Cristina Takacs-Vesbach

Name:

Cristina Takacs-Vesbach

Title:

Professor

Role:

Principal Investigator

Organization:

University of New Mexico

Address:

Castetter Hall, Department of Biology, UNM

Albuquerque, NM 87131

United States

Email:

Research Team:

Publication List:

Feeser KL, Van Horn DJ, Buelow HN, Colman DR, McHugh TA, Okie JG, et al.. Local and Regional Scale Heterogeneity Drive Bacterial Community Diversity and Composition in a Polar Desert. Frontiers in Microbiology [Internet]. 2018;9. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01928/full

Kwon M, Kim M, Takacs-Vesbach C, Lee J, Hong SGyu, Kim SJong, et al.. Niche specialization of bacteria in permanently ice-covered lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Environmental Microbiology [Internet]. 2017;19(6):2258 - 2271. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1462-2920.13721

Knox M, Andriuzzi WS, Buelow HN, Takacs-Vesbach C, Adams B, Wall DH. Decoupled responses of soil bacteria and their invertebrate consumer to warming, but not freeze-thaw cycles, in the Antarctic Dry Valleys. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2017;20(10):1242-1249. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12819/full

Gooseff MN, Barrett JE, Adams B, Doran PT, Fountain AG, W Lyons B, et al.. Decadal ecosystem response to an anomalous melt season in a polar desert in Antarctica. Nature Ecology & Evolution [Internet]. 2017;1(9):1334-1338. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0253-0

Geyer KM, Takacs-Vesbach C, Gooseff MN, Barrett JE. Primary productivity as a control over soil microbial diversity along environmental gradients in a polar desert ecosystem. PeerJ [Internet]. 2017;5(10):e3377. https://peerj.com/articles/3377/

Bowman JS, Vick-Majors TJ, Morgan-Kiss RM, Takacs-Vesbach C, Ducklow HW, Priscu JC. Microbial Community Dynamics in Two Polar Extremes: The Lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys and the West Antarctic Peninsula Marine Ecosystem. BioScience [Internet]. 2016;66(10):829 - 847. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/biosci/biw103https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/66/10/829/2236137/Microbial-Community-Dynamics-in-Two-Polar-Extremes

Kohler TJ, Van Horn DJ, Darling JP, Takacs-Vesbach C, McKnight DM. Nutrient treatments alter microbial mat colonization in two glacial meltwater streams from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Wagner D. FEMS Microbiology Ecology [Internet]. 2016;92(4):fiw049. http://femsec.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/doi/10.1093/femsec/fiw049

Van Horn DJ, Wolf CR, Colman DR, Jiang X, Kohler TJ, McKnight DM, et al.. Patterns of bacterial biodiversity in the glacial meltwater streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. FEMS Microbiology Ecology [Internet]. 2016;92(10):fiw148. http://femsec.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/doi/10.1093/femsec/fiw148

Buelow HN, Winter AS, Van Horn DJ, Barrett JE, Gooseff MN, Schwartz E, et al.. Microbial Community Responses to Increased Water and Organic Matter in the Arid Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Frontiers in Microbiology [Internet]. 2016;7(e23484S2237R25e97876e16410550e61217386e14510884660e19953e2527e661032901141). http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01040

Okie JG, Van Horn DJ, Storch D, Barrett JE, Gooseff MN, Kopsova L, et al.. Niche and metabolic principles explain patterns of diversity and distribution: theory and a case study with soil bacterial communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences [Internet]. 2015;282(1809):2630. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rspb.2014.2630

Van Horn DJ, Okie JG, Buelow HN, Gooseff MN, Barrett JE, Takacs-Vesbach C. Soil microbial responses to increased moisture and organic resources along a salinity gradient in a polar desert. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2014;80(10):3034-3043.

Schwartz E, Van Horn DJ, Buelow HN, Gooseff MN, Barrett JE, Takacs-Vesbach C, et al.. Characterization of Growing Bacterial Populations in McMurdo Dry Valley Soils through Stable Isotope Probing with 18O-water. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2014;89(2):415-425.

Geyer KM, Altrichter AE, Takacs-Vesbach C, Gooseff MN, Barrett JE. Bacterial community composition of divergent soil habitats from a polar desert. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2014;89(2):490-494.

Winslow LA, Dugan HA, Buelow HN, Cronin KD, Priscu JC, Takacs-Vesbach C, et al.. Autonomous Year-Round Sampling and Sensing to Explore the Physical and Biological Habitability of Permanently Ice-Covered Antarctic Lakes. Marine Technology Society Journal [Internet]. 2014;48(5):8 - 17. http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=0025-3324&volume=48&issue=5&spage=8http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mts/mtsj/2014/00000048/00000005/art00002

Van Horn DJ, M. Van Horn L, Barrett JE, Gooseff MN, Altrichter AE, Geyer KM, et al.. Factors Controlling Soil Microbial Biomass and Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition in a Cold Desert Ecosystem: Role of Geographic Scale. PLoS ONE [Internet]. 2013;8(6):e66103. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0066103

Eveland J, Gooseff MN, Lampkin DJ, Barrett JE, Takacs-Vesbach C. Spatial and temporal patterns of snow accumulation and aerial ablation across the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Hydrological Processes [Internet]. 2013;27(20):2864 - 2875. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.9407/pdf

Eveland J, Gooseff MN, Lampkin DJ, Barrett JE, Takacs-Vesbach C. Seasonal controls on snow distribution and aerial ablation at the snow-patch and landscape scales, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. The Cryosphere [Internet]. 2013;7(3):917 - 931. http://www.the-cryosphere.net/7/917/2013/tc-7-917-2013.html

Geyer KM, Altrichter AE, Van Horn DJ, Takacs-Vesbach C, Gooseff MN, Barrett JE. Environmental controls over bacterial communities in polar desert soils. Ecosphere. 2013;4(10):art127.

Eveland J, Gooseff MN, Lampkin DJ, Barrett JE, Takacs-Vesbach C. Seasonal controls on snow distribution and aerial ablation at the snow-patch and landscape scales, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. The Cryosphere Discussions. 2012;6(5):3823 - 3862.

Eveland J, Gooseff MN, Lampkin DJ, Barrett JE, Takacs-Vesbach C. Spatial and temporal patterns of snow accumulation and aerial ablation across the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Hydrological Processes. 2012;:n/a - n/a.

Zeglin LH, Dahm CN, Barrett JE, Gooseff MN, Fitpatrick SK, Takacs-Vesbach C. Bacterial Community Structure Along Moisture Gradients in the Parafluvial Sediments of Two Ephemeral Desert Streams. Microbial Ecology [Internet]. 2011;61(3):543 - 556. http://www.springerlink.com/content/r83j53334v5n505w/

Doran PT, W Lyons B, McKnight DM. Life in Antarctic Deserts and Other Cold Environments [Internet]. McKnight DM, Gooseff MN, Takacs-Vesbach C, Mikucki JA, Tranter M, Sun HJ. Astrobiological Analogs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.; 2010. p. 307. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511712258

Barrett JE, Poage M, Gooseff MN, Takacs-Vesbach C. The legacy of aqueous environments on soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys: contexts for future exploration of martian soils. In Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments [Internet]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2010. pp. 78 - 109. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511712258&cid=CBO9780511712258A010

Takacs-Vesbach C, Zeglin LH, Gooseff MN, Barrett JE, Priscu JC. Factors promoting microbial diversity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. In Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments: Astrobiological Analogues [Internet]. Cambridge University Press; 2010. pp. 221-257. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511712258&cid=CBO9780511712258A015

Ikard S, Gooseff MN, Barrett JE, Takacs-Vesbach C. Thermal Characterisation of Active Layer Across a Soil Moisture Gradient in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 2009;20:27-39.

Barrett JE, Gooseff MN, Takacs-Vesbach C. Spatial variation in soil active-layer geochemistry across hydrologic margins in polar desert ecosystems. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 2009;13:2349-2358.

Zeglin LH, Sinsabaugh R, Barrett JE, Gooseff MN, Takacs-Vesbach C. Landscape Distribution of Microbial Activity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Linked Biotic Processes, Hydrology, and Geochemistry in a Cold Desert Ecosystem. Ecosystems. 2009;12:562-573.

Northcott M, Gooseff MN, Barrett JE, Zeglin LH, Takacs-Vesbach C, Humphrey J. Hydrologic characteristics of lake- and stream-side riparian wetted margins in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Hydrological Processes. 2009;23:1255-1267.

Sinsabaugh R, Gallo M, Gartner T, Hobbie S, Holland K, Keeler B, et al.. Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale. Ecology Letters. 2008;11:1252-1264.

Zeglin LH. Microbial diversity and function at aquatic- terrestrial interfaces in desert ecosystems. University of New Mexico; 2008.

Gooseff MN, Barrett JE, Northcott ML, D. Bate B, Hill KR, Zeglin LH, et al.. Controls on the spatial dimensions of wetted hydrologic margins of two antarctic lakes. Vadose Zone Journal. 2007;6(4):841-848.

Bobb M. Spatial Patterns of Bacterial Diversity in Cold Desert Riparian Zones. University of New Mexico; 2006.

Takacs-Vesbach C, Priscu JC, McKnight DM. Bacterial dissolved organic carbon demand in antarctic dry valley lakes. Limnology and Oceanography [Internet]. 2001;46(7):1189-1194. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2671031

Priscu JC, Wolf CF, Takacs-Vesbach C, Fritsen CH, Laybourn-Parry J, Roberts EC, et al.. Carbon transformations in a perennially ice-covered Antarctic lake. 1999;.

Priscu JC, Adams EE, W Lyons B, Voytek MA, Mogk DW, Brown RL, et al.. Geomicrobiology of sub-glacial ice above Vostok Station. Science. 1999;286(5447):2141-2144.

Takacs-Vesbach C. Factors Affecting the Distribution and Dynamics of Bacterioplankton Biomass and Diversity in Taylor Valley Lakes, Antarctica. 1999.

Takacs-Vesbach C, Priscu JC. The role of phytoplankton extracellular release in bacterioplankton growth of Taylor Valley Lakes, Antarctica. Antarctic Journal of the United States - 1996 Review Issue (NSF 98-28). 1998;31(2):211-212.

Takacs-Vesbach C, Priscu JC. Bacterioplankton dynamics in the McMurdo Dry Valley lakes, Antarctica: Production and biomass loss over four seasons. Microbial Ecology. 1998;36(3):239-250.

Takacs-Vesbach C, Priscu JC. Bacterial growth in Antarctic lakes: The role of phytoplankton extracellular release. Bacterial growth in Antarctic lakes: The role of phytoplankton extracellular. 1996;.

Takacs-Vesbach C, Priscu JC. Responses of bacterial growth to inorganic and organic nutrient enrichment in the lakes of the dry valleys, Antarctica. Antarctic Journal of the US. 1995;30:303-305.

Datasets for Cristina Takacs-Vesbach

Extracellular Enzyme Assays of Key Lake Depths

Lake Bonney Autonomous Lake Profiler and Samplers (ALPS): Particulate Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Concentrations

Lake Bonney Autonomous Lake Profiler and Samplers (ALPS): Dissolved CO2 Concentrations

Lake Bonney Autonomous Lake Profiler and Samplers (ALPS): Conductivity, Temperature, and Pressure

Lake Bonney Autonomous Lake Profiler and Samplers (ALPS): Photosynthetically Active Radiation

Lake Bonney Autonomous Lake Profiler and Samplers (ALPS): BBE moldanke Fluoroprobe data