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Charles K. Lee

University of Waikato · NZ
Area of research
Ecology · Molecular Biology
Research interest
Research interests include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Polar Research and Ecology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Protist diversity and phylogeny.
h-index
36
citations
4,268
works
129
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

Host selection is not a universal driver of phyllosphere community assembly among ecologically similar native New Zealand plant species.
2025cited by 5position: contributordoi
Gaps and Advances in Long-Term Monitoring of Antarctic Near-Shore and Terrestrial Ecosystems
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Antarctic Geothermal Soils Exhibit an Absence of Regional Habitat Generalist Microorganisms.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
A genus in the bacterial phylum Aquificota appears to be endemic to Aotearoa-New Zealand.
2024cited by 8position: contributordoi
Soils of two Antarctic Dry Valleys exhibit unique microbial community structures in response to similar environmental disturbances.
2024cited by 4position: contributordoi
Nutritional niches of potentially endemic, facultatively anaerobic heterotrophs from an isolated Antarctic terrestrial hydrothermal refugium elucidated through metagenomics.
2024cited by 1position: contributordoi
Investigating the lignocellulolytic gut microbiome of huhu grubs (<i>Prionoplus reticularis</i>) using defined diets and dietary switch.
2024cited by 0position: contributordoi
Contribution of soil bacteria to the atmosphere across biomes
The Science of The Total Environment 2023cited by 29position: middledoi
Contribution of soil bacteria to the atmosphere across biomes.
2023cited by 20position: contributordoi
Forecasting the future of life in Antarctica.
2023cited by 10position: contributordoi
Unique Geothermal Chemistry Shapes Microbial Communities on Mt. Erebus, Antarctica.
2022cited by 9position: contributordoi
Microbial Succession under Freeze-Thaw Events and Its Potential for Hydrocarbon Degradation in Nutrient-Amended Antarctic Soil.
2021cited by 7position: contributordoi
Geochemically Defined Space-for-Time Transects Successfully Capture Microbial Dynamics Along Lacustrine Chronosequences in a Polar Desert.
2021cited by 3position: contributordoi
Biogeochemical feedbacks to ocean acidification in a cohesive photosynthetic sediment.
2021cited by 1position: contributordoi
A core phyllosphere microbiome exists across distant populations of a tree species indigenous to New Zealand.
2020cited by 24position: contributordoi
Abiotic factors influence patterns of bacterial diversity and community composition in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica.
2020cited by 20position: contributordoi
The distribution and relative ecological roles of autotrophic and heterotrophic diazotrophs in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.
2020cited by 13position: contributordoi
Understanding the Response of Nitrifying Communities to Disturbance in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.
2020cited by 12position: contributordoi
Airborne microbial transport limitation to isolated Antarctic soil habitats
Nature Microbiology 2019cited by 141position: middledoi
Airborne microbial transport limitation to isolated Antarctic soil habitats.
2019cited by 74position: contributordoi
Biotic interactions are an unexpected yet critical control on the complexity of an abiotically driven polar ecosystem
Communications Biology 2019cited by 71position: firstdoi
Actinobacteria and Cyanobacteria Diversity in Terrestrial Antarctic Microenvironments Evaluated by Culture-Dependent and Independent Methods.
2019cited by 44position: contributordoi
Biotic interactions are an unexpected yet critical control on the complexity of an abiotically driven polar ecosystem.
2019cited by 35position: contributordoi
Nematodes in a polar desert reveal the relative role of biotic interactions in the coexistence of soil animals.
2019cited by 28position: contributordoi
Biases in the metabarcoding of plant pathogens using rust fungi as a model system.
2019cited by 12position: contributordoi
Asian Upper Lid Blepharoplasty Surgery
Clinics in Plastic Surgery 2012cited by 56position: firstdoi

Grants

CAREER: Functional organization of auditory commissural networks
NSF1652432$574,2522017–2025PIRePORTER
2013 Summer Bioengineering Conference
NSF1314291$20,8002013–2014PIRePORTER
Revitalization of an Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Program
NSF7907930$183,2801979–1983PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 6 papers (2019–2025)Matthew B. Stott · University of Waikato4 papers (2022–2025)Tancredi Caruso · University of Aberdeen3 papers (2019–2019)Byron J. Adams · Brigham Young University3 papers (2019–2025)Don Cowan · University of Waterloo2 papers (2019–2019)Ian D. Hogg · Nunavut Arctic College2 papers (2019–2019)Stephen B. Pointing · National University of Singapore2 papers (2019–2019)Diana H. Wall · Colorado State University2 papers (2019–2019)Uffe N. Nielsen · University of Computer Studies Yangon2 papers (2019–2019)S. Craig Cary · University of Delaware2 papers (2019–2019)Tancredi Caruso · University of Aberdeen2 papers (2019–2019)Stephen B. Pointing · National University of Singapore2 papers (2019–2019)Don A. Cowan · Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute2 papers (2019–2019)Alexandre S. Rosado · Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro1 papers (2021–2021)Megumu Tsujimoto · National Institute of Polar Research1 papers (2025–2025)Carlos Massone · Centro de Pesquisas e Desenvolvimento Leopoldo Americo Miguez de Mello1 papers (2021–2021)Carlo R. Carere · University of Canterbury1 papers (2024–2024)Dana M. Bergstrom · Australian Antarctic Division1 papers (2025–2025)Peter Convey · University of Birmingham1 papers (2025–2025)Anna-Louise Reysenbach · Portland State University1 papers (2024–2024)