Publications

1. Ma, Y., Filley, T.R., Johnston, C.T., Crow, S.E., Szlavecz, K., McCormick, M.K., (2013). The combined controls of land use legacy and earthworm activity on soil organic matter chemistry and particle association during afforestation. Organic Geochemistry 58, 56-68.
2. Schilling, J.S., Blanchette, R.A., Duncan, S.M., Filley, T.R., Jurgens, J.A, and Presley, G.N. (2013-accepted) Colocalizing incipient reactions in wood degraded by the brown rot fungus Postia placenta. International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation (IBB-D-13-00165).
3. Creamer, C., Filley, T., Boutton, T. (2013). Controls on carbon loss during long-term incubation of size and density separated soil fractions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 57, 496-503.
4. Zhang, B., He, H.B., Ding, X.L., Zhang, X.D., Zhang, X.P., Yang, X.M., Filley, T.R. (2012). Soil microbial community dynamics over a maize (Zea mays L.) growing season under conventional- and no-tillage practices in a rainfed agroecosystem. Soil & Tillage Research, 124153-160 DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2012.05.011.
5. Creamer, CA., Filley, T.R., Boutton, T.W. (2012). Long-term incubations of size and density separated soil fractions to inform soil organic carbon decay dynamics, Soil Biology and Biochemistry. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.09.007
6. Creamer, CA., Filley, T.R., Boutton, T.W., Olk, D., Plante, A., Peltre, C., Top, S. (2012) Degree of woody encroachment into grasslands controls soil carbohydrate and amino compound changes during long term laboratory incubation. Organic Geochemistry, 52 (2012) 23–31.
7. Thomas, D.C., Zak, D.R., Filley, T.R. (2012). Chronic N Deposition Does Not Alter the Biochemical Composition of Forest Floor and Soil Organic Matter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 54, 7-13.
8. Schilling, J., J., Jun A., Blanchette;, R.A., Duncan, S..A., Filley, T.R., Tschirner, U.W. (2012). Lignocellulose modifications by brown rot fungi and their effects, as pretreatments, on cellulolysis. Bioresource Technology, 116, 147-154
9. Creamer, CA., Filley, T.R., Boutton, T.W., Olk, D., Stott , D.E. Dooling, V. (2012). Changes to soil organic N dynamics with leguminous woody plant encroachment into grasslands. Biogeochemistry?DOI 10.1007/s10533-012-9757-5
10. Klotzbücher, T. Filley, T.R., Kaiser, K., Kalbitz, K. (2011). Lignin degradation in leave and needle litters studied with 13C-TMAH thermochemolysis comparison with other methods. Organic Geochemistry, 42, 1271-1278. DOI:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.07.007.
11. Bianchi, T.S., Wysocki, L.A., Schreiner, K.M., Filley, T.R., Corbett, D.R., Kolker, A.S. (2011). Sources of Terrestrial Organic Carbon in the Mississippi Plume Region: Evidence for the Importance of Coastal Marsh Inputs. Aquatic Geochemistry, 17, 431-456. DOI: 10.1007/s10498-010-9110-3.
12. Creamer, C.A., Filley, T.R., Boutton, T.W., Oleynik, S., Kantola, I.B., (2011). Controls on soil carbon accumulation during woody plant encroachment: Evidence from physical fractionation, soil respiration, and d13C of respired CO2. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 43, 1678-1687. DOI:10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.04.013.
13. Szlavecz, K., McCormick, M., Xia, L., Saunders, J., Morcol, T., Whigham, D., Filley, T.R. (2011). Ecosystem effects of non-native earthworms in Mid-Atlantic deciduous forests. Biological Invasions, DOI:10.1007/s10530-011-9959-0
14. Mason S.L., Filley, T.R. and Abbott. G.A. (2010). A comparative study of the molecular composition of a grassland soil with adjacent unforested and afforested moorland ecosystems using 13C labelled tetramethylammonium hydroxide (13C-TMAH) thermochemolysis. Organic Geochemistry, DOI:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.11.003
15. Kleber, M., Nico, P., Plante, A., Filley, T.R., Kramer, M., Swanston, C., Sollins, P. (2010). Old and stable soil organic matter is not necessarily chemically recalcitrant: Implications for modeling concepts and temperature sensitivity. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02278.x
16. Arantes,V., Milagres, AEM., Filley, T.R., Goodell, B. (2010). Lignocellulosic polysaccharides and lignin degradation via nonenzymatic Fenton-based reactions mediated by Fe3+-reductants purified from cultures of wood decay fungi. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, DOI: 10.1007/s10295-010-0798-2.
17. Olk, D. C., Anders, M.M., Filley, T. R., Isbell C. (2009) Crop nitrogen uptake and soil phenols accumulation under continuous rice cropping in Arkansas. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 73, 952-960.
18. Arantes, V., Y. Qian, Kelley, S.S., Milagres, A.M. F., Filley, T.R, Jellison, J., Goodell, B. (2009). Biomimetic oxidative treatment of spruce wood studied by pyrolysis–molecular beam mass spectrometry coupled with multivariate analysis and 13C-labeled tetramethylammonium hydroxide thermochemolysis: implications for fungal degradation of wood, J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. DOI: 10.1007/s00775-009-0569-6.
19. Castañeda, I.S, Werne, J. P. , Johnson, T. C. and Filley T. R. (2009). Late Quaternary vegetation history of southeast Africa: The molecular isotopic record from Lake Malawi, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 275, 100–112.
20. Crow, S. E., Filley, T.R., McCormick, M.M., Szlavecz, K., Stott, D.E. Gamblin, D. Conyers, C. + (2009). Invasive earthworms and forest successional stage interact to impact plant litter inputs and particulate organic matter chemistry, Biogeochemistry, DOI: 10.1007/s10533-008-9260-1.
21. Schreiner, K.M., Filley, T.R. , Blanchette, R.A., Bowen, B.B., Bolskar R. D. (2009). White-Rot Basidiomycete -mediated Decomposition of C60 Fullerol, Environmental Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1021/es801873q.
22. Jurgens, J.A., Blanchette, R. A., Filley, T. R. (2009). Fungal diversity and deterioration in mummified woods from the ad Astra Ice Cap region in the Canadian High Arctic, Polar Biology 32, 751-758. DOI:10.1007/s00300-008-0578-x.
23. Crow, S. E., K. Lajtha, Filley, T. R., Swanston, C. W. Bowden, R.D. Caldwell, B.A. (2009). Sources of plant-derived carbon and stability of organic matter in soil: implications for global change, Global Change Biology 15(8) pp. 2003-2019.
24. Boutton, T.W.*, Liao, J.D., Filley, T.R., Archer, S. R. (2009). Below ground carbon storage and dynamics accompanying woody plant encroachment in a subtropical savanna. Soil Carbon Sequestration and the Greenhouse Effect (R. Lal and R. Follett, eds.), Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI.
25. Mason S.L., Filley, T.R., Abbott, G.C. (2009) The Effect of Afforestation on the Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) of a Peaty Gley Soil Using On-Line Thermally Assisted Hydrolysis and Methylation (THM) in the Presence of 13C-Labelled Tetramethylammonium Hydroxide (TMAH), Journal of Applied and Analytical Pyrolysis DOI:10.1016/j.jaap.2008.11.005.
26. Sollins, P., Kramer, M., Swanston, C., Lajtha, K., Filley, T.R., Aufdenkampe, A. K., Wagai R., and Bowden, R.D. (2009). Sequential Density Fractionation across Soils of Contrasting Mineralogy: Evidence for both Microbial- and Mineral-Controlled Soil Organic Matter Stabilization. Biogeochemistry, 96(1-3), 209-231, DOI: 10.1007/s10533-009-9359-z.
27. Nierop, K.G.J., and Filley, T.R. (2008). Simultaneous analysis of tannin and lignin signatures in soils by thermally assisted hydrolysis and methylation using 13Clabeled TMAH. Journal of Applied and Analytical Pyrolysis. 83 pp. 227-231.
28. Filley, T.R., Boutton T.W., Liao, J.D., Jastrow D. (2008). Chemical Changes to non-aggregated particulate soil organic matter following grassland-to-woodland transition in a subtropical savanna. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 113 Issue: G3: G03009.
29. Lockwood, A.L., Filley, T.R., Rhodes, D., Shepson, P.B. (2008). Foliar uptake of atmospheric organic nitrates Geophysical Research Letter 35, Issue: 15: L15809.
30. Geib, S.M., Filley, T.R., Hatcher, P.G., Hoover, K., Nakagawa-Izumi, A., Sleighter, R., Tien, M.R., (2008). Lignin degradation in wood-feeding insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences-USA, 105 no. 35, 12932-12937.
31. Filley, T.R., McCormick, M.K., Crow, S.E., Szlavecz, K.E. Whigham, D.F., Johnston, C.T., van den Heuvel, R. (2008). Comparison of the chemical alteration trajectory of Liriodendron tulipifera L. leaf litter among forests with different earthworm abundance. Journal of Geophysical Research:Biogeosciences 113, G01027, DOI:10.1029/2007JG000542.
32. Wysocki, LA., Filley T.R. and Bianchi, TS. (2008). Comparison of two methods for lignin analysis in natural samples: cupric oxide oxidation versus tetramethylammonium hydroxide thermochemolysis. Organic Geochemistry, 39, 1454-1461.
33. Tokarz, JA. III., Ahn, M.Y., Leng, J., Filley, T.R. and Nies, L. (2008). Reductive debromination of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in anaerobic sediment and a biomimetic system. Environmental Science and Technology, 42, (4), 1157–1164.
34. Olchin, GP., Ogle, S., Frey, SD. Filley, T.R., Paustian, K.and Six J; (2008). Residue carbon incorporation into soil aggregates of no-tillage and full-inversion tillage dryland cropping systems. Soil Science Society America Journal, 72, 507-513.
35. Nierop, K.G.L*. and Filley, T.R., (2007). Assessment of lignin and poly-phenol transformations in oak ( Quercus robur ) dominated soils by 13 C-TMAH thermochemolysis. Organic Geochemistry, 38, 551-565.
36. Dalzell, B.J., Filley, T.R., Harbor, J.M. (2007). The role of hydrology in annual organic carbon loads and terrestrial organic matter export from a midwestern agricultural watershed. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, DOI:10.1016/j.gca.2006.12.009.
37. Bianchi, T.S., Wysocki, L.A., Stewart, M., Filley, T.R. (2007). Temporal variability in terrestrially-derived sources of particulate organic carbon in the lower Mississippi River and its upper tributaries. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71, 4425-4437.
38. Sollins, P., Swanston, C., Kleber, M., Filley, T.R, Kramer, M., Crow, S., Caldwell, B., Lajtha,K., and Bowden, R. (2006). Organic C and N stabilization in a forest soil: evidence from sequential density fractionation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 38, 3313–33244.
39. Filley, T.R., Wang, Y., Nierop, K.G.L. (2006). The contribution of polyhydroxyl aromatic compounds to tetramethylammonium hydroxide lignin-based proxies. Organic Geochemistry, 36, 711-727.
40. Ahn, M.Y., Filley, T.R., Jafvert, C.T. (2006). Birnessite mediated debromination of decabromodiphenyl ether. Chemosphere 64 (11), 1801-1807
41. Ahn, M.Y., Filley, T.R., Jafvert C.T. (2006). Photodegradation of decabromodiphenyl ether adsorbed onto clay minerals, metal oxides, and sediment. Environmental Science and Technology 40 (1), 215-220.
42. Filley, T.R., Boutton, T.W. (2006). Ecosystems in flux: Molecular and stable isotope assessments of soil organic matter storage and dynamics. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38 (11), 3181-3183 (commentary).
43. Dalzell, B.J., Filley, T.R., Harbor, J.M. (2005). Flood pulse influences on terrestrial organic matter export from an agricultural watershed. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 110 Article Number: G02011 DOI: 10.1029/2005JG000043.
44. Cody, G.D., Boctor, N.Z., Brandes, J.A., Filley, T.R., Hazen, R.M. and Yoder, Jr. H.S. (2004). Assaying the catalytic potential of transition metal sulfides for abiotic carbon fixation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, 2185-2196.
45. Grannas, A.M., Shepson, P.B., Filley, T.R. (2004). Photochemistry and nature of organic matter in Arctic and Antarctic snow. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18 (1), DOI:10.1029/2003GB002133.
46. Bianchi, T.S., Filley, T.R., Dria, K., and Hatcher, P.G. (2004). Temporal Variability in Sources of Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Lower Mississippi River. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66, 959-967.
47. Filley, T.R (2003). Assessment of fungal wood decay by lignin analysis using tetramethyl-ammonium hydroxide (TMAH) and C-13-labeled TMAH thermochemolysis In: Wood Deterioration and Preservation-Advances in our Changing World. Editors: Goodell B; Nicholas DD; Schultz TP, ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES: 845, 119-139.
48. Filley, T.R., Freeman, K.H., Wilkin, R.T., Hatcher, P.G. (2002). Biogeochemical controls on reaction of sedimentary organic matter and aqueous sulfides in Holocene sediments of Mud Lake, Florida, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66, 937-954
49. Filley, T.R., Cody, G.D., Goodell, B. (2002). Lignin demethylation and polysaccharide decomposition in spruce sapwood degraded by brown rot fungi. Organic Geochemistry, 33, 111-124.
50. Filley, T.R., Blanchette, R.A., Simpson, E., et al. (2001). Nitrogen cycling by wood decomposing soft-rot fungi in the "King Midas tomb," Gordion, Turkey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences-USA, 98, 13346-13350.
51. Filley, T.R., Freeman, K.H., Bianchi, T.S., et al. (2001). An isotopic biogeochemical assessment of shifts in organic matter input to Holocene sediments from Mud Lake, Florida Organic Geochemistry, 32, 1153-1167
52. Hazen, R.M., Filley, T.R., Goodfriend G.A. (2001). Selective adsorption of L- and D-amino acids on calcite: Implications for biochemical homochirality Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences-USA, 98, 5487-5490.
53. Cody, G.D., Boctor, N.Z., Filley, T.R., et al (2000). Primordial carbonylated iron-sulfur compounds and the synthesis of pyruvate. Science. 289, 1337-1340.
54. Filley, T.R., Hatcher, P.G., Shortle, W.C., et al (2000). The application of C-13-labeled tetramethylammonium hydroxide (C-13-TMAH) thermochemolysis to the study of fungal degradation of wood. Organic Geochemistry, 31, 181-198.
55. Filley, T.R., Minard, R.D., Hatcher, P.G. (1999). Tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) thermochemolysis: proposed mechanisms based upon the application of C-13-labeled TMAH to a synthetic model lignin dimer. Organic Geochemistry, 30, 607-621.
56. Filley, T.R., Filley, R.M., Eser, S., et al. (1997). Compound-specific isotope analyses of products from carbonization of a fluid catalytic cracking decant oil doped with C-13-enriched 4-methyldibenzothiophene. Energy and Fuels, 11, 637-646.
57. Filley, T.R., Freeman, K.H., Hatcher, P.G. (1996). Carbon isotope relationships between sulfide-bound steroids and their proposed sterol precursors in the sediments from Santa Barbara Basin, CA. Organic Geochemistry, 25, 367-377.