Publications

Darby, B.J., Neher, D.A. 2012. Stable isotope composition of microfauna supports the occurance of biologically fixed nitrogen from cyanobacteria in desert food webs. Journal of Arid Environments. 85:76-78.

Wheeler, D., Darby, B.J., Herman, M.A., 2012. Several grassland soil nematode species are insensitive to RNA-mediated interference. Journal of Nematology. 44(1):91-100.

Darby, B.J., Jones, K.L., Wheeler, D., Herman, M.A., 2011. Normalization and centering of array-based heterologous genome hybridization between species of unknown or unequal divergence. BMC Bioinformatics. 12:183.

Darby, B.J., Neher, D.A., Housman, D.C, and Belnap, J. 2011. Few apparent short-term effects of elevated soil temperature and increased frequency of summer precipitation on the abundance and taxonomic diversity of desert soil micro- and meso-fauna. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 43:1474-1481.

Darby, B.J., Neher, D.A., and Belnap, J. 2010. Impact of biological soil crusts and desert plants on soil microfaunal community composition. Plant and Soil 328:421-431.

Neher, D.A., Lewins, S.A., Weicht, T.R., and Darby, B.J. 2009. Microarthropod communitites associated with biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau and Chihuahuan deserts. Journal of Arid Environments 73:672-677.

Darby, B.J., Neher, D.A., and Belnap, J. 2007. Soil nematode communities are ecologically more mature beneath late-than early-successional stage biological soil crusts. Applied Soil Ecology 35:203-212.

Housman, D.C, Yeager, C.M., Darby, B.J., Sanford, B., Kuske, C.R., Neher, D.A., Belnap, J. 2007. Heterogeneity of soil nutrients and subsurface biota in dryland ecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39:2138-2149.

Melakeberhan, H., Mennan, S., Chen, S., Darby, B.J, and Dudek, T. 2007. Integrated approaches to understanding and managing Meloidogyne hapla populations' parasitic variability. Crop Protection 26:894-902.

Darby, B.J., Housman, D.C., Zaki, A.M., Shamout, Y., Adl, S., Belnap, J., and Neher, D.A. 2006. Effects of altered temperature and precipitation on desert protozoa associated with biological soil crusts. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 53(6): 507-514.

Li, F., Neher, D.A., Darby, B.J., and Weicht, T.R. 2005. Contrasting effects of copper and benzo(a)pyrene concentration on life history characteristics of Aphelenchus and Acrobeloides. Ecotoxicology 14:419-429.

Van Dyke, F., Darby, B., Bowdish, S.E., Schmeling, J.D., and De Jager, N.R. 2002. Ecosystem management and moose: creating a coherent concept with functional managements strategies. Alces 38:55-72.