Publications

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Alexander NR, Brown R, Duwadi S, Ludwig DW, Moe KC, Murdock J, Phillips JL, Veach AM, Womble S, Walker D. (2025). Leveraging fine-scale variation and heterogeneity of the wetland soil microbiome to predict nutrient flux on the landscape. Microbial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-025-02516-1.

Banerjee P, Kulkarni H, Veach AM, Nagaraja T, Pathak P, Das SR, Datta S. (2025). Chemical and mineralogical factors influencing the phosphorous mobility in Konza Prairie grassland and agricultural dominated soils in north-eastern Kansas. Frontiers in Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2025.1500314.

Veach AM, Aimee Steinbrecher, Le M. (2024). Spatial variability of bacterial biofilm communities in a wastewater effluent dependent stream ecosystem. Microbiology Spectrum. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.04246-23.

Schill M, Baird R, Brown SP, Veach AM. (2024). Wildfire severity alters soil microbial exoenzyme production and fungal abundances in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Pedosphere 34: 865-878. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedsph.2023.05.008.

Tiegs S, Capps K, Schmidt JP, Patrick C, Follstad Shah F, et al. (and 50+ co-authors in the CELLDEX Consortium including AM Veach). (2024). Predicting global organic matter decomposition in flowing waters. Science 384: 1191-1195. DOI: 10.1126/science.adn1262.

Argiroff WA, Carrell AA, Klingeman DM, Dove NC, Muchero W, Veach AM, Wahl T, Lebreux SJ, Webb AB, Petyon K, Schadt CW, Cregger MA. (2024). Seasonality and longer-term development generate temporal dynamics in the Populus microbiome. mSystems. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00886-23.

Coleman DR, Veach AM, Stefansson A, Wurch L, Belisle BS, Podar PT, Yang Z, Klingeman D, Senba K, Murakami KS, Kristjansson JK, Bjornsdottir SH, Boyd ES, Podar M. (2023). Tectonic and geological setting influence hot spring microbiology. Environmental Microbiology 25: 2481-2497. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16472.

Dodds WK, Ratajczak Z, Keen RM, Nippert JB, Grudzinski B, Veach AM, Taylor J, Kuhl A. (2023). Trajectories and state changes of a grassland stream and riparian zone after a decade of woody vegetation removal. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2830.

Ruffing CM, Veach AM, Schechner A, Ruegg J, Trentman MT, Dodds WK. (2022). Prairie stream metabolism recovery varies based on antecedent hydrology across a stream network after a bank-full flood. Limnology & Oceanography 67: 1986-1999. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12182.

Dove NC, Veach AM, Muchero W, Wahl T, Stegen JC, Schadt CW, Cregger MA. (2021). Assembly of the Populus microbiome is temporally dynamic and determined by selective and stochastic factors. mSphere. https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.01316-20.

Carper DL, Weston DJ, Barde A, Timm CM, Lu T, Burdick LH, Jawdy SS, Klingeman DM, Robeson MS, Veach AM, Cregger MA, Kalluri UC, Schadt CW, Podar M, Doktycz MJ, Pelletier DA. (2021). Cultivating the bacterial microbiota of Populus roots. mSystems. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01306-20.

Veach AM, Troia MJ, Cregger MA. (2021). Assessing biogeographic survey gaps in bacterial diversity knowledge: a global synthesis of freshwaters. Freshwater Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13777.

Veach AM, Chen H, Yang Z, Labbe A, Engle N, Tschaplinski T, Schadt CW, Cregger MA. (2020). Plant hosts modify belowground microbial community responses to extreme drought. mSystems. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00092-20.

Chen H, Dai Z, Veach AM, Xu J, Zheng, J, Schadt CW. (2020). Global meta-analyses show that conservation tillage practices promote soil fungal and bacterial biomass. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2020.106841.

Veach AM, Zeglin LH. (2020). Historical drought affects microbial population dynamics and activity during soil drying and re-wet. Microbial Ecology 79: 662-674. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-019-01432-5.

Brown SP, Veach AM, Horton JL, Ford E, Jumpponen A, Baird R. (2019). Soil fungal and bacterial communities shift in response to recent wildfires in Southern Appalachia – but context is dependent on functional guilds, burn severity, and locations. Forest Ecology and Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117520.

Veach AM, Morris R, Yip DZ, Yang ZK, Engle NL, Cregger MA, Tschaplinski TJ, Schadt CW. (2019). Rhizosphere microbiomes diverge among Populus trichocarpa plant-host chemotypes, but it depends on soil origin. Microbiome. 10.1186/s40168-019-0668-8.

Tiegs S, Costello D, Isken M, Woodward G, McIntyre P, Gessner MO, Chauvet E, Griffiths N, Flecker A, et al. (including Veach AM). (2019). Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0486.

Yip DZ, Veach AM, Yang ZK, Cregger MA, ‡Schadt CW. (2019). Methanogenic archaea dominate mature heartwood habitats of Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides). New Phytologist 222: 115-121. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15346.

Larson DM, Dodds WK, Veach AM. (2019). Riparian woody removal substantially altered a stream ecosystem in an otherwise undisturbed grassland watershed. Ecosystems 22: 64-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-018-0252-2.

Veach AM, Griffiths NA. (2018). Testing the light:nutrient hypothesis: insights into biofilm structure and function using metatranscriptomics. Molecular Ecology 27: 2902-2912. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14733.

Veach AM, Yip DZ, Engle NL, Bible A, Morrell-Falvey J, Tschaplinksi T, Kalluri UC, Schadt CW. (2018). Modification of plant cell wall chemistry impacts metabolome and microbiome composition in Populus PdKOR1 RNAi plants. Plant and Soil 429: 349-361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-018-3692-8.

Veach AM, Stokes CE, Knoepp J, Jumpponen A, Baird R. (2018). Fungal communities and functional guilds shift across an elevational gradient in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Microbial Ecology 76: 156-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-017-1116-6.

Daleo P, Alberti J, Jumpponen A, Veach AM, Ialonardi I, Iribarne O, Silliman B. (2018). Nitrogen enrichment suppresses other environmental drivers and homogenizes salt marsh leaf microbiome. Ecology 99: 1411-1418. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2240.

Christensen GA, Moon JW, Veach AM, Mosher JJ, Wymore AN, van Nostrand JD, Zhou J, Hazen TC, Arken AP, Elias DA. (2018). Use of in-field bioreactors demonstrate groundwater filtration influences planktonic bacterial community assembly, but not biofilm composition. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194663.

Cregger MA, Veach AM, Yang ZK, Crouch MJ, Vilgalys R, Tuskan GA, Schadt CW. (2018). The Populus holobiont: dissecting the effects of plant niches and genotype on the microbiome. Microbiome. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0413-8.

Veach AM, Troia MJ, Dodds WK, Jumpponen A. (2018). Top - down effects of a freshwater grazing minnow (Campostoma anomalum) on stream biofilm microbial communities. Freshwater Science 37: 121-133.

Veach AM, Stegen J, Brown SP, Dodds WK, Jumpponen A. (2016). Spatial and successional dynamics of biofilm microbial communities in a grassland stream ecosystem. Molecular Ecology 25: 4674-4688. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13784.

Martin EC, Bello N, Gido KB, Dodds WK, Veach AM. (2016). Increasing fish taxonomic and functional richness affects ecosystem properties of small headwater prairie streams. Freshwater Biology 61: 887-898. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12752.

Veach AM, Dodds WK, Jumpponen A. (2015). Woody plant encroachment, and its removal, impact bacterial and fungal communities across stream and terrestrial habitats in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiv109

Brown SP, Veach AM, Grond KG, Licktieg SK, Lothamer K, Oliver AK, Rigdon-Huss AR, Jumpponen A. (2015).Scraping the bottom of the sequence barrel: are rare sequences artifacts? Fungal Ecology 13: 221-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2014.08.006.

Veach AM, Dodds WK, Skibbe A. (2015). Correction: Fire and grazing influences on rates of riparian woody plant expansion along grassland streams. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0106922.

Dodds WK, Veach AM, Ruffing C, Larson D, Fischer J, Costigan K. (2013). Abiotic controls and temporal variability of river metabolism: multiyear analyses of Mississippi and Chattahoochee River data. Freshwater Science 32: 1073-1087.

Veach AM, Bernot MJ, Mitchell JK. (2012). The influence of six pharmaceuticals on freshwater sediment microbial growth incubated at different temperatures and UV exposures. Biodegradation 23: 497-507. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10532-011-9528-3.

Veach AM, Bernot MJ. (2011). Temporal variation of pharmaceuticals in an urban and agriculturally influenced stream. Science of the Total Environment. 409: 4553-4563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.07.022.