PUBLICATIONS
Meredith Group authors (members, visitors, and prior mentees) are underlined. *Co-first authorship.
Laura K. Meredith on ResearchGate; Google Scholar; ResearcherID: J-2331-2014; Orcid: 0000-0003-4244-4366.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Ledford, S. M., & Meredith, L. K. (2024). Volatile Organic Compound Metabolism on Early Earth. Journal of Molecular Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-024-10184-x. Document online
Huang, J., Ladd, S.N., Ingrisch, J., Kübert, A., Meredith, L.K., van Haren, J., Bamberger, I., Daber, E., Bailey, K., Hu, J., Fudyma, J., Shi, L., Dippold, M., Meeran, K., Miller, L., O’Brien, M.J., Yang, H., Herrera-Ramírez, D., Hartmann, H., Trumbore, S., Bahn, M., Werner, C., and Lehmann, M.M. (2024) The mobilization and transport of newly-fixed carbon are driven by plant water-use in an experimental rainforest under drought. Journal of Experimental Biology. 75(8) doi: 10.1093/jxb/erae030. Document online
Meredith, L.K., Ledford, S.M., Riemer, K., Geffre, P., Graves, K., Honeker, L.K., LeBauer, D., Tfaily, M.M., Krechmer, J. (2023) Automating methods for estimating metabolite volatility. Frontiers in Microbiology. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1267234. Document online.
Ladd, S.N., Daber, L.E., Bamberger, I., Kübert, A., Kreuzwieser, J., Purser, G., Ingrisch, J., Deleeuw, J., van Haren, J., Meredith, L.K., and Werner, C. (2023) Leaf-level metabolic changes in response to drought affect daytime CO2 emission and isoprenoid synthesis. Tree Physiology, doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpad094. Document online
Honeker, L., Pugliese, G., Ingrisch, J., Fudyma, J., Gil-Loaiza, J., Carpenter, E., Singer, E., Hildebrand, G., Shi, L., Hoyt, D., Krechmer, J., Claflin, M., Ayala-Ortiz, C., Freire-Zapata, V., Pfannerstill, E., Daber, E., Meeran, K., Dippold, M., Kreuzwieser, J., Williams, J., Ladd, S. N., Werner, C., Tfaily, .M, and Meredith, L. K. (2023) Soil emissions of three volatile metabolites induced by drought in an artificial tropical rainforest. Nature Microbiology, 8, 1480-1494, doi: 10.1038/s41564-023-01432-9. Document online
Pugliese, G., Ingrisch, J., Meredith, L.K., Pfannerstill, E.Y., Meeran, K., Byron, J., Purser, G., Gil-Loaiza, J., van Haren, J., Kreuzwieser, J., Ladd, S.N., Werner, C., and Williams, J. (2023) The effect of prolonged drought and recovery on VOC soil fluxes in an enclosed tropical rainforest. Nature Communications, 14, doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-40661-8. Document online
Hildebrand, G.A., Honeker, L.K., Freire-Zapata, V., Ayala-Ortiz, C., Rajakaruna, S., Fudyma, J., Daber, E., AminiTabrizi, R., Chu, R.L., Toyoda, J. Flowers, S.E., Hoyt , D., Hamdan, R., Gil-Loaiza, J., Shi, L., Dippold, M.A., Ladd, S. N., Werner, C., Meredith, L. K., Malak M. Tfaily (2023). Uncovering the dominant role of root metabolism in shaping rhizosphere metabolome under drought in tropical rainforest plants. Science of The Total Environment, p.165689, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165689. Document online
Kühnhammer, K., van Haren, J., Kübert, A., Bailey, K., Dubbert, M., Hu, J., Ladd, N., Meredith, L.K., Werner, C. and Beyer, M. (2023). Deep roots mitigate drought impacts on tropical trees despite limited quantitative contribution to transpiration. Science of The Total Environment, p.164763, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164763. Document online
Kübert, A., Dubbert, M., Bamberger, I., Kühnhammer, K., Beyer, M., van Haren, J., Bailey, K., Hu, J., Meredith, L. K., Ladd, S. N., and Werner, C. (2022) Tracing plant source water dynamics during drought by continuous transpiration measurements: an in-situ stable isotope approach. Plant, Cell & Environment, doi: 10.1111/pce.14475. Document online
Byron, J., Kreuzwieser, J., Purser, G., van Haren, J., Ladd, S.N., Meredith, L.K., Werner, C., and Williams, J. (2022) Chiral monoterpenes reveal forest emission mechanisms and drought responses. Nature, 609, doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05020-5. Document online
Buzzard, V., D. Thorne, J. Gil-Loiaza, A. Cueva, L. K. Meredith. (2022) Sensitivity of soil hydrogen uptake to natural and managed moisture dynamics in a semiarid urban ecosystem. PeerJ, doi: 10.7717/peerj.12966. Document online
L. K. Meredith and M. M. Tfaily. (2022) Capturing the microbial volatilome: an oft overlooked ‘ome’. Trends in Microbiology, doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2021.12.004. Document online
Honeker, L.K.*, G. A. Hildebrand*, J. Fudyma, E. Daber, D. Hoyt, S. E. Flowers, J. Gil-Loaiza, A. Kübert, I. Bamberger, C. R. Anderton, J. Cliff, S. Leichty, R. AminiTabrizi, J. Kreuzwieser, L. Shi, X. Bai, D. Velickovic, M. A. Dippold, S. N. Ladd, C. Werner, L.K. Meredith, M. T. Tfaily. (2022) Elucidating drought tolerance mechanisms in plant roots through 1H-NMR metabolomics and MALDI-MS and NanoSIMS imaging techniques. Environmental Science and Technology. Document online
J. Gil-Loaiza, J. R. Roscioli, J. H. Shorter, T. H. M. Volkmann, W.-R, Ng, J. E. Krechmer, L. K. Meredith. (2022) Versatile soil gas concentration and isotope monitoring: optimization and integration of novel soil gas probes with online trace gas detection. Biogeosciences, 19:165-185. doi: 10.5194/bg-19-165-2022. Document online
D. Dwivedi, A.L.D. Santos, M.A. Barnard, T.M. Crimmins, A. Malhotra, K.A. Rod, K.S. Aho, S.M. Bell, B. Bomfim, F.Q. Brearley, H. Cadillo-Quiroz, J. Chen, C.M. Gough, E.B. Graham, C.R. Hakkenberg, L. Haygood, G. Koren, E. Lilleskov, L.K. Meredith, S. Naeher, Z. Nickerson, O. Pourret, H.-S. Song, M. Stahl, N. Taş, R. Vargas, S. Weintraub-Leff. (2022) Biogeosciences Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON). Science. Earth and Space Sciences, doi: 10.1029/2021EA002119. Document online
Werner*, C., L. K. Meredith*, S. N. Ladd*, J. Ingrisch, A. Kübert, J. van Haren, M. Bahn, K. Bailey, I. Bamberger, M. Beyer, D. Blomdahl, J. Byron, E. Daber, J. Deleeuw, M. Dippold, J. Fudyma, J. Gil-Loaiza, L. K. Honeker, J. Hu, J. Huang, T. Klüpfel, J. Krechmer, J. Kreuzwieser, K. Kühnhammer, M. M. Lehmann, K. Meeran, P. K. Misztal, W.-R. Ng, E. Pfannerstill, G. Pugliese, G. Purser, J. R. Roscioli, L. Shi, M. Tfaily, J. Williams. (2021) Ecosystem fluxes during drought and recovery in an experimental forest. Science 374(6574), 10.1126/science.abj6789. Document online
Sengupta, A., T. H. M. Volkmann, R. A. Danczak, J. C. Stegen, K. Dontsova, N. Abramson, A. S. Bugaj, M. J. Volk, K. A. Matos, A. A. Meira-Neto, A. Barberán, J. W. Neilson, R. M. Maier, J. Chorover, P. A. Troch, L. K. Meredith. (2021) Contrasting community assembly forces drive microbial structural and functional responses to precipitation in an incipient soil system. Frontiers in Microbiology. Document online
Buzzard, V., J. Gil-Loiaza, N. Graf Grachet, H. Talkington, C. Youngerman, M. M. Tfaily, L. K. Meredith. (2021) Green infrastructure influences soil health: Biological divergence one year after installation. Science of the Total Environment 801. Document online
Honeker, L. K., K. R. Graves, M. M. Tfaily, J. E. Krechmer, L. K. Meredith. (2021) The volatilome: a vital piece of the complete soil metabolome. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9:113. Document online
J. R. Roscioli* J.R. and L. K. Meredith*, J. H. Shorter, J. Gil-Loaiza, T. H. M. Volkmann. (2021) Soil gas probes for monitoring trace gas messengers of microbial activity. Scientific Reports 11:8327. *=co-first authorship Document online
Kooijmans, L. M. J., A. Cho, J. Ma, A. Kaushik, K. D. Haynes, I. Baker, I. T. Luijkx, M. Groenink, W. Peters, J. Miller, J. A. Berry, J. Ogée, L. K. Meredith, W. Sun, K.-M. Kohonen, T. Vesala, I. Mammarella, H. Chen, F. M. Spielmann, G. Wohlfahrt, M. Berkelhammer, M. E. Whelan, K. Maseyk, U. Seibt, R. Commane, R. Wehr, M. Krol. (2021) Evaluation of carbonyl sulfide biosphere exchange in the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB4). Biogeosciences. 8:6547-6565, Document online
K. Jordaan, R. Lappan, X. Dong, I. J. Aitkenhead, S. K. Bay, E. Chiri, N. Wieler, L. K. Meredith, D. A. Cowan, S. L. Chown, C. Greening. (2020) Hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria are abundant in desert soils and strongly stimulated by hydration. mSystems 5:e01131-20. Document online
M. E. Kroeger, L. K. Meredith, K. M. Meyer, K. D. Webster, P. Barbosa de Camargo, L. Fonseca de Souza, S. Mui Tsai, J. van Haren, S. Saleska, B. J.M. Bohannan, J. L. M. Rodrigues, K. Nüsslein. (2020) Rainforest-to-pasture conversion stimulates soil methanogenesis across the Brazilian Amazon. The ISME Journal. 10.1038/s41396-020-00804-x. Document online
K. M. Meyer, A. H. Morris, K. Webster, A. M. Klein, M. E. Kroeger, L. K. Meredith, A. Brændholt, F. Nakamura, A. Venturini, L. Fonseca de Souza, K. L. Shek, R. Danielson, J. van Haren, P. Barbosa de Camargo, S. Mui Tsai, F. Dini-Andreote, J. M. S. de Mauro, J. Barlow, E. Berenguer, K. Nüsslein, S. Saleska, J. L. M. Rodrigues, B. J. M. Bohannan. (2020) Belowground changes to community structure alter methane-cycling dynamics in Amazonia. Environment International, 145, 10.1016/j.envint.2020.106131. Document online
P. Martínez-Sosa, J. E. Tierney, L. K. Meredith. (2020) Controlled lacustrine microcosms show a brGDGT response to environmental perturbations. Organic Geochemistry, 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104041. Document online
L. K. Meredith, K. Boye, K. Savage, and R. Vargas. (2020) Formation and Fluxes of Soil Trace Gases. Soil Systems, 4(22), 22. Document Online. PDF.
C. Sayuri Nishisaka, C. Youngerman, L. K. Meredith, J. Braga do Carmo, and A. Aparecido Navarrete. (2019) Seasonality increases N2O emissions and denitrification gene abundance through soil and plant residue characteristics in citrus and eucalyptus plantations. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7:11, 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00011. Document online. PDF
A. Cueva, T. H. M. Volkmann, J. van Haren, P. Troch, and L. K. Meredith. (2019) Reconciling Negative Soil CO2 Fluxes: Insights from a Large-Scale Experimental Hillslope. Soil Systems, 3(1):10, doi:10.3390/soilsystems3010010. Document online. PDF
L. K. Meredith, J. Ogée, K. Boye, E. Singer, L. Wingate, C. von Sperber, A. Sengupta, M. Whelan, E. Pang, M. Keiluweit, N. Brüggemann, J. A. Berry, and P. V. Welander. (2018) Soil exchange rates of COS and CO18O shift with the diversity of microbial communities and their carbonic anhydrase enzymes. The ISME Journal, doi:10.1038/s41396-018-0270-2. Document online. PDF
L. K. Meredith, K. Boye, C. Youngerman, M. Whelan, J. Ogée, J. Sauze, and L. Wingate. (2018) Coupled biological and abiotic mechanisms driving carbonyl sulfide production in soils. Soil Systems, 2(3):37, doi:doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems2030037. Document online. PDF
Whelan, M. E., …, Meredith, L. K., and others. (2018) Reviews and Syntheses: Carbonyl Sulfide as a Multi-scale Tracer for Carbon and Water Cycles. Biogeosciences, 15:3625-3657, doi:10.5194/bg-15-3625-2018. Document online
Volkmann, T. H. M., Sengupta, S., Pangle, L.A., Dontsova, K., Barron-Gafford, G. A., Harman, C. J., Niu, G.-Y., Meredith, L. K., and others. (2018) Controlled Experiments of Hillslope Coevolution at the Biosphere 2 Landscape Evolution Observatory: Toward Prediction of Coupled Hydrological, Biogeochemical, and Ecological Change. In Jiu-Fu Liu and Wei-Zu Gu (Ed.), Hydrology of Artificial and Controlled Experiments, IntechOpen, doi: 10.5772/intechopen.72325. Document online
R. M. Wilson, M. M. Tfaily, V. I. Rich, J. K. Keller, S. D. Bridgham, C. M. Zalman, L. K. Meredith, P. J. Hanson, M. Hines, L. Pfeifer-Meister, and S. R. Saleska. (2017) Hydrogenation of Organic Matter as a Terminal Electron Sink Sustains High CO2:CH4 Production Ratios During Anaerobic Decomposition. Organic Geochemistry, 112:22-32, doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.06.011. Document online
L. K. Meredith, R. Commane, T. F. Keenan, S. T. Klosterman, J. W. Munger, P. H. Templer, J. Tang, S. C. Wofsy, and R. G. Prinn. (2017) Ecosystem fluxes of hydrogen in a mid-latitude forest driven by soil microbes and plants, Global Change Biology, 23(2):906-919, doi:10.1111/gcb.13463. Document online. Story.
R. Commane, L. K. Meredith, I. T. Baker, J. A. Berry, J. W. Munger, S. A. Montzka, P. H. Templer, S. M. Juice, M. S. Zahniser, and S. C. Wofsy. (2015) Seasonal fluxes of carbonyl sulfide in a mid-latitude forest. PNAS, 112(46), 14162-14167, doi:10.1073/pnas.1504131112. Document online. Story.
M. Khdhiri, L. Hesse, M. E. Popa, L. Quiza, I. Lalonde, L. K. Meredith, T. Röckmann, and P. Constant. (2015) Soil Carbon Content and Relative Abundance of High Affinity H2-Oxidizing Bacteria Predict Atmospheric H2 Soil Uptake Activity Better than Soil Microbial Community Composition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 85:1-9, doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.02.030. Document online
L. K. Meredith, R. Commane, J. W. Munger, A. Dunn, J. Tang, S. C. Wofsy, and R. G. Prinn. (2014) Ecosystem fluxes of hydrogen: a comparison of flux-gradient methods. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 7:2787-2805, doi:10.5194/amt-7-2787-2014. Document online. Story
L. K. Meredith, D. Rao, T. Bosak, V. Klepac-Ceraj, K. R. Tada, C. Hansel, S. Ono, and R. G. Prinn. (2014) Consumption of atmospheric H2 during the life cycle of soil-dwelling actinobacteria. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 6(3):226-238, doi:10.1111/1758-2229.12116. Document online.Story
A. L. Ganesan, A. Chatterjee, R.G. Prinn, C.M. Harth, P.K. Salameh, A.J. Manning, B.D. Hall, J. Muhle, L.K. Meredith, R.F. Weiss, S. O’Doherty, and D. Young. (2013) The variability of methane, nitrous oxide and sulfur hexafluoride in Northeast India, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 13:10633-10644, doi:10.5194/acp-13-10633-2013. Document online. Story
Other Publications
Pavlopoulos, G. A., et al. (Meredith, L.K. contributed as part of the Novel Metagenome Protein Families Consortium) (2023) Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics. Nature 622, 594–602 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06583-7
Neri, Uri, et al. (Meredith, L.K. contributed as apart of the RNA Virus Discovery Consortium) (2022) Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages.” Cell, 4023-4037. 10.1016/j.cell.2022.08.023. Document online
Fremin, B.J., Global Phage Small Open Reading Frame (GP-SmORF) Consortium (Meredith, L.K. contributed as part of this consortium), Bhatt, A.S., and Kyrpides, N.C. (2022) Revealing Thousands of Small, Novel Genes in Global Phage Genomes. Cell Reports, 39(12), doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110984. Document online.
Nayfach, S., Roux, S., Seshadri, R. et al. (L. K. Meredith contributed as a part of the IMG/M Data Consortium) (2020) A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes. Nature Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0718-6 Document online
E. Stokstad. (coverage of B2 WALD campaign) (2019) Unprecedented drought in an artificial ecosystem may reveal how rainforests will cope with climate change. Science News doi:10.1126/science.aaz8799. Document online
L. K. Meredith. (2013) Field Measurement of the Fate of Atmospheric H2 in a Forest Environment: from Canopy to Soil. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 250 pages. Document online. Story.