Peer-Reviewed Research Articles
Stock M.L., Heerema R.J., Randall J.J., Romero-Olivares A.L., Belteton S.A., Velasco-Cruz C., Pietrasiak N., 2025, “Uncovering the morphological and phylogenetic diversity of pecan orchard mushrooms in the Southwestern United States”, Fungal Biology, DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2025.101608
Hacopian M., Barron-Sandoval A., Romero-Olivares A.L., Berlemont R., Treseder K.K., 2025, “Warming is associated with more encoded antimicrobial resistance genes and transcriptions within six drug classes in soil bacteria: A case study and synthesis”, Environmental Microbiology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70097
Lopez A., Anthony M., Catalan-Dibene J., Ferrenberg S., Jordan S., Osborne B., Reed S., Romero-Olivares A.L., 2024, Dryland fungi are spatially heterogeneous and resistant to global change drivers in the northern Chihuahuan Desert, Ecosphere, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70031
Romero-Olivares A.L., Lopez A., Catalan-Dibene J., Ferrenberg S., Jordan S.E., Osborne B., 2024. Effects of global change drivers on the expression of pathogenicity and stress genes in dryland soil fungi, mSphere, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00658-24
Barnes A.D., Deslippe J.R., Potapov A.M., Romero-Olivares A.L., Schipper L.A., Alster C.J., 2024. “Does warming erode network stability and ecosystem multifunctionality?”, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.006
Romero-Olivares A.L., Frey S.D., Treseder K.K., 2023. Tracking fungal species-level responses in soil environment exposed to long-term warming and associated drying, FEMS Microbiology Letters, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnad128
Hansen F., James D.K., Anderson J.P., Meredith C.S., Dominguez A.J., Pombubpa N., Stajich J.E., Romero-Olivares A.L., Salley S.W., Pietrasiak N., 2023. Landscape characteristics shape surface soil microbiomes in the Chihuahuan Desert, Frontiers in Microbiology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1135800
Romero-Olivares A.L., Davie-Marie C.L., Kramshøj M., Rinnan R., Frey S.D., 2022. Soil volatile organic compound emissions in response to soil warming and nitrogen deposition, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00065.
Haelewaters D., Hofmann T.A., Romero-Olivares A.L., 2021. Ten simple rules for Global North researchers to stop perpetuating helicopter research in the Global South, Plos Computational Biology, DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009277.
Ishaq, S.L., Parada, F.J., Wolf, P.G., Bonilla, C.Y., Carney, M.A., Benezra, A., Wissel, E., Friedman, M., DeAngelis, K.M., Robinson, J.M., Fahimipour, A.K., Manus, M.B., Grieneisen, L., Dietz, L.G., Pathak, A., Chauhan, A., Kuthyar, S., Stewart, J.D., Dasari, M.R., Nonnamaker, E., Choudoir, M., Horve, P.F., Zimmerman, N.B., Kozik, A.J., Darling, K.W., Romero-Olivares, A.L., Hariharan, J., Farmer, N., Maki, K.A., Collier, J.L., O’Doherty, K., Letourneau, J., Kline, J., Moses, P.L., Morar, N. 2021. Introducing the Microbes and Social Equity Working Group: Considering the Microbial Components of Social, Environmental, and Health Justice. mSystems, DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00471-21.
Romero-Olivares A.L., Morrison, E.W., Pringle, A., Frey, S.D. 2021. Linking genes to traits in fungi. Microbial Ecology, DOI: 10.1007/s00248-021-01687-x
Defrenne C., Abs E., Longhi Cordeiro A., Dietterich L., Hough M., Jones J.M., Kivlin S.N., Chen W., Cusack D., Franco A.L.C., Khasanova A., Stover D., Romero-Olivares A.L., 2021. The Ecology Underground Coalition: building a collaborative future of belowground ecology and ecologists. New Phytologist, DOI: 10.1111/nph.17163
Our work spans fungal diversity, soil microbiomes, and the effects of global change on belowground ecosystems. These peer-reviewed articles reflect collaborations across institutions and disciplines, from desert soil fungi to microbial ecology and science equity.