# Peer-Reviewed Publications & Books Links to our publications are provided below. Please [[contact me]] me if you cannot access a publication and would like a pdf. Visit my [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&oi=sra&user=-m0mHCYAAAAJ) page for more details. # 2025 Evans, A., McLaren, E., Brito-Bersi, T., Chavez-Velasco, E., Foster, E., Byrne, K., Griffin-Nolan, R.J., Luong, J., **Pressler, Y.** *(2025)*. [Assessing aggregate stability methods to inform restoration in California coastal grasslands](https://cnga.org/resources/Documents/Grasslands%20Journal/Grassland%20Issues/2025%20Grasslands%20Journal/CNGA%20Grasslands%20Vol%2035%20No%203%20Summer.pdf). California Native Grasslands Association Grasslands Journal. Wilson, S.G., Foster, E.J., O’Neill, F., Banuelos, A., Cook, A., Paustian, K., **Pressler, Y.**, Carey, C.J. *(2025)*. Soil organic carbon better described by soil mineralogy and exchangeable cations than oak restoration in California rangelands. Catena. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.109453 Rodriguez-Paiatskya, A., **Pressler, Y.**, Decock, C. (*2025*). Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculation and cover crop on soil carbon dynamics and microbial communities in a Mediterranean lemon orchard. *Plant and Soil*. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-07764-1 # 2024 **Pressler, Y.**, McClymonds, B. B., Balgopal, M. B., *(2024)*. Communicating about soil biodiversity: insights from science editorials and future recommendations. *Pedobiologia*. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2024.151003 Bales, N., Grossenbacher, D., **Pressler, Y.**, *(2024)*. [Abundance of a rare geophyte increases with biocrust cover](https://bioone.org/journals/madro%c3%b1o/volume-71/issue-1/0024-9637-71.1.43/ABUNDANCE-OF-A-RARE-GEOPHYTE-INCREASES-WITH-BIOCRUST-COVER/10.3120/0024-9637-71.1.43.short?tab=ArticleLink). *Madroño*. 71(1):43-53. **Pressler, Y**., Wilson, G., Cotrufo, M.F., Moore, J.C. (2024). Fire return interval influences soil food web structure and stability in an oak-pine savanna. *Plant and Soil*. ([read online version here](https://rdcu.be/dEChy)) # 2023 Cotrufo, M.F., **Pressler, Y.** [A Primer on Stable Isotopes in Ecology](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-primer-on-stable-isotopes-in-ecology-9780198854494?q=stable%20isotopes%20ecology&lang=en&cc=gb). (2023). *Oxford University Press*. # 2022 **Pressler, Y.**, Boot, C., Haddix, M., Abiven, S., Lugato, E., Cotrufo, M.F. (2022). [Continental-scale measurements of soil pyrogenic carbon in Europe](https://www.publish.csiro.au/SR/SR19396). _Soil Research_. # 2021 Rees, G.L., **Pressler, Y.,** Bates, G.W., Connolly, C.A., Sommerlad-Rogers, D., De-Lay, A.M., Gill, S.J., Papathakis, P.C., Kronewitter, R.M., Lammert, A.M. (2021). [Student perceptions of rapid transition to emergency remote learning in a hands-on agricultural college.](https://yaminapressler.com/s/Rees-etal-2021-NSE-accepted.pdf) _Natural Sciences Education._ # 2020 Carter, T.L., Jennings, L.L., **Pressler, Y**., Gallo, A.C., Berhe, A.A., Marín‐Spiotta, E., Shepard, C., Ghezzehei, T., Vaughan, K.L. (2020). [Towards diverse representation and inclusion in soil science in the United States.](http://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20210) _Soil Science Society of America Journal._ **Pressler, Y**., Zhou, J., He, Z., Van Nostrand, J.D., Smith, A.P. (2020). [Post-agricultural tropical forest regeneration shifts soil microbial functional potential for carbon and nutrient cycling](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003807172030081X). _Soil Biology and Biochemistry_. # 2019 Vaughan, K.L., van Miegroet, H., Pennino, A., **Pressler, Y.**, Duball, C., Brevik, E., Berhe, A.A., Olson, C. (2019). [Women in soil science: growing participation, emerging gaps, and the opportunities for advancement.](https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/sssaj/first-look/pdf/sssaj2019.03.0085.pdf) _Soil Science Society of America Journal_. **Pressler, Y.**, Moore, J.C., Cotrufo, M.F. (2019). [Belowground community responses to fire: meta-analysis reveals contrasting responses of soil microorganisms and mesofauna](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oik.05738). _Oikos_. *Editor’s Choice **Pressler, Y.**, Hunter-Laszlo, M., Bucko, S., Covitt, B.A., Urban, S., Benton, C., Bartholomew, M., Morrison, A.J.*, Foster, E.J., Parker, S.D., Cotrufo, M.F., Moore, J.C. (2019). [Teaching authentic soil and plant science in middle school classrooms with a biochar case study](http://abt.ucpress.edu/content/81/4/256). The American Biology Teacher. Jin, H., van Rijn, P., Moore, J.C., Bauer, M.I., **Pressler, Y.**, Yestness, N. (2019). [A validation framework for science learning progression research](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09500693.2019.1606471?journalCode=tsed20). _International Journal of Science Education_. # 2018 Koltz, A. M., Burkle, L. A., **Pressler, Y.**, Dell, J. E., Vidal, M. A., Richards, L. A. & Murphy, S. M. (2018). [Global change and the importance of fire for the ecology and evolution of insects](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214574518300191?via%3Dihub). _Current Opinions in Insect Science_, 29, 110-116. Koltz, A. M., Asmus, A., Gough, L., **Pressler, Y.**, & Moore, J. C. (2018). [The detritus-based microbial-invertebrate food web contributes disproportionately to carbon and nitrogen cycling in the Arctic](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-017-2201-5). _Polar Biology_, 1-15. Monroe, J. G., Markman, D. W., Beck, W. S., Felton, A. J., Vahsen, M. L., & **Pressler, Y.** (2018). [Ecoevolutionary Dynamics of Carbon Cycling in the Anthropocene](https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(17)30324-5). _Trends in ecology & evolution_, _33_(3), 213-225. # 2017 **Pressler, Y.**, Foster, E. J., Moore, J. C., & Cotrufo, M. F. (2017). [Coupled biochar amendment and limited irrigation strategies do not affect a degraded soil food web in a maize agroecosystem, compared to the native grassland](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcbb.12429). _Global Change Biology Bioenergy_, _9_(8), 1344-1355.