Investigators

Publication List:

Varliero G, Lebre PH, Adams B, Chown SL, Convey P, Dennis PG, et al.. Biogeographic survey of soil bacterial communities across Antarctica. Microbiome [Internet]. 2024;12(1). https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-023-01719-3

Stone MS, Devlin S, Hawes I, Welch KA, Gooseff MN, Takacs-Vesbach CD, et al.. McMurdo Dry Valley lake edge ‘moats’: The ecological intersection between terrestrial and aquatic polar desert habitat. Antarctic Science [Internet]. 2024;:1 - 17. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antarctic-science/article/mcmurdo-dry-valley-lake-edge-moats-the-ecological-intersection-between-terrestrial-and-aquatic-polar-desert-habitats/31D94DD51E651603482A3AE6E8A52A57

Power SN, Salvatore MR, Sokol ER, Stanish LF, Borges SR, Adams B, et al.. Remotely characterizing photosynthetic biocrust in snowpack-fed microhabitats of Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Science of Remote Sensing [Internet]. 2024;:100120. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266601722400004X

Lemoine NP, Adams B, Diaz MA, Dragone NB, Franco ALC, Fierer N, et al.. Strong dispersal limitation of microbial communities at Shackleton Glacier, Antarctica. Lurgi M. mSystems [Internet]. 2023;8(1). https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/msystems.01254-22

Xue X, Adhikari BN, Ball B, Barrett JE, Miao J, Perkes A, et al.. Ecological stoichiometry drives the evolution of soil nematode life history traits. Soil Biology and Biochemistry [Internet]. 2023;177:108891. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071722003480

Collins GE, Young MR, Convey P, Chown SL, Cary CS, Adams B, et al.. Biogeography and genetic diversity of terrestrial mites in the Ross Sea region, Antarctica. Genes [Internet]. 2023;14(3):606. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/14/3/606

Diaz MA, Gardner CB, Elliot DH, Adams B, W. Lyons B. Change at 85 degrees south: Shackleton Glacier region proglacial lakes from 1960 to 2020. Annals of Glaciology [Internet]. 2023;. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annals-of-glaciology/article/change-at-85-degrees-south-shackleton-glacier-region-proglacial-lakes-from-1960-to-2020/565D96AD7AE72BD22C49CCB772867AC4

O’Brien KM, Crockett EL, Adams B, Amsler CD, Appiah-Madson HJ, Collins A, et al.. The time is right for an Antarctic biorepository network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2022;119(50). https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2212800119

Pothula SK, Adams B. Community assembly in the wake of glacial retreat: A meta‐analysis. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2022;. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16427

Dragone NB, Henley JB, Holland-Moritz H, Diaz MA, Hogg ID, W. Lyons B, et al.. Elevational constraints on the composition and genomic attributes of microbial communities in Antarctic soils. Mackelprang R. mSystems [Internet]. 2022;7(1):e01330-21. https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/msystems.01330-21

Franco ALC, Adams B, Diaz MA, Lemoine NP, Dragone NB, Fierer N, et al.. Response of Antarctic soil fauna to climate‐driven changes since the Last Glacial Maximum. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2022;28(2). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.15940

George SF, Fierer N, Levy JS, Adams B. Antarctic water tracks: Microbial community responses to variation in soil moisture, pH, and salinity. Frontiers in Microbiology [Internet]. 2021;12. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.616730

Xue X, Suvorov A, Fujimoto S, Dilman AR, Adams B. Genome analysis of Plectus murrayi, a nematode from continental Antarctica. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics [Internet]. 2021;. https://academic.oup.com/g3journal/advance-article/doi/10.1093/g3journal/jkaa045/6044189

Iwaniec DM, Gooseff MN, Suding KN, Johnson DSamuel, Reed DC, Peters DPC, et al.. Connectivity: Insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network. Ecosphere [Internet]. 2021;12(5):e03432. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.3432

van den Hoogen J, Geisen S, Wall DH, Wardle D, Traunspurger W, de Goede RGM, et al.. A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition. Scientific Data [Internet]. 2020;7(1). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0437-3

Thompson AR, Geisen S, Adams B. Shotgun metagenomics reveal a diverse assemblage of protists in a model Antarctic soil ecosystem. Environmental Microbiology [Internet]. 2020;. https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1462-2920.15198

Collins GE, Hogg ID, Convey P, Sancho LG, Cowan DA, W. Lyons B, et al.. Genetic diversity of soil invertebrates corroborates timing estimates for past collapses of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2020;. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/19/2007925117

Diaz MA, Welch SA, Sheets JM, Welch KA, Khan AL, Adams B, et al.. Geochemistry of aeolian material from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Insights into Southern Hemisphere dust sources. Earth and Planetary Science Letters [Internet]. 2020;547. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X20304040

van den Hoogen J, Geisen S, Routh D, Ferris H, Traunspurger W, Wardle D, et al.. Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale. Nature [Internet]. 2019;572(7768). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1418-6

Caruso T, Hogg ID, Nielsen UN, Bottos EM, Lee CK, Hopkins DW, et al.. Nematodes in a polar desert reveal the relative role of biotic interactions in the coexistence of soil animals. Communications Biology [Internet]. 2019;2(1). http://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0260-y

Wlostowski A, Schulte NO, Adams B, Ball B, Esposito RMM, Gooseff MN, et al.. The hydroecology of an ephemeral wetland in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2019;. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019JG005153

Lee CK, Laughlin DC, Bottos EM, Caruso T, Joy K, Barrett JE, et al.. Biotic interactions are an unexpected yet critical control on the complexity of an abiotically driven polar ecosystem. Communications Biology [Internet]. 2019;2(1). https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0274-5

Thompson AR, Powell GS, Adams B. Provisional checklist of terrestrial heterotrophic protists from Antarctica. Antarctic Science [Internet]. 2019;. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antarctic-science/article/provisional-checklist-of-terrestrial-heterotrophic-protists-from-antarctica/DC08D89ABDC5AF2CC83E38B1C6F1F78C

Ball B, Adams B, Barrett JE, Wall DH, Virginia RA. Soil biological responses to C, N and P fertilization in a polar desert of Antarctica. Soil Biology and Biochemistry [Internet]. 2018;122. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0038071718301081

Diaz MA, Adams B, Welch KA, Welch S, Opiyo SO, Khan AL, et al.. Aeolian material transport and its role in landscape connectivity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface [Internet]. 2018;123(12):3323 - 3337. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2017JF004589

Andriuzzi WS, Adams B, Barrett JE, Virginia RA, Wall DH. Observed trends of soil fauna in the Antarctic Dry Valleys: early signs of shifts predicted under climate change. Ecology [Internet]. 2018;99(2):312 - 321. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/ecy.2090/full

E. Shaw A, Adams B, Barrett JE, W. Lyons B, Virginia RA, Wall DH. Stable C and N isotope ratios reveal soil food web structure and identify the nematode Eudorylaimus antarcticus as an omnivore–predator in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Polar Biology [Internet]. 2018;41(5):1013–1018. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00300-017-2243-8

Aanderud ZT, Saurey SD, Ball B, Wall DH, Barrett JE, Muscarella ME, et al.. Stoichiometric Shifts in Soil C:N:P Promote Bacterial Taxa Dominance, Maintain Biodiversity, and Deconstruct Community Assemblages. Frontiers in Microbiology [Internet]. 2018;9. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01401/full

Wlostowski A, Gooseff MN, Adams B. Soil Moisture Controls the Thermal Habitat of Active Layer Soils in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2018;123(1). https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017JG004018

Andriuzzi WS, Stanish LF, Simmons BL, Jaros C, Adams B, Wall DH, et al.. Spatial and temporal patterns of microbial mats and associated invertebrates along an Antarctic stream. Polar Biology [Internet]. 2018;41(10):1911–1921. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00300-018-2331-4

Xue X, Adams B. Genomics and transcriptomics of Antarctic nematodes reveal drivers of life history evolution and genome evolution [Internet]. Department of Biology. [Provo, UT]: Brigham Young University; 2018. https://search.proquest.com/docview/2081899003

Knox M, Andriuzzi WS, Buelow HN, Takacs-Vesbach CD, 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

Knox M, Wall DH, Virginia RA, Vandegehuchte ML, San Gil I, Adams B. Impact of diurnal freeze–thaw cycles on the soil nematode Scottnema lindsayae in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Polar Biology [Internet]. 2016;39(4):583 - 592. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-015-1809-6

Fountain AG, Saba G, Adams B, Doran PT, Fraser W, Gooseff MN, et al.. The Impact of a Large-Scale Climate Event on Antarctic Ecosystem Processes. BioScience [Internet]. 2016;66(10):848 - 863. http://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-pdf/66/10/848/7510601/biw110.pdf

Pearce DA, Alekhina IA, Terauds A, Wilmotte A, Quesada A, Edwards A, et al.. Aerobiology Over Antarctica – A New Initiative for Atmospheric Ecology. Frontiers in Microbiology [Internet]. 2016;776796194610314927235011365134445142846479110123936574(53307413). http://journal.frontiersin.org/Article/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00016/abstract

Bennett KR, Hogg ID, Adams B, Hebert PDN. High levels of intraspecific genetic divergences revealed for Antarctic springtails: evidence for small-scale isolation during Pleistocene glaciation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society [Internet]. 2016;119(1):166 - 178. https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/bij.12796https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fbij.12796

Beet CR, Hogg ID, Collins GE, Cowan DA, Wall DH, Adams B, et al.. Genetic diversity among populations of Antarctic springtails (Collembola) within the Mackay Glacier ecotone ¹. Genome [Internet]. 2016;59(9):762 - 770. http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/gen-2015-0194

Velasco-Castrillon A, McInnes SJ, Schultz MB, Arroniz-Crespo M, D'Haese CA, Gibson JAE, et al.. Mitochondrial DNA analyses reveal widespread tardigrade diversity in Antarctica. Invertebrate Systematics [Internet]. 2015;29(6):578. http://www.publish.csiro.au/?paper=IS14019

Adams B, Wall DH, Virginia RA, Broos E, Knox M. Ecological Biogeography of the Terrestrial Nematodes of Victoria Land, Antarctica. ZooKeys [Internet]. 2014;419:29 - 71. http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=3899

Tomasel CM, Adams B, Tomasel FG, Wall DH. The Life Cycle of the Antarctic Nematode Plectus murrayi Under Laboratory Conditions. Journal of nematology [Internet]. 2013;45(1):39-42. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3625130/

Gutt J, Adams B, Bracegirdle T, Cowan D, Cummings V, di Prisco G, et al.. Antarctic Thresholds - Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptation (AnT-ERA), a new SCAR-biology programme. Polarforschung [Internet]. 2013;82:147-150. http://epic.awi.de/34238/1/Polarforschung_82-2_147-150.pdf

Levy JS, W. Lyons B, Adams B. Understanding Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to Antarctic Climate Change. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union [Internet]. 2013;94(3):33 - 33. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013EO030009/abstract

Nielsen UN, Wall DH, Adams B, Virginia RA, Ball B, Gooseff MN, et al.. The ecology of pulse events: insights from an extreme climatic event in a polar desert ecosystem. Ecosphere [Internet]. 2012;3(2):art17. http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/ES11-00325.1

Fierer N, Leff JW, Adams B, Nielsen UN, Bates ST, Lauber CL, et al.. Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes. Proceedings Bational Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2012;. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1215210110

Czechowski P, Sands CJ, Adams B, D'Haese CA, Gibson JAE, McInnes SJ, et al.. Antarctic Tardigrada: a first step in understanding molecular operational taxonomic units (MOTUs) and biogeography of cryptic meiofauna. Invertebrate Systematics. 2012;26(6):526.

Smith TE, Wall DH, Hogg I, Adams B, Nielsen UN, Virginia RA. Thawing permafrost alters nematode populations and soil habitat characteristics in an Antarctic polar desert ecosystem. Pedobiologia [Internet]. 2012;55(2):75 - 81. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031405611001156

Adhikari BN, Adams B. Molecular and physiological basis of nematode survival: Molecular analyses of desiccation survival in Antarctic nematodes. Perry RN, Wharton DA. Wallingford: CABI; 2011. pp. 205 - 232.

Adhikari BN, Adams B. Molecular analysis of desiccation survival in Antarctic nematodes. In Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nematode Survival. Wallingford: CABI International; 2011. pp. 205-232.

Nielsen UN, Wall DH, Adams B, Virginia RA. Antarctic nematode communities: observed and predicted responses to climate change. Polar Biology [Internet]. 2011;34(11):1701 - 1711. http://www.springerlink.com/content/v588t5671p1w1323/

Nielsen UN, Wall DH, Li G, Toro M, Adams B, Virginia RA. Nematode communities of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, maritime Antarctica. Antarctic Science. 2011;23(04):349 - 357.

Ayres E, Nkem JN, Wall DH, Adams B, Barrett JE, Simmons BL, et al.. Experimentally increased snow accumulation alters soil moisture and animal community structure in a polar desert. Polar Biology. 2010;33(7):897 - 907.

Adhikari BN, Wall DH, Adams B. Effect of slow desiccation and freezing on gene transcription and stress survival of an Antarctic nematode. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2010;213(11):1803 - 1812.

Adhikari BN, Tomasel CM, Li G, Wall DH, Adams B. Culturing the Antarctic Nematode Plectus murrayi. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols [Internet]. 2010;2010(11):pdb.prot5522 - pdb.prot5522. http://cshprotocols.cshlp.org/content/2010/11/pdb.emo142.short

Adhikari BN, Tomasel CM, Li G, Wall DH, Adams B. The Antarctic Nematode Plectus murrayi: An Emerging Model to Study Multiple Stress Survival. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2010;2010(11):pdb.emo142 - pdb.emo142.

Demetras NJ, Hogg I, Banks JC, Adams B. Latitudinal distribution and mitochondrial DNA (COI) variability of Stereotydeus spp. (Acari: Prostigmata) in Victoria Land and the central Transantarctic Mountains. Antarctic Science. 2010;22(06):749 - 756.

Adhikari BN, Adams B. Genomic analysis of nematode-environment interaction [Internet]. Department of Biology. [Provo, UT]: Brigham Young University; 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2578

Adhikari BN, Wall DH, Adams B. Desiccation survival in an Antarctic nematode: molecular analysis using expressed sequenced tags. BMC GENOMICS [Internet]. 2009;10:69. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10/69

Robeson MS, Costello EK, Freeman KR, Whiting J, Adams B, Martin AP, et al.. Environmental DNA sequencing primers for eutardigrades and bdelloid rotifers. BMC Ecology. 2009;9(1):25.

Simmons BL, Wall DH, Adams B, Ayres E, Barrett JE, Virginia RA. Terrestrial mesofauna in above- and below-ground habitats: Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Polar Biology. 2009;32:1549-1558.

Simmons BL, Wall DH, Adams B, Ayres E, Barrett JE, Virginia RA. Long-term experimental warming reduces soil nematode populations in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2009;41:2052-2060.

Johnson JB, Peat SM, Adams B. Where's the ecology in molecular ecology?. Oikos. 2009;118:1601-1609.

Ayres E, Nkem JN, Wall DH, Adams B, Barrett JE, Broos E, et al.. Effects of Human Trampling on Populations of Soil Fauna in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Conservation Biology. 2008;22(6):1544-1551.

Barrett JE, Virginia RA, Wall DH, Adams B. Decline in a dominant invertebrate species contributes to altered carbon cycling in a low-diversity soil ecosystem. Global Change Biology. 2008;14:1734-1744.

Ayres E, Wall DH, Adams B, Barrett JE, Virginia RA. Unique similarity of faunal communities across aquatic terrestrial interfaces in a polar desert ecosystem. Ecosystems. 2007;.

Adams B, Wall DH, Gozel U, Dillman A, Chaston J, Hogg I. The southernmost worm, Scottnema lindsayae (Nematoda): diversity, dispersal and ecological stability. Polar Biology. 2007;30:809-815.

Adams B, Connell L, Convey P, Fell J, Frati F, Hogg I, et al.. Diversity and distribution of Victoria Land biota. Soil Biology and Biochemistry [Internet]. 2006;38:3003-3018. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038071706002215

Barrett JE, Virginia RA, Wall DH, Cary CS, Adams B, Hacker A, et al.. Co-variation in soil biodiversity and biogeochemistry in Northern and Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science [Internet]. 2006;18:535-548. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antarctic-science/article/covariation-in-soil-biodiversity-and-biogeochemistry-in-northern-and-southern-victoria-land-antarctica/C3514C28DB75F3A19DB5F266D4B1B56E

Hogg I, Wall DH, Cary CS, Convey K, Newsham K, ODonnell G, et al.. Biotic interactions in Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems: Are they a factor?. Soil Biology and Biochemistry [Internet]. 2006;38(10):3035-3040. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071706002173

Nkem JN, Wall DH, Virginia RA, Barrett JE, Broos E, Porazinska D, et al.. Wind dispersal of soil invertebrates in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Polar Biology [Internet]. 2006;29:346-352. http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00300-005-0061-x

Wall DH, Adams B, Barrett JE, Hopkins DW. A synthesis of soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2006;38:3001-3002.