Peer reviewed and other publications

2024

Thurston AK, SJ Doherty, RM Jones, TA Douglas, CCM Baker, EJ Corriveau and RA Barbato (accepted). Changes in permafrost bacterial community composition after thaw across multiple Alaskan locations. Ecosphere

Gonzalez LM, CCM Baker, SJ Doherty and RA Barbato (2024). Ecological modeling of microbial community composition under variable temperatures. US Army ERDC/CRREL Technical Report TR-24-2 doi:10.21079/11681/48184

Wang Z, R Huben, PB Boucher, C Van Amburg, J Zeng, N Chung, J Wang, J King, RJ Knecht, I Ng’iru, A Baraza, CCM Baker, DJ Martins, NE Pierce and A Davies (2024). Automated detection of an insect-induced keystone vegetation phenotype using airborne LiDAR. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15:–978-993 doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14298

2023

Doherty SJ, RR Busby, CCM Baker and RA Barbato (2023). Rhizosphere microbial community structure differs between constant subzero and freeze-thaw temperature regimes in a subarctic soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 99(12):fiad147 doi:10.1093/femsec/fiad147

Espeland M, N Chazot, FL Condamine, AR Lemmon, EM Lemmon, E Pringle, A Heath, S Collins, W Tiren, M Mutiso, DC Lees, S Fisher, R Murphy, S Woodhall, R Tropek, SS Ahlborn, K Cockburn, J Dobson, T Bouyer, ZA Kaliszewska, CCM Baker, G Talavera, R Vila, AJ Gardiner, M Williams, DJ Martins, S Sáfián, DA Edge and NE Pierce (2023). Rapid radiation of ant parasitic butterflies during the Miocene aridification of Africa. Ecology and Evolution 13:e10046 doi:10.1002/ece3.10046

Baker CCM, AJ Barker, TA Douglas, SJ Doherty and RA Barbato (2023). Seasonal variation in near-surface seasonally thawed active layer and permafrost soil microbial communities. Environmental Research Letters 18:055001 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/acc542

2022

Titcomb GC, J Pansu, MC Hutchinson, KJ Tombak, CB Hansen, CCM Baker, TR Kartzinel, HS Young and RM Pringle (2022). Large-herbivore nemabiomes: patterns of parasite diversity and sharing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20212702 doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.2702

Ji Y*, CCM Baker*, VD Popescu, J Wang, C Wu, Z Wang, Y Li, L Wang, C Hua, Z Yang, C Yang, CCY Xu, A Diana, Q Wen, NE Pierce and DW Yu (2022). Measuring protected-area effectiveness using vertebrate distributions from leech iDNA. Nature Communications 13:1555 doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28778-8

* equal contributions

2021

Castillo Vardaro JA*, JA Bonachela*, CCM Baker, ML Pinsky, DF Doak, RM Pringle and CE Tarnita (2021). Resource availability and heterogeneity shape the self-organization of regular spatial patterning. Ecology Letters 24:1880–1891 doi:10.1111/ele.13822 [PDF]

* equal contributions

2020

Baker CCM, JA Castillo Vardaro, DF Doak, J Pansu, J Puissant, RM Pringle and CE Tarnita (2020). Spatial patterning of soil microbial communities created by fungus-farming termites. Molecular Ecology 29:4487–4501 doi:10.1111/mec.15585 [PDF]

2019

Whitaker MRL, CCM Baker, S Salzman, DJ Martins and NE Pierce (2019). Combining stable isotope analysis with DNA metabarcoding improves inferences of trophic ecology. PLoS ONE 14(7):e0219070 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0219070

2018

Rosario K, KA Mettel, BE Benner, R Johnson, C Scott, SZ Yusseff-Vanegas, CCM Baker, DL Cassill, C Storer, A Varsani and M Breitbart (2018). Virus discovery in all three major lineages of terrestrial arthropods highlights the diversity of single-stranded DNA viruses associated with invertebrates. PeerJ 6:e5761 doi:10.7717/peerj.5761

Kerr M, K Rosario, CCM Baker and M Breitbart (2018). Discovery of Four Novel Circular Single-Stranded DNA Viruses in Fungus-Farming Termites. Genome Announcements 6(17):e00318-18 doi:10.1128/genomea.00318-18

2017

Baker CCM, DJ Martins, JN Pelaez, JPJ Billen, A Pringle, ME Frederickson and NE Pierce (2017). Distinctive fungal communities in an obligate African ant plant mutualism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20162501 doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.2501

2016

Baker CCM, LS Bittleston, JG Sanders and NE Pierce (2016). Dissecting host-associated communities with DNA barcodes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371:20150328 doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0328

Bittleston LS, CCM Baker, LB Strominger, A Pringle and NE Pierce (2016). Metabarcoding as a tool for investigating arthropod diversity in Nepenthes pitcher plants. Austral Ecology 41(2):120–132 doi:10.1111/aec.12271 [PDF]

2012

Baker CCM, SRX Dall and DJ Rankin (2012). Kin selection and the evolution of social information use in animal conflict. PLoS ONE 7(2):e31664 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031664

2011

Mushegian AA, CN Peterson, CCM Baker and A Pringle (2011). Bacterial diversity across individual lichens. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77(12):4249–4252 doi:10.1128/AEM.02850-10