Peer-reviewed publications
Simonsen, A. K. (2021). Environmental stress leads to genome streamlining in a widely distributed species of soil bacteria. The ISME Journal, 1-12.
Tognetti, P. M., Prober, S. M., Báez, S., Chaneton, E. J., Firn, J., Risch, A. C., Schuetz, M., Simonsen, A.K., Yahdjian, L., Borer, E.T., Seabloom, E.W., Arnillas, C.A., Bakker, J.B., Brown, C.S., Cadotte, M.W., Caldeira, M.C., Daleo, P., Dwyer, J.M., Fay, P.A., Gherardi, L.A., Hagenah, N., Hautier, Y., Komatsu, K.J., McCulley, R.L., Price, J.N., Standish, R.J., Stevens, C.J., Wragg, P.D. & Sankaran, M. (2021). Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(28).
Chia, M. D., & Simonsen, A. K. (2021). Four Complete Genome Sequences for Bradyrhizobium sp. Strains Isolated from an Endemic Australian Acacia Legume Reveal Structural Variation. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 10(19), e00229-21.
Boyle, J. A., Simonsen, A. K., Frederickson, M. E., & Stinchcombe, J. R. (2021). Priority effects alter interaction outcomes in a legume–rhizobium mutualism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1946), 20202753.
Batstone, R. T., Peters, M. A. E., Simonsen, A. K., Stinchcombe, J. R., & Frederickson, M. E. (2020). Environmental variation impacts trait expression and selection in the legume-rhizobium symbiosis. American Journal of Botany, 107(2), 195–208.
Simonsen, A.K., Barrett, L.G., Thrall, P.H., & Prober, S.M. (2019). Novel model-based clustering reveals ecologically differentiated bacterial genomes across a large climate gradient. Ecology Letters,22(12), 2077-2086
Dinnage, R.*, Simonsen, A. K.*, Barrett, L. G., Cardillo, M., Raisbeck‐Brown, N., Thrall, P. H., & Prober, S. M. (2019). Larger plants promote a greater diversity of symbiotic nitrogen‐fixing soil bacteria associated with an Australian endemic legume. Journal of Ecology, 107(2), 977-991.
(* indicates shared first author)
Harrison, T. L., Simonsen, A. K., Stinchcombe, J. R., & Frederickson, M. E. (2018). More partners, more ranges: generalist legumes spread more easily around the globe. Biology letters, 14(11), 20180616.
Simonsen*, A.K., Dinnage*, R., Barrett, L.G., Prober, SM & Thrall, P.H. (2017). Symbiosis limits establishment of legumes outside their native range at a global scale. Nature Communications, 8, 14790.
Duncan, E.G., O’Sullivan, C.A., Simonsen, A.K., Roper, M.M., Peoples, M.B., Treble, K. & Whisson, K. (2017) The nitrification inhibitor 3,4,-dimethylpyrazole phosphate strongly inhibits nitrification in coarse-grained soils containing a low abundance of nitrifying microbiota. Soil Research, 55, 28–37.
Duncan, E.G., O’Sullivan, C.A., Simonsen, A.K., Roper, M.M., Treble, K. & Whisson, K. (2016) A composite guanyl thiourea (GTU), dicyandiamide (DCD) inhibitor improves the efficacy of nitrification inhibition in soil. Chemosphere, 163, 1–5.
Seabloom, E.W., Borer, E.T., Buckley, Y.M., Cleland, E.E., Davies, K.F., Firn, J., Harpole, W.S., Hautier, Y., Lind, E.M., MacDougall, A.S., Orrock, J.L., Prober, S.M., Adler, P.B., Anderson, T.M., Bakker, J.D., Biederman, L.A., Blumenthal, D.M., Brown, C.S., Brudvig, L.A., Cadotte, M., Chu, C., Cottingham, K.L., Crawley, M.J., Damschen, E.I., Dantonio, C.M., DeCrappeo, N.M., Du, G., Fay, P.A., Frater, P., Gruner, D.S., Hagenah, N., Hector, A., Hillebrand, H., Hofmockel, K.S., Humphries, H.C., Jin, V.L., Kay, A., Kirkman, K.P., Klein, J.A., Knops, J.M.H., La Pierre, K.J., Ladwig, L., Lambrinos, J.G., Li, Q., Li, W., Marushia, R., McCulley, R.L., Melbourne, B.A., Mitchell, C.E., Moore, J.L., Morgan, J., Mortensen, B., O’Halloran, L.R., Pyke, D.A., Risch, A.C., Sankaran, M., Schuetz, M., Simonsen, A.K., Smith, M.D., Stevens, C.J., Sullivan, L., Wolkovich, E., Wragg, P.D., Wright, J. & Yang, L. (2015) Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. Nature Communications, 6, 7710.
Simonsen, A.K., Han, S., Rekret, P., Rentschler, C.S., Heath, K.D. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2015) Short-term fertilizer application alters phenotypic traits of symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria. PeerJ, 3, e1291.
Simonsen, A.K. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2014) Standing genetic variation in host preference for mutualist microbial symbionts. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / The Royal Society, 281.
Simonsen, A.K. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2014) Herbivory eliminates fitness costs of mutualism exploiters. The New Phytologist, 202, 651–661.
Simonsen, A.K., Chow, T. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2014) Reduced plant competition among kin can be explained by Jensen’s inequality. Ecology and Evolution, 4, 4454–4466.
Stinchcombe, J.R., Simonsen, A.K. & Blows, M.W. (2014) Estimating uncertainty in multivariate responses to selection. Evolution, 68, 1188–1196.
Seabloom, E.W., Borer, E.T., Buckley, Y., Cleland, E.E., Davies, K., Firn, J., Harpole, W.S., Hautier, Y., Lind, E., MacDougall, A., Orrock, J.L., Prober, S.M., Adler, P., Alberti, J., Anderson, T.M., Bakker, J.D., Biederman, L.A., Blumenthal, D., Brown, C.S., Brudvig, L.A., Caldeira, M., Chu, C., Crawley, M.J., Daleo, P., Damschen, E.I., D’Antonio, C.M., DeCrappeo, N.M., Dickman, C.R., Du, G., Fay, P.A., Frater, P., Gruner, D.S., Hagenah, N., Hector, A., Helm, A., Hillebrand, H., Hofmockel, K.S., Humphries, H.C., Iribarne, O., Jin, V.L., Kay, A., Kirkman, K.P., Klein, J.A., Knops, J.M.H., La Pierre, K.J., Ladwig, L.M., Lambrinos, J.G., Leakey, A.D.B., Li, Q., Li, W., McCulley, R., Melbourne, B., Mitchell, C.E., Moore, J.L., Morgan, J., Mortensen, B., O’Halloran, L.R., Pärtel, M., Pascual, J., Pyke, D.A., Risch, A.C., Salguero-Gómez, R., Sankaran, M., Schuetz, M., Simonsen, A.K., Smith, M., Stevens, C., Sullivan, L., Wardle, G.M., Wolkovich, E.M., Wragg, P.D., Wright, J. & Yang, L. (2013) Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? Global Change Biology, 19, 3677–3687.
Campitelli, B.E. & Simonsen, A.K. (2012) Plant evolutionary ecology: molecular genetics, global warming and invasions, and the novel approaches we are using to study adaptations. New Phytologist, 196, 975–977.
Simonsen, A.K. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2010) Quantifying Evolutionary Genetic Constraints in the Ivyleaf Morning Glory, Ipomoea hederacea. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 171, 972–986.
Campitelli, B.E., Simonsen, A.K., Wolf, A.R., Manson, J.S. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2008) Leaf shape variation and herbivore consumption and performance: a case study with Ipomoea hederacea and three generalists. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2, 9–19.
Simonsen, A.K. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2007) Induced responses in Ipomoea hederacea: simulated mammalian herbivory induces resistance and susceptibility to insect herbivores. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 1, 129–136.
Tognetti, P. M., Prober, S. M., Báez, S., Chaneton, E. J., Firn, J., Risch, A. C., Schuetz, M., Simonsen, A.K., Yahdjian, L., Borer, E.T., Seabloom, E.W., Arnillas, C.A., Bakker, J.B., Brown, C.S., Cadotte, M.W., Caldeira, M.C., Daleo, P., Dwyer, J.M., Fay, P.A., Gherardi, L.A., Hagenah, N., Hautier, Y., Komatsu, K.J., McCulley, R.L., Price, J.N., Standish, R.J., Stevens, C.J., Wragg, P.D. & Sankaran, M. (2021). Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(28).
Chia, M. D., & Simonsen, A. K. (2021). Four Complete Genome Sequences for Bradyrhizobium sp. Strains Isolated from an Endemic Australian Acacia Legume Reveal Structural Variation. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 10(19), e00229-21.
Boyle, J. A., Simonsen, A. K., Frederickson, M. E., & Stinchcombe, J. R. (2021). Priority effects alter interaction outcomes in a legume–rhizobium mutualism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1946), 20202753.
Batstone, R. T., Peters, M. A. E., Simonsen, A. K., Stinchcombe, J. R., & Frederickson, M. E. (2020). Environmental variation impacts trait expression and selection in the legume-rhizobium symbiosis. American Journal of Botany, 107(2), 195–208.
Simonsen, A.K., Barrett, L.G., Thrall, P.H., & Prober, S.M. (2019). Novel model-based clustering reveals ecologically differentiated bacterial genomes across a large climate gradient. Ecology Letters,22(12), 2077-2086
Dinnage, R.*, Simonsen, A. K.*, Barrett, L. G., Cardillo, M., Raisbeck‐Brown, N., Thrall, P. H., & Prober, S. M. (2019). Larger plants promote a greater diversity of symbiotic nitrogen‐fixing soil bacteria associated with an Australian endemic legume. Journal of Ecology, 107(2), 977-991.
(* indicates shared first author)
Harrison, T. L., Simonsen, A. K., Stinchcombe, J. R., & Frederickson, M. E. (2018). More partners, more ranges: generalist legumes spread more easily around the globe. Biology letters, 14(11), 20180616.
Simonsen*, A.K., Dinnage*, R., Barrett, L.G., Prober, SM & Thrall, P.H. (2017). Symbiosis limits establishment of legumes outside their native range at a global scale. Nature Communications, 8, 14790.
Duncan, E.G., O’Sullivan, C.A., Simonsen, A.K., Roper, M.M., Peoples, M.B., Treble, K. & Whisson, K. (2017) The nitrification inhibitor 3,4,-dimethylpyrazole phosphate strongly inhibits nitrification in coarse-grained soils containing a low abundance of nitrifying microbiota. Soil Research, 55, 28–37.
Duncan, E.G., O’Sullivan, C.A., Simonsen, A.K., Roper, M.M., Treble, K. & Whisson, K. (2016) A composite guanyl thiourea (GTU), dicyandiamide (DCD) inhibitor improves the efficacy of nitrification inhibition in soil. Chemosphere, 163, 1–5.
Seabloom, E.W., Borer, E.T., Buckley, Y.M., Cleland, E.E., Davies, K.F., Firn, J., Harpole, W.S., Hautier, Y., Lind, E.M., MacDougall, A.S., Orrock, J.L., Prober, S.M., Adler, P.B., Anderson, T.M., Bakker, J.D., Biederman, L.A., Blumenthal, D.M., Brown, C.S., Brudvig, L.A., Cadotte, M., Chu, C., Cottingham, K.L., Crawley, M.J., Damschen, E.I., Dantonio, C.M., DeCrappeo, N.M., Du, G., Fay, P.A., Frater, P., Gruner, D.S., Hagenah, N., Hector, A., Hillebrand, H., Hofmockel, K.S., Humphries, H.C., Jin, V.L., Kay, A., Kirkman, K.P., Klein, J.A., Knops, J.M.H., La Pierre, K.J., Ladwig, L., Lambrinos, J.G., Li, Q., Li, W., Marushia, R., McCulley, R.L., Melbourne, B.A., Mitchell, C.E., Moore, J.L., Morgan, J., Mortensen, B., O’Halloran, L.R., Pyke, D.A., Risch, A.C., Sankaran, M., Schuetz, M., Simonsen, A.K., Smith, M.D., Stevens, C.J., Sullivan, L., Wolkovich, E., Wragg, P.D., Wright, J. & Yang, L. (2015) Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. Nature Communications, 6, 7710.
Simonsen, A.K., Han, S., Rekret, P., Rentschler, C.S., Heath, K.D. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2015) Short-term fertilizer application alters phenotypic traits of symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria. PeerJ, 3, e1291.
Simonsen, A.K. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2014) Standing genetic variation in host preference for mutualist microbial symbionts. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / The Royal Society, 281.
Simonsen, A.K. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2014) Herbivory eliminates fitness costs of mutualism exploiters. The New Phytologist, 202, 651–661.
Simonsen, A.K., Chow, T. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2014) Reduced plant competition among kin can be explained by Jensen’s inequality. Ecology and Evolution, 4, 4454–4466.
Stinchcombe, J.R., Simonsen, A.K. & Blows, M.W. (2014) Estimating uncertainty in multivariate responses to selection. Evolution, 68, 1188–1196.
Seabloom, E.W., Borer, E.T., Buckley, Y., Cleland, E.E., Davies, K., Firn, J., Harpole, W.S., Hautier, Y., Lind, E., MacDougall, A., Orrock, J.L., Prober, S.M., Adler, P., Alberti, J., Anderson, T.M., Bakker, J.D., Biederman, L.A., Blumenthal, D., Brown, C.S., Brudvig, L.A., Caldeira, M., Chu, C., Crawley, M.J., Daleo, P., Damschen, E.I., D’Antonio, C.M., DeCrappeo, N.M., Dickman, C.R., Du, G., Fay, P.A., Frater, P., Gruner, D.S., Hagenah, N., Hector, A., Helm, A., Hillebrand, H., Hofmockel, K.S., Humphries, H.C., Iribarne, O., Jin, V.L., Kay, A., Kirkman, K.P., Klein, J.A., Knops, J.M.H., La Pierre, K.J., Ladwig, L.M., Lambrinos, J.G., Leakey, A.D.B., Li, Q., Li, W., McCulley, R., Melbourne, B., Mitchell, C.E., Moore, J.L., Morgan, J., Mortensen, B., O’Halloran, L.R., Pärtel, M., Pascual, J., Pyke, D.A., Risch, A.C., Salguero-Gómez, R., Sankaran, M., Schuetz, M., Simonsen, A.K., Smith, M., Stevens, C., Sullivan, L., Wardle, G.M., Wolkovich, E.M., Wragg, P.D., Wright, J. & Yang, L. (2013) Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? Global Change Biology, 19, 3677–3687.
Campitelli, B.E. & Simonsen, A.K. (2012) Plant evolutionary ecology: molecular genetics, global warming and invasions, and the novel approaches we are using to study adaptations. New Phytologist, 196, 975–977.
Simonsen, A.K. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2010) Quantifying Evolutionary Genetic Constraints in the Ivyleaf Morning Glory, Ipomoea hederacea. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 171, 972–986.
Campitelli, B.E., Simonsen, A.K., Wolf, A.R., Manson, J.S. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2008) Leaf shape variation and herbivore consumption and performance: a case study with Ipomoea hederacea and three generalists. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2, 9–19.
Simonsen, A.K. & Stinchcombe, J.R. (2007) Induced responses in Ipomoea hederacea: simulated mammalian herbivory induces resistance and susceptibility to insect herbivores. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 1, 129–136.