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