Publications

He X, Marmasse G, Hu J, Varney R, Manzoni S, Manzoni S, Ciais P, Wang YP, Cui Y, Bai E, Abramoff R, Abs E, Schwarz E, Zhang H, Goll D (2026). Microbial growth rate is a stronger predictor of soil organic carbon than carbon use efficiency. Nature Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02961-8

Schwarz E, Abs E, Chakrawal A, Chavez Rodriguez L, Quévreux P, Manzoni S (2025). Eco-evolutionary optimality in soil organic matter models. Ecology Letters, 28(12). https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70278

Abs E, Saleska S, Allison S, Ciais P, Song Y, Weintraub M & Ferriere R (2025). Microbiome adaptation could amplify modeled projections of global soil carbon loss with climate warming. Global Change Biology, 31(6). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70301

Abs E, Coulette D, Ciais P, Allison S (2024). Microbial Evolution Drives Adaptation of Substrate Degradation on Decadal to Centennial Time Scales Relevant to Global Change. Ecology Letters, 27(10). https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14530

He X, Abs E, Allison S, Tao F, Huang Y, Manzoni S, Abramoff R, Bruni E, Bowring S, Chakrawal A, Ciais P, Elsgaard L, Friedlingstein P, Georgiou K, Hugelius G, Busk Holm L, Li W, Luo Y, Marmasse G, Nunan N, Qiu C, Sitch S, Wang YP, Goll D (2024). Emerging multiscale insights on microbial carbon use efficiency in the land carbon cycle. Nature Communications, 15(8010). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52160-5

Abs E, Chase A, Manzoni S, Ciais P, Allison S (2024). Microbial evolution—An under-appreciated driver of soil carbon cycling. Global Change Biology, 30(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17268

Abs E, Hough M (2024). Changing the culture of ecology from the ground up. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00003

He X, Abramoff R, Abs E, Georgiou K, Zhang H & Goll D (2024). Model uncertainty obscures major driver of soil carbon. Nature, 627(E1-E3). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06999-1

Abs E, Albright M & Allison S (2024). Invasions eliminate the legacy effects of substrate history on microbial nitrogen cycling. Ecosphere, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4754

Abs E, Hough M (2023). The world of underground ecology in a changing environment. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00139

Abs E, Chase A, Allison S (2022). How do soil microbes shape ecosystem biogeochemistry in the context of global change? Environmental Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16331

Defrenne C, Abs E, Longhi Cordeiro A, Dietterich L, Hough M, Jones J, Kivlin S, Chen W, Cusack D, Franco A, Khasanova A, Stover D, Romero-Olivares A (2021). The Ecology Underground coalition: building a collaborative future of belowground ecology and ecologists. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17163

Abs E, Leman H, Ferriere R (2020). A multi-scale eco-evolutionary model of cooperation reveals how microbial adaptation influences soil decomposition. Communications Biology, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01198-4

Abs E, Ferriere R (2020). Modeling Microbial Dynamics and Heterotrophic Soil Respiration: Effect of Climate Change. American Geophysical Union, 103-129. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119413332.ch5

Balzano S, Abs E, Leterme S (2015). Protist diversity along a salinity gradient in a coastal lagoon. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 74(3). https://doi.org/10.3354/ame01740