Recent Publications

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Book Chapters

  • Bruns, Mary Ann. 2016. Bacteria, in Encyclopedia of Soil Science, 3rd ed., (R. Lal, ed.), Taylor and Francis.
  • Bruns, Mary Ann. 2014. Sustainable soil health, pp. 209-223. In Plant Biotechnology: Experience and Future Prospects. A. Ricroch, S. Fleischer, S. Chopra (eds), Springer International Publishing, Switzerland.

Soil biology and quality in ecological restoration

  • Rojas, CR, RM Gutierrez, MA Bruns. 2016. Bacterial and eukaryal diversity in soils forming from acid mine drainage precipitates under reclaimed vegetation and biological crusts. Applied Soil Ecology 105:57-66.
  • Rojas, C, CE Martinez, MA Bruns. 2014. Fe biogeochemistry in reclaimed acid mine drainage precipitates—implications for phytoremediation. Environmental Pollution 184:231-237.
  • Lupton, Mary Kay, Claudia Rojas, Patrick J Drohan, Mary Ann Bruns. 2013. Vegetation and soil development in compost-amended iron oxide precipitates at a 50-year-old acid mine drainage barrens. Restoration Ecology 21:320-328.
  • Machulla, Galina, Mary Ann Bruns, and Kate M Scow. 2005. Microbial properties of mine spoil materials in initial stages of soil development. Soil Science Society of America Journal 69:1069–1077.

Management impacts on soil microbial processes

  • Peng, X., MA Bruns. 2018. Development of a nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterial consortium for surface stabilization of agricultural soils. Journal of Applied Phycology  DOI: 10.1007/s10811-018-1597-9
  • Moon, J.B, DH Wardrop, MA Bruns, RM Miller, KJ Naithani. 2016. Land-use and land-cover effects on soil microbial community abundance and composition in headwater riparian wetlands. Soil Biol. Biochem. 97:215-233.
  • McDaniel, Marshall D, Jason P Kaye, Margot W Kaye, and Mary Ann Bruns. 2014. Climate change interactions affect soil carbon dioxide efflux and microbial functioning in a post‑harvest forest. Oecologia 174:1437–1448.
  • Martir-Torres, Maina C, Mary Ann Bruns. 2013. Comparative diversity and abundance of ammonia monooxygenase genes in mulched and vegetated soils. Soil Biol. Biochem. 57:758-768.
  • Adviento-Borbe MAA, Kaye JP, Bruns MA, McCoy M, McDaniel MD, and Harkcom S. 2010. Greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions in a long-term rainfed maize-based cropping systems experiment. Soil Sci Soc Am J. 74(5):1623-1634.
  • Byrne, Loren B, Mary Ann Bruns, and KC Kim. 2008. Ecosystem properties of urban land covers at the aboveground-belowground interface. Ecosystems 11:1065–1077.

Interactions between microorganisms and minerals

  • Electrochemically active microorganisms from an acid mine drainage-affected site promote cathode oxidation in microbial fuel cells. 2017. Bioelectrochemistry: 118: DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2017.07.013
  • Minyard, Morgan L, Mary Ann Bruns, Laura J Liermann, Heather L Buss, and Susan L Brantley. 2012. Bacterial associations with weathering minerals at the regolith-bedrock interface, Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Geomicrobiol J 29:792-803.
  • Yoon, Soh-Joung, Carolina Yáñez, Mary Ann Bruns, Nadia Martínez-Villegas, Carmen Enid Martínez. 2012. Natural zinc enrichment in peatlands: Biogeochemistry of ZnS formation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 84:165-176.
  • Prasanna, Radha, SK Ratha, Claudia Rojas, Mary Ann Bruns. 2011. Algal diversity in flowing waters at an acidic mine drainage “barrens” in central Pennsylvania, USA. Folia Microbiol 56:491-496.
  • Minyard ML, Bruns MA, Martínez CE, Liermann LJ, and Brantley SL. 2011. Occurrence of halloysite nanotubes and bacteria in a granodiorite weathering front, Rio Icacos Watershed, Puerto Rico, Soil Sci Soc Am J. 75:348-356.
  • Buss HL, MA Bruns, MJ Schultz, J Moore, CF Mathur, and SL Brantley. 2006. The coupling of biological iron cycling and mineral weathering during saprolite formation, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico. Geobiology 3: 247–260.
  • Senko, J.M., G. Zhang, G.T. McDonough, M.A. Bruns, and W.D. Burgos. 2009. Metal reduction at low pH by a Desulfosporosinus species: implications for the biological treatment of acidic mine drainage. Geomicrobiology J., 26:71–82.
  • Senko, J.M., P. Wanjugi, M. Lucas, M.A. Bruns, W.D. Burgos. 2008. Characterization of Fe(II) oxidizing bacterial activities and communities at two acidic Appalachian coalmine drainage-impacted sites. ISME J. 2:1134–1145.
  • Martínez, CE, CE Yáñez, SJ Yoon, and MA Bruns. 2007. Biogeochemistry of metalliferous peats : Sulfur speciation and depth distributions of dsrAB genes and Cd, Fe, Mn, S, Zn in Soil Cores. Environ Sci Technol. 41:5323–5329.

Biohydrogen production from wastes

  • Luo, Y.H., H. Zhang, M. Salerno, B.E. Logan, and M.A. Bruns. 2008. Organic loading rates affect composition of soil-derived bacterial communities during continuous, fermentative biohydrogen production. Internatl J Hydrogen Energy 33:6566–6576.
  • Zhang H, MA Bruns, and BE Logan. 2006. Biological hydrogen production by Clostridium acetobutylicum in an unsaturated flow reactor. Water Research 40:728–734.
  • Oh S-E, P Iyer, MA Bruns, and BE Logan. 2004. Biological hydrogen production using a membrane bioreactor. Biotechnol Bioengineering 87:119–127.

Biotreatment of animal wastes

  • Kim, J.R., J. Dec, M.A. Bruns, and B.E. Logan. 2008. Removal of odors from swine wastewater by using microbial fuel cells. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74:2540–2543.
  • Wheeler, EF, PA Topper, RE Graves, MA Bruns, and C Wysocki. 2007. Odor reduction performance of constructed wetland treating diluted swine manure. Applied Engineering in Agriculture 23(5):621–630.
  • Castillo-Gonzalez HA and MA Bruns. 2005. Dissimilatory iron reduction and odor indicator abatement by biofilm communities in swine manure microcosms. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71:4972–4978.

Microbial community analysis

  • Rosen, G.L., B.A. Sokhansanj, R. Polikar, M.A. Bruns, J. Russell, E. Garbarine, S. Essinger, N. Yok. 2009. Signal processing for metagenomics: Extracting information from the soup. Current Genomics 10:493-510.
  • Turich, C, KH Freeman, MA Bruns, M Conte, AD Jones, and SG Wakeham. 2007. Lipids of marine Archaea: Patterns and provenance in the water-column and sediments. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 71:3272–3291.
  • Zhang, H, Logan BE, Regan JM, Achenbach LA, Bruns MA. 2005. Molecular assessment of inoculated and indigenous bacteria in biofilms from a pilot-scale perchlorate-reducing bioreactor. Microbial Ecology 49:388–398.