Publications

Publications

5 first-authored and 10 co-authored publications · 533 citations · 6 published datasets. Also on Google Scholar and ORCID.

2026

• The fate of peatland carbon interactively determined by elevated carbon dioxide and warming
  Zhou, J., Huang, W., Hanson, P., Ricciuto, D., Mayes, M., Griffiths, N., Salmon, V.G., Weber, S.E., Jiang, L., Zhou, Y., Quan, Q., Shi, X., Chen, W. & Zhang, Y.
  Science Advances — accepted
  In press
• Fine-root responses to warming and elevated CO₂ vary among plant functional types
  Weber, S.E., Childs, J., Latimer, J.M., Hanson, P.J., Salmon, V.G., Schwaner, G. & Iversen, C.M.
  Journal of Ecology, 114: e70408

  DOI First author SPRUCE

• Implementing belowground controls on nutrient uptake in ELMv2-SPRUCE improves representation of a boreal peatland ecosystem
  Wang, Y., Ricciuto, D.M., Mao, J., Weber, S.E., Salmon, V.G., Shi, X., Yang, X., Griffiths, N.A., Hanson, P.J. et al.
  Geoscientific Model Development, 19: 5827–5855
  DOIModeling
• Microbially mediated nitrification improves modeled temperate forest responses to declining nitrogen deposition
  Ridgeway, J.R., Sulman, B.N., Weber, S.E., Juice, S.M. & Brzostek, E.R.
  Applied Soil Ecology, 217
  DOIModeling

2025

• AMF diversity promotes plant community phosphorus acquisition and reduces carbon costs per unit of phosphorus
  Weber, S.E., Bascompte, J., Kahmen, A. & Niklaus, P.A.
  New Phytologist, 248: 886–896 · featured in a New Phytologist Commentary (Janoušková & Jansa)

  DOI First author Invited commentary

2024

• Plant choice between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species results in increased plant P acquisition
  Weber, S.E., Bascompte, J., Kahmen, A. & Niklaus, P.A.
  PLOS ONE, 19(1): e0292811
  DOIFirst author

2023

• How deep should we go to understand roots at the top of the world?
  Weber, S.E. & Iversen, C.M.
  New Phytologist, 240: 457–460
  DOIFirst author
• Plant functional traits are dynamic predictors of ecosystem functioning in variable environments
  Huxley, J.D., White, C.T., Humphries, H.C., Weber, S.E. & Spasojevic, M.J.
  Journal of Ecology, 111: 2597–2613

  DOI Wiley Top Cited 2025

2021

• Variation in δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N within and among plant species in the alpine tundra
  Spasojevic, M.J. & Weber, S.E.
  Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 53(1): 340–351
  DOI

2020

• Belowground impacts of alpine woody encroachment are determined by plant traits, local climate, and soil conditions
  Collins, C.G., Spasojevic, M.J., Alados, C.L., Aronson, E.L., Benavides, J.C., Cannone, N. et al., incl. Weber, S.E. & Diez, J.M.
  Global Change Biology, 26(12): 7112–7127
  DOI
• Plant biomass, not plant economics traits, determines responses of soil CO₂ efflux to precipitation in the C₄ grass Panicum virgatum
  Heckman, R.W., Khasanova, A.R., Johnson, N.S., Weber, S.E., Bonnette, J.E., Aspinwall, M.J., Reichmann, L.G., Juenger, T.E., Fay, P.A. & Hawkes, C.V.
  Journal of Ecology, 108(5): 2095–2106
  DOI
• The influence of warming and biotic interactions on the potential for range expansion of native and nonnative species
  von Holle, B., Weber, S.E. & Nickerson, D.M.
  AoB Plants, 12(5): plaa040
  DOI

2019

• Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to multiple coinciding global change drivers
  Weber, S.E., Diez, J.M., Andrews, L.V., Goulden, M.L., Aronson, E.L. & Allen, M.F.
  Fungal Ecology, 40: 62–71

  DOI First author AMF functional types

• Fungal community assembly in soils and roots under plant invasion and nitrogen deposition
  Phillips, M.L., Weber, S.E., Andrews, L.V., Aronson, E.L., Allen, M.F. & Allen, E.B.
  Fungal Ecology, 40: 107–117
  DOI

2018

• Shrub range expansion alters diversity and distribution of soil fungal communities across an alpine elevation gradient
  Collins, C.G., Stajich, J.E., Weber, S.E., Pombubpa, N. & Diez, J.M.
  Molecular Ecology, 27(10): 2461–2476
  DOI

In preparation

• Deep carbon inputs disproportionately increase soil carbon under Miscanthus × giganteus
  Weber, S.E., Hartman, M., Juice, S.M., Protain, E. & Brzostek, E.R.
  Preparing for GCB Bioenergy
  First author
• Loss of a belowground mutualist disrupts a fundamental biodiversity–disease relationship
  Laggan, N.A., Kübler, A., Weber, S.E., Niklaus, P.A. & Halliday, F.W.
  Preparing for Proceedings of the Royal Society B
  Preprint
• A checklist of traits for the application of mycorrhizal fungi in managed ecosystems
  Shulman, H.B., Berrios, L., Brailey-Crane, P., Edwards, J.D., Phillips, M.L., Ramana, J.V., Rog, I. & Weber, S.E.
  Preparing for New Phytologist
  Functional Mycorrhizae Working Group
• Evidence of plant uptake of peat-respired CO₂ indicates that warming increases peat turnover
  Hobbie, E.A., Weber, S.E., McFarlane, K.J., Malhotra, A., Salmon, V.G., Warren, J.M., Wilson, R.M., Chanton, J.P., Peters, J.M.R., Norby, R.J. & Hanson, P.J.
  Preparing for JGR Biogeosciences

Published datasets

• SPRUCE root production assessed with manual minirhizotrons resolved to plant functional type, 2015–2021
  Weber, S.E., Childs, J., Latimer, J.M., Salmon, V.G. & Iversen, C.M.
  ORNL TES SFA, U.S. Department of Energy · 2025
  DOI
• SPRUCE manual minirhizotron images from experimental plots beginning in 2013
  Weber, S.E., Childs, J., Iversen, C.M., Latimer, J.M., Salmon, V.G., Burnham, A.M. & Norby, R.J.
  ORNL TES SFA, U.S. Department of Energy · 2025
  DOI
• Data for: AMF diversity promotes plant phosphorus acquisition and reduces carbon costs per unit of phosphorus
  Weber, S.E., Bascompte, J., Kahmen, A. & Niklaus, P.A.
  Zenodo · 2024
  DOI
• Plant choice between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species results in increased plant P acquisition
  Weber, S.E., Bascompte, J., Kahmen, A. & Niklaus, P.A.
  Dryad · 2024
  DOI
• SPRUCE plant-available nutrients assessed with ion-exchange resins in experimental plots, beginning in 2013
  Iversen, C.M., Latimer, J., Burnham, A., Brice, D.J., Childs, J., Vander Stel, H.M., Schwaner, G.W. & Weber, S.E.
  ORNL TES SFA, U.S. Department of Energy · 2024
  DOI
• Niwot plant functional traits, 2008–2018
  Spasojevic, M., Weber, S.E. & Niwot Ridge LTER
  Environmental Data Initiative · 2021
  DOI