Publications

2026

M.A. Kenney, R. Kopp, C. Samaras, et al. (including K.S. Rocci). 2026. What a robust, evidence-based United States climate assessment needs. Earth’s Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EF007336 

T. Gonçalves-Souza… K.S. Rocci… P.B. Reich, 2026. Using a trait-based approach to integrate science disciplines in the face of global change. Ecology and Evolution. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.74068

S.F. von Fromm, K.S. Rocci, C.O. Anuo, S.B. Asabere, J. Kanyiri, S.K. Kengdo, A. Mureva, K.A. Nketia, L. Zhang, R.Z. Abramoff. 2026. Transferability of process-based soil carbon models across pedological domains: lessons from sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026JG009726 

X. Chen, H.Y.H. Chen, K.S. Rocci, K. Worm, L. Zheng, P.B. Reich. 2026. Long-term multiple global change interactions amplify belowground carbon allocation. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02678-x 

2025

X. Liu, P.B. Reich… K.S. Rocci… J. Liu. 2025. Long-term moderate warming shifts soil carbon cycling but maintains carbon sinks in a subtropical forest. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101465 

A., Jilling, A.S., Grandy, A.B. Daly, R. Hestrin, A. Possinger, R. Abramoff, A. Cates, K. Dynarski, K. Georgiou, K. Heckman, R. Phillips, M. Keiluweit, A. Lang, K.S. Rocci, I. Shabtai, N. Sokol, E. Whalen. 2025. Evidence for the existence and ecological relevance of fast-cycling mineral-associated organic matter. Communications Earth and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02681-8 

K.S. Rocci, D. Pierson, F. Jevon, A. Polussa, A. Oliverio, M. Bradford, P.B. Reich, W.R. Wieder. 2025. Integrating microbial community data into an ecosystem-scale model to predict litter decomposition in the face of climate change. Global Change Biology. tps://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70352 

K. Georgiou, D. Angers, R.E. Champiny, M.F. Cotrufo, M.E. Craig, S. Doetterl, A.S. Grandy, J.M. Lavallee, Y. Lin, E. Lugato, C. Poeplau, K.S. Rocci, S.A. Schweizer, J. Six, W.R Wieder. 2025. Soil carbon saturation: what do we really know? Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70197 

2024

K.S. Rocci, M.F. Cotrufo, J. Ernakovich, E. Foster, S. Frey, K. Georgiou, A.S. Grandy, A. Malhotra, P.B. Reich, E.P. Schlerman, W.R. Wieder. 2024. Bridging 20 years of soil organic matter frameworks: empirical support, model representation, and next steps. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 129, 6. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007964

W. R. Wieder, M. D. Hartman, E. Kyker-Snowman, B. Eastman, K. Georgiou, D. Pierson, K. S. Rocci, A. S. Grandy. 2024. Simulating global terrestrial carbon-nitrogen biogeochemical cycles with implicit and explicit representations of soil microbial activity. Journal of Advances in Modelling Earth Systems. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS004156

2023

K.S. Rocci, C. C. Cleveland, B. A. Eastman, K. Georgiou, A.S. Grandy, M.D. Hartman, E. Hauser, H. Holland-Moritz, E. Kyker-Snowman, D. Pierson, P.B. Reich, E.P. Schlerman, W.R. Wieder. 2023. Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109272 

K.S. Rocci, M.F. Cotrufo, J.S. Baron. 2023. Proximity to roads does not modify inorganic nitrogen deposition in a topographically complex, high traffic, subalpine forest. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 234, 761. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-023-06762-2 

K.S. Rocci, M. Bird, J.M. Blair, A.K. Knapp, C. Liang, M.F. Cotrufo, 2023. Thirty years of increased precipitation modifies soil organic matter fractions but not bulk soil carbon and nitrogen in a mesic grassland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 185, 109145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109145  

B. Tang, K.S. Rocci, A. Lehmann, M.C. Rillig. 2023. Nitrogen increases soil organic carbon accrual and alters its functionality. Global Change Biology, 29, 7, 1971-1983. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16588 

2021-2022

K. S. Rocci, E. W. Seabloom, E.T. Borer, S. E. Hobbie, K. S. Barker, A. S. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, C. J. Stevens, X. Raynaud, J.L. Moore, J. D. Bakker, M. F. Cotrufo. 2022. Impacts of nutrient addition on soil carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry and stability in globally-distributed grasslands. Biogeochemistry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-022-00932-w 

K. E. O. Todd-Brown… K. S. Rocci… M. L. Younger. 2022. Review and Synthesis: The promise of big soil data, moving current practices towards future potential. Biogeosciences, 19, 3505–3522, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3505-2022 

K. S. Rocci, J. M. Lavallee, C. E. Stewart, M. F. Cotrufo. 2021. Soil organic carbon response to global environmental change depends on its distribution between mineral-associated and particulate organic matter: A meta-analysis. Science of The Total Environment, 793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148569. 

2017-2020

K.S. Rocci, S.J. Fonte, J.C. von Fischer, M.F. Cotrufo. 2019. Nitrogen Dynamics in an Established Alfalfa Field under Low Biochar Application Rates. Soil Systems, 3(4), 77. https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems3040077

E.J.T. Levin, P.J. DeMott, K.J. Suski, Y. Boose, T.C.J. Hill, C.S. McCluskey, G.P. Schill, K. Rocci, H. Al‐Mashat, L.J. Kristensen, G. Cornwell, K. Prather, J. Tomlinson, F. Mei, J. Hubbe, M. Pekour, R. Sullivan, L.R. Leung, S.M. Kreidenweis. 2019. Characteristics of ice nucleating particles in and around California winter storms. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

P. J. DeMott, T. C. J. Hill, M. D. Petters, A. K. Bertram, Y. Tobo, R. H. Mason, K. J. Suski, C. S. McCluskey, E. J. T. Levin, G. P. Schill, Y. Boose, A. M. Rauker, A. J. Miller, J. Zaragoza, K. Rocci, N. E. Rothfuss, H. P. Taylor, J. D. Hader, C. Chou, J. A. Huffman, U. Pöschl, A. J. Prenni, and S. M. Kreidenweis (2017) Comparative measurements of ambient atmospheric concentrations of ice nucleating particles using multiple immersion freezing methods and a continuous flow diffusion chamber. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 11227-11245.