Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- ashish.malik@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273985
- Office Address
Room 1.22, Cruickshank Building
School of Biological Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, AB24 3UU
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
Since 2019: Lecturer in Biogeochemistry at University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
2017-2019: US-Department of Energy Genomic Sciences Program Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California, Irvine, USA.
2015-2017: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford and University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
2014-2015: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany.
2011-2014: Doctoral student at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany and NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
- Research
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Research Overview
My research interest lies in understanding soil microbial processes and the underlying mechanisms. More specifically, my aim is to link microbial physiology and biodiversity to element cycling with a focus on soil carbon. A key question is also to determine how environmental change affects these linkages and thus ecosystem functioning.
- Publications
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Reply to: Model uncertainty obscures major driver of soil carbon
Nature, vol. 627, no. 8002, pp. E4-E6Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-07000-9
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Microbial control of soil organic matter dynamics: Effects of land use and climate change
Biology and Fertility of Soils, vol. 60, pp. 1-3Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-023-01788-4
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Irrigation alters biogeochemical processes to increase both inorganic and organic carbon in arid-calcic cropland soils
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 187, 109189Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRethinking CSR theory to incorporate microbial metabolic diversity and foraging traits
ISME Journal, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 1793–1797Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOpportunities and challenges for microbiomics in ecosystem restoration
Trends in Ecology and EvolutionContributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.07.009
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Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage
Nature, vol. 618, pp. 981-985Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAspects of microbial communities in peatland carbon cycling under changing climate and land use pressures
Mires and Peat, vol. 29, 02Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDrought impacts on microbial trait distribution and feedback to soil carbon cycling
Functional Ecology, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 1442-1456Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPlants with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi efficiently acquire Nitrogen from substrate additions by shaping the decomposer community composition and their net plant carbon demand
Plant and Soil, vol. 475, pp. 473-490Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSoil microorganisms regulate extracellular enzyme production to maximize their growth rate
Biogeochemistry, vol. 158, pp. 303-312Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDifferential Response of Bacterial Microdiversity to Simulated Global Change
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 88, no. 6, e02429-21Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTowards a microbial process-based understanding of the resilience of peatland ecosystem service provisioning – A research agenda
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 759, 143467Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143467
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Drought and plant litter chemistry alter microbial gene expression and metabolite production
The ISME Journal, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 2236-2247Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-0683-6
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Defining trait-based microbial strategies with consequences for soil carbon cycling under climate change
The ISME Journal, vol. 14, pp. 1-9Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSoil microbial communities with greater investment in resource acquisition have lower growth yield
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 132, pp. 36-39Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.01.025
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Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes
Nature Communications, vol. 9, 3591Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBacterial physiological adaptations to contrasting edaphic conditions identified using landscape scale metagenomics
mBio, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1-13Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLinking molecular size, composition and carbon turnover of extractable soil microbial compounds
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 100, pp. 66-73Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.05.019
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Soil fungal: Bacterial ratios are linked to altered carbon cycling
Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 7, 1247Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRhizosphere bacterial carbon turnover is higher in nucleic acids than membrane lipids: Implications for understanding soil carbon cycling
Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 6, 268Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPlant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage
Nature Communications, vol. 6, pp. 1-8Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7707
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Importance of microbial soil organic matter processing in dissolved organic carbon production
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 139-148Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12182
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Soil microbial carbon turnover decreases with increasing molecular size
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 62, pp. 115-118Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.02.022
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Online stable isotope analysis of dissolved organic carbon size classes using size exclusion chromatography coupled to an isotope ratio mass spectrometer
Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 46, no. 18, pp. 10123-10129Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/es302467y
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