Publications

Disturbance Ecology

Hopkins, J.R., Vizzari, G., Bennett, A.E., Malacrinò, A. (In Press). Fire limits soil microbial dispersal and differentially impacts bacterial and fungal communities. Global Change Biology.
Hopkins, J., Bennett, A.E., McKenna, T.P. (2025). Fire frequency driven increases in burn heterogeneity promote microbial beta diversity: a test of the pyrodiversity-biodiversity hypothesis. Molecular Ecology: 1-13.
Hopkins, J., Semenova-Nelsen, T.A., Huffman, J.M., Jones, N.J., Robertson, K.M., Platt, W.J., and Sikes, B.A. (2025). Fuel accumulation shapes post-fire fuel decomposition through soil heating effects on plants, fungi, and soil chemistry. Science of the Total Environment: 961, 178386.
Hopkins, J.R. and Bennett, A.E. (2024). Using trait profiles to gain insights into the fungal ecology of burned ecosystems. Ecosphere: 15 (11), e70008
Hopkins, J.R. and Bennett, A.E. (2024). Fire season and time since fire determine arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal trait responses to fire. Plant and Soil: 503 (1), 231-245
Hopkins, J.R. and Bennett, A.E. (2023). Spore traits mediate disturbance effects on arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal community composition and mutualisms. Ecology, e4016
Hopkins, J.R., Semenova-Nelsen, T., Sikes, B.A. (2023). Land management drives dynamic changes to microbial function through edaphic factors and soil biota. Pedobiologia: 96, 150859
Hopkins, J.R., Huffman, J.M., Jones, N.J., Platt, W.J., Sikes, B.A. (2023). Pyrophilic plants respond to post-fire soil conditions in a frequently burned longleaf pine savanna. The American Naturalist: 201(3)
Hopkins, J.R., Huffman, J.M., Platt, W.J., and Sikes, B.A. (2020). Frequent fire slows microbial decomposition of newly deposited fine fuels in a pyrophilic ecosystem. Oecologia: 193(3), 631-643
Hopkins, J.R., Semenova-Nelsen, T., Sikes, B.A. (2021). Fungal community structure and seasonal trajectories respond similarly to fire across pyrophilic ecosystems. FEMS Microbiology Ecology: 97(1), fiaa219

Plant-Soil Feedbacks & AM Fungal Ecology

Hopkins, J.R. and Bever, J.D. (2024). AM fungal spore communities and networks demonstrate host-specific variation throughout the growing season. Mycorrhiza: 34 (5), 463-475.
Hopkins, J.R. and Bennett, A.E. (2024). Fire effects on soil biota alter the strength and direction of plant-soil feedbacks between Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash and Rudbeckia hirta L. Plant and Soil: 1-15.
Hopkins, J.R. and Bennett, A.E. (2023). Spore traits mediate disturbance effects on AM fungal community composition and mutualisms. Ecology: e4016
Hopkins, J.R., Richardson, S.C., Bever, J.D. (2023) Spatial structure within root systems moderates stability of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal mutualism and plant-soil feedbacks. The American Naturalist: 201(2):1-15.
V Bala Chaudhary, Megan A Rúa, Anita Antoninka, James D Bever, Jeffery Cannon, Ashley Craig, Jessica Duchicela, Alicia Frame, Monique Gardes, Catherine Gehring, Michelle Ha, Miranda Hart, Jacob Hopkins, Baoming Ji, Nancy Collins Johnson, Wittaya Kaonongbua, Justine Karst, Roger T Koide, Louis J Lamit, James Meadow, Brook G Milligan, John C Moore, Thomas H Pendergast Iv, Bridget Piculell, Blake Ramsby, Suzanne Simard, Shubha Shrestha, James Umbanhowar, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Lawrence Walters, Gail WT Wilson, Peter C Zee, Jason D Hoeksema. (2016). MycoDB, a global database of plant response to mycorrhizal fungi. Scientific Data: 3(1), 1-10.

Collaborations

Arsenault, E.R., Liew, J.H., Hopkins, J.R. (2022). Substrate composition influences amino acid carbon isotope profiles of fungi: implications for tracing fungal contributions to food webs. Environmental Microbiology: 24(4), 2089-2097.

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