Steven W. Kembel

Steven W. Kembel

Professeur
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Unité : Département des sciences biologiques
Courriel : kembel.steven_w@uqam.ca
Téléphone : (514) 987-3000 poste 5855
Langues : Français, Anglais
Liens d'intérêt
Informations générales

Cheminement académique

2012 - Professeur
Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal
2009 - 2012 Chercheur associé - Institute of Ecology & Evolution,
University of Oregon
2007 - 2008 Chercheur postdoctoral CRSNG
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Unités de recherche

Enseignement
Services à la collectivité

2015- Comité de révision du tronc commun pour le baccalauréat en biologie
2014- Comité de relancement de laboratoire de l'Institut des sciences de l'environnement
2014- Comité institutionnel des risques biologiques
2014-2015 Comité demande d'évaluation de note
2013-2015 Comité activités sociales du département des sciences biologiques
2013-2015 Comité du diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées (DESS) en bioinformatique

Directions de thèses et mémoires

Thèses de doctorat
Mémoires

Publications

Articles scientifiques
  • Leducq, J.-B., St-Amand, L.-P., Ross, D. et Kembel, S.W. (2026). A phylogenomic and metagenomic meta-analysis of bacterial diversity in the phyllosphere lifts a veil on Hyphomicrobiales dark matter. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 49(2), article 126697. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2026.126697.
  • Dion-Phénix, H., Gingras, G., Doutrelant, C., Charmantier, A., Kembel, S.W. et Réale, D. (2026). Aromatic plants, nest bacterial diversity, and nestling condition in Corsican blue tits. Oikos, 2026(4), article e11620. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oik.11620.
  • Mercer, E.M., Piché-Choquette, S., Gorospe, J., Rangipour, Z., Asbury, M.R., Alshaikh, B., Sycuro, L.K., Kembel, S.W., Giesbrecht, G.F. et Arrieta, M.C. (2026). Establishment of the gut microbiome in preterm infants is associated with exposure to stress-inducing medical interventions. Gut Microbiology, 3, article 100004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gutmic.2025.100004.
  • Baril, S., Kembel, S.W., Westwood, N., Schwarz, M., Carreau, J. et Derry, A.M. (2026). Lasting responses of bacterial but not fungal leaf litter communities to historical copper mining impacts in freshwater streams. Hydrobiologia, 853(5), 1597–1615. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-025-06017-7.
  • Ross, D.A.N., Lauzon, J., Makarenkov, V. et Kembel, S.W. (2026). Metagenome-assembled genomes from the temperate forest phyllosphere in eastern Canada. Access Microbiology, 8(7). http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.001189.v3.
  • Wang, Z., Jiang, Y., Dubois, S., Bourret, G. et Kembel, S.W. (2026). Plant diversity effects on productivity are shaped by the interaction between above-and belowground plant-associated microbiota. Plant and Soil, 518(2), 2053–2063. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-08112-z.
  • Poirier, S., Rondeau-Leclaire, J., Faticov, M., Roy, A., Lajeunesse, G., Lucier, J.-F., Tardif, S., Kembel, S.W., Ziter, C., Laprise, C., Paquette, A., Girard, C. et Laforest-Lapointe, I. (2026). Season and city shape urban bioaerosol composition beyond vegetation and socioeconomic gradients. Science of the Total Environment, 1023, article 181623. http://dx.doi.org//10.1016/j.scitotenv.2026.181623.
  • Khlifa, R., Renaudin, M., Houle, D., D'Orangeville, L., Duchesne, L. et Kembel, S.W. (2025). Conifer epiphytic phyllosphere bacterial communities respond more strongly to rain exclusion and host species identity than to soil water content. Forest Ecology and Management, 581, article 122554. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122554.
  • Wang, Z., Piché-Choquette, S., Lauzon, J., Ishak, S. et Kembel, S.W. (2025). Modelling the distribution of plant‐associated microbes with species distribution models. Journal of Ecology, 113(6), 1434–1450. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70035.
  • Braga, P.H.P., Kembel, S.W. et Peres-Neto, P. (2024). Climatic commonness and rarity shape phylogenetic structure and suitability in tetrapod communities. Authorea, Prépublication. http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.172839269.96142116/v2.
  • Wang, Z., Jiang, Y., Diallo, A.B. et Kembel, S.W. (2024). Deep learning‐and image processing‐based methods for automatic estimation of leaf herbivore damage. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, 15(4), 732–743. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14293.
  • Wang, Z., Lajoie, G., Jiang, Y., Zhang, M., Chu, C., Chen, Y., Fang, S., Jin, G., Jiang, M., Lian, J., Li, Y., Liu, Y., Ma, K., Mi, X., Qiao, X., Wang, X., Wang, X., Xu, H., Ye, W., Zhu, L., Zhu, Y., He, F. et Kembel, S.W. (2024). Host specificity of plant-associated bacteria is negatively associated with genome size and host abundance along a latitudinal gradient. Ecology Letters, 27(6), article e14447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14447.
  • Lauzon, J., Pelletier, J., Favron, E., Wang, Z. et Kembel, S.W. (2024). Richness and composition of phyllosphere Methylobacterium communities cause variation in Arabidopsis thaliana growth. BioRxiv, Prépublication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.30.610551.
  • Maglione, R., Ciotola, M., Cadieux, M., Toussaint, V., Laforest, M. et Kembel, S.W. (2024). Winter rye cover crops shelter competent squash phyllosphere bacteria to reduce Pseudomonas syringae pv. lachrymans growth and angular leaf spot symptoms. Phytopathology, 114(8), 1759–1769. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-08-22-0291-R.
  • Eckert, I., De Bellis, T., Muñoz, G., Kembel, S.W., Lessard, J.‐P. et Nuñez, M.A. (2023). A single range‐expanding species reshapes alpine ecosystems and their belowground diversity. Oikos, 2023(1), article e10114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.10114.
  • Lajoie, G. et Kembel, S.W. (2023). Data‐driven identification of major axes of functional variation in bacteria. Environmental Microbiology, 25(11), 2580–2591. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16487.
  • Wang, Z., Jiang, Y., Zhang, M., Chu, C., Chen, Y., Fang, S., Jin, G., Jiang, M., Lian, J., Li, Y., Liu, Y., Ma, K., Mi, X., Qiao, X., Wang, X., Wang, X., Xu, H., Ye, W., Zhu, L., Zhu, Y., He, F. et Kembel, S.W. (2023). Diversity and biogeography of plant phyllosphere bacteria are governed by latitude‐dependent mechanisms. New Phytologist, 240(4), 1534–1547. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.19235.
  • Rodríguez‐Rodríguez, J.C., Fenton, N.J., Kembel, S.W., Mestre, E., Jean, M. et Bergeron, Y. (2023). Drivers of contrasting boreal understory vegetation in coniferous and broadleaf deciduous alternative states. Ecological Monographs, 93(3), article e1587. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1587.
  • Rodríguez‐Rodríguez, J.C., Fenton, N.J., Kembel, S.W., Mestre, E., Jean, M. et Bergeron, Y. (2023). Factors Driving Changes in Plant Understory Communities Between Coniferous and Broadleaf Deciduous Boreal Forests. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 104(4), article e2103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2103.
  • Braga, P.H.P., Kembel, S.W. et Peres-Neto, P. (2023). Historical and contemporary processes drive global phylogenetic structure across geographical scales: Insights from bat communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(5), 747–765. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13650.
  • Renaudin, M., Khlifa, R., Legault, S., Kembel, S.W., Kneeshaw, D., Moore, J.-D. et Houle, D. (2023). Long-Term Simulated Nitrogen Deposition Has Moderate Impacts on Soil Microbial Communities across Three Bioclimatic Domains of the Eastern Canadian Forest. Forests, 14(6), article 1124. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f14061124.
  • Parizadeh, M., Kembel, S.W. et Mimee, B. (2023). Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments Influence Soil Nematode Taxonomic Composition and the Soil Microbial Cooccurrence Networks. Phytobiomes, 7(4), 478–490. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PBIOMES-12-22-0105-R.
  • Rodríguez-Rodríguez, J.C., Fenton, N.J., Bergeron, Y. et Kembel, S.W. (2023). Soil and tree phyllosphere microbial communities differ between coniferous and broadleaf deciduous boreal forests. Plant and Soil, 488(1-2), 233–253. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-05959-y.
  • Parizadeh, M., Mimee, B. et Kembel, S.W. (2023). Soil microbial gene expression in an agricultural ecosystem varies with time and neonicotinoid seed treatments. Microbiology, 169(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001318.
  • Leducq, J.B., Sneddon, D., Santos, M., Condrain-Morel, D., Bourret, G., Martinez-Gomez, N.C., Lee, J.A., Foster, J.A., Stolyar, S., Shapiro, B.J., Kembel, S.W., Sullivan, J.M. et Marx, C.J. (2022). Comprehensive Phylogenomics of Methylobacterium Reveals Four Evolutionary Distinct Groups and Underappreciated Phyllosphere Diversity. Genome Biology & Evolution, 14(8). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac123.
  • Rodriguez-Rodriguez, J.C., Bergeron, Y., Kembel, S.W. et Fenton, N.J. (2022). Dominance of coniferous and broadleaved trees drives bacterial associations with boreal feather mosses. Environmental Microbiology, 24(8), 3517–3528. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16013.
  • Leducq, J.B., Seyer-Lamontagne, E., Condrain-Morel, D., Bourret, G., Sneddon, D., Foster, J.A., Marx, C.J., Sullivan, J.M., Shapiro, B.J. et Kembel, S.W. (2022). Fine-Scale Adaptations to Environmental Variation and Growth Strategies Drive Phyllosphere Methylobacterium Diversity. mBio, 13(1), article e03175–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03175-21.
  • Wang, Z., Jenabian, M., Alexandrova, Y., Pagliuzza, A., Samarani, S., Chomont, N., Kembel, S.W. et Costiniuk, C.T. (2022). Interplay between the Lung Microbiome, Pulmonary Immunity and Viral Reservoirs in People Living with HIV under Antiretroviral Therapy. Viruses, 14(11), article 2395. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14112395.
  • Jiang, Y., Wang, Z., Chu, C., Kembel, S.W. et He, F. (2022). Phylogenetic dependence of plant–soil feedback promotes rare species in a subtropical forest. Journal of Ecology, 110(6), 1237–1246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13879.
  • De Bellis, T., Laforest-Lapointe, I., Solarik, K.A., Gravel, D. et Kembel, S.W. (2022). Regional variation drives differences in microbial communities associated with sugar maple across a latitudinal range. Ecology, 103(8), article e3727. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3727.
  • Landry, M., James, P.M.A., Kneeshaw, D. et Kembel, S.W. (2022). Spruce budworm bacterial communities vary among sites and host tree species in a boreal landscape. Journal of Biogeography, 49(2), 299–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14299.
  • Maglione, R., Ciotola, M., Cadieux, M., Toussaint, V., Laforest, M. et Kembel, S.W. (2022). Winter Rye Cover Cropping Changes Squash (Cucurbita pepo) Phyllosphere Microbiota and Reduces Pseudomonas syringae Symptoms. Phytobiomes, 6(1), 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PBIOMES-04-21-0029-R.
  • Dion-Phénix, H., Charmantier, A., Kembel, S.W. et Réale, D. (2021). Bacterial microbiota similarity between predators and prey in a blue tit trophic network. The ISME Journal, 15, 1098–1107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00836-3.
  • Lajoie, G. et Kembel, S.W. (2021). Host neighborhood shapes bacterial community assembly and specialization on tree species across a latitudinal gradient. Ecological Monographs, 91(2), article e01443. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1443.
  • Khlifa, R., Houle, D., Morin, H. et Kembel, S.W. (2021). Inconsistent effects of nitrogen canopy enrichment and soil warming on black spruce epiphytic phyllosphere bacterial communities, taxa, and functions. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 51(9), 1199–1207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2020-0366.
  • Lajoie, G. et Kembel, S.W. (2021). Plant-bacteria associations are phylogenetically structured in the phyllosphere. Molecular Ecology, 30(21), 5572–5587. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.16131.
  • Lajoie, G., Maglione, R. et Kembel, S.W. (2020). Adaptive matching between phyllosphere bacteria and their tree hosts in a neotropical forest. Microbiome, 8(1), article 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00844-7.
  • Soret, R., Schneider, S., Bernas, G., Christophers, B., Souchkova, O., Charrier, B., Righini-Grunder, F., Aspirot, A., Landry, M., Kembel, S.W. et Faure, C. (2020). Glial Cell-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Induces Enteric Neurogenesis and Improves Colon Structure and Function in Mouse Models of Hirschsprung Disease. Gastroenterology, 159(5), 1824–1838. http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2020.07.018.
  • Parizadeh, M., Mimee, B. et Kembel, S.W. (2020). Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments Have Significant Non-target Effects on Phyllosphere and Soil Bacterial Communities. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, article 619827. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.619827.
  • Xing, H., Kembel, S.W. et Makarenkov, V. (2020). Transfer index, NetUniFrac and some useful shortest path-based distances for community analysis in sequence similarity networks. Bioinformatics, 36(9), 2740–2749. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa043.
  • Malaterre, C., Dussault, A.C., Rousseau-Mermans, S., Barker, G., Beisner, B.E., Bouchard, F., Desjardins, E., Handa, I.T., Kembel, S.W., Lajoie, G., Maris, V., Munson, A.D., Odenbaugh, J., Poisot, T., Shapiro, B.J. et Suttle, C.A. (2019). Functional diversity: An epistemic roadmap. BioScience, 69(10), 800–811. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz089.
  • Toure, A.M., Landry, M., Souchkova, O., Kembel, S.W. et Pilon, N. (2019). Gut microbiota-mediated Gene-Environment interaction in the TashT mouse model of Hirschsprung disease. Scientific reports, 9(1), article 492. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36967-z.
  • Boue, C., De Bellis, T., Venier, L., Work, T. et Kembel, S.W. (2019). Limited initial impacts of biomass harvesting on composition of wood-inhabiting fungi within residual stumps. PeerJ, 7, article e8027. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8027.
  • Lajoie, G. et Kembel, S.W. (2019). Making the Most of Trait-Based Approaches for Microbial Ecology. Trends in Microbiology, 27(10), 814–823. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2019.06.003.
  • Bélanger, N., Collin, A., Ricard-Piché, J., Kembel, S.W. et Rivest, D. (2019). Microsite conditions influence leaf litter decomposition in sugar maple bioclimatic domain of Quebec. Biogeochemistry, 145(1-2), 107–126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10533-019-00594-1.
  • Griffin, E.A., Harrison, J.G., Kembel, S.W., Carrell, A.A., Joseph Wright, S. et Carson, W.P. (2019). Plant host identity and soil macronutrients explain little variation in sapling endophyte community composition: Is disturbance an alternative explanation? Journal of Ecology, 107(4), 1876–1889. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13145.
  • DeBellis, T., Kembel, S.W. et Lessard, J.-P. (2019). Shared mycorrhizae but distinct communities of other root-associated microbes on co-occurring native and invasive maples. PeerJ, 7, article e7295. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7295.
  • D’Amario, S.C., Rearick, D.C., Fasching, C., Kembel, S.W., Porter-Goff, E., Spooner, D.E., Williams, C.J., Wilson, H.F. et Xenopoulos, M.A. (2019). The prevalence of nonlinearity and detection of ecological breakpoints across a land use gradient in streams. Scientific reports, 9(1), article 3878. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40349-4.
  • Collin, A., Messier, C., Kembel, S.W. et Belanger, N. (2018). Can sugar maple establish into the boreal forest? Insights from seedlings under various canopies in southern Quebec. Ecosphere, 9(1), article e02022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2022.
  • Lewthwaite, J.M.M., Angert, A.L., Kembel, S.W., Goring, S.J., Davies, T.J., Mooers, A.O., Sperling, F.A.H., Vamosi, S.M., Vamosi, J.C. et Kerr, J.T. (2018). Canadian butterfly climate debt is significant and correlated with range size. Ecography, 41(12), 2005–2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03534.
  • Gaulke, C.A., Arnold, H.K., Humphreys, I.R., Kembel, S.W., O’Dwyer, J.P. et Sharpton, T.J. (2018). Ecophylogenetics clarifies the evolutionary association between mammals and their gut microbiota. mBio, 9(5), article e01348–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01348-18.
  • Martinez, I., Maldonado-Gomez, M.X., Gomes-Neto, J.C., Kittana, H., Ding, H., Schmaltz, R., Joglekar, P., Jiménez-Cardona, R., Marsteller, N.L., Kembel, S.W., Benson, A.K., Peterson, D.A., Ramer-Tait, A.E. et Walter, J. (2018). Experimental evaluation of the importance of colonization history in early-life gut microbiota assembly. eLife, 7, article e36521. http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.36521.
  • Ruiz-Gonzalez, C., Archambault, E., Laforest-Lapointe, I., del Giorgio, P.A., Kembel, S.W., Messier, C., Nock, C.A. et Beisner, B.E. (2018). Soils associated to different tree communities do not elicit predictable responses in lake bacterial community structure and function. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94(8), article fiy115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiy115.
  • Wallace, J., Laforest-Lapointe, I. et Kembel, S.W. (2018). Variation in the leaf and root microbiome of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) at an elevational range limit. PeerJ, 6, article e5293. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5293.
  • Freschet, G.T., Valverde-Barrantes, O.J., Tucker, C.M., Craine, J.M., McCormack, M.L., Violle, C., Fort, F., Blackwood, C.B., Urban-Mead, K.R., Iversen, C.M., Bonis, A., Comas, L.H., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Dong, M., Guo, D., Hobbie, S.E., Holdaway, R.J., Kembel, S.W.,(...) et Roumet, C. (2017). Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation. Journal of Ecology, 105(5), 1182–1196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12769.
  • Ruiz-Gonzalez, C., Nino-Garcia, J.P., Kembel, S.W. et Del Giorgio, P.A. (2017). Identifying the core seed bank of a complex boreal bacterial metacommunity. The ISME Journal, 11(9), 2012–2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.67.
  • Laforest-Lapointe, I., Paquette, A., Messier, C. et Kembel, S.W. (2017). Leaf bacterial diversity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem function relationships. Nature, 546(7656), 145–147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature22399.
  • Collin, A., Messier, C., Kembel, S.W. et Belanger, N. (2017). Low light availability associated with American beech is the main factor for reduced sugar maple seedling survival and growth rates in a hardwood forest of Southern Quebec. Forests, 8(11), article 413. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f8110413.
  • Laforest-Lapointe, I., Messier, C. et Kembel, S.W. (2017). Tree Leaf Bacterial Community Structure and Diversity Differ along a Gradient of Urban Intensity. mSystems, 2(6), article e00087–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00087-17.
  • Laforest-Lapointe, I., Messier, C. et Kembel, S.W. (2016). Host species identity, site and time drive temperate tree phyllosphere bacterial community structure. Microbiome, 4(1), article 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-016-0174-1.
  • Baldeck, C.A., Kembel, S.W., Harms, K.E., Yavitt, J.B., John, R., Turner, B.L., Madawala, S., Gunatilleke, N., Gunatilleke, S., Bunyavejchewin, S. and others. (2016). Phylogenetic turnover along local environmental gradients in tropical forest communities. Oecologia, 182(2), 547–557. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-016-3686-2.
  • Laforest-Lapointe, I., Messier, C. et Kembel, S.W. (2016). Tree phyllosphere bacterial communities: exploring the magnitude of intra-and inter-individual variation among host species. PeerJ, 4, article e2367. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2367.
  • Siefert, A., Violle, C., Chalmandrier, L., Albert, C.H., Taudiere, A., Fajardo, A., Aarssen, L.W., Baraloto, C., Carlucci, M.B., Cianciaruso, M.V., Dantas, V.L., De Bello, F., Duarte, L.D.S., Fonseca, C.R., Freschet, G.T., Gaucherand, S., Gross, N., Hikosaka, K., Jackson, B., Jung, V., Kamiyama, C., Katabuchi, M., Kembel, S.W.,(...) et Wardle, D.A. (2015). A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities. Ecology Letters, 18(12), 1406–1419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12508.
  • O’Dwyer, J.P., Kembel, S.W. et Sharpton, T.J. (2015). Backbones of evolutionary history test biodiversity theory for microbes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(27), 8356–8361. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419341112.
  • NESCent Working Group on the Evolutionary Biology of the Built Environment,, Martin, L.J., Adams, R.I., Bateman, A., Bik, H.M., Hawks, J., Hird, S.M., Hughes, D., Kembel, S.W., Kinney, K., Kolokotronis, S.O., Levy, G., McClain, C., Meadow, J.F., Medina, R.F., Mhuireach, G., Moreau, C.S., Munshi-South, J., Nichols, L.M., Palmer, C., Popova, L., Schal, C., Täubel, M., Trautwein, M., Ugalde, J.A. et Dunn, R.R. (2015). Evolution of the indoor biome. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 30(4), 223–232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.02.001.
  • Peres-Neto. P.R. et Kembel, S.W. (2015). Phylogenetic gradient analysis: environmental drivers of phylogenetic variation across ecological communities. Plant Ecology, 216(5), 709–724. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-014-0405-0.
  • Morlon, H., O'Connor, T.K., Bryant, J.A., Charkoudian, L.K., Docherty, K.M., Jones, E., Kembel, S.W., Green, J.L. et Bohannan, B.J.M. (2015). The Biogeography of Putative Microbial Antibiotic Production. PLoS ONE, 10(6), article e0130659. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130659.
  • Kembel, S.W., Meadow, J.F., O’Connor, T.K., Mhuireach, G., Northcutt, D., Kline, J., Moriyama, M., Brown, G.Z., Bohannan, B.J.M. et Green, J.L. (2014). Architectural design drives the biogeography of indoor bacterial communities. PLoS ONE, 9(1), article e87093. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087093.
  • Meadow, J.F., Altrichter, A.E., Kembel, S.W., Moriyama, M., O'Connor, T.K., Womack, A.M., Brown, G.Z., Green, J.L. et Bohannan, B.J.M. (2014). Bacterial communities on classroom surfaces vary with human contact. Microbiome, 2(1), article 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-2618-2-7.
  • Vellend, M., Lajoie, G., Bourret, A., Múrria, C., Kembel, S.W. et Garant, D. (2014). Drawing ecological inferences from coincident patterns of population- and community-level biodiversity. Molecular Ecology, 23(12), 2890–2901. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.12756.
  • Joly, S., Davies, T.J., Archambault, A., Bruneau, A., Derry, A., Kembel, S.W., Peres-Neto, P., Vamosi, J. et Wheeler, T.A. (2014). Ecology in the age of DNA barcoding: the resource, the promise and the challenges ahead. Molecular Ecology Resources, 14(2), 221–232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12173.
  • Meadow, J.F., Altrichter, A.E., Kembel, S.W., Kline, J., Mhuireach, G., Moriyama, M., Northcutt, D., O'Connor, T.K., Womack, A.M., Brown, G.Z., Green, J.L. et Bohannan, B.J.M. (2014). Indoor airborne bacterial communities are influenced by ventilation, occupancy, and outdoor air source. Indoor Air, 24(1), 41–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ina.12047.
  • Kembel, S.W. et Mueller, R.C. (2014). Plant traits and taxonomy drive host associations in tropical phyllosphere fungal communities. Botany, 92(4), 303–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2013-0194.
  • Kembel, S.W., O'Connor, T.K., Arnold, H.K., Hubbell, S.P., Wright, S.J. et Green, J.L. (2014). Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(38), 13715–13720. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1216057111.
  • Baldeck, C.A., Kembel, S.W., Harms, K.E., Yavitt, J.B., John, R., Turner, B.L., Chuyong, G.B., Kenfack, D., Thomas, D.W., Madawala, S., Gunatilleke, N., Gunatilleke, S., Bunyavejchewin, S., Kiratiprayoon, S., Yaacob, A., Nur Supardi, M.N., Valencia, R., Navarrete, H., Davies, S.J., Hubbell, S.P. et Dalling, J.W. (2013). A taxonomic comparison of local habitat niches of tropical trees. Oecologia, 173(4), 1491–1498. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-013-2709-5.
  • Maurer, B.A., Kembel, S.W., Rominger, A.J. et McGill, B.J. (2013). Estimating metacommunity extent using data on species abundances, environmental variation, and phylogenetic relationships across geographic space. Ecological Informatics, 13, 114–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.06.003.
  • Craine, J.M., Ocheltree, T.W., Nippert, J.B., Towne, E.G., Skibbe, A.M., Kembel, S.W. et Fargione, J.E. (2013). Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience. Nature Climate Change, 3(1), 63–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1634.
  • Ladau, J., Sharpton, T.J., Finucane, M.M., Jospin, G., Kembel, S.W., O'Dwyer, J., Koeppel, A.F., Green, J.L. et Pollard, K.S. (2013). Global marine bacterial diversity peaks at high latitudes in winter. ISME Journal, 7(9), 1669–1677. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2013.37.
  • Kembel, S.W., Jones, E., Kline, J., Northcutt, D., Stenson, J., Womack, A.M., Bohannan, B.J., Brown, G.Z. et Green, J.L. (2012). Architectural design influences the diversity and structure of the built environment microbiome. ISME Journal, 6(8), 1469–1479. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2011.211.
  • Craine, J.M., Wolkovich, E.M., Gene Towne, E. et Kembel, S.W. (2012). Flowering phenology as a functional trait in a tallgrass prairie. New Phytologist, 193(3), 673–682. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03953.x.
  • Kembel, S.W., Wu, M., Eisen, J.A. et Green, J.L. (2012). Incorporating 16S gene copy number information improves estimates of microbial diversity and abundance. PLoS Computational Biology, 8(10). http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002743.
  • Burge, D.O., Jui, G., Kembel, S.W. et Zhukovsky, K. (2012). Microsatellite markers from Ceanothus roderickii (Rhamnaceae) using next-generation sequencing technology. American Journal of Botany, 99(3), e127–e130. http://dx.doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1100431.
  • O'Dwyer, J.P., Kembel, S.W. et Green, J.L. (2012). Phylogenetic Diversity Theory Sheds Light on the Structure of Microbial Communities. PLoS Computational Biology, 8(12). http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002832.
  • Burge, D.O., Erwin, D.M., Islam, M.B., et al. (2011). Diversification of Ceanothus (Rhamnaceae) in the California Floristic province. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 172(9), 1137–1164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/662028.
  • Sargent, R.D., Kembel, S.W., Emery, N.C., Forrestel, E.J. et Ackerly, D.D. (2011). Effect of local community phylogenetic structure on pollen limitation in an obligately insect-pollinated plant. American Journal of Botany, 98(2), 283–289. http://dx.doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1000329.
  • Craine, J.M., Nippert, J.B., Towne, E.G., et al. (2011). Functional consequences of climate change-induced plant species loss in a tallgrass prairie. Oecologia, 165(4), 1109–1117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-011-1938-8.
  • Kembel, S.W. et Cahill Jr., J.F. (2011). Independent evolution of leaf and root traits within and among temperate grassland plant communities. PLoS ONE, 6(6). http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019992.
  • Fine, P.V.A. et Kembel, S.W. (2011). Phylogenetic community structure and phylogenetic turnover across space and edaphic gradients in western Amazonian tree communities. Ecography, 34(4), 552–565. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06548.x.
  • Sharpton, T.J., Riesenfeld, S.J., Kembel, S.W., et al. (2011). PhyLOTU: A high-throughput procedure quantifies microbial community diversity and resolves novel taxa from metagenomic data. PLoS Computational Biology, 7(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001061.
  • Kembel, S.W., Eisen, J.A., Pollard, K.S. et Green, J.L. (2011). The phylogenetic diversity of metagenomes. PLoS ONE, 6(8). http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023214.
  • Fine, P.V.A., Garca-Villacorta, R., Pitman, N.C.A., Mesones, I. et Kembel, S.W. (2010). A floristic study of the white-sand forests of Peru. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 97(3), 283–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.3417/2008068.
  • Little, S.A., Kembel, S.W. et Wilf, P. (2010). Paleotemperature proxies from leaf fossils reinterpreted in light of evolutionary history. PLoS ONE, 5(12). http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015161.
  • Cadotte, M.W., Jonathan Davies, T., Regetz, J., Kembel, S.W., Cleland, E. et Oakley, T.H. (2010). Phylogenetic diversity metrics for ecological communities: integrating species richness, abundance and evolutionary history. Ecology Letters, 13(1), 96–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01405.x.
  • Kembel, S.W., Cowan, P.D., Helmus, M.R., et al. (2010). Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology. Bioinformatics, 26(11), 1463–1464. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq166.
  • Klepac-Ceraj, V., Lemon, K.P., Martin, T.R., et al. (2010). Relationship between cystic fibrosis respiratory tract bacterial communities and age, genotype, antibiotics and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Environmental Microbiology, 12(5), 1293–1303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02173.x.
  • Kembel, S.W. (2009). Disentangling niche and neutral influences on community assembly: assessing the performance of community phylogenetic structure tests. Ecology Letters, 12(9), 949–960. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01354.x.
  • Sachs, J.L., Kembel, S.W., Lau, A.H. et Simms, E.L. (2009). In situ phylogenetic structure and diversity of wild Bradyrhizobium communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75(14), 4727–4735. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00667-09.
  • Lamb, E.G., Kembel, S.W. et Cahill Jr., J.F. (2009). Shoot, but not root, competition reduces community diversity in experimental mesocosms. Journal of Ecology, 97(1), 155–163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01454.x.
  • Cavender-Bares, J., Kozak, K.H., Fine, P.V.A. et Kembel, S.W. (2009). The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology. Ecology Letters, 12(7), 693–715. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01314.x.
  • Cahill Jr., J.F., Kembel, S.W., Lamb, E.G. et Keddy, P.A. (2008). Does phylogenetic relatedness influence the strength of competition among vascular plants? Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 10(1), 41–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2007.10.001.
  • Webb, C.O., Ackerly, D.D. et Kembel, S.W. (2008). Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution. Bioinformatics, 24(18), 2098–2100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btn358.
  • Kembel, S.W., Waters, I. et Shay, J.M. (2008). Short-term effects of cut-to-length versus full-tree harvesting on understorey plant communities and understorey-regeneration associations in Manitoba boreal forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 255(5-6), 1848–1858. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2007.12.006.
  • Cousens, R.D., Dale, M.R.T., Taylor, J., Law, R., Moerkerk, M. et Kembel, S.W. (2006). Causes of pattern in plant communities where environmental change is rapid and species longevity is short. Journal of Vegetation Science, 17(5), 599–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1658/1100-9233(2006)17[599:COPIPC]2.0.CO;2.
  • Kembel, S.W. et Hubbell, S.P. (2006). The phylogenetic structure of a neotropical forest tree community. Ecology, 87(sp7), S86–S99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[86:TPSOAN]2.0.CO;2.
  • Kembel, S.W. et Dale, M.R.T. (2006). Within-stand spatial structure and relation of boreal canopy and understorey vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science, 17(6), 783–790. http://dx.doi.org/10.1658/1100-9233(2006)17[783:WSSARO]2.0.CO;2.
  • F. Cahill Jr., J., Kembel, S.W. et Gustafson, D.J. (2005). Differential genetic influences on competitive effect and response in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Ecology, 93(5), 958–967. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01013.x.
  • Kembel, S.W. et Cahill Jr., J.F. (2005). Plant phenotypic plasticity belowground: A phylogenetic perspective on root foraging trade-offs. American Naturalist, 166(2), 216–230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/431287.
  • Waters, I., Kembel, S.W. et Gingras, J.-F. (2004). Short-term effects of cut-to-length versus full-tree harvesting on conifer regeneration in jack pine, mixedwood, and black spruce forests in Manitoba. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 34(9), 1938–1945. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x04-064.
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