Rebecca L. Mau

Northern Arizona University — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

29h-index7.2kcitations70works4.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology(37), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics(23), Isotope Analysis in Ecology(19), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies(15), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(14)

Publications70 total

Internal DNA standards for Isopycnic Centrifugation of Environmental DNA in Quantitative Stable Isotope Probing
2025Open Access
How many bacteria are growing in soil?
2025Open Access
Barnacles dominate the winter diet of <i>Calidris maritima</i> (Purple Sandpiper) in Maine: A bona fide dietary shift or molecular techniques revealing an unknown diet composition?
The Auk·2025
Growth rate as a link between microbial diversity and soil biogeochemistry
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 23 citedOpen Access
Measurements of soil protist richness and community composition are influenced by primer pair, annealing temperature, and bioinformatics choices
Applied and Environmental Microbiology·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Microbial growth in soil
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Resource partitioning and amino acid assimilation in a terrestrial geothermal spring
The ISME Journal·2023· 15 citedOpen Access
DNA metabarcoding reveals diet composition of invasive rats and mice in Hawaiian forests
Biological Invasions·2023· 6 cited
The predictive power of phylogeny on growth rates in soil bacterial communities
ISME Communications·2023· 23 citedOpen Access
Nutrients strengthen density dependence of per-capita growth and mortality rates in the soil bacterial community
Oecologia·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Life history strategies among soil bacteria—dichotomy for few, continuum for many
The ISME Journal·2023· 149 citedOpen Access
Eastern Whip-poor-will abundance declines with urban land cover and increases with moth abundance in the American Midwest
Ornithological applications·2022· 14 cited
Responses of Biocrust and Associated Soil Bacteria to Novel Climates Are Not Tightly Coupled
Frontiers in Microbiology·2022· 14 citedOpen Access
Vampyrum spectrum (Phyllostomidae) movement and prey revealed by radio-telemetry and DNA metabarcoding
PLoS ONE·2022· 13 citedOpen Access
Soil minerals affect taxon-specific bacterial growth
The ISME Journal·2021· 67 citedOpen Access
Bats provide a critical ecosystem service by consuming a large diversity of agricultural pest insects
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment·2021· 65 cited
Substrate stoichiometric regulation of microbial respiration and community dynamics across four different ecosystems
Soil Biology and Biochemistry·2021· 12 cited
Decreased growth of wild soil microbes after 15 years of transplant‐induced warming in a montane meadow
Global Change Biology·2021· 40 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: Nutrients cause consolidation of soil carbon flux to small proportion of bacterial community
Nature Communications·2021· 6 citedOpen Access
Nutrients cause consolidation of soil carbon flux to small proportion of bacterial community
Nature Communications·2021· 136 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Bruce A. Hungate(36), Egbert Schwartz(34), Paul Dijkstra(27), Benjamin J. Koch(26), Michaela Hayer(23), Ember M. Morrissey(20), Jennifer Pett‐Ridge(14), Jane C. Marks(13), Matthew A. Bowker(12), Bram WG Stone(12), Steven J. Blazewicz(12), Kirsten Hofmockel(11), Alicia M. Purcell(10), Xiao‐Jun Allen Liu(10), Brianna Finley(10), Fernando T. Maestre(9), Natasja van Gestel(8), David J. Eldridge(7), José L. Quero(6), Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo(6)