ArticleJournal of geophysical research. Biogeosciences2024
Evidence for Wildland Fire Smoke Transport of Microbes from Terrestrial Sources to the Atmosphere and Back.
Article in Journal of geophysical research. Biogeosciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Pathogens on fire: a scoping review of smoke-borne pathogen ecology in the One Health framework.PeerJ · 2026Article
- The role of fire on Earth.Bioscience · 2025Review
- Solitary thalamic abscess without meningitis from Coccidioides immitis: illustrative case.Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons · 2025Article
- Detection of AirborneEnvironmental science & technology letters · 2025Article
- Detection of airbornebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Dispersal of microbes from grassland fire smoke to soils.The ISME journal · 2024Article
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Abstract
Smoke from wildland fires contains viable microbes and cell concentrations higher than typical ambient air, yet little is known about the sources and sinks of smoke-borne microorganisms. Data from molecular-based surveys suggest smoke-borne microorganisms originate from material associated with the vegetation and underlying soils that becomes aerosolized during combustion, however, the sources of microbes in smoke have not yet been experimentally assessed. To elucidate this link, we studied high-intensity forest fires in the Fishlake National Forest, Utah, USA and applied source-sink modeling to assemblages of 16S rRNA gene sequences recovered from samples of smoke, vegetation, and soil. Our results imply that 70% of the bacteria in smoke originated from the local aspen (
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