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Thomas H. DeLuca is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with specialized attention to soil science, ecology, and global and planetary change. They have contributed extensively to understanding soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, fire effects on ecosystems, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Their publication record includes significant work on topics such as soil carbon processes, fire impacts on forest ecosystems, and nutrient cycling in rangeland and boreal forest environments. Their recent papers reflect the depth and range of their research interests:

  • "High-severity wildfire reduces richness and alters composition of ectomycorrhizal fungi in low-severity adapted ponderosa pine forests" (2021), published in Forest Ecology and Management
  • "Biochar alters nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in a western rangeland ecosystem" (2020), published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "The biological controls of soil carbon accumulation following wildfire and harvest in boreal forests: A review" (2024), published in Global Change Biology
  • "Pyrogenic Carbon Generation From Fire and Forest Restoration Treatments" (2020), published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • "Long-term fate of nitrogen fixation in Pleurozium schreberi Brid (Mit.) moss carpets in boreal forests" (2021), published in Applied Soil Ecology

Frequent publication venues for Thomas H. DeLuca include:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Geoderma
  • Plant and Soil
  • Biology and Fertility of Soils
  • Anthropocene

Among their main research topics are:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Forest Management and Policy

Thomas H. DeLuca has collaborated frequently with colleagues including Shouqin Sun, Genxu Wang, Zhaoyong Hu, Si Gao, and Xiangyang Sun, indicating a network of co-authors involved in related fields of environmental and soil sciences.

Best Publications

  • Biochar effects on soil nutrient transformations

    Thomas H. DeLuca;Michael J. Gundale;M. Derek MacKenzie;Davey L. Jones

  • Post-fire vegetative dynamics as drivers of microbial community structure and function in forest soils

    Stephen C. Hart;Thomas H. DeLuca;Gregory S. Newman;M. Derek MacKenzie

  • Wildfire-Produced Charcoal Directly Influences Nitrogen Cycling in Ponderosa Pine Forests

    T. H. DeLuca;M. D. MacKenzie;M. J. Gundale;W. E. Holben

  • Quantifying nitrogen-fixation in feather moss carpets of boreal forests

    Thomas H. DeLuca;Olle Zackrisson;Marie-Charlotte Nilsson;Anita Sellstedt

  • Short-term biochar-induced increase in soil CO2 release is both biotically and abiotically mediated

    D.L. Jones;Daniel Murphy;M. Khalid;W. Ahmad

  • Biochar additions alter phosphorus and nitrogen availability in agricultural ecosystems: A meta-analysis.

    Si Gao;Thomas H. DeLuca;Cory C. Cleveland

  • Temperature and source material influence ecological attributes of ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir charcoal

    Michael J. Gundale;Thomas H. DeLuca

  • Nutrient dynamics, microbial growth and weed emergence in biochar amended soil are influenced by time since application and reapplication rate

    Richard S. Quilliam;Richard S. Quilliam;Karina A. Marsden;Christoph Gertler;Johannes Rousk;Johannes Rousk

  • Effect of freeze-thaw events on mineralization of soil nitrogen

    T. H. DeLuca;D. R. Keeney;G. W. McCarty

  • Nitrogen mineralization and phenol accumulation along a fire chronosequence in northern Sweden

    T. H. Deluca;M.-C. Nilsson;O. Zackrisson

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Charcoal effects on soil solution chemistry and growth of Koeleria macrantha in the ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir ecosystem

    Michael J. Gundale;Thomas H. DeLuca

  • REVIEW: Nutrient stripping: the global disparity between food security and soil nutrient stocks

    Davey L. Jones;Paul Cross;Paul J. A. Withers;Thomas H. DeLuca

  • Charcoal and carbon storage in forest soils of the Rocky Mountain West

    Thomas H DeLuca;Gregory H Aplet

  • Wildfire and charcoal enhance nitrification and ammonium-oxidizing bacterial abundance in dry montane forest soils.

    P N Ball;M D MacKenzie;T H DeLuca;W E Holben

  • Bryophytes attenuate anthropogenic nitrogen inputs in boreal forests

    Michael J. Gundale;Thomas H. Deluca;Annika Nordin

  • Boreal forest soil carbon: distribution, function and modelling

    Thomas H. DeLUCA;Celine Boisvenue

  • Activated carbon amendments to soil alters nitrification rates in Scots pine forests

    L.M. Berglund;T.H. DeLuca;T.H. DeLuca;O. Zackrisson

  • Biological-control herbivores may increase competitive ability of the noxious weed Centaurea maculosa

    Ragan M. Callaway;Thomas H. DeLuca;Wendy M. Belliveau

  • NITROGEN FIXATION INCREASES WITH SUCCESSIONAL AGE IN BOREAL FORESTS

    Olle Zackrisson;Thomas Henry DeLuca;Thomas Henry DeLuca;Marie-Charlotte Nilsson;Anita Sellstedt;Anita Sellstedt

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Olle Zackrisson
Olle Zackrisson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Davey L. Jones
Davey L. Jones Bangor University
Michael J. Gundale
Michael J. Gundale Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Richard S. Quilliam
Richard S. Quilliam University of Stirling
Marie-Charlotte Nilsson
Marie-Charlotte Nilsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Johannes Rousk
Johannes Rousk Lund University
Anna Sala
Anna Sala University of Montana
Mark Farrell
Mark Farrell Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Charles H. Luce
Charles H. Luce US Forest Service
Daniel V. Murphy
Daniel V. Murphy Murdoch University

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