My publications

Below, you can find my scientific publications – you can find examples of publications for the general public, newspaper articles, opinions, and other writings under Media and outreach.

Rodríguez, Antonio, Franciska T. de Vries, Pete Manning, M.-Teresa Sebastià, Richard D. Bardgett (2022) Soil abiotic properties shape plant functional diversity across temperate grassland plant communities. Ecosystems, accepted.

Chomel, Mathilde, Jocelyn M. Lavallee, Nil Alvarez-Segura, Elizabeth M. Baggs, Tancredi Caruso, Francisco de Castro, Mark C. Emmerson, Matthew Magilton, Jennifer M. Rhymes, Heather Stott, Franciska T. de Vries, David Johnson, and Richard D. Bardgett (2022) Intensive management disrupts belowground multi-trophic resources transfers in response to drought. Nature Communications13:6991.

Eisenhauer, Nico, S. Franz Bender, Irene Calderón-Sanou, Franciska T. de Vries, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Wilfried Thuiller, Diana H. Wall, Romy Zeiss, Mohammad Bahram, Rémy Beugnon, Victoria J. Burton, Thomas W. Crowther, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Stefan Geisen, Paul Kardol, Valentyna Krashevska, Carlos A. Martiinez-Muñoz, Guillaume Patoine, Julia Seeber, Nadejda A. Souzilovskaia, Michael Steinwandter, Marie Sünnemann, Xin Sun, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Carlos A. Guerra, Anton Potapov (2022) Frontiers in soil ecology – insights from the World Biodiversity Forum 2022. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment 1:245-261.

Yu, Kailiang, Johan van den Hoogen, Zhiqiang Wang, Colin Averill, Devin Routh, Gabriel R. Smith, Rebecca E. Drenovsky, Kate M. Scow, Fei Mo, Mark P Waldrop, Yuanhe Yang, Franciska T. De Vries, Richard D. Bardgett, Peter Manning, Felipe Bastida, Sara G. Baer, Elizabeth M. Bach, Carlos García, Qingkui Wang, Linna Ma, Baodong Chen, Jiansheng Ye, Sven Teurlincx, Amber Heijboer, James A. Bradley, Thomas W Crowther (2022) The biogeography of soil fungal and bacterial biomass is tied to the efficiency of decomposition at global scale. Earth System Science Data 14:4339-4350.

Wu, Minchao, Stefano Manzoni, Giulia Vico, Ana Bastos, Franciska T. de Vries, Gabriele Messori (2022) Drought-legacy in sub-seasonal vegetation state and sensitivity to climate over the Northern Hemisphere. Geophysical Research Letters 49:e2022GL098700.

Olff, Han, Rien Aerts, Roland Bobbink, J. Hans C. Cornelissen, Jan Willem Erisman, James N. Galloway, Carly J. Stevens, Mark A. Sutton, Franciska T. de Vries, G.W. Wieger Wamelink, and David A. Wardle (2022) Explanations for nitrogen decline. Science367:1169-1170.

Semchenko, Marina, Kathryn E. Barry,, Franciska T. De Vries, Liesje Mommer, Mari Moora, Jose G. Maiá-Vicente (2022) Deciphering the role of specialist and generalist plant-microbial interactions as drivers of plant-soil feedback. New Phytologist 234:1929-1944.

De Castro, Francisco, Sina M. Adl, Stefano Allesina, Richard D. Bardgett, Thomas Bolger, Jonathan J. Dalzell, Mark Emerson, Thomas Feling, Diego Garlaschelli, Jacopo Grilli, Silja Emilia Hannula, Franciska de Vries, Zoë Lindo, Aaron G. Maule, Maarja Öpik, Matthias C. Rillig, Stavros D. Veresoglou, Diana H. Wall, Tancredi Caruso (2021) Local stability properties of complex, species-rich soil food webs with functional block structure. Ecology and Evolution 11:16070-16081.

De Vries, Franciska T., Cécile Thion, Michael Bahn, Benoît Bergk Pinto, Sébastien Cécillon, Beat Frey, Helen Grant, Graeme W. Nicol, Wolfgang Wanek, James I. Prosser, and Richard D. Bardgett  (2021) Glacier forelands reveal fundamental plant and microbial controls on short-term ecosystem nitrogen retention. Journal of Ecology 109:3710– 3723.

Williams, Alex, Holly Langridge, Angela Straathof, Graeme Fox, Howbeer Muhamadali, Yun Xu, Katherine Hollywood, Royston Goodacre, Franciska T. de Vries (2021) Comparing root exudate collection techniques: An improved hybrid method. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 161:108391.

Rhymes, Jennifer, Irene Cordero, Mathilde Chomel, Jocelyn Lavallee, Angela Straathof, Deborah Ashworth, Holly Langridge, Marina Semchenko, Franciska T. de Vries, David Johnson, Richard Bardgett (2021) Are researchers following best storage practices for measuring soil biochemical properties? SOIL 7:95-106.

Williams, Alex, Holly Langridge, Angela L. Straathof, Howbeer Muhamadali, Katherine A. Hollywood, Royston Goodacre and Franciska T. de Vries (2021) Root functional traits explain root exudation rate and composition across a range of grassland species. Journal of Ecology, accepted.

Phillips, Helen, Elizabeth Bach, Marie BARTZ, Joanne Bennett, Rémy Beugnon, Maria J. Iglesias Briones, George Brown, Olga Ferlian, Konstantin Gongalsky, Carlos Guerra, Birgitta König-Reis, Julia Krebs, Alberto Orgiazzi, Kelly Ramirez, David Russell, Benjamin Schwarz, Diana Wall, Ulrich Brose, Thibaud Decaëns, Patrick Lavelle, Michel Loreau, Jerome Mathieu, Christian Mulder, Wim van der Putten, Matthias Rillig, Madhav Thakur, Franciska de Vries, David Wardle, Christian Ammer, Sabine Ammer, Miwa Arai, Fredrick Ayuke, Geoff Baker, Dilmar Baretta, Dietmar Barkusky, Robin Beauséjour, Jose Bedano, Klaus Birkhofer, Eric Blanchart, Bernd Blossey, Thomas Bolger, Robert Bradley, Brossard Michel, James Burtis, Yvan Capowiez, Timothy Cavagnaro, Amy Choi, Julia Clause, Daniel Cluzeau, Anja Coors, Felicity Crotty, Jasmine Crumsey, Andrea Dávalos, Darío Díaz Cosín, Annise Dobson, Anahí Domínguez, Andrés Esteban Duhour, Nick van Eekeren, Christoph Emmerling, Liliana Falco, Rosa Fernández, Steven Fonte, Carlos Fragoso, André Franco, Abegail Fusilero, Anna Geraskina, Shaieste Gholami, Grizelle González, Michael Gundale, Mónica Gutiérrez López, Branimir K. Hackenberger, Davorka Hackenberger, Luis Hernández, Jeff Hirth, Takuo Hishi, Andrew Holdsworth, Martin Holmstrup, Kristine Hopfensperger, Esperanza Huerta Lwanga, Veikko Huhta, Tunsisa Hurisso, Basil Iannone III, Madalina Iordache, Ulrich Irmler, Mari Ivask, Juan Jesús, Jodi Johnson-Maynard, Monika Joschko, Nobuhiro Kaneko, Radoslava Kanianska, Aidan Keith, Maria Kernecker, Armand Koné, Yahya Kooch, Sanna Kukkonen, H Lalthanzara, Daniel Lammel, Iurii  Lebedev, Edith Le Cadre, Noa Lincoln, Danilo López-Hernández, Scott Loss, Raphael Marichal, Radim Matula, Yukio Minamiya, Jan Hendrik Moos, Gerardo Moreno, Alejandro Morón-Ríos, Hasegawa Motohiro, Bart Muys, Johan Neirynck, Lindsey Norgrove, Marta Novo, Visa Nuutinen, Victoria Nuzzo, Mujeeb Rahman P, Johan Pansu, Shishir Paudel, Guénola Pérès, Lorenzo Pérez-Camacho, Jean-François Ponge, Jörg Prietzel, Irina Rapoport, Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid, Salvador Rebollo, Miguel A. Rodriguez, Alexander Roth, Guillaume Rousseau, Anna Rozen, Ehsan Sayad, Loes van Schaik, Bryant Scharenbroch, Michael Schirrmann, Olaf Schmidt, Boris Schröder, Julia Seeber, Maxim Shashkov, Jaswinder Singh, Sandy Smith, Michael Steinwandter, Katalin Szlavecz, José Antonio Talavera, Dolores Trigo, Jiro Tsukamoto, Sheila Uribe-López, Anne Valença, Iñigo Virto, Adrian Wackett, Matthew Warren, Emily Webster, Nathaniel Wehr, Joann Whalen, Michael Wironen, Volkmar Wolters, Pengfei Wu, Irina Zenkova, Weixin Zhang, Erin Cameron, and Nico Eisenhauer (2021) Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties. Scientific Data, accepted.

Guerra, Carlos. A., Richard D. Bardgett, Lucrezia Caon, Thomas W. Crowther, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, L.uca Montanarella, Laetitia M. Navarro, Alberto Orgiazzi, Brajesh K. Singh, Leho Tedersoo, Ronald Vargas-Rojas, Maria J. I. Briones, François Buscot, Erin K. Cameron, Simone Cesarz, Antonis Chatzinotas, Don A. Cowan, Ika Djukic, Johan van den Hoogen, Anika Lehmann, Fernando T. Maestre, César Marín, Thomas Reitz, Matthias C. Rillig, Linnea C. Smith, Franciska T. de Vries, Alexandra Weigelt, Diana H. Wall and Nico Eisenhauer (2021) Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity. Science 371: 239-241.

Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Andrey S. Zaitsev, Daniil I. Korobushkin, Ruslan A. Saifutdinov, Konstantin O. Butenko, Franciska T. de Vries, Klemens Ekschmitt, Maksim I. Degtyarev, Anastasia Yu. Gorbunova, Natalia V. Kostina, Anna A. Rakhleeva, Svetlana V. Shakhab, Taisia E. Yazrikova, Volkmar Wolters, and Richard D. Bardgett (2020) Forest fire induces short-term shifts in soil food webs with consequences for carbon cycling. Ecology Letters 24:438-450.

Sweeney, Christopher J., Franciska T. de Vries, Bart E. van Dongen,  Richard D. Bardgett (2020) Root traits explain rhizosphere fungal community composition among temperate grassland plant species. New Phytologist 229:1492-1507.

Shakir, Sara, Syed Shan-e-Ali Zaidi, Franciska T. de Vries, Shahid Mansoor (2020) Plant genetic networks shaping phyllosphere microbial community. Trends in Genetics 37:306-316.

Hines, Jes, and Franciska T. de Vries (2020) Dirt is not dead: Land use and living soil. Frontiers for Young Minds 8:549486. 

Guerrero-Ramírez, Nathaly R.; Mommer, Liesje; Freschet, Grégoire; Iversen, Colleen; McCormack, M. Luke; Kattge, Jens; Poorter, Henrik; van der Plas, Fons ; Bergmann, Joana ; Kuyper, Thom W. ; York, Larry M. ; Bruelheide, Helge; Laughlin, Daniel; Meier, Ina C; Roumet, Catherine ; Semchenko, Marina; Sweeney, Christopher J. ; van Ruijven, Jasper ; Valverde-Barrantes, Oscar J. ; Aubin, Isabelle; Catford, Jane ; Manning, Peter; Martin, Adam; Milla, Ruben; Minden, Vanessa; Pausas, Juli; Smith, Stuart W.; Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda; Ammer, Christian ; Butterfield, Bradley; Craine, Joseph ; Cornelissen, Johannes; de Vries, Franciska T. ; Isaac, Marney; Kramer, Koen; König, Christian ; Lamb, Eric; Onipchenko, Vladimir; Penuelas, Josep; Reich, Peter; Rillig, Mathias; Sack, Lawren ; Shipley, Bill ; Tedersoo, Leho; Valladares, Fernando; van Bodegom, Peter; Weigelt, Patrick; Wright, Justin; Weigelt, Alexandra (2020) Global Root Traits (GRooT) Database. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Accepted.

De Vries, Franciska T., Rob I. Griffiths, Christopher G. Knight, Oceane Nicolitch, Alex Williams (2020) Harnessing rhizosphere microbiomes for drought resilient crop production. Science 368:270-274.

Haydn Thomas, Anne Bjorkman, Isla Myers-Smith, Sarah Elmendorf, Jens Kattge, Sandra Diaz, Mark Vellend, Daan Blok, J. Hans C. Cornelissen, Bruce Forbes, Greg Henry, Robert Hollister, Signe Normand, Janet Prevey, Christian Rixen, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Martin Wilmking, Sonja Wipf, William Cornwell, Pieter Beck, Damien Georges, Scott Goetz, Kevin Guay, Nadja Rüger, Nadejda Soudzilovskaia, Marko Spasojevic, Juha Alatalo, Heather Alexander, Alba Anadon-Rosell, Sandra Angers-Blondin, Mariska te Beest, Logan Berner, Robert Björk, Agata Buchwal, Allan Buras, Michele Carbognani, Katie Christie, Laura Siegwart Collier, Elisabeth Cooper, Bo Elberling, Anu Eskelinen, Esther Frei, Oriol Grau, Paul Grogan, Martin Hallinger, monique heijmans, Luise Hermanutz, James Hudson, Jill Johnstone, Karl Hülber, Maitane Iturrate Garcia, Colleen Iversen, Francesca Jaroszynska, Elina Kaarlejärvi, Aino Kulonen, Laurent Lamarque, Trevor Lantz, Esther Lévesque, Chelsea Little, Anders Michelsen, Ann Milbau, Jacob Nabe-Nielsen, Sigrid Nielsen, Josep Ninot, Steven Oberbauer, Johan Olofsson, Vladimir Onipchenko, Alessandro Petraglia, Sabine Rumpf, Rohan Shetti, James Speed, Katharine Suding, Ken Tape, Marcello Tomaselli, Andrew Trant, Urs Treier, Maxime Tremblay, Susanna Venn, Tage Vowles, Stef Weijers, Philip Wookey, Tara Zamin, Michael Bahn, Ben Blonder, Peter van Bodegom, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Giandiego Campetella, Bruno Cerabolini, F. Stuart Chapin, Joseph Craine, Matteo Dainese, Walton Green, Steven Jansen, Michael Kleyer, Peter Manning, Ülo Niinemets, Yukuke Onoda, Wim Ozinga, Josep Penuelas, Peter Poschlod, Peter Reich, Brody Sandel, Brandon Schamp, Serge Sheremetiev, and Franciska de Vries (2020) Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome. Nature Communications 11:1-12.

Thakur, Madhav P, Helen RP Phillips, Ulrich Brose, Franciska T De Vries, Patrick Lavelle, Michel Loreau, Jerome Jerome Mathieu, Christian Mulder, Wim H Van der Putten, Matthias C Rillig, David A Wardle, Elizabeth M Bach, Marie LC Bartz, Joanne M Bennett, Maria JI Briones, George Brown, Thibaud Decaëns, Nico Eisenhauer, Olga Ferlian, Carlos António Guerra, Birgitta König-Ries, Alberto Orgiazzi, Kelly S Ramirez, David J Russell, Michiel Rutgers, Diana H Wall, Erin K Cameron (2019) Towards an intergrative understanding of soil biodiversity. Biological Reviews 95:350-364.

Williams, A. and F.T. de Vries (2019) Plant root exudation under drought: implications for ecosystem functioning. New Phytologist 225:1899-1905.

Phillips, Helen R. P., Carlos A. Guerra, Marie L. C. Bartz, Maria J. I. Briones, George Brown, Thomas W. Crowther, Olga Ferlian, Konstantin B. Gongalsky, Johan van den Hoogen, Julia Krebs, Alberto Orgiazzi, Devin Routh, Benjamin Schwarz, Elizabeth M. Bach, Joanne Bennett, Ulrich Brose, Thibaud Decaëns, Birgitta König-Ries, Michel Loreau, Jérôme Mathieu, Christian Mulder, Wim H. van der Putten, Kelly S. Ramirez, Matthias C. Rillig, David Russell, Michiel Rutgers, Madhav P. Thakur, Franciska T. de Vries, Diana H. Wall, David A. Wardle, Miwa Arai, Fredrick O. Ayuke, Geoff H. Baker, Robin Beauséjour, José C. Bedano, Klaus Birkhofer, Eric Blanchart, Bernd Blossey, Thomas Bolger, Robert L. Bradley, Mac A. Callaham, Yvan Capowiez, Mark E. Caulfield, Amy Choi, Felicity V. Crotty, Andrea Dávalos, Darío J. Diaz Cosin, Anahí Dominguez, Andrés Esteban Duhour, Nick van Eekeren, Christoph Emmerling, Liliana B. Falco, Rosa Fernández, Steven J. Fonte, Carlos Fragoso, André L. C. Franco, Martine Fugère, Abegail T. Fusilero, Shaieste Gholami, Michael J. Gundale, Mónica Gutiérrez López, Davorka K. Hackenberger, Luis M. Hernández, Takuo Hishi, Andrew R. Holdsworth, Martin Holmstrup, Kristine N. Hopfensperger, Esperanza Huerta Lwanga, Veikko Huhta, Tunsisa T. Hurisso, Basil V. Iannone III, Madalina Iordache, Monika Joschko, Nobuhiro Kaneko, Radoslava Kanianska, Aidan M. Keith, Courtland A. Kelly, Maria L. Kernecker, Jonatan Klaminder, Armand W. Koné, Yahya Kooch, Sanna T. Kukkonen, Hmar Lalthanzara, Daniel R. Lammel, Iurii M. Lebedev, Yiqing Li, Juan B. Jesus Lidon, Noa K. Lincoln, Scott R. Loss, Raphael Marichal, Radim Matula, Jan Hendrik Moos, Gerardo Moreno, Alejandro Morón-Ríos, Bart Muys, Johan Neirynck, Lindsey Norgrove, Marta Novo, Visa Nuutinen, Victoria Nuzzo, Mujeeb Rahman P, Johan Pansu, Shishir Paudel, Guénola Pérès, Lorenzo Pérez-Camacho, Raúl Piñeiro, Jean-François Ponge, Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid, Salvador Rebollo, Javier Rodeiro-Iglesias, Miguel Á. Rodríguez, Alexander M. Roth, Guillaume X. Rousseau, Anna Rozen, Ehsan Sayad, Loes van Schaik, Bryant C. Scharenbroch, Michael Schirrmann, Olaf Schmidt, Boris Schröder, Julia Seeber, Maxim P. Shashkov, Jaswinder Singh, Sandy M. Smith, Michael Steinwandter, José A. Talavera, Dolores Trigo, Jiro Tsukamoto, Anne W. de Valença, Steven J. Vanek, Iñigo Virto, Adrian A. Wackett, Matthew W. Warren, Nathaniel H. Wehr, Joann K. Whalen, Michael B. Wironen, Volkmar Wolters, Irina V. Zenkova, Weixin Zhang, Erin K. Cameron, Nico Eisenhauer (2019) Global distribution of earthworm diversity. Science 366: 480-485.

Veen, G.F. (Ciska), E. R. Jasper Wubs, Richard D. Bardgett, Edmundo Barrios, Mark A. Bradford, Sabrina Carvalho, Gerlinde B. De Deyn, Franciska de Vries, Ken E. Giller, David Kleijn, Douglas A. Landis, Walter A.H. Rossing, Maarten Schrama, Johan Six, Paul C. Struik, Stijn van Gils, Johannes S.C. Wiskerke, Wim H. van der Putten, Louise E. M. Vet (2019) Applying the aboveground-belowground interaction concept in agriculture: spatio-temporal scales matter Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:300.

De Vries, F.T., A. Williams, F. Stringer, R. Willcocks, R. McEwing, H. Langridge, A.L. Straathof (2019) Changes in root-exudate-induced respiration reveal a novel mechanism through which drought affects ecosystem carbon cycling. New Phytologist 224:132-145.

Chomel, M., J.M. Lavallee, N. Alvarez-Segura, F. de Castro, J.M. Rhymes, T. Caruso, F.T. de Vries, E.M. Baggs, M.C. Emmerson, R.D. Bardgett, D. Jonhson (2019) Drought decreases incorporation of recent photosynthate into soil food webs regardless of their trophic complexity. Global Change Biology 25:3549-3561.

Thomas, H., Myers-Smith, I., Bjorkman, A., Elmendorf, S., Blok, D., Cornelissen, J., Forbes, B., Hollister, R., Normand, S., Prevey, J., Rixen, C., Schaepman-Strub, G., Wilmking, M., Wipf, S., Cornwell, W. K., Kattge, J., Goetz, S., Guay, K., Alatalo, J., Anadon Rosell, A., Angers-Blondin, S., Berner, L., Björk, R., Buchwal, A., Buras, A., Carbognani, M., Christie, K., Collier, L., Cooper, E., Eskelinen, A., Frei, E., Grau, O., Grogan, P., Hallinger, M., Heijmans, M., Hermanutz, L., Hudson, J., Hülber, K., Iturrate-Garcia, M., Iversen, C., Jaroszynska, F., Johnstone, J., Kaarlejarvi, E., Kulonen, A., Lamarque, L., Levesque, E., Little, C., Michelsen, A., Milbau, A., Nabe-Nielsen, J., Nielsen, S., Ninot Sugrañes, J.M., Oberbauer, S., Olofsson, J., Onipchenko, V., Petraglia, A., Rumpf, S., Semenchuk, P., Soudzilovskaia, N., Spasojevic, M., Speed, J., Tape, K., Te Beest, M., Tomaselli, M., Trant, A., Treier, U., Venn, S., Vowles, T., Weijers, S., Zamin, T., Atkin, O., Bahn, M., Blonder, B., Campetella, G., Cerabolini, B., Chapin, F., Dainese, M., De Vries, F.T., Diaz, S., Green, W., Jackson, R., Manning, P., Niinemets, Ü., Ozinga, W., Penuelas, J., Reich, P., Schamp, B., Sheremetev, S., and Van Bodegom, P. (2019) Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size-related traits across the tundra biome. Global Ecography and Biogeography 28:78-95.

Bjorkman, A.D., Myers-Smith, I.H., Elmendorf, S.C., Normand, S., Rüger, N., Beck, P.S.A., Blach-Overgaard, A., Blok, D., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Forbes, B.C., Georges, D., Goetz, S.J., Guay, K.C., Henry, G.H.R., HilleRisLambers, J., Hollister, R.D., Karger, D.N., Kattge, J., Manning, P., Prevéy, J.S., Rixen, C., Schaepman-Strub, G., Thomas, H.J.D., Vellend, M., Wilmking, M., Wipf, S., Carbognani, M., Hermanutz, L., Lévesque, E., Molau, U., Petraglia, A., Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Spasojevic, M.J., Tomaselli, M., Vowles, T., Alatalo, J.M., Alexander, H.D., Anadon-Rosell, A., Angers-Blondin, S., Te Beest, M., Berner, L., Björk, R.G., Buchwal, A., Buras, A., Christie, K., Cooper, E.J., Dullinger, S., Elberling, B., Eskelinen, A., Frei, E.R.,Grau, O., Grogan, P., Hallinger, M., Harper, K.A., Heijmans, M.M.P.D., Hudson, J., Hülber, K., Iturrate-Garcia, M., Iversen, Colleen M., Jaroszynska, F., Johnstone, J.F., Jørgensen, R.H., Kaarlejärvi, E., Klady, R., Kuleza, S., Kulonen, A., Lamarque, L.J., Lantz, T., Little, C.J., Speed, J.D.M., Michelsen, A., Milbau, A., Nabe-Nielsen, J., Nielsen, S. Schøler, Ninot, J.M., Oberbauer, S.F., Olofsson, J., Onipchenko, V.G., Rumpf, S.B., Semenchuk, P., Shetti, R., Collier, L. Siegwart, Street, L.E., Suding, K.N. ,Tape, K.D., Trant, A., Treier, U.A. ,Tremblay, J.-P., Tremblay, M., Venn, S., Weijers, S., Zamin, T., Boulanger-Lapointe, N., Gould, W.A., Hik, D.S., Hofgaard, A., Jónsdóttir, I.S., Jorgenson, J., Klein, J., Magnusson, B., Tweedie, C., Wookey, P.A., Bahn, M., Blonder, B., van Bodegom, P.M., Bond-Lamberty, B., Campetella, G., Cerabolini, B.E.L., Chapin, F.S., Cornwell, W.K., Craine, J., Dainese, M., De Vries, F.T., Díaz, S., Enquist, B.J., Green, W., Milla, R., Niinemets, Ü., Onoda, Y., Ordoñez, J.C., Ozinga, W.A., Penuelas, J., Poorter, H., Poschlod, P. Reich, P.B., Sandel, B., Schamp, B., Sheremetev, S., Weiher, E. (2018) Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. Nature 562:57-62.

Caruso, T., F.T. de Vries, R.D. Bardgett, J. Lehmann (2018) Soil organic carbon dynamics matching ecological equilibrium theory. Ecology and Evolution 8:11169-11178.

De Vries, F.T., Rob I. Griffiths, Mark Bailey, Mariangela Girlanda, Hyun Soon Gweon, Sara Hallin, Aurore Kaisermann, Aidan Keith, Marian Kretschmar, Philippe Lemanceau, Erica Lumini, Kelly Mason, Anna Oliver, Nick Ostle, Jim Prosser, Cecile Thion, Bruce Thomson, and Richard D. Bardgett (2018) Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks. Nature Communications 9:3033.

Delgado-Baquerizo, M., E.L. Fry, D.J. Eldridge, F.T. de Vries, P. Manning, K. Hamonts, J. Kattge, G. Boenisch, B.K. Singh, R.D. Bardgett (2018) Plant attributes explain the distribution of soil microbial communities in two contrasting regions of the globe. New Phytologist 219:574-587.

Ramirez, K.S., C.G. Knight, M. de Hollander, F.Q. Brearley, B. Constantinides, T.E.A. Cotton, S. Creer, T.W. Crowther, J. Davison, 
M. Delgado-Baquerizo, E. Dorrepaal, D.R. Elliott, G. Fox, R.I. 
Griffiths, C. Hale, K. Hartman, A. Houlden, D.L. Jones, E.J. Krab, 
F.T. Maestre, K.L. McGuire, S. Monteux, C.H. Orr, W.H. van der Putten, I.S. Roberts, D.A. Robinson, J. Rocca, J. Rowntree, K. Schlaeppi, M. Shepherd, B.K. Singh, A.L. Straathof, J.M. Talbot, C. Thion, M. van der Heijden, and F.T. de Vries (2018) Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils. Nature Microbiology 3:189–196

Butler, E.E., A. Datta, H. Flores-Moreno, M. Chen, K.R. Wythers, F. Fazayeli. A. Banerjee O.K. Atkin, J. Kattge, B. Amiaud, B. Blonder, G. Boenisch, B. Bond-Lamberty, K.A. Brown, C. Byun, G. Campetella, B.E.L. Cerabolini, J.H.C. Cornelissen, J.M. Craine, D. Craven, F.T. de Vries, S. Diaz, T. Domingues, E. Forey, A. Gonzalez, N. Gross, W. Han, W.N. Hattingh, T. Hickler, S. Jansen, K. Kramer, N.J.B. Kraft, H. Kurokawa, D.C. Laughlin, P. Meir, V. Minden, Ü. Niinemets, Y. Onoda, J. Peñuelas, Q. Read, F. Valladares Ros, L. Sack, B. Schamp, N.A. Soudzilovskaia, M.J. Spasojevic, E. Sosinski, P. Thornton, P.M. van Bodegom, M. Williams, C. Wirth, and P.B. Reich (2018) Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114:E10937–E10946.

Kaisermann, A., F.T. de Vries, R.I. Griffiths, and R.D. Bardgett (2017). Legacy effects of drought on plant-soil feedbacks and plant-plant interactions. New Phytologist 215:1413-1424.

De Vries, F.T. and M.D. Wallenstein (2017) Below-ground connections underlying above-ground food production: a framework for optimising ecological connections in the rhizosphere. Journal of Ecology 105:913-920.

Key, G., M.G. Whitfield, J. Cooper, F.T de Vries, M. Collison, T. Dedousis, R. Heathcote, B. Roth, S. Mohammed, A. Molyneux, W.H. van der Putten, L.V. Dicks, W.J. Sutherland, R.D. Bardgett (2016) Knowledge needs, available actions and future challenges in agricultural soils. SOIL 2:511-521.

De Vries, F.T. and T. Caruso (2016) Eating from the same plate? Revisiting the role of labile carbon inputs in the soil food web. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 102:4-9.

De Vries, F. T., C. Brown, and C.J. Stevens (2016) Grassland species root response to drought: consequences for soil carbon and nitrogen availability. Plant and Soil 409:297-312.

Thion, C., J. Poirel, T. Cornulier, F.T. De Vries, R.D. Bardgett and J.I. Prosser (2016) Plant nitrogen-use strategy as a driver of rhizosphere archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidiser abundance. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 92 (7) fiw091.

Griffiths, B.S, J. Römbke, R. Schmelz, A. Scheffczyk, J. Faber, J. Bloem, G. Pérès, D. Cluzeau, A. Chabbi, M. Suhadolc, P. Sousa, P. Martins da Silva, F. Carvalho, S. Mendes, P. Morais, R. Francisco, C. Pereira, M. Bonkowski, S. Geisen, R. Bardgett, F.T. de Vries, T. Bolger, T. Dirilgen, O. Schmidt, A. Winding, N. Hendriksen, A. Johansen, L. Philippot, P. Plassart, D. Bru, B. Thompson, R. Griffiths, A. Keith, M. Rutgers, C. Mulder, E. Hannula, R. Creamer, D. Stone (2016) Selecting cost effective and policy-relevant biological indicators for European monitoring of soil biodiversity and ecosystem function. Ecological Indicators 69:213-223.

De Vries, F.T. and R.D. Bardgett (2016) Plant community controls on short-term ecosystem nitrogen retention. New Phytologist 210:861-874.

De Vries, F.T. (2016) Soil organisms and climate change. What are the impacts? Biological Sciences Review 29(1):22-26.

Bardgett, R.D., F.T. de Vries, and W.H. van der Putten (2016) Soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. In: Microbial Biomass – A paradigm shift in terrestrial biogeochemistry. K. Tate (Ed.): 199-140.

 De Vries, F.T. and R.D. Bardgett (2015) Climate change effects on soil biota in the UK. Terrestrial Biodiversity Climate change Impacts Report Card Technical paper. Bodsey Ecology Limited, Huntingdon, UK. Source paper for Biodiversity Climate Change Impacts Report Card 2015.

Ramirez, K.S., M. Döring, N. Eisenhauer, C. Gardi, J. Ladau, J.W. Leff, G. Lentendu, Z. Lindo, M.C. Rillig, D. Russell, S. Scheu, M.G. St. John, F.T. de Vries, T. Wubet, W.H. van der Putten, and D.H Wall (2015) Towards a global platform for linking soil biodiversity data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3:91.

Manning, P., F.T. de Vries, J.R.B. Tallowin, S.R. Mortimer, E.S. Pilgrim, K.A. Harrison, D.G. Wright, H. Quirk, J. Benson, B. Shipley, J.H.C. Cornelissen, J. Kattge, G. Bönisch, C. Wirth, and R.D. Bardgett (2015) Simple measures of climate, soil properties and plant traits predict national scale grassland soil carbon stocks. Journal of Applied Ecology 52:1188-1196.

De Vries, F.T., H. Bracht Jørgensen, K. Hedlund, and R.D. Bardgett (2015) Disentangling plant and soil microbial controls on carbon and nitrogen loss in grassland mesocosms. Journal of Ecology, 103:629-640.

Tsiafouli, M., E. Thébault, S. Sgardelis, P. de Ruiter, W.H. van der Putten, K. Birkhofer, L. Hemerik, F.T. de Vries, R. Bardgett, M. Brady, L. Bjørnlund, H. Jørgensen, S. Christensen, T. D’Hertefeldt, S. Hotes, W.H.G. Hol, J. Frouz, M. Liiri, S. Mortimer, H. Setala, J. Tzanopoulos, K. Uteseny, Karoline, V. Pižl, J. Stary, V. Wolters, K. Hedlund (2015) Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe. Global Change Biology 21:973-985.

Bardgett, R.D., L. Mommer, and F.T. de Vries (2014) Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29:692-699.

Setälä, H., R. D. Bardgett, K. Birkhofer, M. Brady, L. Byrne, P. C. de Ruiter, F.T. de Vries, C. Gardi, K. Hedlund, L. Hemerik, S. Hotes, M. Liiri, S. R. Mortimer, M. Pavao-Zuckerman, R. Pouyat, M. Tsiafouli, W.H. van der Putten (2014) Urban and agricultural soils: conflicts and trade-offs in the optimization of ecosystem services. Urban Ecosystems 17:239-253.

De Vries, F.T. and A. Shade (2013) Controls on soil microbial community stability under climate change. Frontiers in Microbiology 4:265.

De Vries, F.T., E. Thébault, M. Liiri, K. Birkhofer, M.A. Tsiafouli, L. Bjørnlund, H. Bracht Jørgensen, M.V. Brady, S. Christensen, P.C. de Ruiter, T. d’Hertefeldt, J. Frouzk, K. Hedlund, L. Hemerik, W.H.G. Hol, S. Hotes, S.R. Mortimer, H. Setälä, S.P. Sgardelis, K. Uteseny, W.H. van der Putten, V. Wolters, and R.D. Bardgett (2013) Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:14296-14301. Faculty of 1000 Recommended Web of Science Highly Cited Paper.

De Vries, F.T. (2013) A short history of aboveground-belowground interactions. BES Bulletin 44(2): 46-47.

Bardgett, R.D., P. Manning, E. Morriën, and F.T. de Vries (2013) Hierarchical responses of plant-soil interactions to climate change: consequences for the global carbon cycle. Journal of Ecology 101:334-343.

De Vries, F.T., J. Bloem, H. Quirk, C.J. Stevens, R. Bol, and R.D. Bardgett (2012) Extensive management promotes plant and microbial nitrogen retention in temperate grassland. PLoS ONE 7:e51201. Faculty of 1000 Recommended

De Vries, F.T., P. Manning, J. Tallowin, S.R. Mortimer, E. Pilgrim, K. Harrison, P. Hobbs, H. Quirk, B. Shipley, H.J.C. Cornelissen, J. Kattge, and R.D. Bardgett (2012) Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities. Ecology Letters 15:1230-1239.

De Vries, F.T. and R.D. Bardgett (2012) Plant-microbial linkages and ecosystem N retention: lessons for sustainable agriculture. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10:425-432.

De Vries, F.T., M. Liiri, L. Bjørnlund, H. Setälä, S. Christensen, and R.D. Bardgett (2012) Legacy effects of drought on plant growth and the soil food web. Oecologia 170:821-833.

Thiele-Bruhn, S., J. Bloem, F.T. De Vries, K. Kalbitz, C. Wagg (2012) Linking soil biodiversity and agricultural management. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 4:523-528.

De Vries, F.T., M. Liiri, L. Bjørnlund, M. Bowker, S. Christensen, H. Setälä, and R.D. Bardgett (2012) Land use alters the resistance and resilience of soil food webs to drought. Nature Climate Change 2:276-280. Web of Science Highly Cited Paper.

De Vries, F.T. and R.D. Bardgett (2012) Soil Ecology. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Ecology. Ed. D. Gibson. New York: Oxford University Press.

De Vries, F.T. (2012) Hard Core Glacier Sampling. BES Bulletin 43(4):48-50.

Ramirez, K.S., R.D. Bardgett, B. Fricks, L. Montanarella, J. Six, W.H. van der Putten, D.H. Wall, N. Ameloot, F. Ayuke, S.A. Banwart, D.E. Bignell, H. Black, D. Bossio, V.J. Bruckman, L. Brussaard, C. Campbell, K. Campbell, T. Soares de Carvalho, J.M. Cooper, H.L. Coutinho, K.W.T. Goulding, R.I. Griffiths, J. Harris, D.W. Hopkins, B. Houskova, W. Jehne, P. Lemanceau, Z. Lindo, P. Murray, A. Muscolo, A. Ogram, K. Ritz, J. Rombke, K. Scow, F.T de Vries, and V. Wolters (2012) White Paper on the First Open Meeting of the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI) Held in London, England, 30 March 2012. 

De Vries, F.T. (2011) A peek behind the curtains of the BES mentoring scheme for women in ecology. BES Bulletin 42(3):19

De Vries, F.T., J.W. van Groenigen, E. Hoffland, and J. Bloem (2011) Nitrogen losses from two grassland soils with different fungal biomass. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43:997-1005.

Bardgett, R. D., J.N. Quinton, and F.T. de Vries (2011) Managing soils for ecosystem services. Public Service Review: UK Science & Technology 1:14-15.

De Vries, F.T., E. Bååth, T.W. Kuyper, and J. Bloem (2009) High turnover of fungal hyphae in incubation experiments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 67:389-396.

De Vries, F.T. (2009) Soil fungi and nitrogen cycling: causes and consequences of changing fungal biomass in grasslands. PhD thesis, Wageningen University.

Van Eekeren, N., D. van Liere, F.T. de Vries, M. Rutgers, R. de Goede, and L. Brussaard (2009) A mixture of grass and clover combines the positive effects of both plant species on selected soil biota. Applied Soil Ecology 42:254-263.

De Vries, F.T., J. Bloem, N. van Eekeren, L. Brussaard, and E. Hoffland (2007) Fungal biomass in pastures increases with age and reduced N input. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 39:1620-1630.

Wijnhoven, S., R. Leuven, G. van der Velde, G. Jungheim, E.I. Koelemij, F.T. de Vries, H.P.J. Eijsackers, and A.J.M. Smits (2007) Heavy-metal concentrations in small mammals from a diffusely polluted floodplain: Importance of species- and location-specific characteristics. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 52:603-613.

De Vries, F.T., E. Hoffland, N. van Eekeren, L. Brussaard, and J. Bloem (2006) Fungal/bacterial ratios in grasslands with contrasting nitrogen management. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38:2092-2103. Web of Science Highly Cited Paper.

Postma-Blaauw, M.B., F.T. de Vries, R.G.M. de Goede, J. Bloem, J.H. Faber, and L. Brussaard (2005) Within trophic group interactions of bacterivorous nematode species and their effects on the bacterial community and nitrogen mineralization. Oecologia 142:428-439.

De Vries, F.T. (2003) Practical use of a hydrological model for peatlands in Borneo. Modeling the Sungai Sebangau catchment in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Wageningen, Alterra, Green World Research. Alterra report 797. 87pp.