Donald R. Zak

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · University of Michigan

Established · publishing since 1986

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Plant responses to elevated CO2 Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Publications

298

Citations

33,097

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 1986

In context

Among 503 established Agricultural and Biological Sciences PIs within our index

Citations: 33,097cohort median 2,197

Publications / year (recent): 3.8cohort median 3

Typically publishes in teams of ~4 · 48% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 18 venues

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.8/year recently

Collaborators per year

Distinct co-authors at University of Michigan each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.

Recent publications

Nitrogen Stocks and Fluxes Across Four FACE Experiments, 1996-2004
Open MIND · 2026
Targeting unique ligand binding domain structural features downregulates DKK1 in Y537S ESR1 mutant breast cancer cells
Breast Cancer Research · 2025
Gains in soil carbon storage under anthropogenic nitrogen deposition are rapidly lost following its cessation
Ecology · 2024
From individual leaves to forest stands: importance of niche, distance decay, and stochasticity vary by ecosystem type and functional group for fungal community composition
FEMS Microbiology Ecology · 2024
Targeting Unique Ligand Binding Domain Structural Features Downregulates DKK1 in Y537S ESR1 Mutant Breast Cancer Cells
Research Square · 2024
Gains in soil C storage under anthropogenic N deposition are rapidly lost following its cessation
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2023
Plant effects on and response to soil microbes in native and non‐nativePhragmites australis
Ecological Applications · 2022
Ectomycorrhizal fungal decay traits along a soil nitrogen gradient
New Phytologist · 2021
Ectomycorrhizal root tips harbor distinctive fungal associates along a soil nitrogen gradient
Fungal ecology · 2021
Differences in rhizosphere microbial communities between native and non‐native Phragmites australis may depend on stand density
Ecology and Evolution · 2020
Decadal biomass increment in early secondary succession woody ecosystems is increased by CO2 enrichment
Nature Communications · 2019
Environmental filtering structures fungal endophyte communities in tree bark
Molecular Ecology · 2019
Scale dependency of dispersal limitation, environmental filtering and biotic interactions determine the diversity and composition of oribatid mite communities
Pedobiologia · 2019
Root endophytes and invasiveness: no difference between native and non‐native Phragmites in the Great Lakes Region
Ecosphere · 2018
FACE-MDS Phase 2: Data from Six US-Located Elevated CO2 Experiments
OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2018

Publishes in

Figshare×12
Ecosphere×4
New Phytologist×3
Global Change Biology×3
Ecology×3

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Last updated Jul 25, 2026.

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