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Meisel, O.H., Rijkers, R., Dean, J.F. et al. Geochemical, sedimentological and microbial diversity in two thermokarst lakes of far Eastern Siberia. Biogeochemistry (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-023-01076-1
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Rijkers, R. (2023). Temperature adaptation of soil bacterial communities across the Arctic. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Ph.D. thesis]. https://doi.org/10.5463/thesis.240
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Weedon, J. T., Bååth, E., Rijkers, R., Reischke, S., Sigurdsson, B. D., Oddsdottir, E., ... & van Bodegom, P. M. (2023). Community adaptation to temperature explains abrupt soil bacterial community shift along a geothermal gradient on Iceland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 177, 108914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108914
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Rijkers, R., Rousk, J., Aerts, R., Sigurdsson, B. D., & Weedon, J. T. (2022) Optimal growth temperature of Arctic soil bacterial communities increases under experimental warming. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16342
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Scheel, M., Zervas, A., Tveit, A. T., Rijkers, R., Ekelund, F., Jacobsen, C. S., & Christensen, T. R. (2022). Abrupt permafrost thaw triggers microbial bloom and increased activity of microbial predators. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.09.499897
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Pett-Ridge, J., Shi, S., Estera-Molina, K., Nuccio, E., Yuan, M., Rijkers, R., ... & Firestone, M. K. (2021). Rhizosphere carbon turnover from cradle to grave: The role of microbe–plant interactions. Rhizosphere Biology: Interactions Between Microbes and Plants (pp. 51-73). Springer, Singapore https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6125-2_2
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