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Rebecca L. McCulley is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on soil and ecosystem dynamics.

Their subfields of study include Soil Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. The main research topics explored by McCulley cover Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Plant and Animal Studies, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Recent publications by Rebecca L. McCulley include:

  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time, 2020, Ecology
  • The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent coauthors collaborating with McCulley are:

  • Elizabeth T. Borer
  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Anita C. Risch
  • Joslin L. Moore
  • Carly J. Stevens

Rebecca L. McCulley's work has been disseminated through several notable publication venues, including:

  • Nature Communications
  • Global Change Biology
  • Ecology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • 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

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

    Yann Hautier;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Peter B. Adler

  • Reconstructing the microbial diversity and function of pre-agricultural tallgrass prairie soils in the United States.

    Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer;Joshua Ladau;Jose C. Clemente;Jonathan W. Leff;Jonathan W. Leff

  • Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

    W. Stanley Harpole;W. Stanley Harpole;Lauren L. Sullivan;Eric M. Lind;Jennifer Firn

  • Carbon fluxes, nitrogen cycling, and soil microbial communities in adjacent urban, native and agricultural ecosystems

    Jason P. Kaye;Rebecca L. McCulley;Ingrid C. Burke

  • Biologic cycling of silica across a grassland bioclimosequence

    S. W. Blecker;S. W. Blecker;Rebecca L. McCulley;O. A. Chadwick;E. F. Kelly

  • African Wild Ungulates Compete with or Facilitate Cattle Depending on Season

    Wilfred O. Odadi;Moses K. Karachi;Shaukat A. Abdulrazak;Truman P. Young

  • Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

    Yann Hautier;Forest Isbell;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom

  • A method for simultaneous measurement of soil bacterial abundances and community composition via 16S rRNA gene sequencing

    Wenke Smets;Jonathan W. Leff;Jonathan W. Leff;Mark A. Bradford;Rebecca L. McCulley

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Effects of tree species and N additions on forest floor microbial communities and extracellular enzyme activities.

    Matthew P. Weand;Mary A. Arthur;Gary M. Lovett;Rebecca L. McCulley

  • 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

  • Nutrient uptake as a contributing explanation for deep rooting in arid and semi-arid ecosystems.

    Rebecca L. McCulley;E. G. Jobbágy;E. G. Jobbágy;W. T. Pockman;W. T. Pockman;R. B. Jackson

  • Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

    Carly J. Stevens;Eric M. Lind;Yann Hautier;Yann Hautier;W. Stanley Harpole

  • SOIL RESPIRATION AND NUTRIENT CYCLING IN WOODED COMMUNITIES DEVELOPING IN GRASSLAND

    Rebecca L. McCulley;S. R. Archer;T. W. Boutton;F. M. Hons

  • Cross-biome patterns in soil microbial respiration predictable from evolutionary theory on thermal adaptation.

    Mark A. Bradford;Rebecca L. McCulley;Thomas. W. Crowther;Emily E. Oldfield

  • Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

    A.C. Risch;S. Zimmermann;R. Ochoa-Hueso;M. Schütz

  • Forages and pastures symposium: fungal endophytes of tall fescue and perennial ryegrass: pasture friend or foe?

    C. A. Young;D. E. Hume;Rebecca L. McCulley

  • Predicting the responsiveness of soil biodiversity to deforestation: a cross-biome study

    Thomas W. Crowther;Daniel S. Maynard;Jonathan W. Leff;Emily E. Oldfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
Johannes M. H. Knops
Johannes M. H. Knops Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Anita C. Risch
Anita C. Risch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Suzanne M. Prober
Suzanne M. Prober Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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