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Member Since 1998
Rich Phillips
Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
Member, Biogeosciences Fellows Committee
Professional Experience
Indiana University Bloomington
Professor
2020 - Present
Education
Doctorate
2005
Publications

Modeling Global Carbon Costs of Plant Nitrogen and Phosphorus Acquisition
Most Earth system models (ESMs) do not explicitly represent the carbon (C) costs of plant nutrient acquisition, which leads to uncertainty in predi...
August 20, 2022

Mycorrhizal Distributions Impact Global Patterns of Carbon a...
September 27, 2021

Tree Canopies Reflect Mycorrhizal Composition
May 19, 2021

High atmospheric demand for water can limit forest carbon up...
September 29, 2016
AGU Abstracts
Laboratory measurements of reactive nitrogen emitted from cores and sieved soil from midwestern hardwood forests
UNDERSTANDING LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS: THE ROLE OF SURFACE FLUXES, BOUNDARY LAYER PROCESSES, AND THE FREE ATMOSPHERE III POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2024
Feng Jiang, Richard P Phillips, Jonathan D. Raff
Reactive nitrogen oxides (NOy= NO + NO2 + HONO) decrease air quality and adversely affect human health, yet our understanding of the causes and conseq...
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Tree-mycorrhizal types differ in their hydraulic traits, with consequences for forest sensitivity to drought stress
LAND BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING UNDER GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: PATTERNS, DRIVERS, AND MECHANISMS I ORAL
biogeosciences | 13 december 2024
Richard P Phillips, Michael C. Benson, Grant M. Do...
Tree-mycorrhizal associations have been reported to differ in their nutrient use traits in ways that affect nutrient cycling and forest sensitivity to...
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Unraveling Fungal and Bacterial Roles in Fungal Necromass Decomposition: Implications for Soil Organic Matter Formation and Persistence
SOILS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: CROSS-SCALE MECHANISMS OF STABILIZATION AND CHANGE II ORAL
biogeosciences | 12 december 2024
Katilyn Beidler, Lang C. DeLancey, François Mailla...
Current soil organic matter (SOM) frameworks often focus on a limited set of microbial traits, with the role of microbial diversity and interactions r...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
Member
Biogeosciences Fellows Committee
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