Publications

Lauman, S. T., Fontana, C. G., Gornish, E. S., & Neilson, J. W. (2026). Impacts of reclamation approaches on plant establishment in an arid environment during copper mine revegetation. Restoration Ecology.

Wlodarczyk, T., Rader, S., van der Ent, S., Maier, R. M., & Babst-Kostecka, A. (2026). Validation of portable monochromatic X-ray fluorescence for plant elemental analysis using standard reference materials and field samples. Environmental Technology & Innovation, 105229.

Murawska-Wlodarczyk, K., Kushwaha, P., Stokes, O., Rasmussen, C., Neilson, J., Maier, R., & Babst-Kostecka, A. (2025). Depth-dependent heterogeneity in topsoil stockpiles influences plant-microbe interactions and revegetation success in arid mine reclamation. Science of the Total Environment, 1003.

Wlodarczyk, T., Babst, F., Murawska-Wlodarczyk, K., Stokes, O., Salywon, A., van Leeuwen, W., Norton, C., Rader, S., Maier, R., & Babst-Kostecka, A. (2025). Dryland ecosystem regeneration and plant metal(loid) accumulation strategies 60 years after revegetating a mine tailings pond. Science of the Total Environment, 1004, 180705.

Ledesma, J., Neilson, J. W., Maier, R. M., Babst-Kostecka, A., & Rasmussen, C. (2025). Effects of Stockpiling on Topsoil Biogeochemistry for Semiarid Mine Reclamation. Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration.

Lynn Yung, M., Murawska-Wlodarczyk, K., Babst-Kostecka, A., Maier, R., Merchant, N., & Ooi, A. (2025). A User-Friendly Machine Learning Pipeline for Automated Leaf Segmentation. Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, 19.

Lauman, S. T., Neilson, J. W., & Gornish, E. S. (2025). Facilitation by Baccharis sarothroides (desert broom) during revegetation of a hard rock mine in Southern Arizona, USA. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 197.

Salati, S., Barton, M. P., Neilson, J. W., Richardson, C. A., Orent, E. B., & Riley, D. N. (2024). Abandoned mine lands inventory: Progress, collaboration and challenges in Arizona. Mining Engineering, 76(4), 35-42.

Babst-Kostecka, A., , Brueckner, D., , Murawska-Wlodarczyk, K., , Maier, R. M., Słomka, A., Przybyłowicz, W., van der Ent, S., Mesjasz-Przybyłowicz, J., Ryan, C., Paterson, D., & Wlodarczyk, T. (2024). Habitat-specific allocations of elements in Atriplex lentiformis seeds indicate adaptation to metal toxicity. Journal of Experimental Botany, 75 (16), 5076–5090.

Kushwaha, P., Murawska-Wlodarczyk, K., Stanek, M., Stefanowicz, A. M., Seget, B., & Babst-Kostecka, A. (2024). Trade-offs and adaptation to metalliferous soils: The role of soil microbiome in metal tolerance and uptake in Arabidopsis halleri ecotypes from a reciprocal transplant experiment. The Science of the Total Environment, 177470(957).

Ossanna, L. Q., Serrano, K., Jennings, L. L., Dillon, J., Maier, R. M., & Neilson, J. W. (2023). Progressive belowground soil development associated with sustainable plant establishment during copper mine waste revegetation. Applied Soil Ecology, 186, 104813.

Kushwaha, P., Tran, A., Quintero, D., Song, M., Yu, Q., Yu, R., Downes, M., Evans, R. M., Babst-Kostecka, A., Schroeder, J. I., & Maier, R. M. (2023). Zinc accumulation in Atriplex lentiformis is driven by plant genes and the soil microbiome. The Science of the Total Environment, 165667(899).

Zeider, K., Van Overmeiren, N., Rine, K. P., Sandhaus, S., Sáez, A. E., Sorooshian, A., Muñoz, H. C., & Ramírez-Andreotta, M. D. (2021). Foliar surfaces as dust and aerosol pollution monitors: An assessment by a mining site. Science of The Total Environment, 790, 148164.

Heusinkveld, D., Ramírez-Andreotta, M. D., Rodríguez-Chávez, T., Sáez, A. E., Betterton, E., & Rine, K. (2021). Assessing Children’s Lead Exposure in an Active Mining Community Using the Integrated Exposure Uptake Biokinetic Model. Exposure and Health, 13(3), 517–533.

Rodríguez-Chávez, T. B., Rine, K. P., Almusawi, R. M., O’Brien-Metzger, R., Ramírez-Andreotta, M., Betterton, E. A., & Sáez, A. E. (2021). Outdoor/Indoor Contaminant Transport by Atmospheric Dust and Aerosol at an Active Smelter Site. Water, Air, &Amp; Soil Pollution, 232(6).

Kushwaha, P., Neilson, J. W., Barberán, A., Chen, Y., Fontana, C. G., Butterfield, B. J., & Maier, R. M. (2021). Arid Ecosystem Vegetation Canopy-Gap Dichotomy: Influence on Soil Microbial Composition and Nutrient Cycling Functional Potential. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 87(5).

Van Horne, Y. O., Chief, K., Charley, P. H., Begay, M.-G., Lothrop, N., Bell, M. L., Canales, R. A., Teufel-Shone, N. I., & Beamer, P. I. (2021). Impacts to Diné activities with the San Juan River after the Gold King Mine Spill. Journal of Exposure Science &Amp; Environmental Epidemiology, 31(5), 852–866.

Neilson, J. W. (2021). What is environmentally sustainable mining and why is it important?. SME News: Mining Engineering Magazine.

Hammond, C. M., Root, R. A., Maier, R. M., & Chorover, J. (2020). Arsenic and iron speciation and mobilization during phytostabilization of pyritic mine tailings. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 286, 306–323.

Chen, Y., Neilson, J. W., Kushwaha, P., Maier, R. M., & Barberán, A. (2020). Life-history strategies of soil microbial communities in an arid ecosystem. The ISME Journal, 15(3), 649–657.

Khan, A. Z., Khan, S., Ayaz, T., Brusseau, M. L., Khan, M. A., Nawab, J., & Muhammad, S. (2020). Popular wood and sugarcane bagasse biochars reduced uptake of chromium and lead by lettuce from mine-contaminated soil. Environmental Pollution, 263, 114446.

Hottenstein, J. D., Neilson, J. W., Gil-Loaiza, J., Root, R. A., White, S. A., Chorover, J., & Maier, R. M. (2019). Soil Microbiome Dynamics During Pyritic Mine Tailing Phytostabilization: Understanding Microbial Bioindicators of Soil Acidification. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10.

Honeker, L. K., Gullo, C. F., Neilson, J. W., Chorover, J., & Maier, R. M. (2019). Effect of Re-acidification on Buffalo Grass Rhizosphere and Bulk Microbial Communities During Phytostabilization of Metalliferous Mine Tailings. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10.

Witten, M. L., Chau, B., Sáez, E., Boitano, S., & Clark Lantz, R. (2019). Early life inhalation exposure to mine tailings dust affects lung development. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 365, 124–132.

Thomas, A. N., Root, R. A., Clark Lantz, R., Sáez, A. E., & Chorover, J. (2018). Oxidative Weathering Decreases Bioaccessibility of Toxic Metal(loid)s in PM10 Emissions From Sulfide Mine Tailings. GeoHealth, 2(4), 118–138.