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Selected Papers

Below are some of my favorite papers that illustrate my research themes.
For a full list of publications, please see my google scholar or ORCiD profiles.

Rohwer RR, Kirkpatrick M, Garcia SL, Kellom M, McMahon KD, Baker BJ.

Bacterial ecology and evolution converge on seasonal and decadal scales

In Review, 2024.

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What does bacterial evolution look like in a natural community- and what counts as evolution anyway?

Fig 3- 1 in 5 species experienced long-term changes in strain composition.

Rohwer RR*, Ladwig R*, Hanson PC, Walsh JR, Vander Zanden MJ, Dugan HA.

Increased anoxia following species invasion of a eutrophic lake. 

Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2024.
*Equally contributing first authors.

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Do the impacts of species invasions reach beyond the food web, into a lake's biogeochemistry?

Fig 3 - Post spiny water flea invasion, spring phytoplankton biomass increased and anoxia established earlier.

Rohwer RR, Hale RJ, Vander Zanden MJ, Miller TR, McMahon KD.

Species invasions shift microbial phenology in a two-decade freshwater time series.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023.

PAPER

How intertwined are bacteria with the broader ecosystem? In what ways do they respond to sudden ecological shifts?

Fig 1- the bacterial communities in ~500 samples cluster into seasonal communities defined by environmental variables.

Rohwer RR, Hamilton JJ, Newton RJ, McMahon KD.

TaxAss: Leveraging a Custom Freshwater Database Achieves Fine-Scale Taxonomic Resolution.

mSphere, 2018.

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How can we improve freshwater bacteria taxonomy classifications to make our data more ecologically relevant? 

Fig 3- the TaxAss tool increases classifications of freshwater-specific bacteria without changing classifications of other, non-freshwater taxa.
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