Simonsen, Anna

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Simonsen, Anna Graduate Faculty

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Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences , College of Arts, Sciences & Education

asimonse@fiu.edu

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Anna Simonsen, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, specializing in Evolutionary biology, plant microbe interactions, microbial genomics, metagenomics, and plant ecology.

research interests

Plant ecology

selected scholarly works & creative activities

Article
- 2025
  
  Rhizobia mutualists contribute to phylogenetic clustering and legume community assembly globally. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY. 113:974-987.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.70015 Web of Science: 001436018200001
- 2024
  
  Expression-environment associations in transcriptomic heat stress responses for a global plant lineage. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY. 33.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/mec.17473 Web of Science: 001273397800001
- 2023
  
  Generalized mutualisms promote range expansion in both plant and ant partners. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 290.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1083 Web of Science: 001067109900002
- 2023
  
  Nonsymbiotic legumes are more invasive, but only if polyploid. NEW PHYTOLOGIST. 237:758-765.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/nph.18579 Web of Science: 000892731700001
- 2023
  
  Consistently high heat tolerance acclimation in response to a simulated heatwave across species from the broadly distributed Acacia genus
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1071/FP22173 Web of Science: 000865414000001
- 2022
  
  Environmental stress leads to genome streamlining in a widely distributed species of soil bacteria. ISME JOURNAL. 16:423-434.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-01082-x Web of Science: 000686112400001
- 2021
  
  Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 118.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2023718118 Web of Science: 000685036200009
- 2021
  
  Four Complete Genome Sequences for Bradyrhizobium sp. Strains Isolated from an Endemic Australian Acacia Legume Reveal Structural Variation
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00229-21 Web of Science: 000651607700008
- 2021
  
  Priority effects alter interaction outcomes in a legume-rhizobium mutualism. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 288.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2753 Web of Science: 000627840400002
- 2020
  
  Environmental variation impacts trait expression and selection in the legume-rhizobium symbiosis. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY. 107:195-208.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1432 Web of Science: 000513485100001
- 2019
  
  Novel model-based clustering reveals ecologically differentiated bacterial genomes across a large climate gradient. ECOLOGY LETTERS. 22:2077-2086.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/ele.13389 Web of Science: 000489855900001
- 2019
  
  Larger plants promote a greater diversity of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria associated with an Australian endemic legume. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY. 107:977-991.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13083 Web of Science: 000458616400039
- 2018
  
  More partners, more ranges: generalist legumes spread more easily around the globe. BIOLOGY LETTERS. 14.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0616 Web of Science: 000452106500017
- 2017
  
  Symbiosis limits establishment of legumes outside their native range at a global scale
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14790 Web of Science: 000398454500001
- 2017
  
  The nitrification inhibitor 3,4,-dimethylpyrazole phosphate strongly inhibits nitrification in coarse-grained soils containing a low abundance of nitrifying microbiota
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1071/SR15359 Web of Science: 000392202900004
- 2016
  
  A composite guanyl thiourea (GTU), dicyandiamide (DCD) inhibitor improves the efficacy of nitrification inhibition in soil. CHEMOSPHERE. 163:1-5.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.07.103 Web of Science: 000384776800001
- 2015
  
  Short-termfertilizer application alters phenotypic traits of symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria. PEERJ. 3.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1291 Web of Science: 000364329400003
- 2015
  
  Plant species' origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8710 Web of Science: 000358858500016
- 2014
  
  Reduced plant competition among kin can be explained by Jensen's inequality. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 4:4454-4466.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1312 Web of Science: 000346084500003
- 2014
  
  Standing genetic variation in host preference for mutualist microbial symbionts. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 281.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2036
- 2014
  
  ESTIMATING UNCERTAINTY IN MULTIVARIATE RESPONSES TO SELECTION. EVOLUTION. 68:1188-1196.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/evo.12321 Web of Science: 000333553500021
- 2014
  
  Herbivory eliminates fitness costs of mutualism exploiters. NEW PHYTOLOGIST. 202:651-661.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/nph.12668 Web of Science: 000333060500034
- 2013
  
  Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY. 19:3677-3687.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12370 Web of Science: 000326836000011
- 2010
  
  QUANTIFYING EVOLUTIONARY GENETIC CONSTRAINTS IN THE IVYLEAF MORNING GLORY, IPOMOEA HEDERACEA. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES. 171:972-986.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/656512 Web of Science: 000284000800005
- 2008
  
  Leaf shape variation and herbivore consumption and performance: a case study with Ipomoea hederacea and three generalists
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11829-007-9028-x Web of Science: 000260961100002
- 2007
  
  Induced responses in Ipomoea hederacea: simulated mammalian herbivory induces resistance and susceptibility to insect herbivores
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11829-007-9009-0 Web of Science: 000260960800006
Conference
- 2012
  
  Plant evolutionary ecology: molecular genetics, global warming and invasions, and the novel approaches we are using to study adaptations. NEW PHYTOLOGIST. 975-977.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/nph.12028 Web of Science: 000310676400006
Preprint
- 2018
  
  Larger legume plants host a greater diversity of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1101/246611
- Generalized mutualisms promote range expansion in both plant and ant partners
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.12.536632
- Loss of mutualistic interactions loosens restrictions on evolutionary history in legume plant communities
  Full Text via DOI: 10.22541/au.168969280.09805411/v1
- More partners, more ranges: generalist legumes spread more easily around the globe
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1101/406850
- Priority effects alter interaction outcomes in a legume-rhizobium mutualism
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.31.363267
- Symbiosis with rhizobia limits range expansion only in polyploid legumes
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.01.482489

principal investigator on

Does global warming select less efficient nitrogen-fixing symbionts in tropical soils? awarded by Oak Ridge Associated Universities 2023 - 2024

full name

Anna Simonsen

ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5091-261X (confirmed)

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