Papers
Porter, T.M., C.W. Schadt, L. Rizvi, A.P. Martin, S.K. Schmidt, L. Scott-Denton, R. Vilgalys & J.-M. Moncalvo. 2007. Widespread occurrence and phylogenetic placement of a soil clone group adds a prominent new branch to the fungal tree of life. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 46: 635-644. [Reprint]
Weintraub, M.N., L.E. Scott-Denton, S.K. Schmidt, and R.K. Monson. 2007. The effects of tree rhizodeposition on soil exoenzyme activity, dissolved organic carbon, and nutrient availability in a subalpine forest ecosystem. Oecologia 154: 327-338. [Reprint]
Schmidt, S.K., K.L. Wilson, A.F. Meyer, T.M. Porter, C.W. Schadt & J.M. Moncalvo. 2007. The missing fungi - New insights from culture-independent molecular studies of soil. IN Accessing Uncultivated Microorganisms, (Karsten Zengler, ed.) ASM Press, Washington DC.
Nemergut, D.R., S.P. Anderson, C.C. Cleveland, A.P. Martin, A.E. Miller, A. Seimon and S.K. Schmidt. 2007. Microbial community succession in unvegetated, recently-deglaciated soils. Microbial Ecology 53: 110-122. [Reprint]
Schmidt, S.K., E.K. Costello, D.R. Nemergut, C.C. Cleveland, S.C. Reed, M.N. Weintraub, A.F. Meyer and A.P. Martin. 2007. Biogeochemical consequences of rapid microbial turnover and seasonal succession in soil. Ecology 88: 1379-1385. [Abstract] [Reprint]
Monson, R.K., D.L. Lipson, S.P. Burns, A.A. Turnipseed, A.C. Delany, M.W. Williams and S.K. Schmidt. 2006. Winter forest soil respiration controlled by climate and microbial community composition. Nature 439: 711-714. [Abstract] [Reprint]
Krajick , K. 2006. Living the High Life: The mountaintop environment of the Andes harbors a Noah’s ark of previously undocumented species. Natural History 115 (7): 44-50. [Abstract] [Reprint]
Oline, D.K., S.K. Schmidt and M.C. Grant. 2006. Biogeography and landscape-scale diversity of the dominant Crenarchaeota of soil. Microbial Ecology 52:480-490. [Reprint]
Jones, R.T., E.K. Costello and A.P. Martin. 2006. Application of phylogenetic techniques in studies of soil microbial communities. Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 3rd Edition.
Jones, R.T. and A.P. Martin. 2006. Testing for differentiation of microbial communities using phylogenetic methods: accounting for uncertainty of phylogenetic inference and character state mapping. Microbial Ecology 52: 408-417. [Reprint]
Costello, E.K. and S.K. Schmidt. 2006. Microbial Diversity in Alpine Tundra Wet Meadow Soil: Novel Chloroflexi from a Cold, Water-Saturated Environment. Environmental Microbiology 8: 1471-1486. [Reprint]
Nemergut, D.R., E. Costello, A.F. Meyer, M.Y. Pescador, M.N. Weintraub and S.K. Schmidt. 2005. Structure and function of alpine and arctic soil microbial communities. Research in Microbiology 156: 775-784. [Abstract]
Bardgett, R.D., W.D. Bowman, R. Kaufmann and S.K. Schmidt. 2005. Linking aboveground and belowground ecology: A temporal approach. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20: 534-541. [Abstract]
Schmidt, S.K. and D.A. Lipson. 2004. Microbial growth under the snow; Implications for nutrient and alleochemical availability in temperate soils. Plant and Soil 259: 1-7. [Abstract] [Reprint]
Martin, A.P., E.K. Costello, A.F. Meyer, D.R. Nemergut and S.K. Schmidt. 2004. The rate and pattern of cladogenesis in microbes. Evolution 58: 946-955. [Abstract]
Meyer, A.F., D.A. Lipson C.W. Schadt, A.P. Martin and S.K. Schmidt. 2004. Molecular and metabolic characterization of cold tolerant, alpine soil Pseudomonas, sensu stricto. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 483-489. [Abstract]
Nemergut, D.R., A.P. Martin and S.K. Schmidt. 2004. Integron diversity in heavy metal contaminated mine tailings and inferences about integron origin and evolution. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 1160-1168. [Abstract]
Lipson, D.A. and S.K. Schmidt. 2004. Seasonal changes in an alpine soil bacterial community in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 2867-2879. [Abstract]
Schmidt, S.K., D.A. Lipson, R.E. Ley, M.C. Fisk and A.E. West. 2004. Impacts of chronic nitrogen additions vary seasonally and by microbial functional group in tundra soils. Biogeochemistry 69: 1-17. [Abstract]
Ley, R.E., M.W. Williams and S.K. Schmidt. 2004. Microbial population dynamics in an extreme environment: Controlling factors in talus soils at 3750m in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Biogeochemistry 68: 313-335. [Abstract]
Pennisi, E. 2003. Neither cold nor snow stops tundra fungi. Science 301: 1307. [Reprint]
Schadt, C.W., A.P. Martin, D.A. Lipson and S.K. Schmidt. 2003. Seasonal dynamics of novel fungal lineages in tundra soils. Science 301: 1359-1361. [Abstract] [Reprint]
Martin, A.P. 2002. Phylogenetic approaches for describing and comparing the diversity of microbial communities. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68: 3673-3682. [Reprint]
Nemergut, D. and S.K. Schmidt. 2002. Disruption of narH, narJ and moaE Inhibits Heterotrophic Nitrification in Pseudomonas strain M19. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68: 6462-6465. [Reprint]
Lipson, D.A., C.W. Schadt and S.K. Schmidt. 2002. Changes in microbial community structure and function in an alpine dry meadow following spring snow melt. Microbial Ecol. 43: 307-314. [Abstract]
West, A.E. and S.K. Schmidt. 2002. Endogenous methanogenesis stimulates oxidation of atmospheric CH4 in alpine tundra soil. Microbial Ecol. 43: 408-415. [Abstract]
Lipson, D.L. and S.K. Schmidt. 2002. Kinetics of microbial processes and population growth in soil. pp. 1748-1757. In, Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology. Wiley, New York.
Schadt, C.W., R.B. Mullen and S.K. Schmidt. 2001. Isolation and phylogenetic identification of a dark-septate fungus associated with the alpine plant Ranunculus adoneus. New Phytologist 150: 747-755. [Abstract]
Schmidt, S.K., A.E. West, P.D. Brooks, L. Smith, C. Jaeger, M.C. Fisk and E. Holland. 2001. Soil-atmosphere gas exchange across an alpine tundra landscape, In Alpine Dynamics: The structure and function of an alpine ecosystem. (W. Bowman and T. Seastedt, eds.). Oxford University Press.
Gonzalez, G., R.E. Ley, S.K. Schmidt, X. Zou and T.R. Seastedt. 2001. Soil ecological interactions: Comparisons between tropical and subalpine forests. Oecologia 128:549-556. [Abstract]
Fisk, M.C., P.D. Brooks and S.K. Schmidt. 2001. Nitrogen cycling in an alpine ecosystem. In Alpine Dynamics: The structure and function of an alpine ecosystem, Niwot Ridge, Colorado. (W. Bowman and T. Seastedt, eds.). Oxford University Press.
Lipson, D.A., S.K. Schmidt and R.K. Monson. 2000. An empirical model of amino acid transformations in alpine soil. Soil Biol. Biochem. 33: 189-198. [Abstract]
Lipson, D.A., S.K. Schmidt and R.K. Monson. 2000. Carbon availability and temperature control the post-snowmelt decline in alpine soil microbial biomass. Soil Biol. Biochem. 32: 441-448. [Abstract]
Schmidt, S.K., D.A. Lipson and T.K. Raab. 2000. Effects of willows (Salix brachycarpa) on populations of salicylate-mineralizing microorganisms in alpine soils. J. Chem. Ecol. 26: 2049-2057. [Abstract]

