Past and Ongoing Research
Primary succession, rhizosphere nutrient exchange, plant-microbe mutualism.
Primary succession following glacial retreat in the central Arctic Brooks Range and beyond, Alaska USA.
Gwich'in Traditional Lands
2017-2018
Publications:
Shawnee A. Kasanke, Donald A. Walker, F. Stuart Chapin III & Daniel H. Mann (2023) Plant succession on glacial moraines in the Arctic Brooks Range along a >125,000-year glacial chronosequence/toposequence, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 55:1, DOI: 10.1080/15230430.2023.2178151
Kasanke, S. A. (2019). Plant succession in the Arctic Brooks Range: floristic patterns from alpine to foothills, along a glacial chronosequence and elevation gradient. University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Baffin Island PACEMAP and icecap "zombie" Vegetation
Baffin Island, Nunavut
Thule Inuit Traditional Lands
2018 - 2023
Publications:
Raynolds, M. K., Bültmann, H., Kasanke, S. A., Miller, G., & Raberg, J. H. (2025). Recurring cycles of ice and vegetation on Baffin Island, Nunavut. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 57(1), 2442776. https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2024.2442776
Associated abstracts:
Raynolds, Martha K., Helga Bültmann, Shawnee A. Kasanke, Jonathan Raberg, and Gifford H. Miller. Vegetation response to a climate gradient in the eastern Canadian Arctic-mapping based on ground plots and remote sensing. AGU Fall Meeting, virtual. December 2020
Nutrient exchange based interactions between Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, and Free-living Nitrogen Fixing Bactera: mutualistic or opportunistic?
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Richland, WA. USA
Yakama and Umatilla Traditional Lands
2019-2021
Publications:
Kasanke, S. A., Cheeke, T. E., Moran, J. J., & Roley, S. S. (2024). Tripartite interactions among free‐living, N‐fixing bacteria, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and plants: Mutualistic benefits and community response to co‐inoculation. Soil Science Society of America Journal, saj2.20679. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20679
In preparation: Kasanke, Shawnee, Tanya E. Cheeke, James Moran, and Sarah Roley. Plant phenology outweighs inoculation effects on nifH production and microbial community structure in root zone of Switchgrass. 2024
Associated Abstracts:
Kasanke, Shawnee, James Moran, and Sarah Roley. Response of Free Living Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria to Co-Inoculation with Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Rhizosphere of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum). ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, November 2021.
Kasanke, Shawnee, Tanya E. Cheeke, James Moran, and Sarah Roley. Co-Inoculation with AM Fungi and Free Living N-Fixing Bacteria Have No Effect on Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) Growth or Mycorrhizal Colonization during the First Growing Season. ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting, Baltimore MD. November 2022.
Quantifying plant C-allocation to Fungal and Bacterial Communities through RNA using HPLC-LC-IRMS technology.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland WA.
2021-2023
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