire;Krista L. McGuire;Donald R. Zak;Ivan P. Edwards;Christopher B. Blackwood;Christopher B. Blackwood

  • Evolutionary histories of soil fungi are reflected in their large‐scale biogeography

    Kathleen K. Treseder;Mia R. Maltz;Bradford A. Hawkins;Noah Fierer

  • Urban stress is associated with variation in microbial species composition-but not richness-in Manhattan.

    Aspen T Reese;Amy Savage;Elsa Youngsteadt;Krista L McGuire

  • Responses of Soil Fungi to Logging and Oil Palm Agriculture in Southeast Asian Tropical Forests

    K. L. McGuire;H. D'Angelo;F. Q. Brearley;S. M. Gedallovich

  • Urban park soil microbiomes are a rich reservoir of natural product biosynthetic diversity.

    Zachary Charlop-Powers;Clara C. Pregitzer;Christophe Lemetre;Melinda A. Ternei

  • Resistance of microbial and soil properties to warming treatment seven years after boreal fire.

    Steven D. Allison;Krista L. McGuire;Kathleen K. Treseder

  • Dual mycorrhizal colonization of forest-dominating tropical trees and the mycorrhizal status of non-dominant tree and liana species

    K. L. McGuire;K. L. McGuire;T. W. Henkel;I. Granzow de la Cerda;G. Villa

  • Ectomycorrhizal-Dominated Boreal and Tropical Forests Have Distinct Fungal Communities, but Analogous Spatial Patterns across Soil Horizons

    Krista Lynn McGuire;Steven D. Allison;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer;Kathleen K. Treseder

  • Long‐lasting effects of land use history on soil fungal communities in second‐growth tropical rain forests

    Benedicte Bachelot;María Uriarte;Jess K. Zimmerman;Jill Thompson

  • Consequences of tropical forest conversion to oil palm on soil bacterial community and network structure

    Stephen A. Wood;Stephen A. Wood;Jack A. Gilbert;Jack A. Gilbert;Jonathan W. Leff;Noah Fierer

Frequent Co-Authors

Noah Fierer
Noah Fierer University of Colorado Boulder
Kathleen K. Treseder
Kathleen K. Treseder University of California, Irvine
Benjamin L. Turner
Benjamin L. Turner Gyeongsang National University
Stephen A. Wood
Stephen A. Wood Yale University
Francis Q. Brearley
Francis Q. Brearley Manchester Metropolitan University
Steven D. Allison
Steven D. Allison University of California, Irvine
Jonathan W. Leff
Jonathan W. Leff University of Colorado Boulder
María Uriarte
María Uriarte Columbia University
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Kevin L. Griffin
Kevin L. Griffin Columbia University

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