PDFs available by email or on ResearchGate
*Indicates supervised undergraduate or graduate student co-author
In review
A Cordeiro… FM Soper et al. [41 authors] TropiRoot 1.0- Tropical root database of characteristics across environmental variation (data paper).
Published
2024
D Yaffar, LF Lugli, MY Wong, RJ Norby, SD Addo-Danso, M Arnaud, AL Cordeiro, LH Dietterich, MH Diaz-Toribio, MY Lee, O Prakash Ghimire, CM Smith-Martin, L Toro, K Andersen, LA McCulloch, IC Meier, JS Powers, M Sanchez-Julia, FM Soper, DF Cusack. Tropical root responses to global changes: a synthesis. Global Change Biology
M Marcellus*, EM Goud, N Swartz*, E Brown*, FM Soper. Evolutionary history and root trait coordination predict nutrient strategy in tropical legume trees. New Phytologist
C Dallstream*, FM Soper. Integrating edaphic gradients and community assembly concepts into the root trait space (Invited commentary) New Phytologist
FM Soper, KS Sparks, RJ Cole, CP Giardina, CM Litton, JP Sparks. Inconsistent recovery of nitrogen cycling after feral ungulate removal across three tropical island ecosystems. Biogeochemistry, 167:651-663.
2022
L Toro, D Pereira Arias, D Peres-Aviles, G Vargas, FM Soper, J Gutknecht, J Powers. Phosphorus limitation of early growth differs between nitrogen fixing and non-fixing dry tropical forest trees. New Phytologist. 237:766-779
CC Cleveland, …FM Soper et al. Exploring the role of cryptic nitrogen fixers in terrestrial ecosystems: A frontier in nitrogen cycling research. Ecosystems. 25, 1653-1669
KA Dynarski, FM Soper, SC Reed, WR Wieder, CC Cleveland. Patterns and controls of foliar nutrient stoichiometry and flexibility across United States forests. Ecology. e3909
C Dallstream*, M Weemstra, FM Soper. Multiple nutrient uptake strategies may co-exist in tropical communities, contributing to soil phosphorus partitioning. Oikos. e08908
2021
D Cusack, …FM Soper et al. Tradeoffs and synergies in tropical forest root traits for nutrient and water acquisition: field and modeling advances. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4:704469
D Falster, …FM Soper et al. AusTraits– a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora. Scientific Data. 8:254
BB Osborne, FM Soper, MK Nasto, D Bru, S Hwang, MB Machmuller, ML Morales, L Philippot, BW Sullivan, GP Asner, CC Cleveland, AR Townsend, S Porder. Litter inputs drive patterns of soil nitrogen heterogeneity in a diverse tropical forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 158:108247
RJ Cole, FM Soper, CM Litton, AE Knauf, K Sparks, KG Gerow, GP Giardina, JP Sparks. Restoration benefits of soil nutrient manipulation and manual weeding in invaded dry and wet tropical ecosystems in Hawai'i. Restoration Ecology. 29:e13390
K Covey, FM Soper et al. Carbon and Beyond: The biogeochemistry of climate in a rapidly changing Amazon. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4:1-11
FM Soper, BN Taylor, JB Winbourne, MY Wong, KA Dynarski, CRG Reis, MB Peoples, CC Cleveland, S Reed, DNL Menge, SS Perakis. A roadmap for sampling and scaling biological nitrogen fixation in terrestrial ecosystems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12:1122-1137
G McNicol, Z Yu, ZC Berry, N Emery, FM Soper, W Yang. Stable isotope ecology: Tracing plant-environment interactions from plant to planetary scales. Emerging Topics in Plant Science. 5:301-316
FM Soper, C Simon, SV Jauss. Measuring terrestrial nitrogen fixation by the Acetylene Reduction Assay: Is three really the magic ratio? Biogeochemistry. 152:345-351
2020
BB Osborne, MK Nasto, FM Soper, GP Asner, CS Balzotti, CC Cleveland, PG Taylor, AR Townsend, S Porder. Leaf litter inputs reinforce islands of nitrogen fertility in a lowland tropical forest. Biogeochemistry. 147:293-206
AE Eller, FM Soper, JP Sparks. The influence of elevated CO2 on phenology of Arabidopsis thaliana is altered by common air pollutants (NO2 and O3) and soil nitrogen. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 147:156-166
2019
A Halbritter, H de Boeck… FM Soper et al. Handbook for standardized field measurements in terrestrial global change experiments (ClimEx). Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11: 22-37. Open access here
FM Soper, RA MacKenzie, S Sharma, TG Cole, CM Litton, JP Sparks. Non-native mangroves support carbon storage, sediment carbon burial and accretion of coastal ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 25:4315-4326
*Winner of the ESA Gene Likens Publication Award
FM Soper. Three’s a crowd: Triple-isotope analysis traces alternate plant nitrogen nutrition pathways. New Phytologist, 223:1687-1689
B Sullivan, RL Nifong, MK Nasto, S Alvarez Clare, C Dencker, FM Soper, KT Shoemaker, FY Ishida, J Zaragoza-Castells, EA Davidson, CC Cleveland. Biogeochemical recuperation of lowland tropical forest during succession. Ecology, 100:e02461
PG Taylor, C Cleveland, FM Soper, W Wieder, SZ Dobrowski, CE Doughty, AR Townsend. Greater stem growth, woody allocation and above ground biomass in Paleotropical versus Neotropical forests. Ecology, 100:e02589
FM Soper, B Sullivan, B Osborne, A Shaw, C Cleveland. Leaf cutter ants engineer large N2O hot spots in tropical forests, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286:1-7.
*Featured in Science and New Scientist
2018
FM Soper, S Chamberlain, S Gregor, J Crumsey, L Derry, JP Sparks. Biological pumping of mineral nutrients in a temperate forested shale catchment, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 123:3204-3215.
FM Soper, M Nasto, BB Osborne, CC Cleveland. Nitrogen fixation and foliar nitrogen do not predict phosphorus acquisition in tropical trees, Journal of Ecology, 107:118-126..
FM Soper, B Sullivan, M Nasto, BB Osborne, D Bru, C Balzotti, P Taylor, G Asner, A Townsend, L Philippot, S Porder, CC Cleveland. Remotely sensed canopy nitrogen correlates with N2O emissions in a lowland tropical rainforest, Ecology 99:2080-2089
SM Freund, FM Soper, SR Poulson, PC Selmants, BW Sullivan. Actinorhizal species influence plant and soil nitrogen in semiarid shrub-dominated ecosystems in the western Great Basin, Journal of Arid Environments 157:48-56
2017
FM Soper, P Taylor, W Wieder, S Weintraub, S Porder, C Cleveland, A Townsend. Modest gaseous N losses support conservative N cycling in a lowland tropical rainforest watershed, Ecosystems 21:901-912
2016
FM Soper, CK McCalley, KL Sparks, JP Sparks. Soil carbon dioxide emissions from the Mojave Desert: isotopic evidence for a carbonate source, Geophysical Research Letters 44: 245-251
FM Soper, JP Sparks. Estimating ecosystem nitrogen addition by a leguminous tree: A mass balance approach using a woody encroachment chronosequence, Ecosystems 20:1164-1178
FM Soper, TW Boutton, PM Groffman, JP Sparks. Nitrogen trace gas fluxes from a subtropical, semi-arid savanna under woody legume encroachment, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 30:614-628
FM Soper, PM Groffman, JP Sparks. Denitrification in a subtropical, semi-arid North American savanna: field measurements and intact soil core incubations, Biogeochemistry 128: 257-266
2015
FM Soper, AE Richards, I Siddique, MPM Aidar, GD Cook, LB Hutley, N Robinson, S Schmidt. Application of 15N natural abundance to investigate nitrogen relations of woody plants along a continental rainfall gradient from savanna to woodland, Oecologia 178:297-308
FM Soper, TW Boutton, JP Sparks. Investigating patterns of symbiotic nitrogen fixation during vegetation change from grassland to woodland using fine scale 15N measurements, Plant, Cell & Environment 38: 89-100
2011
FM Soper, C Paungfoo-Lonhienne, R Brackin, D Rentsch, S Schmidt and N Robinson. Arabidopsis and Lobelia anceps access small peptides as a nitrogen source for growth, Functional Plant Biology 38: 788-796
N Robinson, R Brackin, K Vinall, FM Soper, J Holst, H Gamage, C Paungfoo-Lonhienne, H Rennenberg, P Lakshmanan and S Schmidt. Nitrate paradigm does not hold up for sugarcane, PLoS ONE 6(4): e19045.
*Indicates supervised undergraduate or graduate student co-author
In review
A Cordeiro… FM Soper et al. [41 authors] TropiRoot 1.0- Tropical root database of characteristics across environmental variation (data paper).
Published
2024
D Yaffar, LF Lugli, MY Wong, RJ Norby, SD Addo-Danso, M Arnaud, AL Cordeiro, LH Dietterich, MH Diaz-Toribio, MY Lee, O Prakash Ghimire, CM Smith-Martin, L Toro, K Andersen, LA McCulloch, IC Meier, JS Powers, M Sanchez-Julia, FM Soper, DF Cusack. Tropical root responses to global changes: a synthesis. Global Change Biology
M Marcellus*, EM Goud, N Swartz*, E Brown*, FM Soper. Evolutionary history and root trait coordination predict nutrient strategy in tropical legume trees. New Phytologist
C Dallstream*, FM Soper. Integrating edaphic gradients and community assembly concepts into the root trait space (Invited commentary) New Phytologist
FM Soper, KS Sparks, RJ Cole, CP Giardina, CM Litton, JP Sparks. Inconsistent recovery of nitrogen cycling after feral ungulate removal across three tropical island ecosystems. Biogeochemistry, 167:651-663.
2022
L Toro, D Pereira Arias, D Peres-Aviles, G Vargas, FM Soper, J Gutknecht, J Powers. Phosphorus limitation of early growth differs between nitrogen fixing and non-fixing dry tropical forest trees. New Phytologist. 237:766-779
CC Cleveland, …FM Soper et al. Exploring the role of cryptic nitrogen fixers in terrestrial ecosystems: A frontier in nitrogen cycling research. Ecosystems. 25, 1653-1669
KA Dynarski, FM Soper, SC Reed, WR Wieder, CC Cleveland. Patterns and controls of foliar nutrient stoichiometry and flexibility across United States forests. Ecology. e3909
C Dallstream*, M Weemstra, FM Soper. Multiple nutrient uptake strategies may co-exist in tropical communities, contributing to soil phosphorus partitioning. Oikos. e08908
2021
D Cusack, …FM Soper et al. Tradeoffs and synergies in tropical forest root traits for nutrient and water acquisition: field and modeling advances. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4:704469
D Falster, …FM Soper et al. AusTraits– a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora. Scientific Data. 8:254
BB Osborne, FM Soper, MK Nasto, D Bru, S Hwang, MB Machmuller, ML Morales, L Philippot, BW Sullivan, GP Asner, CC Cleveland, AR Townsend, S Porder. Litter inputs drive patterns of soil nitrogen heterogeneity in a diverse tropical forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 158:108247
RJ Cole, FM Soper, CM Litton, AE Knauf, K Sparks, KG Gerow, GP Giardina, JP Sparks. Restoration benefits of soil nutrient manipulation and manual weeding in invaded dry and wet tropical ecosystems in Hawai'i. Restoration Ecology. 29:e13390
K Covey, FM Soper et al. Carbon and Beyond: The biogeochemistry of climate in a rapidly changing Amazon. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4:1-11
FM Soper, BN Taylor, JB Winbourne, MY Wong, KA Dynarski, CRG Reis, MB Peoples, CC Cleveland, S Reed, DNL Menge, SS Perakis. A roadmap for sampling and scaling biological nitrogen fixation in terrestrial ecosystems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12:1122-1137
G McNicol, Z Yu, ZC Berry, N Emery, FM Soper, W Yang. Stable isotope ecology: Tracing plant-environment interactions from plant to planetary scales. Emerging Topics in Plant Science. 5:301-316
FM Soper, C Simon, SV Jauss. Measuring terrestrial nitrogen fixation by the Acetylene Reduction Assay: Is three really the magic ratio? Biogeochemistry. 152:345-351
2020
BB Osborne, MK Nasto, FM Soper, GP Asner, CS Balzotti, CC Cleveland, PG Taylor, AR Townsend, S Porder. Leaf litter inputs reinforce islands of nitrogen fertility in a lowland tropical forest. Biogeochemistry. 147:293-206
AE Eller, FM Soper, JP Sparks. The influence of elevated CO2 on phenology of Arabidopsis thaliana is altered by common air pollutants (NO2 and O3) and soil nitrogen. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 147:156-166
2019
A Halbritter, H de Boeck… FM Soper et al. Handbook for standardized field measurements in terrestrial global change experiments (ClimEx). Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11: 22-37. Open access here
FM Soper, RA MacKenzie, S Sharma, TG Cole, CM Litton, JP Sparks. Non-native mangroves support carbon storage, sediment carbon burial and accretion of coastal ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 25:4315-4326
*Winner of the ESA Gene Likens Publication Award
FM Soper. Three’s a crowd: Triple-isotope analysis traces alternate plant nitrogen nutrition pathways. New Phytologist, 223:1687-1689
B Sullivan, RL Nifong, MK Nasto, S Alvarez Clare, C Dencker, FM Soper, KT Shoemaker, FY Ishida, J Zaragoza-Castells, EA Davidson, CC Cleveland. Biogeochemical recuperation of lowland tropical forest during succession. Ecology, 100:e02461
PG Taylor, C Cleveland, FM Soper, W Wieder, SZ Dobrowski, CE Doughty, AR Townsend. Greater stem growth, woody allocation and above ground biomass in Paleotropical versus Neotropical forests. Ecology, 100:e02589
FM Soper, B Sullivan, B Osborne, A Shaw, C Cleveland. Leaf cutter ants engineer large N2O hot spots in tropical forests, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286:1-7.
*Featured in Science and New Scientist
2018
FM Soper, S Chamberlain, S Gregor, J Crumsey, L Derry, JP Sparks. Biological pumping of mineral nutrients in a temperate forested shale catchment, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 123:3204-3215.
FM Soper, M Nasto, BB Osborne, CC Cleveland. Nitrogen fixation and foliar nitrogen do not predict phosphorus acquisition in tropical trees, Journal of Ecology, 107:118-126..
FM Soper, B Sullivan, M Nasto, BB Osborne, D Bru, C Balzotti, P Taylor, G Asner, A Townsend, L Philippot, S Porder, CC Cleveland. Remotely sensed canopy nitrogen correlates with N2O emissions in a lowland tropical rainforest, Ecology 99:2080-2089
SM Freund, FM Soper, SR Poulson, PC Selmants, BW Sullivan. Actinorhizal species influence plant and soil nitrogen in semiarid shrub-dominated ecosystems in the western Great Basin, Journal of Arid Environments 157:48-56
2017
FM Soper, P Taylor, W Wieder, S Weintraub, S Porder, C Cleveland, A Townsend. Modest gaseous N losses support conservative N cycling in a lowland tropical rainforest watershed, Ecosystems 21:901-912
2016
FM Soper, CK McCalley, KL Sparks, JP Sparks. Soil carbon dioxide emissions from the Mojave Desert: isotopic evidence for a carbonate source, Geophysical Research Letters 44: 245-251
FM Soper, JP Sparks. Estimating ecosystem nitrogen addition by a leguminous tree: A mass balance approach using a woody encroachment chronosequence, Ecosystems 20:1164-1178
FM Soper, TW Boutton, PM Groffman, JP Sparks. Nitrogen trace gas fluxes from a subtropical, semi-arid savanna under woody legume encroachment, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 30:614-628
FM Soper, PM Groffman, JP Sparks. Denitrification in a subtropical, semi-arid North American savanna: field measurements and intact soil core incubations, Biogeochemistry 128: 257-266
2015
FM Soper, AE Richards, I Siddique, MPM Aidar, GD Cook, LB Hutley, N Robinson, S Schmidt. Application of 15N natural abundance to investigate nitrogen relations of woody plants along a continental rainfall gradient from savanna to woodland, Oecologia 178:297-308
FM Soper, TW Boutton, JP Sparks. Investigating patterns of symbiotic nitrogen fixation during vegetation change from grassland to woodland using fine scale 15N measurements, Plant, Cell & Environment 38: 89-100
2011
FM Soper, C Paungfoo-Lonhienne, R Brackin, D Rentsch, S Schmidt and N Robinson. Arabidopsis and Lobelia anceps access small peptides as a nitrogen source for growth, Functional Plant Biology 38: 788-796
N Robinson, R Brackin, K Vinall, FM Soper, J Holst, H Gamage, C Paungfoo-Lonhienne, H Rennenberg, P Lakshmanan and S Schmidt. Nitrate paradigm does not hold up for sugarcane, PLoS ONE 6(4): e19045.
Educational Resources
FM Soper, JP Sparks, HW Greene, C McLinn (2014) ‘Empowering tomorrows field instructors: A coupled graduate-undergraduate course for teaching research mentorship in a field context’ Cornell University Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning
FM Soper, JP Sparks, HW Greene, C McLinn (2014) ‘Empowering tomorrows field instructors: A coupled graduate-undergraduate course for teaching research mentorship in a field context’ Cornell University Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning
