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Overview

Paul Dijkstra is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio in environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work prominently intersects with ecology, molecular biology, soil science, pollution, and plant science, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding environmental and biological processes.

Their research focuses on key topics including microbial community ecology and physiology, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, genomics and phylogenetic studies, isotope analysis in ecology, gut microbiota and health, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, and wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal.

Paul Dijkstra has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications across various high-impact journals and platforms. Notable recent papers include:

  • Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry (2022, Nature Reviews Microbiology)
  • Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages (2022, Cell)
  • The temperature sensitivity of soil: microbial biodiversity, growth, and carbon mineralization (2021, The ISME Journal)
  • Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics (2023, Nature)
  • Life history strategies among soil bacteria-dichotomy for few, continuum for many (2023, The ISME Journal)

Their frequent collaborators include Bruce A. Hungate, Egbert Schwartz, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Steven J. Blazewicz, and Peter F. Chuckran, indicating a consistent research network that spans multiple aspects of soil and microbial ecology.

Publication venues where Paul Dijkstra's work appears most frequently include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The ISME Journal, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, and Soil Biology and Biochemistry. These venues demonstrate a broad engagement with both preprint and peer-reviewed scientific communities.

Best Publications

  • Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: a meta-analysis of experimental manipulation.

    Zhuoting Wu;Paul Dijkstra;George W. Koch;Josep Peñuelas

  • The effect of elevated CO2 on the chemical composition and construction costs of leaves of 27 C3 species

    H. Poorter;Y. Van Berkel;R. Baxter;J. Den Hertog

  • Accelerated microbial turnover but constant growth efficiency with warming in soil

    Shannon B. Hagerty;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Steven D. Allison;Bruce A. Hungate

  • Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages

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  • 13C and 15N natural abundance of the soil microbial biomass

    Paul Dijkstra;Ayaka Ishizu;Richard Doucett;Stephen C. Hart

  • Quantitative Microbial Ecology through Stable Isotope Probing

    Bruce A. Hungate;Rebecca L. Mau;Egbert Schwartz;J. Gregory Caporaso

  • Effect of temperature on metabolic activity of intact microbial communities: Evidence for altered metabolic pathway activity but not for increased maintenance respiration and reduced carbon use efficiency

    Paul Dijkstra;Scott C. Thomas;Paul L. Heinrich;George W. Koch

  • Clarifying the interpretation of carbon use efficiency in soil through methods comparison

    Kevin M. Geyer;Paul Dijkstra;Robert Sinsabaugh;Serita D. Frey

  • A Comprehensive Census of Microbial Diversity in Hot Springs of Tengchong, Yunnan Province China Using 16S rRNA Gene Pyrosequencing

    Weiguo Hou;Shang Wang;Hailiang Dong;Hailiang Dong;Hongchen Jiang

  • Direct-to-consumer genetic testing for predicting sports performance and talent identification: Consensus statement.

    Nick Webborn;Alun Williams;Michael McNamee;Claude Bouchard

  • Does elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration inhibit mitochondrial respiration in green plants

    Bert G. Drake;J. Azcon-Bieto;J. Berry;J. Bunce

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

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

  • Elevated CO2 increases nitrogen fixation and decreases soil nitrogen mineralization in Florida scrub oak

    Bruce A. Hungate;PauL. Dijkstra;DalE. W. Johnson;C. RosS. Hinkle

  • CO2 Elicits Long-Term Decline in Nitrogen Fixation

    Bruce A. Hungate;Peter D. Stiling;Paul Dijkstra;Dale W. Johnson

  • Cause and effect of differences in specific leaf area

    P. Dijkstra

  • Linking soil bacterial biodiversity and soil carbon stability

    Rebecca L Mau;Cindy M Liu;Maliha Aziz;Egbert Schwartz

  • 15N enrichment as an integrator of the effects of C and N on microbial metabolism and ecosystem function

    Paul Dijkstra;Corinne M. LaViolette;Jeffrey S. Coyle;Richard R. Doucett

  • Bacterial carbon use plasticity, phylogenetic diversity and the priming of soil organic matter.

    Ember M Morrissey;Rebecca L Mau;Egbert Schwartz;Theresa A McHugh;Theresa A McHugh

  • Labile carbon input determines the direction and magnitude of the priming effect

    Xiao Jun Allen Liu;Jingran Sun;Rebecca L. Mau;Brianna K. Finley

  • Phylogenetic organization of bacterial activity.

    Ember M Morrissey;Rebecca L Mau;Egbert Schwartz;J Gregory Caporaso

  • DECREASED LEAF-MINER ABUNDANCE IN ELEVATED CO2: REDUCED LEAF QUALITY AND INCREASED PARASITOID ATTACK

    Peter Stiling;Anthony M. Rossi;Bruce A. Hungate;Paul Dijkstra

  • Photosynthetic rates in relation to leaf phosphorus content in pioneer versus climax tropical rainforest trees.

    D. Raaimakers;R. G. A. Boot;P. Dijkstra;S. Pot

  • Effects of multiple global change treatments on soil N 2 O fluxes

    Jamie R. Brown;Joseph C. Blankinship;Joseph C. Blankinship;Audrey Niboyet;Audrey Niboyet;Kees Jan van Groenigen

  • Evapotranspiration and soil water content in a scrub-oak woodland under carbon dioxide enrichment

    Bruce A. Hungate;Markus Reichstein;P. Dijkstra;D. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce A. Hungate
Bruce A. Hungate Northern Arizona University
Egbert Schwartz
Egbert Schwartz Northern Arizona University
Bert G. Drake
Bert G. Drake Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
George W. Koch
George W. Koch Northern Arizona University
Stephen C. Hart
Stephen C. Hart University of California, Merced
Jennifer Pett-Ridge
Jennifer Pett-Ridge Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Kees Jan van Groenigen
Kees Jan van Groenigen University of Exeter
Dale W. Johnson
Dale W. Johnson University of Nevada Reno
Chuanlun L. Zhang
Chuanlun L. Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology
Kirsten S. Hofmockel
Kirsten S. Hofmockel Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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