Station Publications

2008

Nix-Stohr, S.; Moshe, R., and Dighton, J. (2008). Effects of propagule density and survival strategies on establishment and growth: further invetsigations in the phylloplane fungal model system. Microbial Ecology.  55:38-44.

Dighton, J. (2008). Mycorrhizae. In: Schaechter, M. (Ed). Encylopedia of Microbiology: Third Edition. SanDiego: Elsevier  in press.

Dighton, J.; Tugay, T., and Zhdanova, N. N. (2008). Interactions of fungi and radionuclides in soil. In: Dion, P. and Nautiyal, C. S. (Eds). Microbioogy of Extreme Soils. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag; 2008; pp. 333-355.

Dighton, J.; Tugay, T., and Zhdanova, N. N. (2008). Fungi and ionizing radiation from radionuclides. FEMS Microbial Letters. in press.

2007

Dighton, J. (2007) Nutrient cycling by saprotrophic fungi in terrestrial habitats. In: Kubicek, C. P. & Druzhinina, I. S. (Ed.) The Mycota IV Environmental and Microbial Relationships (2nd Edn.) Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 287-300.

2006

Jonsson, L. M., Dighton, J., Lussenhop, J. & Koide, R. T. (2006) The effects of leaf litters on the development of pitch pine ectomycorrhizal and soil arthropod communities in natural soil microcosm systems. Soil Biol. Biochem. 38: 134-144.

Gray, D. M., & Dighton, J. (2006) Mineralization of forest litter nutrients by heat and combustion. Soil Biol. Biochem. 38: 1469-1477.

Karpenko, Y. V.; Redchitz, T. I.; Zheltonozhsky, V. A.; Dighton, J., & Zhdanova, N. N. (2006) Comparative responses of microscopic fungi to ionizing radiation and light. Folia Microbiol. 51:45-49.

Tugay, T., Zhdanova, N. N., Zheltonozhsky, V., Sadovnikov, L., Dighton, J. (2006) The influence of ionizing radiation on spore germination and emergent hyphal growth response reactions of microfungi. Mycologia 98: 521-527.

2005

Dighton, J., White, J. F. & Oudemans, P. (Ed.) (2005) The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem. 3rd Edition. CRC Press. 936 pp.

Dighton, J., White, J. F. & Oudemans, P. (Ed.) (2005) Introduction. In: The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem. 3rd Edition. Dighton, J., White, J. F. & Oudemans, P. (eds.), CRC Press.1-9

Baxter, J. W. & Dighton, J. (2005) Diversity-functioning relationships in ectomycorrhizal fungi. In: The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem. 3rd Edition. Dighton, J., White, J. F. & Oudemans, P. (eds.), CRC Press. 383-398. Baxter, J. W. & Dighton, J. (2005) Phosphorus source alters host plant response to ectomycorrhizal diversity. Mycorrhiza 15: 513-523

2004

Tuininga, A. R. & Dighton, J. (2004) Changes in ectomycorrhizal communities and nutrient availability following prescribed burning in two upland pine-oak forests in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Can. J. For. Res. 34:1755-1765.

Mc Hugh, J. M. & Dighton, J. (2004) Influence of mycorrhizal inoculation, inundation period, salinity and phosphorus availability on the growth of two salt marsh grasses, Spartina alterniflora Lois. and Spartina cynosuroides (L.) Roth. in nursery systems. Rest. Ecol. 12: 533-545.

Zhdanova, N. N., Tugay, T., Dighton, J., Zheltonozhsky, V. & McDermott, P. (2004) Ionizing radiation attracts fungi. Mycol. Res. 108: 1089 – 1096.

Dighton, J., Tuininga, A. R., Gray, D. M., Huskins, R. E. & Belton, T. (2004) Impacts of atmospheric deposition on New Jersey pine barrens forest soils and communities of ectomycorrhizae. For. Ecol. Manage. 201: 131-144.

Garnett, E., Jonsson, L. M., Dighton, J. & Murnen, K. (2004) Control of pitch pine seed germination and initial growth exerted by leaf litters and polyphenoloic compounds. Biol. Fert. Soils 40: 421-426

Stohr, S, N. & Dighton, J (2004) Effects of Species Diversity on Establishment and Coexistence: A Phylloplane Fungal Community Model System Microb. Ecol.

Dighton, J. (2004) Book Review: Biodiversity of Fungi: Inventory and Monitoring Methods. Mycotaxon 90: 217-220.

2003

Dighton, J. (2003) The Role of Fungi in Ecosystem Processes, Marcel Dekker

2002

Tuininga, A. R., Dighton, J & Gray, D. M. (2002) Burn, moisture, and litter quality effects on N, P, and K uptake by pitch pine (Pinus rigida) seedlings in a greenhouse study. Soil Biol. Biochem. 34; 865-873.

Ruess, L., Haggblom, M., Garcia-Zapata, E. J. & Dighton, J. (2002) Fatty acids of fungi and nematodes – possible biomarkers in the soil food chain. Soil Biol. Biochem. 34; 745-756.

Baxter, J. W., Pickett, S. T. A., Dighton, J. & Carreiro, M. M. (2002) Nitrogen and phosphorus availability in oak forest stands exposed to contrasting anthropogenic impacts. Soil Biol. Biochem. 34: 623-633.

2001

Baxter, J. W. and J. Dighton. 2001. Ectomycorrhizal diversity alters the growth of gray birch (Betula populifolia Marshall) seedlings in experimental host-symbiont culture conditions. New Phytologist 152: 139-149.

Dighton, J., M. Mascarenhas, and G. A. Arbuckle-Keil.2001.Changing resources: assessment of leaf surface carbohydrate resource change at a microbial scale of resolution. Soil Biol. Biochem. 33: 1429-1432.

2000

Conn, C. & Dighton, J. (2000) Litter quality influences on decomposition, ectomycorrhizal community structure and mycorrhizal root surface acid phosphatase activity. Soil Biol. Biochem. 32: 489-496.

1997

Antibus, R. K., Bower, D. & Dighton, J. (1997) Root surface phosphatase activities and uptake of 32P labeled inositol phosphate in field-collected gray birch and red maple roots. Mycorrhiza 7; 39-46.

Dighton, J. (1997) Nutrient cycling by saprotrophic fungi in terrestrial habitats. In: The Mycota IV: Environmental and Microbial Relationships Ed. D. T. Wicklow & B. Soderstrom, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 271-279.

Dighton, J. (1997) Is it possible to develop microbial test systems to evaluate pollution effects on soil nutrient cycling? In: Ecological Risk Assessment of Contaminants in Soil. Ed. N. M. van Straalen & H. Lokke, Chapman Hall, London, pp. 51-69.

Dighton, J., Jones, H. E., Robinson, C. H. & Beckett, J. (1997) The role of abiotic factors, cultivation practices and soil fauna in the dispersal of genetically modified microorganisms in soils. Applied Soil Ecology 5; 109-131.

1996

Dighton, J. & Terry, G. M. (1996) Uptake and immobilization of caesium in UK grassland and forest soils by fungi following the Chernobyl accident. In: Fungi and Environmental Change Ed. J. C. Frankland, N. Magan & G. M. Gadd, Cambridge University Press, pp 184-200.

Gray, S. N., Dighton, J. & Jennings, D. H. (1996) The physiology of basidiomycete linear organs III. Uptake and translocation of radiocaesium within differentiated mycelia of Armillaria spp. growing in microcosms and in the field. New Phytol. 132; 471-482.

Ruess, L. & Dighton, J. (1996) Cultural studies on soil nematodes and their fungal hosts. Nematologia 42; 330-346.

Ruess, L., Sandbach, P., Cudlin, P., Dighton, J. & Crossley, A. (1996) Acid deposition in a spruce forest soil: effects on nematodes, mycorrhizas and fungal biomass. Pedobiologia 40; 51-66.

Halley, J. M., Robinson, C. H., Comins, H. N. & Dighton, J. (1996) Predicting straw decomposition by a four-species fungal community: a cellular automaton model. J. appl. Ecology 33; 493-507.