Krichels Lab

  1. Krichels AH, Vulcan A, Driscoll KP. (2026) Varying effects of stream restoration on riparian soil carbon persistence and methane emissions in the southern Rocky Mountains, United States. Restoration Ecology.
  2. Stephens EZ, Pulido Barriga F, Greene AC, Krichels AH, Kargul M, Larios L, Glassman SI, Homyak PM. (2026) Wildfire alters nitrogen cycling to increase soil emissions of nitric oxide (NO) and the heterogeneity of nitrous oxide (N2O) in California chaparral. Geoderma.
  3. Sun et al. (2026) Global hotspots of particulate organic carbon losses under climate change. Nature Communications.
  4. Irby JC, Krichels AH, Spasojevic MJ, Jenerette GD, Hanan EJ, Homyak PM. (2026) Precipitation legacy effects on gross N mineralization and nitrification rate in a pinyon-juniper dryland under altered precipitation. Biogeochemistry.
  5. Krichels AH, Reid C, Zhilik BB, Kemner J, York RA, Glassman SI, Homyak PM. (2026) Fall prescribed burns deplete surface soil C pools more than spring burns in a young mixed-conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management.
  6. Krichels AH, Stephens EZ, Reid C, Barriga MFP, Ordoñez ME, McLaren JR, Kargul M, Larios L, Glassman SI, Homyak PM. (2025) Wildfire-induced losses of particulate organic carbon persist for over 4 years in a chaparral ecosystem. Global Change Biology.
  7. Zhu G, Shi H, He G, Wang B, Shan J, Liu T, Wang S, Liu C, Hou L, Jiang L, YuL, Zhang N, Zhang S, Su X, Di H, Krichels AH, Trimmer M, Peng Y, Löffler F, Tian H, Zhu Y, Zhang J, Chunhui Z. (2025) Nitrous oxide sources, mechanisms and mitigation. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.
  8. Zhao S, Krichels AH, Stephens EZ, Calma AD, Aronson EL, Jenerette GD, Spasojevic MJ, Schimel JP, Hanan EJ, HomyakPM. (2025) Nitrogen availability and changes in precipitation alter microbially mediated NO and N2O emissions from a Pinyon-Juniper dryland. Global Change Biology.
  9. Krichels AH, Sanford RA, Chee-Sanford JC, Connor L, Van Allen R, KentAD, Yang WH. (2025) Distinct N cycling microbial communities contribute to microtopographic variation in soil N2O emissions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
  10. Krichels AH, Greene AC, Stephens EZ, Zhao S, Schimel JP, Aronson EL, Hanan EJ, Homyak PM. (2024)Nitrifier controls on soil NO and N2O emissions in three chaparral ecosystems under contrasting atmospheric N inputs. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
  11. Ren J, Hanan EJ, Greene A, Tague C, Krichels AH, Burke WD, Schimel JP, Homyak PM. (2024) Stimulating the role of biogeochemical hotspots in driving nitrogen export from dryland watersheds. Water Resources Research.
  12. Edwards JD, Krichels AH, Seyfried GS, Dalling J, Kent AD, Yang WH. (2024) Soil microbial community response to ectomycorrhizal dominance in diverse neotropical montane forests. Mycorrhiza.
  13. Krichels AH, HomyakPM, Aronson EL, SickmanJ, Botthoff J, Greene AC, Shulman H, Piper S, Andrews H, Jenerette GD. (2023) Bacterial denitrification drives elevated N2O emissions in arid southern California drylands. Science Advances.
  14. Krichels AH, HomyakPM, Aronson EL, SickmanJ, Botthoff J, Greene AC, Shulman H, Piper S, Andrews H, Jenerette GD. (2023) Soil NH3 emissions across an aridity, soil pH, and N deposition gradient in southern California. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene.
  15. Andrews HM, Krichels AH, Homyak PM, Piper S, Aronson EL, Botthoff J, Greene AC, Jenerette GD. (2023) Wetting-induced soil CO2 emission pulses are driven by interactions among soil temperature, carbon, and nitrogen limitation in the Colorado Desert. Global Change Biology.
  16. Krichels AH, Greene AC, Jenerette GD, Spasojevic MJ, Glassman SI, HomyakPM. (2022) Precipitation legacies amplify ecosystem nitrogen losses from nitric oxide emissions in a Pinyon-Juniper dryland. Ecology. 
  17. Krichels AH, HomyakPM, Aronson EL, SickmanJ, Botthoff J, Shulman H, Piper S, Andrews H, Jenerette GD. (2022)Rapid nitrate reduction contributes to pulsed NO and N2O emissions following rewetting of dryland soils. Biogeochemistry. 
  18. Chee-Sanford JC, Connor L, Krichels AH, Yang WH, Sanford RA. (2020)Hierarchical detection of diverse Clade II (atypical) nosZ genes using new primer sets for classical and multiplex PCR array applications. Journal of Microbiological Methods.
  19. Krichels AH, Yang WH. (2019) Dynamic controls on soil nitrous oxide hot spots and hot moments across a microtopographic gradient. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences.
  20. Krichels AH, Sipic E, Yang WH. (2019) Iron redox reactions can drive microtopographic variation in upland soil carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions. Soil Systems.
  21. Krichels AH, DeLucia EH, Sanford RA, Chee-Sanford, JC, Yang, WH. (2019)Historical soil drainage mediates the response of soil greenhouse gas emissions to intense precipitation events. Biogeochemistry.
  22. Suriyavirun N, Krichels AH, Kent A, Yang WH. (2019) Microtopographic differences in soil properties and microbial community composition at the field scale. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.