Benjamin L. Turner

Research interests

Publications

• The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems

  Science Advances · 2020 · 10.1126/sciadv.aax8787

• Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

  Ecology · 2018 · 10.1002/ecy.2482

• Pervasive phosphorus limitation of tree species but not communities in tropical forests

  Nature · 2018 · 10.1038/nature25789

• Plant-soil feedback and the maintenance of diversity in Mediterranean-climate shrublands

  Science · 2017 · 10.1126/science.aai8291

• Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale

  Science · 2017 · 10.1126/science.aam5678

• Stoichiometry of microbial carbon use efficiency in soils

  Ecological Monographs · 2016 · 10.1890/15-2110.1

• Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage

  Nature · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12901

• CTFS ‐Forest GEO : a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

  Global Change Biology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12712

• Leaf manganese accumulation and phosphorus-acquisition efficiency

  Trends in Plant Science · 2014 · 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.10.007

• Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients

  Science · 2014 · 10.1126/science.1256330

• Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 10.1073/pnas.1218042110

• Foliar nutrient concentrations and resorption efficiency in plants of contrasting nutrient‐acquisition strategies along a 2‐million‐year dune chronosequence

  Journal of Ecology · 2013 · 10.1111/1365-2745.12196

• Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest

  Ecology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1890/10-1558.1

• Understanding ecosystem retrogression

  Ecological Monographs · 2010 · 10.1890/09-1552.1

• Linkages of plant traits to soil properties and the functioning of temperate grassland

  Journal of Ecology · 2010 · 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01679.x

• Variation in pH Optima of Hydrolytic Enzyme Activities in Tropical Rain Forest Soils

  Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2010 · 10.1128/aem.00560-10

• Resource partitioning for soil phosphorus: a hypothesis

  Journal of Ecology · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01384.x

• Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests

  Nature · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05747

• Changes in enzyme activities and soil microbial community composition along carbon and nutrient gradients at the Franz Josef chronosequence, New Zealand

  Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 2007 · 10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.02.006

• Chemistry and Dynamics of Soil Organic Phosphorus

  Agronomy monograph/Agronomy · 2005 · 10.2134/agronmonogr46.c4

• Extraction of soil organic phosphorus

  Talanta · 2004 · 10.1016/j.talanta.2004.11.012

• Phosphorus‐31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectral Assignments of Phosphorus Compounds in Soil NaOH–EDTA Extracts

  Soil Science Society of America Journal · 2003 · 10.2136/sssaj2003.4970

• Inositol phosphates in the environment

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2001.0837

• Phosphorus solubilization in rewetted soils

  Nature · 2001 · 10.1038/35077146

• The perpetuation of orthomyxoviruses and paramyxoviruses in Canadian waterfowl

  Canadian Journal of Microbiology · 1980 · 10.1139/m80-108

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