Klein, R., B.A. Ball. 2024. The influence of soil properties on abundance and diversity of low-Arctic soil mesofauna communities. Polar Biology 47: 617-627. doi: 10.1007/s00300-024-03254-9

Khan, A., B.A. Ball. 2024. Soil microbial responses to simulated climate change across polar ecosystems. Science of the Total Environment 909: 168556. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168556 

Williamson, M., B.A. Ball. 2023. Soil biogeochemical responses to multiple co-occurring forms of human-induced environmental change. Oecologia 201: 1109-1121. doi: 10.1007/s00442-023-05360-7

Ball, B., P. Convey, K. Feeser, U. Nielsen, D. Van Horn. 2023. Habitat severity structures soil communities at fine and broad spatial scales along the Antarctica Peninsula. Antarctic Science. doi:10.1017/S0954102023000019

Xue, X., B. Adhikari, B.A. Ball, J.E. Barrett, J. Miao, A. Perkes, M. Martin, B.L. Simmons, D.H. Wall, and B.J. Adams. 2023. Ecological stoichiometry drives the evolution of soil nematode life history traits. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 177: 108891. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108891

Ball, B.A., K. Bergin, A. Morrison. 2023. Vegetation influences desert soil arthropods and their response to altered precipitation. Journal of Arid Environments 208: 104873. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2022.104873

Ball, B., M. Haberkorn, E. Ortiz. 2022 Mesofauna community influences litter chemical trajectories during early-stage litter decay. Pedobiologia. 95: 150844. doi: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2022.150844

Ball, B., L. Christenson, K. Wickings. 2022. A cross-system analysis of litter chemical dynamics throughout decomposition. Ecosystems 25: 1792-1808. doi: 10.1007/s10021-022-00749-6

Rowe, H., T. Sprague, B. Ball, D. Langenfeld, L. Rivera. 2022. Restoring closed trails in the Sonoran Desert: interactions of seed timing, seed source, and ripping. Restoration Ecology 30(2): e13532. doi: 10.1111/rec.13532

Ball, B., P. Convey, K. Feeser, U. Nielsen, D. Van Horn. 2022. Environmental harshness mediates the relationship between aboveground and belowground communities in Antarctica. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 164: 108493. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108493.

Harms, T.K., P.M. Groffman, L. Aluwihare, C. Craft, W.R. Wieder, S.E. Hobbie, S.G. Baer, J.M. Blair, S. Frey, C.K. Remucal, J.A. Rudgers, S.L. Collins, J.S. Kominoski, B.A. Ball, LTER OM Working Group. 2021. Patterns and trends of organic matter processing and transport: Insights from the US long-term ecological research network. Climate Change Ecology. 2: 100025. doi: 10.1016/j.ecochg.2021.100025

Bilderback, A.H., A.J. Torres, M. Vega, B. Ball. 2021. The structural and nutrient chemistry during early-stage decomposition and desiccation of cacti in the Sonoran Desert. Journal of Arid Environments. 195: 104636. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104636

Dietrich, S.W., D. Goelman, J. Broatch, S. Crook, B. Ball, K. Kobojek, J. Ortiz. 2021. Introducing databases in context through customizable visualizations. Frontiers in Education, section Digital Education 6: 719134. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2021.719134

Dietrich, S.W., D. Goelman, J. Broatch, S. Crook, B. Ball, K. Kobojek, J. Ortiz. 2020. Using formative assessment for improving pedagogy: Reflections on feedback informing database visualizations. ACM Inroads 11(4): 27-34. doi: 10.1145/3430766.

Wlostowski, A.N., N.O. Schulte, B.J. Adams, B.A. Ball, R.M. Esposito, M.N. Gooseff, W.B. Lyons, U.N. Nielsen, R.A. Virginia, D.H. Wall, K.A. Welch, D.M. McKnight. 2019. The hydroecology of an ephemeral wetland in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 124(12):3814-3830. doi: 10.1029/2019JG005153

Ball, B.A., M. Christman, S.J. Hall. 2019. Nutrient dynamics during photodegradation of plant litter in the Sonoran Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 160: 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2018.09.004

Aanderud, A.Z., S. Saurey, B.A. Ball, D.H. Wall, J.E. Barrett, M. Muscarella, N. Griffin, R.A. Virginia, B.J. Adams. 2018. Stoichiometric shifts in soil C:N:P promote bacterial taxa dominance, maintain biodiversity, and deconstruct community assemblages. Frontiers in Microbiology 9: 1401. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01401

Alvarez Guevara, J.N. and Ball, B.A. 2018. Urbanization alters small rodent community composition but not abundance. PeerJ. 6:e4885. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4885

Ball, B.A., B.J. Adams, J.E. Barrett, D.H. Wall, R.A. Virginia. 2018. Soil biological responses to C, N and P fertilization in a polar desert of Antarctica. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 122: 7-18. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.03.025

Carrillo, Y., B.A. Ball, and M. Molina. 2016. Stoichiometric linkages between plant litter, trophic interactions and nitrogen mineralization across the litter-soil interface. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 92: 102-110. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.10.001

Ball, B.A. and R. Virginia. 2015. Controls on diel soil CO2 flux across moisture gradients in a polar desert. Antarctic Science. 27(6): 527-534. doi: 10.1017/S0954102015000255

Ball, B.A., C.R. Tellez, and R.A. Virginia. 2015. Penguin activity influences soil biology, biogeochemistry, and soil respiration in rookeries on Ross Island, Antarctica. Polar Biology. 38(9): 1357-1368. doi: 10.1007/s00300-015-1699-7

Ball, B.A. and J.S. Levy. 2015. The role of water tracks in altering biotic and abiotic soil properties and processes in a polar desert in Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. 120(2): 270-279. doi: 10.1002/2014JG002856

Ball, B.A. and J. Alvarez Guevara. 2015. The nutrient plasticity of moss-dominated crust in the urbanized Sonoran Desert. Plant and Soil. 389(1-2): 225-235. doi: 10.1007/s11104-014-2355-7

Nielsen, U.N. and B.A. Ball (co-leads). 2015. Impacts of altered precipitation regimes on soil communities and biogeochemistry in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 21(4): 1407-1421. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12789

Ball, B.A. and R. Virginia. 2014. The ecological role of moss in a polar desert: implications for aboveground-belowground and terrestrial-aquatic linkages. Polar Biology 37(5): 651-664. doi: 10.1007/s00300-014-1465-2

Ball, B.A. and R. Virginia. 2014. Microbial biomass and respiration responses to nitrogen fertilization in a polar desert. Polar Biology 37(4): 573-585. doi: 10.1007/s00300-014-1459-0

Levy, O., B.A. Ball, et al. 2014. Approaches to advance scientific understanding of macrosystems ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12(1): 15-23. doi:10.1890/130019 For a special issue on Macrosystems Ecology stemming from a working group at the MSB PI meeting.

Ball, B.A., Y. Carrillo, M. Molina. 2014. The influence of litter composition across the litter-soil interface on mass loss, nitrogen dynamics and the decomposer community. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 69: 71-82. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.10.048

Ball, B.A. and R. Virginia. 2012. Meltwater seep patches increase heterogeneity of soil geochemistry and therefore habitat suitability. Geoderma 189-190, 652-660. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.06.028

Magalhães, C., M.I. Stevens, S.C. Cary, B.A. Ball, B.C. Storey, D.H. Wall, R. Türk, U. Ruprecht. 2012. At the limits of life: multidisciplinary insights reveal environmental constraints on biotic diversity in continental Antarctica. PLoS ONE. 7(9): e44578. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044578

Carrillo, Y., B.A. Ball, M. Strickland, M. Bradford. 2012. Legacies of plant litter on carbon and nitrogen dynamics and the role of the soil community. Pedobiologia 55(4): 185-192. doi: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2012.02.002

Nielsen, U.N., D.H. Wall, B.J. Adams, R.A. Virginia, B.A. Ball, M.N. Gooseff, D.M. McKnight. 2012. The ecology of pulse events: insights from an extreme climatic event in a polar desert ecosystem. Ecosphere 3(2):17. doi: 10.1890/ES11-00325.1

Ball, B.A., J.E. Barrett, M.N. Gooseff, R.A. Virginia, D.H. Wall. 2011. Implications of meltwater pulse events for soil biology and biogeochemical cycling in a polar desert. Polar Research 30: 14555. doi: 10.3402/polar.v30i0.14555. Invited paper for special International Polar Year Oslo Science Conference issue.

Carrillo, Y., B.A. Ball, M. Bradford, C. Jordan, M. Molina. 2011. Soil fauna alter the effects of litter composition on nitrogen cycling in a mineral soil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43(7): 1440-1449. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.03.011

Ball, B.A., J.S. Kominoski, H.E. Adams, S.E. Jones, E.S. Kane, T.D. Loecke, W. Mahaney, J. Martina, C.M. Prather, T.M.P. Robinson, C.T. Solomon. 2010. Direct and terrestrial vegetation-mediated effects of environmental change on aquatic ecosystem processes. BioScience 60(8): 590-601. doi:10.1525/bio.2010.60.8.5

Ball, B.A., R.A. Virginia, J.E. Barrett, A. Parsons, D.H. Wall. 2009. Interactions between physical and biotic factors influence CO2 flux in Antarctic dry valley soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 41(7): 1510-1517. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.04.011

Ball, B.A., M.A. Bradford, D.C. Coleman, M.D. Hunter. 2009. Linkages between below and aboveground communities: decomposer responses to simulated tree species loss are largely additive. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 41(6): 1155-1163. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.02.025

Ball, B.A., M.A. Bradford, M.D. Hunter. 2009. Nitrogen and phosphorus release from mixed litter layers is lower than predicted from single species decay. Ecosystems 12(1): 87-100. doi: 10.1007/s10021-008-9208-2

Ball, B.A., M.D. Hunter, J.S. Kominoski, C.M. Swan, M.A. Bradford. 2008. Consequences of non-random species loss for decomposition dynamics: experimental evidence for additive and non-additive effects. Journal of Ecology. 96(2): 303-313. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01346.x

Kominoski, J.S., C.M. Pringle, B.A. Ball. 2008. Invasive wooly adelgid appears to drive seasonal hemlock and carcass inputs to a detritus-based stream. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 30(1): 109-112.

Kominoski, J.S., C.M. Pringle, B.A. Ball, M.A. Bradford, D.C. Coleman, D.B. Hall, and M.D. Hunter. 2007. Non-additive effects of leaf litter species diversity on breakdown dynamics in a detritus-based stream. Ecology 88(5): 1167-1176. doi: 10.1890/06-0674