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Ben J. Woodcroft

Queensland University of Technology · AU
Area of research
Molecular Biology · Ecology
Research interest
Research interests include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Climate change and permafrost.
h-index
40
citations
12,594
works
176
NIH funding
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Recent publications

A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation
Science 2025cited by 41position: middledoi
A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry
Nature Communications 2025cited by 27position: middledoi
Microbial polyphenol metabolism is part of the thawing permafrost carbon cycle
Nature Microbiology 2024cited by 38position: middledoi
Microbiome–metabolite linkages drive greenhouse gas dynamics over a permafrost thaw gradient
Nature Microbiology 2024cited by 34position: middledoi
Methylotrophy in the Mire: direct and indirect routes for methane production in thawing permafrost
mSystems 2023cited by 31position: middledoi
Methylotrophy in the Mire: direct and indirect routes for methane production in thawing permafrost
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2023cited by 6position: middledoi
Plant organic matter inputs exert a strong control on soil organic matter decomposition in a thawing permafrost peatland
The Science of The Total Environment 2022cited by 49position: middledoi
Successional dynamics and alternative stable states in a saline activated sludge microbial community over 9 years
Microbiome 2021cited by 87position: middledoi
Diverse sediment microbiota shape methane emission temperature sensitivity in Arctic lakes
Nature Communications 2021cited by 42position: middledoi
Functional capacities of microbial communities to carry out large scale geochemical processes are maintained during ex situ anaerobic incubation
PLoS ONE 2021cited by 24position: middledoi
Undinarchaeota illuminate DPANN phylogeny and the impact of gene transfer on archaeal evolution
Nature Communications 2020cited by 134position: middledoi
Microbial Community Analyses Inform Geochemical Reaction Network Models for Predicting Pathways of Greenhouse Gas Production
Frontiers in Earth Science 2019cited by 22position: middledoi
Host-linked soil viral ecology along a permafrost thaw gradient
Nature Microbiology 2018cited by 661position: middledoi
Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost
Nature 2018cited by 495position: firstdoi
Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing
mSystems 2018cited by 383position: middledoi
Methanotrophy across a natural permafrost thaw environment
The ISME Journal 2018cited by 151position: middledoi
Discovery and ecogenomic context of a global Caldiserica-related phylum active in thawing permafrost, Candidatus Cryosericota phylum nov., Ca. Cryosericia class nov., Ca. Cryosericales ord. nov., Ca. Cryosericaceae fam. nov., comprising the four species Cryosericum septentrionale gen. nov. sp. nov., Ca. C. hinesii sp. nov., Ca. C. odellii sp. nov., Ca. C. terrychapinii sp. nov.
Systematic and Applied Microbiology 2018cited by 36position: middledoi
Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life
Nature Microbiology 2017cited by 2,084position: middledoi
Methane dynamics regulated by microbial community response to permafrost thaw
Nature 2014cited by 455position: middledoi
Discovery of a novel methanogen prevalent in thawing permafrost
Nature Communications 2014cited by 206position: middledoi

Grants

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Frequent collaborators

Gene W. Tyson · Translational Research Institute15 papers (2014–2024)Virginia I. Rich · University of Arizona14 papers (2014–2024)S. R. Saleska · University of Arizona12 papers (2014–2025)Patrick Crill · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory11 papers (2014–2025)Jeffrey P. Chanton · Florida State University11 papers (2014–2024)Suzanne B. Hodgkins · The Ohio State University9 papers (2014–2022)Rachel Wilson · Mississippi State University7 papers (2018–2024)C. K. McCalley · University of Arizona7 papers (2014–2023)Kelly Wrighton · Syracuse University6 papers (2018–2025)Malak Tfaily · University of Arizona5 papers (2021–2024)Joanne Emerson · University of California, Berkeley5 papers (2018–2021)Caitlin M. Singleton · University of Queensland5 papers (2018–2021)R. K. Varner · Scripps Institution of Oceanography5 papers (2021–2025)Joel A. Boyd · University of Queensland5 papers (2018–2021)Dylan Cronin · The Ohio State University4 papers (2023–2024)Philip Hugenholtz · Ecogenomics (Japan)4 papers (2014–2025)Jared Ellenbogen · The Ohio State University4 papers (2018–2024)Viviana Freire-Zapata · University of Arizona4 papers (2023–2024)Benjamin Bolduc · The Ohio State University4 papers (2018–2019)Matthew B. Sullivan · U.S. National Science Foundation4 papers (2018–2025)