Roland C. Wilhelm
Environmental Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
83
Citations
3,065
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
48
Publishing since 1979
Roland C. Wilhelm studies the microorganisms that live in soil and how they affect soil health, carbon storage, and nutrient cycling in agricultural and forest ecosystems. His work combines genomics, isotope tracing methods, and field experiments to understand how microbial communities respond to farming practices, soil chemistry (like pH and calcium), and environmental stress such as drought. Prospective students would likely engage with topics spanning soil microbiology, environmental data standards, and sustainable agriculture.
Publication output has fluctuated over the past decade, with a peak around 2020-2023 followed by a marked slowdown in 2024 before a slight uptick in 2025-2026.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Dataset for "Shifting Ground: Seasonal Dynamics in Soil Test Equivalency Between Mehlich-3 and Bray P1 Across Row Cropping Systems"
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2026
- Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers
mSystems · 2025
- Perennial Kernza cropping promotes rhizosphere microbiome stability and endophyte recruitment compared to annual wheat
Environmental Microbiome · 2025
- MISIP: a data standard for the reuse and reproducibility of any stable isotope probing-derived nucleic acid sequence and experiment
GigaScience · 2024
- Calcium promotes persistent soil organic matter by altering microbial transformation of plant litter
Nature Communications · 2023
- Ecological insights into soil health according to the genomic traits and environment-wide associations of bacteria in agricultural soils
ISME Communications · 2023
- The effects of mixed-species root zones on the resistance of soil bacteria and fungi to long-term experimental and natural reductions in soil moisture
The Science of The Total Environment · 2023
- Can we manage microbial systems to enhance carbon storage?
Environmental Microbiology · 2023
- Laboratory Methods for Assessing Soil Health
2023
- Calcium promotes persistent soil organic matter by altering microbial transformation of plant litter
Research Square · 2023
- Correction: Ecological insights into soil health according to the genomic traits and environment-wide associations of bacteria in agricultural soils
ISME Communications · 2023
- A data standard for the reuse and reproducibility of any stable isotope probing-derived nucleic acid sequence (MISIP)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2023
- Guide to Generating International Chemical Identifier (InChI) Label for Isotopically Labelled Compounds v1
2023
- Susceptibility of new soil organic carbon to mineralization during dry-wet cycling in soils from contrasting ends of a precipitation gradient
Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 2022
- Microbial community shifts correspond with suppression of decomposition 25 years after liming of acidic forest soils
Global Change Biology · 2022
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×8
- Environmental Microbiology×5
- Research Square×5
- The ISME Journal×3
- Soil Biology and Biochemistry×3
- Garrett J. Smith
Environmental Science · The Ohio State University
- Rebecca A. Daly
Environmental Science · The Ohio State University
- Ben J. Woodcroft
Environmental Science · The Ohio State University
- Cindy H. Nakatsu
Environmental Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Vanessa A. Varaljay
Environmental Science · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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