My research focuses on understanding how soil phosphorus stock and availability respond to climate change and its implications for plant productivity, carbon sequestration and other essential ecosystem services provided by the critical zone.
2018
The role of soil physical properties for determining biogeochemical responses to soil warming. SANTOS, F., ABNEY, R., BARNES, M., JIN, L., MORELAND, K., BOGIE, N., SULMAN, B., GHEZZEHEI, T. A., BERHE, A.A. (2018): Chapter in Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming: Microbes, Vegetation, Fauna and Soil Biogeochemistry, 1st Ed. Jacqueline Mohan (Ed.) Academic Press
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
2015
The Median Isn’t the Message: Elucidating Nutrient Hot spots and Hot Moments in a Sierra Nevada Forest Soil. Hart, S., *Barnes, M., Johnson, D., Meadows, M. (2015): B22D Microbial Controls of Biogeochemical Cycling II, presented at 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec.