Melanie A Mayes Distinguished Staff Scientist and Biogeochemical Dynamics Group Leader Contact 865.574.7336 | mayesma@ornl.gov All Publications Generalizing Microbial Parameters in Soil Biogeochemical Models: Insights From a Multi-Site Incubation Experiment An integrated metagenomic, metabolomic and transcriptomic survey of Populus across genotypes and environments Thermal, water, and land cover factors led to contrasting urban and rural vegetation resilience to extreme hot months Utilizing Novel Field and Data Exploration Methods to Explore Hot Moments in High-Frequency Soil Nitrous Oxide Emissions Data: Opportunities and Challenges Soil carbon stocks in temperate grasslands differ strongly across sites but are insensitive to decade-long fertilization... Mercury Remediation Technology Development for Lower East Fork Poplar Creek—FY 2021 Update Mercury Remediation Technology Development for Lower East Fork Poplar Creek FY20 Update Intensified Soil Moisture Extremes Decrease Soil Organic Carbon Decomposition: A Mechanistic Modeling Analysis Precipitation and nitrogen application stimulate soil nitrous oxide emission Differential Organic Carbon Mineralization Responses to Soil Moisture in Three Different Soil Orders Under Mixed Forested System Soil organic carbon cycling in response to simulated soil moisture variation under field conditions... Biological mechanisms may contribute to soil carbon saturation patterns Toward a Generalizable Framework of Disturbance Ecology Through Crowdsourced Science Representing methane emissions from wet tropical forest soils using microbial functional groups constrained by soil diffusivity Representing methane emissions from wet tropical forest soils using microbial functional groups constrained by soil diffusivity Microbial seasonality promotes soil respiratory carbon emission in natural ecosystems: A modeling study Bringing function to structure: Root–soil interactions shaping phosphatase activity throughout a soil profile in Puerto Rico Evaluation of engineered sorbents for the sorption of mercury from contaminated bank soils: a column study How much carbon can be added to soil by sorption? Dynamics of Fungal and Bacterial Biomass Carbon in Natural Ecosystems: Site‐level Applications of the CLM‐Microbe Model Multi-year incubation experiments boost confidence in model projections of long-term soil carbon dynamics COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data Modeling the processes of soil moisture in regulating microbial and carbon-nitrogen cycling... Plant roots stimulate the decomposition of complex, but not simple, soil carbon Exploring the sustainability and sealing mechanisms of unlined ponds for growing algae for fuel and other commodity-scale products Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Next page ›› Last page Last » Key Links Curriculum Vitae ORCID https://www.ornl.gov/project/urban-ecosystems-biogeochemical-cycling-along-natu… https://tes-sfa.ornl.gov/node/203 Organizations Biological and Environmental Systems Science Directorate Environmental Sciences Division Earth Systems Science Section Biogeochemical Dynamics Group Climate Change Science Institute