Mary K. Firestone

Research.com Recognitions

• 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• 2004 - Francis E. Clark Distinguished Lectureship on the Frontiers in Soil Biology, American Society of Agronomy
• 1995 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
• 1979 - Truog Soil Science Outstanding Dissertation Award, American Society of Agronomy

Overview

Best Publications

• Microbiological basis of NO and N2O production and consumption in soil.

  M. K. Firestone;E. A. Davidson

  2193
  Citations

• Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly.

  Kateryna Zhalnina;Katherine B Louie;Zhao Hao;Nasim Mansoori

  2125
  Citations

• Nitrogen Mineralization, Immobilization, and Nitrification

  Stephen C. Hart;John M. Stark;Eric A. Davidson;Mary K. Firestone

  1449
  Citations

• The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology

  James I. Prosser;Brendan J. M. Bohannan;Tom P. Curtis;Richard J. Ellis

  1234
  Citations

• Microbial biomass response to a rapid increase in water potential when dry soil is wetted

  Thomas L. Kieft;Edith soroker;Mary K. firestone

  1189
  Citations

• A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming.

  Daliang Ning;Daliang Ning;Mengting Yuan;Mengting Yuan;Linwei Wu;Ya Zhang

  1166
  Citations

• The interconnected rhizosphere: High network complexity dominates rhizosphere assemblages

  Shengjing Shi;Shengjing Shi;Erin E. Nuccio;Erin E. Nuccio;Zhou J. Shi;Zhili He

  1141
  Citations

• METHODS FOR MEASURING DENITRIFICATION: DIVERSE APPROACHES TO A DIFFICULT PROBLEM

  Peter M. Groffman;Mark A. Altabet;John K. Bohlke;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  1117
  Citations

• Responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to extreme desiccation and rewetting.

  Romain L Barnard;Catherine A Osborne;Catherine A Osborne;Mary K Firestone

  1017
  Citations

• Mechanisms for soil moisture effects on activity of nitrifying bacteria.

  John M. Stark;M. K. Firestone

  1005
  Citations

• Evaluating rRNA as an indicator of microbial activity in environmental communities: limitations and uses

  Steven J Blazewicz;Romain L Barnard;Romain L Barnard;Rebecca A Daly;Rebecca A Daly;Mary K Firestone;Mary K Firestone

  874
  Citations

• Linking microbial community composition to function in a tropical soil

  M.P Waldrop;T.C Balser;M.K Firestone

  829
  Citations

• Relationship between Desiccation and Exopolysaccharide Production in a Soil Pseudomonas sp

  Emily B. Roberson;Mary K. Firestone

  754
  Citations

• Measuring gross nitrogen mineralization, and nitrification by 15 N isotopic pool dilution in intact soil cores

  E. A. Davidson;S. C. Hart;C. A. Shanks;M. K. Firestone

  723
  Citations

• Rainfall-induced carbon dioxide pulses result from sequential resuscitation of phylogenetically clustered microbial groups

  Sarah A. Placella;Eoin L. Brodie;Mary K. Firestone

  638
  Citations

• ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS ON DENITRIFYING COMMUNITIES AND DENITRIFICATION RATES: INSIGHTS FROM MOLECULAR METHODS

  Matthew D. Wallenstein;David D. Myrold;Mary Firestone;Mary Voytek

  629
  Citations

• Plant invasion alters nitrogen cycling by modifying the soil nitrifying community

  Christine Veronica Hawkes;Ian F. Wren;Donald J. Herman;Mary K. Firestone

  622
  Citations

• Nitrous Oxide from Soil Denitrification: Factors Controlling Its Biological Production

  Mary K. Firestone;Richard B. Firestone;James M. Tiedje

  606
  Citations

• Internal Cycling of Nitrate in Soils of a Mature Coniferous Forest

  Eric A. Davidson;Stephen C. Hart;Mary K. Firestone

  569
  Citations

• Linking microbial community composition and soil processes in a California annual grassland and mixed-conifer forest

  Teri C. Balser;Teri C. Balser;Mary K. Firestone

  556
  Citations