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Bell-Dereske, L. P., and Evans, S. E. 2021. Contributions of environmental and maternal transmission to the assembly of leaf fungal endophyte communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 288:20210621. Impact factor: 5.349
Ladwig, L. M., Bell-Dereske, L. P., Bell, K. C., Collins, S. L., Natvig, D. O., and Taylor, D. L. 2021. Soil fungal composition changes with shrub encroachment in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Fungal Ecology. 53:101096. Impact factor: 2.656
Brudvig, L. A., Turley, N. E., Bartel, S. L., Bell-Dereske, L., Breland, S., Damschen, E. I., Evans S. E., et al. 2021. Large ecosystem-scale effects of restoration fail to mitigate impacts of land-use legacies in longleaf pine savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118:e2020935118. Impact factor: 11.2
Rudgers, J. A., Afkhami, M., Bell-Dereske, L., Chung, Y. A., Crawford, K. M., Nuñez, M., and Kivlin, S. N. 2021. Climate Disruption of Plant-Microbe Interactions. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. Impact factor: 13.92
Turley, N. E., Bell-Dereske, L., Evans, S.E., and Brudvig, L. A. 2020. Agricultural land-use history and restoration co-structure soil microbial communities in longleaf pine savannas. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57:852-863 Impact factor: 5.84
Evans, S.E., Bell-Dereske, L.P., Dougherty, K.M., and Kittredge, H.M. 2020. Dispersal alters soil microbial community response to drought. Environmental Microbiology. 22: 905-916 Impact factor: 4.933
David A.S., Bell-Dereske, L., Emery, S. M., McCormick, B.#, Seabloom, E. W., and Rudgers, J. A. 2019. Altered rainfall regime and the loss of systemic and localized plant symbionts. American Journal of Botany. 106: 1081-1089 Impact factor: 2.85
Emery, S. M., Kinnetz, E R., Bell‐Dereske, L., Stahlheber, K. A., Gross, K. L., and Pennington D. 2018. Low variation in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal associations and effects on biomass among switchgrass cultivars. Biomass and Bioenergy. 119: 503-508 Impact factor: 5.10
Emery, S. M., Reid, L. M., Bell‐Dereske, L., and Gross, K. L. 2017. Soil mycorrhizal and nematode diversity vary in response to bioenergy crop identity and fertilization. GCB Bioenergy. 9: 1644-1656. Impact factor: 4.37
Bell-Dereske, L., Takacs-Vesbach, C., Kivlin, S. N., Emery, S. M., and Rudgers, J. A.. 2017. Leaf endophytic fungus interacts with precipitation to alter belowground microbial communities in primary successional dunes. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 93:fix036-fix036. Impact factor: 4.194
Bell-Dereske, L., Gao, X., Masiello, C. A., Sinsabaugh, R. L., Emery, S. M., and Rudgers, J. A. 2017.Plant-fungal symbiosis affects litter decomposition during primary succession. Oikos. 126: 801-811 Impact factor: 3.370
Rudgers, J. A., Bell-Dereske, L., Crawford, K. M., and Emery, S. M. 2015. Fungal symbiont effects on dune plant diversity depend on precipitation. Journal of Ecology 103: 219-230 Impact factor: 5.762
Emery, S. M., Bell-Dereske, L., and Rudgers, J. A. 2015. Fungal symbiosis and precipitation alter traits and dune building by the ecosystem engineer, Ammophila breviligulata. Ecology 96: 927-935 Impact factor: 4.7
Chamberlain, S. A., Hovick, S. M., Dibble, C. J., Rasmussen, N. L., Van Allen, B. G., Maitner, B. S., Ahern, J. R., Bell-Dereske, L. P., Roy, C. L., Meza-Lopez, M., Carrillo, J., Siemann, E., Lajeunesse, M. J. and Whitney, K. D. 2012. Does phylogeny matter? Assessing the impact of phylogenetic information in ecological meta-analysis. Ecology Letters 15: 627–636 Impact factor: 9.492
Plant-Microbial Interactions and Community Ecology 