August 2024: Chapter 2 is published!

I am super excited to announce that the work that serves as the second chapter of my dissertation (and my first first-author publication!) is officially published in the journal Ecology! We assessed recovery from historically high rates of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition in a Great Lakes temperate forest, specifically focusing on soil carbon storage and microbial mechanisms that contribute to carbon storage and loss. 

I started this project a few months into my Ph.D. back in 2021. It's been a fun journey working with new and old faces to bring this story to life these past few years.

Figure 3. Standardized effect sizes of the nitrogen deposition treatment on organic horizon carbon soil carbon throughout the history of our long-term experiment. Following the termination of N inputs in 2017, we observe losses of the soil carbon that accumulated under the high N conditions.