PUBLICATIONS

Meredith Group authors (members, visitors, and prior mentees) are underlined. *Co-first authorship. 

Laura K. Meredith on ResearchGate; Google Scholar; ResearcherID: J-2331-2014; Orcid: 0000-0003-4244-4366.


Peer-Reviewed Publications

Meredith, L.K., Ledford, S.M., Riemer, K., Geffre, P., Graves, K., Honeker, L.K., LeBauer, D., Tfaily, M.M., Krechmer, J. (2023) Automating methods for estimating metabolite volatility. Frontiers in Microbiology. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1267234. Document online.

Ladd, S.N., Daber, L.E., Bamberger, I., Kübert, A., Kreuzwieser, J., Purser, G., Ingrisch, J., Deleeuw, J., van Haren, J., Meredith, L.K., and Werner, C. (2023) Leaf-level metabolic changes in response to drought affect daytime CO2 emission and isoprenoid synthesis. Tree Physiology, doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpad094. Document online.

Honeker, L., Pugliese, G., Ingrisch, J., Fudyma, J., Gil-Loaiza, J., Carpenter, E., Singer, E., Hildebrand, G., Shi, L., Hoyt, D., Krechmer, J., Claflin, M., Ayala-Ortiz, C., Freire-Zapata, V., Pfannerstill, E., Daber, E., Meeran, K., Dippold, M., Kreuzwieser, J., Williams, J., Ladd, S. N., Werner, C., Tfaily, .M, and Meredith, L. K. (2023) Soil emissions of three volatile metabolites induced by drought in an artificial tropical rainforest. Nature Microbiology, 8, 1480-1494, doi: 10.1038/s41564-023-01432-9. Document online

Pugliese, G., Ingrisch, J., Meredith, L.K., Pfannerstill, E.Y., Meeran, K., Byron, J., Purser, G., Gil-Loaiza, J., van Haren, J., Kreuzwieser, J., Ladd, S.N., Werner, C., and Williams, J. (2023) The effect of prolonged drought and recovery on VOC soil fluxes in an enclosed tropical rainforest. Nature Communications, 14, doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-40661-8. Document online.

Hildebrand, G.A., Honeker, L.K., Freire-Zapata, V., Ayala-Ortiz, C., Rajakaruna, S., Fudyma, J., Daber, E., AminiTabrizi, R., Chu, R.L., Toyoda, J. Flowers, S.E., Hoyt , D., Hamdan, R., Gil-Loaiza, J., Shi, L., Dippold, M.A., Ladd, S. N., Werner, C., MeredithL. K., Malak M. Tfaily (2023). Uncovering the dominant role of root metabolism in shaping rhizosphere metabolome under drought in tropical rainforest plants. Science of The Total Environment, p.165689, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165689. Document online

Kühnhammer, K., van Haren, J., Kübert, A., Bailey, K., Dubbert, M., Hu, J., Ladd, N., Meredith, L.K., Werner, C. and Beyer, M. (2023). Deep roots mitigate drought impacts on tropical trees despite limited quantitative contribution to transpiration. Science of The Total Environment, p.164763, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164763. Document online

Kübert, A., Dubbert, M., Bamberger, I., Kühnhammer, K., Beyer, M., van Haren, J., Bailey, K., Hu, J., Meredith, L. K., Ladd, S. N., and Werner, C. (2022) Tracing plant source water dynamics during drought by continuous transpiration measurements: an in-situ stable isotope approach. Plant, Cell & Environment, doi: 10.1111/pce.14475. Document online

Byron, J., Kreuzwieser, J., Purser, G., van Haren, J., Ladd, S.N., Meredith, L.K., Werner, C., and Williams, J. (2022) Chiral monoterpenes reveal forest emission mechanisms and drought responses. Nature, 609, doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05020-5. Document online

Buzzard, V., D. ThorneJ. Gil-Loiaza, A. CuevaL. K. Meredith(2022) Sensitivity of soil hydrogen uptake to natural and managed moisture dynamics in a semiarid urban ecosystemPeerJ, doi: 10.7717/peerj.12966Document online

L. K. Meredith and M. M. Tfaily. (2022) Capturing the microbial volatilome: an oft overlooked ‘ome’. Trends in Microbiology, doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2021.12.004. Document online

Honeker, L.K.*, G. A. Hildebrand*,  J. Fudyma, E. Daber, D. Hoyt, S. E. Flowers, J. Gil-Loaiza, A. Kübert, I. Bamberger, C. R. Anderton, J. Cliff, S. Leichty, R. AminiTabrizi, J. Kreuzwieser, L. Shi, X. Bai, D. Velickovic, M. A. Dippold, S. N. Ladd, C. Werner, L.K. Meredith, M. T. Tfaily. (2022) Elucidating drought tolerance mechanisms in plant roots through 1H-NMR metabolomics and MALDI-MS and NanoSIMS imaging techniques. Environmental Science and TechnologyDocument online

J. Gil-Loaiza, J. R. Roscioli, J. H. Shorter, T. H. M. Volkmann, W.-R, Ng, J. E. Krechmer, L. K. Meredith. (2022) Versatile soil gas concentration and isotope monitoring: optimization and integration of novel soil gas probes with online trace gas detection. Biogeosciences, 19:165-185. doi: 10.5194/bg-19-165-2022. Document online 

D. Dwivedi, A.L.D. Santos, M.A. Barnard, T.M. Crimmins, A. Malhotra, K.A. Rod, K.S. Aho, S.M. Bell, B. Bomfim, F.Q. Brearley, H. Cadillo-Quiroz, J. Chen, C.M. Gough, E.B. Graham, C.R. Hakkenberg, L. Haygood, G. Koren, E. Lilleskov, L.K. Meredith, S. Naeher, Z. Nickerson, O. Pourret, H.-S. Song, M. Stahl, N. Taş, R. Vargas, S. Weintraub-Leff. (2022) Biogeosciences Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON). Science. Earth and Space Sciences, doi: 10.1029/2021EA002119. Document online

Werner*, C., L. K. Meredith*, S. N. Ladd*, J. Ingrisch, A. Kübert, J. van Haren, M. Bahn, K. Bailey, I. Bamberger, M. Beyer, D. Blomdahl, J. Byron, E. Daber, J. Deleeuw, M. Dippold, J. Fudyma, J. Gil-Loaiza, L. K. Honeker, J. Hu, J. Huang, T. Klüpfel, J. Krechmer, J. Kreuzwieser, K. Kühnhammer, M. M. Lehmann, K. Meeran, P. K. Misztal, W.-R. Ng, E. Pfannerstill, G. Pugliese, G. Purser, J. R.  Roscioli, L. Shi, M. Tfaily, J. Williams. (2021) Ecosystem fluxes during drought and recovery in an experimental forest. Science 374(6574), 10.1126/science.abj6789. Document online

Sengupta, A., T. H. M. Volkmann, R. A. Danczak, J. C. Stegen, K. Dontsova, N. Abramson, A. S. Bugaj, M. J. Volk, K. A. Matos, A. A. Meira-Neto, A. Barberán, J. W. Neilson, R. M. Maier, J. Chorover, P. A. Troch, L. K. Meredith. (2021) Contrasting community assembly forces drive microbial structural and functional responses to precipitation in an incipient soil system. Frontiers in MicrobiologyDocument online

Buzzard, V., J. Gil-Loiaza, N. Graf Grachet, H. Talkington, C. Youngerman, M. M. Tfaily, L. K. Meredith(2021) Green infrastructure influences soil health: Biological divergence one year after installationScience of the Total Environment 801. Document online

Honeker, L. K., K. R. Graves, M. M. Tfaily, J. E. Krechmer, L. K. Meredith(2021) The volatilome: a vital piece of the complete soil metabolome. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9:113. Document online

J. R. Roscioli* J.R. and L. K. Meredith*, J. H. Shorter, J. Gil-Loaiza, T. H. M. Volkmann. (2021) Soil gas probes for monitoring trace gas messengers of microbial activity. Scientific Reports 11:8327. *=co-first authorship Document online

Kooijmans, L. M. J., A. Cho, J. Ma, A. Kaushik, K. D. Haynes, I. Baker, I. T. Luijkx, M. Groenink, W. Peters, J. Miller, J. A. Berry, J. Ogée, L. K. Meredith, W. Sun, K.-M. Kohonen, T. Vesala, I. Mammarella, H. Chen, F. M. Spielmann, G. Wohlfahrt,  M. Berkelhammer, M. E. Whelan, K. Maseyk, U. Seibt, R. Commane, R. Wehr, M. Krol. (2021) Evaluation of carbonyl sulfide biosphere exchange in the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB4). Biogeosciences. 8:6547-6565, Document online.

K. Jordaan, R. Lappan, X. Dong, I. J. Aitkenhead, S. K. Bay, E. Chiri, N. Wieler, L. K. Meredith, D. A. Cowan, S. L. Chown, C. Greening. (2020) Hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria are abundant in desert soils and strongly stimulated by hydration. mSystems 5:e01131-20. Document online. 

M. E. Kroeger, L. K. Meredith, K. M. Meyer, K. D. Webster, P. Barbosa de Camargo, L. Fonseca de Souza, S. Mui Tsai, J. van Haren, S. Saleska, B. J.M. Bohannan, J. L. M. Rodrigues, K. Nüsslein. (2020) Rainforest-to-pasture conversion stimulates soil methanogenesis across the Brazilian Amazon. The ISME Journal. 10.1038/s41396-020-00804-x. Document online.

K. M. Meyer, A. H. Morris, K. Webster, A. M. Klein, M. E. Kroeger, L. K. Meredith, A. Brændholt, F. Nakamura, A. Venturini, L. Fonseca de Souza, K. L. Shek, R. Danielson, J. van Haren, P. Barbosa de Camargo, S. Mui Tsai, F. Dini-Andreote, J. M. S. de Mauro, J. Barlow, E. Berenguer, K. Nüsslein, S. Saleska, J. L. M. Rodrigues, B. J. M. Bohannan. (2020) Belowground changes to community structure alter methane-cycling dynamics in Amazonia. Environment International, 145, 10.1016/j.envint.2020.106131. Document online.

P. Martínez-Sosa, J. E. Tierney, L. K. Meredith. (2020) Controlled lacustrine microcosms show a brGDGT response to environmental perturbations. Organic Geochemistry, 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104041. Document online.

L. K. Meredith, K. Boye, K. Savage, and R. Vargas. (2020) Formation and Fluxes of Soil Trace Gases. Soil Systems, 4(22), 22. Document Online. PDF.

C. Sayuri Nishisaka, C. Youngerman, L. K. Meredith, J. Braga do Carmo, and A. Aparecido Navarrete. (2019) Seasonality increases N2O emissions and denitrification gene abundance through soil and plant residue characteristics in citrus and eucalyptus plantations. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7:11, 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00011. Document online. PDF

A. Cueva, T. H. M. Volkmann, J. van Haren, P. Troch, and L. K. Meredith. (2019) Reconciling Negative Soil CO2 Fluxes: Insights from a Large-Scale Experimental Hillslope. Soil Systems, 3(1):10, doi:10.3390/soilsystems3010010. Document online. PDF

L. K. Meredith, J. Ogée, K. Boye, E. Singer, L. Wingate, C. von Sperber, A. Sengupta, M. Whelan, E. Pang, M. Keiluweit, N. Brüggemann, J. A. Berry, and P. V. Welander. (2018) Soil exchange rates of COS and CO18O shift with the diversity of microbial communities and their carbonic anhydrase enzymes. The ISME Journal, doi:10.1038/s41396-018-0270-2. Document online. PDF

L. K. Meredith, K. Boye, C. Youngerman, M. Whelan, J. Ogée, J. Sauze, and L. Wingate. (2018) Coupled biological and abiotic mechanisms driving carbonyl sulfide production in soils. Soil Systems2(3):37, doi:doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems2030037. Document online. PDF

Whelan, M. E., …, Meredith, L. K., and others. (2018) Reviews and Syntheses: Carbonyl Sulfide as a Multi-scale Tracer for Carbon and Water Cycles. Biogeosciences, 15:3625-3657, doi:10.5194/bg-15-3625-2018. Document online.

Volkmann, T. H. M., Sengupta, S., Pangle, L.A., Dontsova, K., Barron-Gafford, G. A., Harman, C. J., Niu, G.-Y., Meredith, L. K., and others. (2018) Controlled Experiments of Hillslope Coevolution at the Biosphere 2 Landscape Evolution Observatory: Toward Prediction of Coupled Hydrological, Biogeochemical, and Ecological ChangeIn Jiu-Fu Liu and Wei-Zu Gu (Ed.), Hydrology of Artificial and Controlled Experiments, IntechOpen, doi: 10.5772/intechopen.72325. Document online.

R. M. Wilson, M. M. Tfaily, V. I. Rich, J. K. Keller, S. D. Bridgham, C. M. Zalman, L. K. Meredith, P. J. Hanson, M. Hines, L. Pfeifer-Meister, and S. R. Saleska. (2017) Hydrogenation of Organic Matter as a Terminal Electron Sink Sustains High CO2:CH4 Production Ratios During Anaerobic Decomposition. Organic Geochemistry, 112:22-32, doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.06.011. Document online.

L. K. Meredith, R. Commane, T. F. Keenan, S. T. Klosterman, J. W. Munger, P. H. Templer, J. Tang, S. C. Wofsy, and R. G. Prinn. (2017) Ecosystem fluxes of hydrogen in a mid-latitude forest driven by soil microbes and plants, Global Change Biology, 23(2):906-919, doi:10.1111/gcb.13463. Document onlineStory.

R. Commane, L. K. Meredith, I. T. Baker, J. A. Berry, J. W. Munger, S. A. Montzka, P. H. Templer, S. M. Juice, M. S. Zahniser, and S. C. Wofsy. (2015) Seasonal fluxes of carbonyl sulfide in a mid-latitude forest. PNAS, 112(46), 14162-14167, doi:10.1073/pnas.1504131112. Document online. Story.

M. Khdhiri, L. Hesse, M. E. Popa, L. Quiza, I. Lalonde, L. K. Meredith, T. Röckmann, and P. Constant. (2015) Soil Carbon Content and Relative Abundance of High Affinity H2-Oxidizing Bacteria Predict Atmospheric H2 Soil Uptake Activity Better than Soil Microbial Community Composition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 85:1-9, doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.02.030. Document online.

L. K. Meredith, R. Commane,  J. W. Munger, A. Dunn, J. Tang, S. C. Wofsy, and R. G. Prinn. (2014) Ecosystem fluxes of hydrogen: a comparison of flux-gradient methods. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 7:2787-2805, doi:10.5194/amt-7-2787-2014. Document online. Story

L. K. Meredith, D. Rao, T. Bosak, V. Klepac-Ceraj, K. R. Tada, C. Hansel, S. Ono, and R. G. Prinn. (2014Consumption of atmospheric H2 during the life cycle of soil-dwelling actinobacteria. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 6(3):226-238, doi:10.1111/1758-2229.12116. Document online.Story

A. L. Ganesan, A. Chatterjee, R.G. Prinn, C.M. Harth, P.K. Salameh, A.J. Manning, B.D. Hall, J. Muhle, L.K. Meredith, R.F. Weiss, S. O’Doherty, and D. Young. (2013) The variability of methane, nitrous oxide and sulfur hexafluoride in Northeast India, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 13:10633-10644, doi:10.5194/acp-13-10633-2013. Document online. Story


Other Publications

Pavlopoulos, G. A., et al. (Meredith, L.K. contributed as part of the Novel Metagenome Protein Families Consortium) (2023) Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics. Nature 622, 594–602 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06583-7

Neri, Uri, et al. (Meredith, L.K. contributed as apart of the RNA Virus Discovery Consortium) (2022) Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages.” Cell, 4023-4037. 10.1016/j.cell.2022.08.023. Document online

Fremin, B.J., Global Phage Small Open Reading Frame (GP-SmORF) Consortium (Meredith, L.K. contributed as part of this consortium), Bhatt, A.S., and Kyrpides, N.C. (2022) Revealing Thousands of Small, Novel Genes in Global Phage Genomes. Cell Reports, 39(12), doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110984. Document online. 

Nayfach, S., Roux, S., Seshadri, R. et al. (L. K. Meredith contributed as a part of the IMG/M Data Consortium)  (2020A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes. Nature Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0718-6 Document online

E. Stokstad. (coverage of B2 WALD campaign) (2019) Unprecedented drought in an artificial ecosystem may reveal how rainforests will cope with climate change. Science News doi:10.1126/science.aaz8799. Document online

L. K. Meredith(2013Field Measurement of the Fate of Atmospheric H2 in a Forest Environment: from Canopy to Soil. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 250 pages. Document online. Story.