Publications — Dan Petticord

Phosphorus Cycling & Phytoremediation

1st Author D. F. Petticord, E. H. Boughton, A. Gough, J. Qiu, A. L. Reyes, A. Saha, R. Zhi, J. P. Sparks, "Phosphorus mitigation through hay harvest: Addressing legacy P in subtropical pasture"

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 2025, In press

doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2025.110136 →

1st Author D. F. Petticord, B. T. Uveges, E. H. Boughton, B. D. Strahm, J. P. Sparks, "Spatial decoupling of biological and geochemical phosphorus cycling in podzolized soils"

Soil Systems, vol. 9, no. 4, p. 115, 2025

doi: 10.3390/soilsystems9040115 →

1st Author D. F. Petticord, R. Zhi, E. Boughton, Y. Guo, H. L. Liao, A. Reyes, J. Sparks, J. Qiu, "The abundance of a Fusarium taxa strongly predicts foliar phosphorus concentrations in Bahiagrass"

Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2025, In press

doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2025.110049 →

1st Author D. F. Petticord, E. H. Boughton, H. Li, J. Qiu, A. Saha, R. Zhi, J. P. Sparks, "Planted species influences soil phosphorus losses in a historically fertilized pasture system: A mesocosm study"

Ecosphere, vol. 15, no. 9, e4976, 2024

doi: 10.1002/ecs2.4976 →

with R. Zhi, J. Qiu & Archbold Biological Station

R. Zhi, D. F. Petticord, Y. Guo, et al., "Influence of soil phosphorus levels on rhizosphere fungal communities in managed subtropical perennial Bahiagrass"

Applied Soil Ecology, vol. 206, p. 105347, 2025

doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106209 →

R. Zhi, E. H. Boughton, H. Li, D. F. Petticord, et al., "Soil legacy phosphorus and loss risk in subtropical grasslands"

J. Environ. Management, vol. 366, p. 121656, 2024

doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121656 →

J. Qiu, E. H. Boughton, H. Li, C. R. B. Henderson, D. F. Petticord, et al., "Unraveling spatial heterogeneity of soil legacy phosphorus in subtropical grasslands"

Ecological Applications, vol. 34, no. 6, e3007, 2024

doi: 10.1002/eap.3007 →

Microbial Community Assembly

Co-1st J. Li*, D. F. Petticord*, M. Jin, et al., "From nature to urbanity: Exploring phyllosphere microbiome and functional gene responses to the Anthropocene"

New Phytologist, vol. 244, pp. 1404–1418, 2024

doi: 10.1111/nph.20255 →

Co-1st W. Wang*, D. F. Petticord*, S. Zhao, et al., "Conversion from farmland to orchard or agroforestry improves soil carbon sequestration by enhancing microbial biological activity in Northwest China"

PLOS ONE, 2025

with J. Li, Y.-G. Zhu & collaborators

J. Li, Y. Zhu, D. F. Petticord, ..., Y.-G. Zhu, "Phyllosphere to soil: How long-term fencing reshapes grassland microbial community construction and their functional genes"

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, vol. 381, p. 110062, 2025

doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2025.110062 →

Carbon Cycling in Forests

Co-1st W. Luo*, D. F. Petticord*, S. Zhu, et al., "Biochar application and mowing independently and interactively influence soil enzyme activity and carbon sequestration in karst and red soils"

Agronomy, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 252, 2025

doi: 10.3390/agronomy15010252 →

with Z. Liu lab, Chinese Academy of Sciences

G. Zhou [mentee], D. F. Petticord, X. Wang, et al., "Intraspecific variation in the growth–defense trade-off among deciduous and evergreen broadleaf woody plants"

New Phytologist, e70781, 2025

doi: 10.1111/nph.70781 →

X. Chen, ..., D. F. Petticord, ..., Z. Liu, "Roots dominate over extraradical hyphae in driving soil organic carbon accumulation during tropical forest succession"

Global Change Biology, vol. 31, e70499, 2025

doi: 10.1111/gcb.70499 →

Z. Ding, ..., D. F. Petticord, ..., Z. Liu, "Topography mediates contrasting patterns of glomalin-related soil protein and its contribution to soil organic carbon in a tropical montane rainforest"

Plant and Soil, 2025

doi: 10.1007/s11104-025-07515-2 →

S. Zhu, ..., D. F. Petticord, X. Song, "Biochar efficacy in enhancing soil carbon fractions is mediated by parent soil type in grazing karst grassland"

Carbon Research, vol. 4, p. 52, 2025

doi: 10.1007/s44246-025-00222-8 →

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C. Liang, ..., D. F. Petticord, ..., "Untangling community assembly through functional traits and phylogenetic alpha diversity in subtropical karst forests"

Ecology and Evolution, vol. 15, e71616, 2025

doi: 10.1002/ece3.71616 →

J. Li, Z.-F. Liu, ..., D. F. Petticord, ..., "Microbial controls over soil priming effects under chronic nitrogen and phosphorus additions in subtropical forests"

The ISME Journal, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 2160–2168, 2023

doi: 10.1038/s41396-023-01523-9 →

X. Xu, P. van der Sleen, ..., D. F. Petticord, ..., "Constraining long-term model predictions for woody growth using tropical tree rings"

Global Change Biology, vol. 30, e17075, 2023

doi: 10.1111/gcb.17075 →

Plant–Soil Feedbacks & Tropical Diversity

G.-C. Hsu [mentee], D. F. Petticord, K. F. Slimon, J. P. Sparks, "Heterospecific-neighbor-mediated changes in density and size increase prey capture by a carnivorous plant"

Oikos, e11309, 2025

doi: 10.1002/oik.11309 →

J. W. Schroeder, A. Dobson, S. A. Mangan, D. F. Petticord, E. A. Herre, "Mutualist and pathogen traits interact to affect plant community structure in a spatially explicit model"

Nature Communications, vol. 11, p. 2204, 2020

doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16047-5 →

C. S. Delavaux, ..., D. F. Petticord, ..., "Fungal community dissimilarity predicts plant–soil feedback strength in a lowland tropical forest"

Ecology, vol. 105, no. 1, e4200, 2023 — Top 10% most viewed

doi: 10.1002/ecy.4200 →

M. Leray*, L. G. E. Wilkins*, ..., D. F. Petticord, ..., "Natural experiments and long-term monitoring are critical to understand and predict marine host–microbe ecology and evolution"

PLOS Biology, vol. 19, no. 8, e3001322, 2021

doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001322 →

G. Zhou, Y. Qin, D. F. Petticord, et al., "Plant-ant interactions mediate herbivore-induced conspecific negative density dependence in a subtropical forest"

Science of The Total Environment, vol. 927, p. 172163, 2024

doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172163 →

Other Collaborative Work

D. Tandon, K. Ressler, D. F. Petticord, A. Papa, J. Jiranek, ..., B. M. vonHoldt, "Homozygosity for mobile element insertions associated with WBSCR17 could predict success in assistance dog training programs"

Genes, vol. 10, p. 439, 2019

doi: 10.3390/genes10060439 →

In Review & In Preparation

1st Author D. F. Petticord, B. T. Uveges, E. H. Boughton, J. P. Sparks, "Ground-penetrating radar uncovers buried 'islands of fertility' in a Florida landscape."

In preparation for PNAS

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1st Author D. F. Petticord, H. Monti, J. M. Lucas, "Independent and interactive responses of microbe, invertebrate, and plant communities to global change factors."

In preparation for Soil Biology and Biochemistry

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J. Gao [mentee], D. Smith, ..., D. Petticord, ..., "An ontogenetic trade-off in density dependence explains species coexistence and mycorrhizal dominance in a subtropical forest."

In review at Science

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6 additional manuscripts in review at Microbiome, Nature Geoscience, Ecology Letters, Environmental Science & Technology, Catena, and Journal of Applied Ecology.

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