Education
Ph.D. – University of Georgia
M.S. – University of California, Davis
B.S. – University of California, Davis
Honors, Awards, and Achievements
University of Georgia Presidential Early Career Award, 2016
Harper Prize, Journal of Ecology, Best paper by young author, 2009
Best Paper of Session, Division S-7, Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, 2005
Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia, 2005
Amazing Student Award, University of Georgia, 2005
Inductee, Blue Key Honor Society, 2005
Affiliations
- Ecological Society of America
- British Ecological Society
- Soil Science Society of America
- International Mycorrhiza Society
Research Interests
- Terrestrial Ecology
- Microbial Ecology
- Ecosystem Ecology
- Plant – soil relationships
- Ecology of plant root symbioses (mycorrhizas and nitrogen fixation)
- Global and regional change
Selected Publications
Wurzburger, N and Clemmensen, KE. 2018 From mycorrhizal fungal traits to ecosystems – and back again, Journal of Ecology 106: 463-467.
Wurzburger, N. and Brookshire, E.N.J. 2017 Experimental evidence that mycorrhizal nitrogen strategies affect soil carbon, Ecology 98(6) 1491-1497.
Wurzburger, N, Brookshire, E.N.J., McCormack, M.L., and Lankau, R.A. 2017 Mycorrhizal fungi as drivers and modulators of terrestrial ecosystem processes. New Phytologist 213: 996-999.
Wurzburger, N. and Hedin, L.O. 2016 Taxonomic identity determines symbiotic N2 fixation by canopy trees across lowland tropical forests. Ecology Letters 19: 62-70.
