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ArticleMicrobiology spectrum2025

Effects of low wildfire burn severity due to pre-fire shrub thinning on the chaparral soil bacteriome in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California.

Mariah Macias, Mari R Irving, Katelyn M Bandow, Kaitlyn Kim, Cecilia Heredia, Courtney A Hoskinson, Nina R Duchild, Michael T Nicholas, Lindsey M Marian, Camille K Sicangco and 4 more

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Article in Microbiology spectrum, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Mariah MaciasNatural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.ORCID 0009-0000-4884-2942
Mari R IrvingNatural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.
Katelyn M BandowNatural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.
Kaitlyn KimNatural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.
Cecilia HerediaNatural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.
Courtney A HoskinsonNatural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.
Nina R DuchildNatural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.
Michael T NicholasNatural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.
Lindsey M MarianNatural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.
Camille K SicangcoHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, New South Wales, Australia.
Karagan L SmithNatural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.
Stephen D DavisNatural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2944-752X
Helen I HolmlundNatural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8938-3658
Leah T StiemsmaNatural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8850-4953

Funding

National Science Foundation DBI-1950350National Science Foundation DUE-1525878National Science Foundation DUE-1525878).
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our objective was to study the longitudinal effect of decreased burn severity due to vegetation-type conversion (VTC) induced by chaparral shrub thinning prior to the Woolsey wildfire (November 2018) on soil chemistry and bacteriome composition and function. We compared soils from two study sites on the Malibu campus of Pepperdine University in the Santa Monica Mountains: one site had dense, unaltered chaparral shrubland and experienced a 4.5-fold increase in vegetation burn severity (high severity burn) compared to an adjacent altered site where the vegetative fuel load was 80% less prior to the fire (low severity burn). We analyzed soil nutrient concentrations and pH in 2019 and 2021 and soil respiration, measured by CO

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BacteriaMicrobiotaSoilSoil MicrobiologyWildfiresCaliforniaFiresRNA, Ribosomal, 16SRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSoilchaparral microbiomelow and high severity burnsoil bacteriomesoil microbiomewildfire severity

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PMID40586568
PMCPMC12323652

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