Melanie Taylor

Sánchez-López, N., Hudak, A. T., Callaham, M. A., Taylor, M. K., Viskari, T., Bright, B. C., … Nemens, D. (2025, December 1). Coupling duff development with tree litter and downed fuel inputs, decomposition and fire consumption in a long-term prescribed fire experiment in Florida. International Journal of Wildland Fire, Vol. 12. https://doi.org/10.1071/wf24205

Tirado-Ballestas, I. P., Taylor, M. K., Caballero-Gallardo, K., Olivero-Verbel, J., & Callaham Jr., M. A. (2025). Effects of bituminous coal dust exposure on reproduction of Sinella curviseta (Collembola) and Eisenia fetida (Clitellata). Applied Soil Ecology, 209, 106038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106038

Sánchez-López, N., Hudak, A. T., Taylor, M. K., Callaham, M. A., & O’Brien, J. J. (2025, December 8). Is this duff? Long-term prescribed burning effects on litter and duff in pine flatwoods of the southeastern US. Fire Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-025-00425-9

Taylor, M. K., Hagan, D. L., Coates, T. A., DeFeo, J. A., Callaham, M. A., Mohr, H. H., … Wurzburger, N. (2025, October 1). Reducing resilience debt: Mechanical felling and repeated prescribed fires may sustain eastern oak forests. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70125

Bernal, A. A., Stephens, S. L., Callaham, M. A., Collins, B. M., Crotteau, J. S., Dickinson, M. B., … Coates, T. A. (2025). The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: Effects of fuel treatments in the Western and Eastern United States after 20 years. Ecological Applications, 35(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70003

Carrera Martínez, R., Taylor, M. K., Jones, D., Schoville, S. D., Snyder, B. A., & Callaham, M. A. (2025). The unseen diversity of the semi-aquatic earthworms of the genus Sparganophilus (Oligochaeta: Sparganophilidae) from the Southeastern Appalachian Piedmont. Zootaxa, 5589(1), 382–409. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1.29

Ulyshen, M., Adams, C., Adams, J., Adams, S. B., Bland, M., Bragg, D. C., … Young, A. D. (2024). Spatiotemporal patterns of forest pollinator diversity across the southeastern United States. Diversity and Distributions, 30(8). https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13869

Njoroge, D. M., Dossa, G. G. O., Schaefer, D., Zuo, J., Ulyshen, M. D., Seibold, S., … Cornelissen, J. H. C. (2024). The effects of invertebrates on wood decomposition across the world. Biological Reviews, 100(1), 158–171. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13134

Taylor, M. K., Ulyshen, M. D., Horn, S., Poole, E. M., & Callaham, M. A., Jr. (2024). Variation in the contribution of macroinvertebrates to wood decomposition as it progresses. Ecosphere, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4714

Sánchez-López, N., Hudak, A. T., Boschetti, L., Silva, C. A., Robertson, K., Loudermilk, E. L., … Taylor, M. K. (2023). A spatially explicit model of tree leaf litter accumulation in fire maintained longleaf pine forests of the southeastern US. Ecological Modelling, 481, 110369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110369

Fox, S., Taylor, M. K., Callaham, M., Jr., & Jumpponen, A. (2024). Fire-excluded and frequently burned longleaf pine forests have contrasting soil microbial communities. Forest Ecology and Management, 551, 121519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121519

Taylor, M. K., Strother, D. J., & Callaham, M. A., Jr. (2023). Fire exclusion reduces A‐horizon thickness in a long‐term prescribed fire experiment in Spodosols of northern Florida, USA. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 87(2), 425–429. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20507

Zanne, A. E., Flores-Moreno, H., Powell, J. R., Cornwell, W. K., Dalling, J. W., Austin, A. T., … Zalamea, P.-C. (2022). Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates. Science, 377(6613), 1440–1444. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo3856

Callaham, M. A., Jr., & Taylor, M. K. (2020). Appendix A: Regional soil summary of the Southeast. In R. V. Pouyat, D. S. Page-Dumroese, T. Patel-Weynand, & L. H. Geiser (Eds.), Forests and rangeland soils of the United States under changing conditions (pp. 207–217). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Carpenter, D. O., Taylor, M. K., Callaham, M. A., Jr., Hiers, J. K., Loudermilk, E. L., O’Brien, J. J., & Wurzburger, N. (2020). Benefit or Liability? The Ectomycorrhizal Association May Undermine Tree Adaptations to Fire After Long-term Fire Exclusion. Ecosystems, 24(5), 1059–1074. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00568-7

Blackmon, J. H., Taylor, M. K., Carrera-Martínez, R., Snyder, B. A., & Callaham, M. A. (2019). Temperature Affects Hatching Success of Cocoons in the Invasive Asian Earthworm Amynthas agrestis from the Southern Appalachians. Southeastern Naturalist, 18(2), 270. https://doi.org/10.1656/058.018.0205

Taylor, M. K. (2018). Quantifying mycorrhizal fungi colonization of roots. In D. C. Coleman, M. A. Callaham Jr., & D. A. Crossley Jr. (Eds.), Fundamentals of Soil Ecology Chapter 9: Laboratory and field exercises in soil ecology (3rd ed., pp. 290–293). Elsevier.

Ulyshen, M. D., Shefferson, R., Horn, S., Taylor, M. K., Bush, B., Brownie, C., … Strickland, M. S. (2017). Below‐ and above‐ground effects of deadwood and termites in plantation forests. Ecosphere, 8(8), e01910. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1910

Coyle, D. R., Nagendra, U. J., Taylor, M. K., Campbell, J. H., Cunard, C. E., Joslin, A. H., … Callaham, M. A., Jr. (2017). Soil fauna responses to natural disturbances, invasive species, and global climate change: Current state of the science and a call to action. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 110, 116–133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.03.008

Gao, M., Taylor, M. K., & Callaham, M. A., Jr. (2017). Trophic dynamics in a simple experimental ecosystem: Interactions among centipedes, Collembola and introduced earthworms. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 115, 66–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.08.001

Taylor, M. K., Lankau, R. A., & Wurzburger, N. (2016). Mycorrhizal associations of trees have different indirect effects on organic matter decomposition. Journal of Ecology, 104(6), 1576–1584. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12629

Nilsen, E. T., Johnson, C., & Taylor, M. K. (2014). Are idioblasts related to drought resistance in Rhododendron section Schistanthe? Journal of the American Rhododendron Society, 68(2), 73–79.

Mohan, J. E., Cowden, C. C., Baas, P., Dawadi, A., Frankson, P. T., Helmick, K., … Witt, C. A. (2014). Mycorrhizal fungi mediation of terrestrial ecosystem responses to global change: mini-review. Fungal Ecology, 10, 3–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2014.01.005