2025
Prairie AM, Silver HD, Machmuller MB, Zelikova TJ. 2025. Sowing solutions: Analysis and recommendations for diversified agricultural systems and their impact on soil carbon, soil health, and crop yields. Journal of Science Policy & Governance https://doi.org/10.38126/JSPG260108
2024
Even RJ, Machmuller MB, Lavallee JM, Zelikova TJ, Cotrufo MF. Large errors in common soil carbon measurements due to sample processing. EGUsphere SOIL, 11, 17–34, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-17-2025
Oldfield EE, Lavallee JM, Blesh J, Bradford MA, Cameron-Harp M, Cotrufo MF, Eagle AJ, Eash L, Even RJ, Kuebbing SE, Kort EA, Lark TJ, Latka C, Lin Y, Machmuller MB, O’Neill B, Raffeld AM, RoyChawdhury T, Rudek J, Sanderman J, Spruner CD, Toombs TP, Uludere Aragon N, Vidal M, Wooolf D, Zelikova TJ, Gordon DR. Greenhouse gas mitigation on croplands: clarifying the debate of knowns, unknowns and riks to move forward with effective management interventions. Carbon Management, 15, 1, 2365896. https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2024.2365896
2023
Ogle SM, Conant RT, Fischer B, Haya BK, Manning DT, McCarl BA, Zelikova TJ. Policy challenges to enhance soil carbon sinks: the dirty part of making contributions to the Paris agreement by the United States. Carbon Management https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2023.2268071
2022
Marvin MJ, Diem SF, Karwat DMA, Krieger EM, Rittschoff CC, Bayon B, Aghazadeh M, Asensio O, Zelikova TJ, Garcia-Cazarin M, Alíelo Maurosa JG, Mahnoud H. The climate is changing. Engineering Education needs to change as well. Journal of Engineering Education. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20485
2020
Zelikova TJ. The future of carbon removal must be transdisciplinary. Royal Society Interface Focus: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2020.0038
Dowell G, Neiderd J, Vanuchi JV, Dogan T, Donaghy K, Jacobson R, Mahowald N, Milstein M, Zelikova TJ. Rooting carbon dioxide removal research in the social sciences.. Royal Society Interface Focus https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2019.0138
REPORT: “Leading with Soil” - Lead author, Carbon180
2019
Cullough L, Nowak K, Pogoriler A, Metcalf JL, Zaringhalam M, Zelikova TJ. Year 1 of Request a Woman Scientist attests to it’s reach and potential. PLoS Biology doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000212.
Swanson AC, Schwendenmann L, Allen MF, Aronson EL, Artavia-Leon A, Dierick D, Fernandez-Bou AS, Harmon TC, Murillo-Cruz C, Oberbauer SF, Pinto-Tomas A, Rundel PW, Zelikova TJ. Welcome to the Atta world: A framework for understanding the effects of leaf-cutter ants on ecosystem functions. Functional Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13319
Aronson EL, Dierick D, Botthoff JK, Oberbauer SF, Zelikova TJ, Harmon TC, Rundel PW, Johnson RF, Swanson AC, Pinto-Tomas A, Artavia-Leon A, Matarrita-Carranza B, Allen MF. ENSO-influenced drought drives methane flux dynamics in a tropical wet forest soil. JGR Biogeosciences https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004832
Fernandez-Bou AS, Dierick D, Swanson AC, Allen MF, Fitzimons Alvarado AG, Artavia-Leon-A, Carrasquillo-Quintana O, Lachman DA, Oberbauer SF, Pinto-Tomas A, Rodriquez-Reyes Y, Rundel PW, Schwendenmann L, Zelikova TJ, Harmon TC. The role of ecosystem engineer, the leaf-cutter ant Atta cephalotes, on soil CO2 dynamics in a wet tropical rainforest. Journal of Geophysical Research: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004723
2018
Fernandez-Bou AS, Dierick D, Swanson AC, Allen MF, Alvarado AGF, Artavia-Leon A, Carrasquillo-Quantara O, Lachman DA, Oberbauer S, Pinto-Tomas A, Rodriguez-Reyes Y, Rundel P, Schwendenmann L, Zelikova TJ, Harmon TC. The role of the ecosystem engineer, the leaf-cutter ant Atta cephalotes, on soil CO2 dynamics in a wet tropical forest. Journal of Geophysical research: Biogeosciences https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004723
Dijkstra FA, Carrillo Y, Blumenthal DM, Mueller KE, LeCain DR, Morgan JA, Zelikova TJ, Williams DG, Follett RF, Pendall E. Elevated CO2 and water addition enhance nitrogen turnover in grassland plants with implications for temporal stability. Ecology Letters. DOE:10.1111/ele.12935
Blumenthal DM, Mueller KE, Kray JA, LeCain DR, Pendall E, Duke S, Zelikova TJ, Dijkstra DA, Williams DG, Morgan JA. Warming and elevated CO2 interact to alter seasonality and reduce variability of soil water in a semiarid grassland. Ecosystems DOI 10.1007/s10021-018-0237-1
Koerner SE et al. 2018. Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution Dec 2(12):1925-1932. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0696-y
Zelikova TJ, Filley T, Babson D, Mooney S, Swan A, Funk J, Jacobson R, Amador G, Bennett D, Levy C, Woodbury PB, McCarty JL, Matchett K. Biological Solutions. Building a New Carbon Economy: An Innovation Plan. New Carbon Economy Consortium.
Sanchez DL, Field JL, Lehmann J, Zelikova TJ, Lucas M, Funk J, Aines R, Pett-Ridge J. Hybrid Biological and Engineered Solutions. Building a New Carbon Economy: An Innovation Plan. New Carbon Economy Consortium.
2017
Sorokin Y, Zelikova TJ, Blumenthal D, Willians DG, Pendall E. Seasonally contrasting responses of evapotranspiration to warming and elevated CO2 in a semi-arid grassland. Ecohydrology 10(7): e1880
De Kauwe et al. 2017. Challenging terrestrial biosphere models with data from the long-term multi-factor Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment Experiment. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13643
2016
Souza L, Zelikova TJ, Sanders NJ. Bottom-up and top-down effects on plant communities: nutrients limit productivity but insects determine diversity and composition. Oikos https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.02579
2015
Zelikova TJ, Pendall E, Williams DG, Hoenigman R, Blumenthal DM, Morgan JA. Precipitation controls responses of ecosystem phenology and plants to elevated CO2 and warming in a semi-arid grassland. Journal of Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12440
Souza L, Zelikova TJ, Sanders NJ. Bottom-up and top-down effects influence plant community independently and vary temporally. Oikos. DOI: 10.1111/oik.02579
Harmon T, Dierick D, Trahan N, Allen M, Rundel P, Oberbauer S, Schwendenmann L, Zelikova TJ. Low cost CO2 efflux and point concentration sensing systems for terrestrial ecology applications. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12426
Ryan E, Ogle K, Zelikova TJ, LeCain D, Williams DG, Morgan J, Pendall E. Antecedent moisture and temperature conditions modulate influence of elevated CO2 and warming on ecosystem respiration. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12910
*Chen J, Zelikova TJ, Pendall E, Morgan JA, Williams DG. Daily and seasonal changes in soil amino acid composition in a semiarid grassland exposed to elevated CO2 and warming. Biogeochemistry 123: 135-146.
*Brennan A, Tucker C, Carrillo Y, Blumenthal D, LeCain D, Risk D, Zelikova TJ, Williams DG, Pendall E. Temperature sensitivity of soil CO2 efflux responses to climate change is mediated by plants. Plant and Soil. In Review.
*Sorokin Y, Zelikova TJ, Blumenthal D, Williams DG, Pendall E. Seasonally contrasting responses of evapotranspiration to warming and elevated CO2 in a semi arid grassland. Ecohydrology. Revision in Review.
2014
Zelikova TJ, Blumenthal DM, Williams DG, Souza L, LeCain DR, Morgan JA, Pendall E. Long-term exposure to elevated CO2 enhances community stability by suppressing dominant plant species in a mixed-grass prairie. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi:10.1074/pnas.141465911; Highlighted in Science Magazine “In Other Journals”
*Redmond M, Zelikova TJ, Barger NN. Limits to understory plant restoration following fuel- reduction treatments in a pinon-juniper woodland. Environmental Management.
2013
Zelikova TJ, Hufbauer RA, Reed SC, Wertin TM, Fettig C, Belnap J. Eco-evolutionary responses of Bromus tectorum to climate change: Implications for biological invasions. Ecology and Evolution 3(5): 1374-1387
2012
Zelikova TJ, Housman DC, Grote ED, Neher D, Belnap J. 2012. Warming and increased precipitation frequency on the Colorado Plateau: implications for biological soil crusts and soil processes. Plant and Soil 335(1): 265-282.
Reed SL, Coe K, Sparks JP, Housman DC, Zelikova TJ, Belnap J. Changes to dryland rainfall result in rapid moss mortality and altered soil fertility. Nature Climate Change 2: 752-755.
2011
Zelikova TJ, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR. 2011. The mixed effects of experimental ant removal on seedling distribution, belowground invertebrates, and soil nutrients. Ecosphere 2(5): art63.
2008
Zelikova TJ, Breed MD. 2008. Effects of habitat disturbance on ant community composition and seed dispersal by ants in a tropical dry forest in Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24: 309-316.
Zelikova TJ, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ. 2008. Variation in seed dispersal along an elevational gradient in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Acta Oecologica 34: pp. 155-162.
2002
Miller SM, Dong A, Pai E, Falkowski MJ, Ledwidge R, Summers AO, and Zelikova TJ. 2002. Structure/Function analysis of protein/protein interactions and role of dynamic motions in mercuric ion reductase. DOE Genome Contractor-Grantee Workshop IX.
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