Kathe Todd-Brown

TL;DR: This work introduces PLINK, an open-source C/C++ WGAS tool set, and describes the five main domains of function: data management, summary statistics, population stratification, association analysis, and identity-by-descent estimation, which focuses on the estimation and use of identity- by-state and identity/descent information in the context of population-based whole-genome studies.

TL;DR: Current practices in soil data synthesis across all stages of database creation: availability, input, harmonization, curation, and publication are summarized and new soil-focused semantic tools to improve existing data pipelines are suggested.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors quantified the roles of heritable variation in plant traits and of trait evolution in explaining variability in forecasts of the state of coastal wetland ecosystems, and showed that incorporating heritable trait variation and evolution into an ecosystem model altered predictions of carbon accumulation and soil surface accretion (a determinant of marsh resilience to sea level rise), demonstrating the importance of accounting for evolutionary processes when forecasting ecosystem dynamics.

TL;DR: In this article , a series of simple litter decay models with different moisture sensitivity and temperature sensitivity functions were developed to explicitly represent the role of non-rainfall moisture in the litter decay process.