Michaela Hayer

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Michaela Hayer is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michaela Hayer has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Ecology, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Michaela Hayer's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (24 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (12 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers). Michaela Hayer is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (24 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (12 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers). Michaela Hayer collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Michaela Hayer's co-authors include Egbert Schwartz, Bruce A. Hungate, Benjamin J. Koch, Ember M. Morrissey, Rebecca L. Mau, Paul Dijkstra, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Steven J. Blazewicz, Jane C. Marks and Bram WG Stone and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Ecology and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Michaela Hayer

36 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Life history strategies among soil bacteria—dichotomy for few, continuum for many

2023 94 citations Bram WG Stone, Paul Dijkstra et al. The ISME Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michaela Hayer United States	18	763	448	386	213	109	36	1.2k
Kevin M. Geyer United States	14	759 1.0×	898 2.0×	156 0.4×	272 1.3×	72 0.7×	20	1.3k
Sean K. Bay Australia	14	813 1.1×	140 0.3×	395 1.0×	103 0.5×	75 0.7×	17	1.2k
Zachary L. Rinkes United States	7	474 0.6×	821 1.8×	82 0.2×	387 1.8×	103 0.9×	7	1.2k
Xuechao Zhao China	14	206 0.3×	355 0.8×	97 0.3×	109 0.5×	29 0.3×	54	650
Silvia Pajares Mexico	12	382 0.5×	216 0.5×	149 0.4×	107 0.5×	127 1.2×	32	677
Bingwei Zhang China	16	194 0.3×	261 0.6×	100 0.3×	193 0.9×	51 0.5×	42	788
Decao Niu China	17	385 0.5×	643 1.4×	78 0.2×	229 1.1×	23 0.2×	49	1.1k
José Rincón Venezuela	8	827 1.1×	56 0.1×	428 1.1×	173 0.8×	46 0.4×	18	1.4k

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Ochs, Clifford A., Michaela Hayer, Egbert Schwartz, Bruce A. Hungate, & Jane C. Marks. (2025). From treetops to river bottoms: Exploring the role of phyllosphere fungi in aquatic fungal communities. Ecology. 106(1). e4513–e4513. 3 indexed citations

Hedlund, Brian P., Rebecca L. Mau, Jian‐Yu Jiao, et al.. (2023). Resource partitioning and amino acid assimilation in a terrestrial geothermal spring. The ISME Journal. 17(11). 2112–2122. 7 indexed citations

Stone, Bram WG, Paul Dijkstra, Brianna Finley, et al.. (2023). Life history strategies among soil bacteria—dichotomy for few, continuum for many. The ISME Journal. 17(4). 611–619. 94 indexed citations breakdown →

Mau, Rebecca L., Michaela Hayer, Egbert Schwartz, et al.. (2023). The predictive power of phylogeny on growth rates in soil bacterial communities. ISME Communications. 3(1). 73–73. 14 indexed citations

Stone, Bram WG, Steven J. Blazewicz, Benjamin J. Koch, et al.. (2023). Nutrients strengthen density dependence of per-capita growth and mortality rates in the soil bacterial community. Oecologia. 201(3). 771–782. 4 indexed citations

Foley, Megan M., Steven J. Blazewicz, Karis J. McFarlane, et al.. (2022). Active populations and growth of soil microorganisms are framed by mean annual precipitation in three California annual grasslands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 177. 108886–108886. 15 indexed citations

Bell, Sheryl, Amy Zimmerman, Bram WG Stone, et al.. (2022). Effects of warming on bacterial growth rates in a peat soil under ambient and elevated CO2. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 178. 108933–108933. 9 indexed citations

Richardson, Andrew D., Matthew A. Bowker, Jarrett J. Barber, et al.. (2022). Soil-atmosphere fluxes of CO2, CH4, and N2O across an experimentally-grown, successional gradient of biocrust community types. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 979825–979825. 1 indexed citations

Hayer, Michaela, Adam S. Wymore, Bruce A. Hungate, et al.. (2021). Microbes on decomposing litter in streams: entering on the leaf or colonizing in the water?. The ISME Journal. 16(3). 717–725. 28 indexed citations

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Finley, Brianna, Rebecca L. Mau, Michaela Hayer, et al.. (2021). Soil minerals affect taxon-specific bacterial growth. The ISME Journal. 16(5). 1318–1326. 44 indexed citations

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Stone, Bram WG, Junhui Li, Benjamin J. Koch, et al.. (2021). Nutrients cause consolidation of soil carbon flux to small proportion of bacterial community. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3381–3381. 110 indexed citations

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Wang, Chao, Ember M. Morrissey, Rebecca L. Mau, et al.. (2021). The temperature sensitivity of soil: microbial biodiversity, growth, and carbon mineralization. The ISME Journal. 15(9). 2738–2747. 147 indexed citations

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Li, Junhui, Rebecca L. Mau, Paul Dijkstra, et al.. (2019). Predictive genomic traits for bacterial growth in culture versus actual growth in soil. The ISME Journal. 13(9). 2162–2172. 71 indexed citations

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Finley, Brianna, Michaela Hayer, Rebecca L. Mau, et al.. (2019). Microbial Taxon-Specific Isotope Incorporation with DNA Quantitative Stable Isotope Probing. Methods in molecular biology. 2046. 137–149. 9 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Egbert, Michaela Hayer, Bruce A. Hungate, & Rebecca L. Mau. (2019). Stable Isotope Probing of Microorganisms in Environmental Samples with H218O. Methods in molecular biology. 2046. 129–136. 2 indexed citations

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Morrissey, Ember M., Rebecca L. Mau, Egbert Schwartz, et al.. (2018). Taxonomic patterns in the nitrogen assimilation of soil prokaryotes. Environmental Microbiology. 20(3). 1112–1119. 37 indexed citations

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Morrissey, Ember M., Rebecca L. Mau, Egbert Schwartz, et al.. (2016). Phylogenetic organization of bacterial activity. The ISME Journal. 10(9). 2336–2340. 126 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Egbert, Michaela Hayer, Bruce A. Hungate, et al.. (2016). Stable isotope probing with 18O-water to investigate microbial growth and death in environmental samples. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 41. 14–18. 31 indexed citations

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Gehring, Catherine A., et al.. (2016). Cheatgrass invasion alters the abundance and composition of dark septate fungal communities in sagebrush steppe. Botany. 94(6). 481–491. 11 indexed citations

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Brüss, Michael, Manfred Göthert, Michaela Hayer, & Heinz Bönisch. (1998). Molecular Cloning of Alternatively Spliced Human 5‐HT₃ Receptor cDNAs^a. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 861(1). 234–235. 13 indexed citations

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