Publications & Software

Bock, B.M., Van Bramer, D., & Peterson, R. Environmental Footprint Reporting as a Performance Metric in Environmental Data Science. In review at Environmental Data Science. Preprint

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Bock, B.M., McKay, N.P., Johnson, N.C., & Gehring, C.A. Mapping the geographic, taxonomic, and socioeconomic biases of global fungal endophyte research. Revise and resubmit at New Phytologist. Preprint & Zenodo Repository

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Bock, B., Schaefer, E.A., & Gehring, C.A. (In coauthor review). Mycorrhizal colonization extracts significant growth costs but enhances drought survival in cottonwood hybrids through physiological compensation.

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Bock, B.M., Kimball-Rhines, C., Sarkar, M., & Zahn, G. Graph neural networks reveal transferable structure for predicting community coalescence. In preparation for Nature Communications.

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Bock, B.M., Sikes, B.A., & Antunes, P.M. Mycorrhizal Pathology: A Definitional and Evidentiary Framework for Identifying Pathogens of Mycorrhizal Fungi. In preparation for New Phytologist (invited Community Resources contribution).

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Waschk, P., Spiegel, P., Gessler, A., Saurer, M., Bock, B.M., Hinterdobler, W., & Anthony, M.A. (2026). Evidence for resource transfer via common endophyte networks. Scientific Reports. DOI

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Bock, B. (2026). Automated Extraction of Fungal Trophic Modes from Literature Using BioBERT: An Open Pilot Workflow. Research Ideas and Outcomes. DOI & Zenodo Repository & Press Release in Eurekalert & Press Release in NAU Review

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2025

Bock, B., Scherer, J., Parrish, F.*, Burnside, J.*, Rohrer, C.*, & Gehring, C. (2025). A simple protocol for producing axenic seeds of Sorghum bicolor. MicroPublications Biology. DOI

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Bock, B.M., Hoeksema, J.D., Johnson, N.C., & Gehring, C.A. (2025). Evidence for common fungal networks among plants formed by a Dark Septate Endophyte in Sorghum bicolor. Communications Biology. DOI (Featured in Interview with Dr. César Marín and in IMS Newsletter, Nov 2025)

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Vietorisz, C., Nash, J., Siggers, J., Leander, E., Bock, B., Camuy-Vélez, L., Hall, A.J., Jaros, J., Kuehn, K., Lai, E., Mounts, I., Bacy, I., Dagg, C., Anderson, I., Carnegie, A., Powell, J., Brewer, S., D'Antonio, C., Hynson, N., Vilgalys, R., & Hoeksema, J. (2025). Pine-fungal co-invasion alters whole-ecosystem properties of a native eucalypt forest. New Phytologist. DOI

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Seeley, M. M., Wiebe, B. C., Gehring, C. A., Hultine, K. R., Posch, B. C., Cooper, H. F., Schaefer, E., Bock, B., Abraham, A. J., Moran, E. M., Keith, A., Allan, G. J., Scull, M., Whitham, T. G., Martin, R. M., Asner, G. P., & Doughty, C. E. (2025). Remote sensing reveals inter- and intraspecific variation in riparian cottonwood (Populus spp.) response to drought. Journal of Ecology. DOI

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Bock, B., Curry, L.*, & Gehring, C. (2025). Better utilization of inorganic nitrogen compared to organic nitrogen by a plant symbiotic fungal isolate of Alternaria alternata. microPublication Biology. DOI

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Rillig, M. C., Lehmann, A., Mounts, I. R., & Bock, B. M. (2025). Concurrent common fungal networks formed by different guilds of fungi. New Phytologist. DOI (Selected as a Top 10 Mycorrhizal Research Paper, IMS Newsletter, Nov 2025)

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Before 2025

Bock, B., & Markovchick, L. (2023). Considering Soil Biota and Symbioses in Forest Management and Ecosystem Restoration. Forests, 14(6), 1236. DOI

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Bock, B.M., Darroch, S. A. F., & Casey, M. (2023). Long-term changes in unionid community in Kentucky Lake: Implications for understanding the effects of impoundment on river systems. Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 38(1), 2203712. DOI

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Sperling, E. A., Melchin, M. J., Fraser, T., Stockey, R. G., Farrell, U. C., Bhajan, L., Brunoir, T. N., Cole, D. B., Gill, B. C., Lenz, A., Loydell, D. K., Malinowski, J., Miller, A. J., Plaza-Torres, S., Bock, B., Rooney, A. D., Tecklenburg, S. A., Vogel, J. M., Planavsky, N. J., & Strauss, J. V. (2021). A long-term record of early to mid-Paleozoic marine redox change. Science Advances, 7(28), eabf4382. DOI